SENATE BILL NO. 104 "An Act relating to appropriations from the dividend fund; creating the criminal fund; and providing for an effective date." 10:03:21 AM Co-Chair Kelly MOVED to ADOPT the proposed committee substitute for SB 104, WORK DRAFT 28-LS0847\E (Martin, 3/28/14) as a working document. There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. 10:03:42 AM CHRISTINE MARASIGAN, STAFF SENATOR KEVIN MEYER, spoke to the changes in the new bill version. She said that the changes dealt with paying for arrearages and how the fund would be divided between the priorities that were originally laid out in the legislation. She explained that the substantive changes to the legislation could be found on Page 4, lines 2 through 12. She relayed that the sponsor's original prioritization that a portion of the fund went to the Violent Crimes Compensation Board had been maintained, a percentage had been added as a guideline. The second priority in the current bill went directly towards sexual assault response teams and domestic violence intervention projects that input data into the Alaska Public Safety Information Network. She added that the remaining amount would be available to the Department of Corrections for costs related to incarceration and probation; monies from the permanent fund's criminal fund went to pay for healthcare for incarcerated inmates. The new section offered general guidelines on how the funds would be distributed. 10:06:05 AM SENATOR FRED DYSON appreciated the work of the committee on the legislation. 10:06:29 AM Co-Chair Kelly expressed discomfort that child support had been removed from the bill. 10:06:40 AM Senator Dyson interjected that removing child support had been a difficult decision. He said that there were tens of millions of dollars worth of arrearages that had not been paid. He believed that the intent of the bill had remained intact. 10:07:43 AM Ms. Marasigan spoke to the funds that would go towards arrearages. She said that legislative legal had asserted that how the money would be dispersed could constitute a violation to the constitution because it would be relieving a personal debt. She said that it was difficult to find a mechanism in which to make it work within the confines of the legislation. She offered that there were still arrearages that would need to be taken care at some point in the future. 10:08:42 AM Senator Dyson offered that the bill was an attempt to restore victims to a pre-offense condition. He felt that the children of criminals were victims. He said that a perpetrators debt, either to his victim or to his children, did not disappear with the passage of the bill. He believed that the issue would be revisited in the future. 10:10:45 AM JOSHUA BANKS, STAFF, SENATOR FRED DYSON, stated that the sponsor had tried to work out the child support issue. He expressed satisfaction with the changes in the legislation made by the committee. 10:12:09 AM Co-Chair Kelly MOVED to REPORT CSSB 104(FIN) out of committee with individual recommendations and the accompanying fiscal notes. There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered. CSSB 104(FIN) was REPORTED out of committee with a "do pass" recommendation and with a new fiscal impact note from Senate Finance Committee for the Department of Corrections and with a previously published zero fiscal note: FN2(ADM), a previously published zero fiscal note:FN3(LAW), and a previously published zero fiscal note FN6(AMD). 10:12:29 AM AT EASE 10:16:08 AM RECONVENED