00 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 23                                                                                   
01 Suspending Uniform Rules 24(c), 35, 41(b), and 42(e) of the Alaska State                                                
02 Legislature concerning House Bill No. 2, relating to the permanent fund dividend                                        
03 program.                                                                                                                
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                              
05  That under Rule 54 of the Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature, the                                           
06 provisions of Rules 24(c), 35, 41(b), and 42(e) of the Uniform Rules, regarding changes to the                          
07 title of a bill, are suspended in consideration of House Bill No. 2, so that the title is "An Act                       
08 requiring, for purposes of permanent fund dividend eligibility, an individual to have been                              
09 physically present in the state for at least 72 consecutive hours during the prior two years                            
10 before the current dividend year; relating, for purposes of permanent fund dividend eligibility,                        
11 to allowable absences for secondary and postsecondary education on a full-time basis,                                   
12 vocational, professional, or other education on a full-time basis when a comparable program                             
13 is not reasonably available in the state, serving on active duty as a member of the armed                               
14 forces of the United States, receiving continuous medical treatment or convalescing if the                              
01 treatment or convalescence is not based on a need for climatic change, providing care for                               
02 certain relatives with critical life-threatening illnesses, providing care for certain terminally                       
03 ill relatives, settling the estates of certain relatives, serving as a member of the United States                      
04 Congress, serving on the staff of a member from this state of the United States Congress,                               
05 serving as an employee of the state, accompanying certain ill minors, accompanying another                              
06 eligible resident who is absent for an allowable reason as the spouse, minor dependent, or                              
07 disabled dependent of the eligible resident, or for any reason consistent with an individual's                          
08 intent to remain a state resident; prohibiting, for purposes of permanent fund dividend                                 
09 eligibility, an individual from claiming an allowable absence unless the individual was a                               
10 resident for at least six consecutive months immediately before leaving the state; making                               
11 ineligible, for purposes of permanent fund dividend eligibility, certain individuals who are                            
12 absent for more than 180 days during each of 10 qualifying years; relating to the definition                            
13 of state 'resident' for purposes of permanent fund dividend eligibility and requiring a state                           
14 resident to have the intent to remain indefinitely; relating to the qualifying year and defining                        
15 that term for purposes of the permanent fund dividend program; relating to the eligibility for                          
16 1998 permanent fund dividends of certain spouses and dependents of eligible individuals; and                            
17 providing for an effective date."