00SENATE CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 421(FIN)                                                                                   
01 "An Act authorizing grants for temporary housing assistance during emergencies                                          
02 and disasters."                                                                                                         
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 26.23.100(a) is amended to read:                                                                    
05  (a)  Whenever the governor has proclaimed a disaster emergency, or the                                                
06 President, at the request of the governor, has declared an emergency or a major                                         
07 disaster to exist in this state, the governor may                                                                       
08   (1)  purchase, lease, or make other arrangements with any agency of the                                              
09 United States or state for temporary housing units to be occupied by disaster victims                                   
10 and to make those units available to any political subdivision of the state;                                            
11   (2)  make housing assistance grants to eligible disaster victims who                                                
12 have located temporary housing and are not eligible for temporary housing                                               
13 assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency or under private                                                
14 insurance; a grant under this paragraph, when combined with a grant under                                               

01 AS 26.23.090 to the same individual or family, may not exceed $5,000; as a                                              
02 condition of accepting a housing assistance grant from the state under this                                             
03 paragraph, the recipient shall agree to repay the state for the assistance to the                                       
04 extent that the recipient is reimbursed or otherwise compensated from any source                                        
05 for the same costs of temporary housing that were covered by the state grant;                                          
06   (3)  assist any political subdivision of this state that is the location of                                        
07 temporary housing for disaster victims to acquire sites necessary for the temporary                                     
08 housing and do all things necessary to prepare the site to receive and use temporary                                    
09 housing units by                                                                                                        
10   (A)  advancing or lending funds available to the governor from                                                      
11 an appropriation made by the legislature or from any other source;                                                      
12   (B)  passing through funds made available by any agency, public                                                     
13 or private; or                                                                                                          
14   (C)  becoming a copartner with a political subdivision for the                                                      
15 execution and performance of any temporary housing for disaster-victim                                                  
16 projects and, for those purposes, pledging the credit of the state on terms                                             
17 considered appropriate, having due regard for current debt transactions of the                                          
18 state;                                                                                                                  
19   (4) [(3)]  under whatever relevant regulations the governor may adopt,                                             
20 temporarily suspend, or modify, for not more than 60 days, any public health, safety,                                 
21 zoning, transportation, or other requirement of law or regulation of the state, when by                                 
22 proclamation, the governor declares a suspension or modification essential to provide                                   
23 temporary housing for disaster victims.