00HOUSE BILL NO. 36                                                                                                       
01 "An Act relating to absences from the state of certain spouses and dependents                                           
02 of residents for purposes of eligibility for permanent fund dividends; and providing                                    
03 for an effective date."                                                                                                 
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1.  AS 43.23.095(8) is amended to read:                                                                    
06   (8)  "state resident" means an individual who is physically present in the                                           
07 state with the intent to remain permanently in the state under the requirements of                                      
08 AS 01.10.055 or, if the individual is not physically present in the state, intends to                                   
09 return to the state and remain permanently in the state under the requirements of                                       
10 AS 01.10.055, and is absent only for any of the following reasons:                                                      
11   (A)  vocational, professional, or other specific education for                                                      
12 which a comparable program was not reasonably available in the state;                                                   
13   (B)  secondary or postsecondary education;                                                                          
14   (C)  military service;                                                                                              

01   (D)  medical treatment;                                                                                             
02   (E)  service in Congress;                                                                                           
03   (F)  other reasons that [WHICH] the commissioner may                                                              
04 establish by regulation;                                                                                                
05   (G)  service in the Peace Corps;                                                                                    
06   (H)  to care for the individual's terminally ill parent, spouse,                                                    
07 sibling, child, or stepchild;                                                                                           
08   (I)  up to 220 days to settle the estate of the individual's                                                        
09 deceased parent, spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild; [OR]                                                             
10   (J)  to care for a parent, spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild with                                                
11 a critical life-threatening illness whose treatment plan, as recommended by the                                         
12 attending physician, requires travel outside the state for treatment at a medical                                       
13 specialty complex; or                                                                                                  
14   (K)  to accompany another resident, who is eligible for a                                                           
15 permanent fund dividend and is absent for a reason permitted under this                                                 
16 paragraph, as the spouse, minor dependent, or disabled dependent of the                                                 
17 eligible resident;                                                                                                     
18    * Sec. 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1998.