00SENATE BILL NO. 4                                                                                                       
01 "An Act relating, for purposes of eligibility for a permanent fund dividend, to                                         
02 an absence from the state while on an unpaid sabbatical under the longevity                                             
03 bonus program; and providing 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 which the commissioner may establish by                                                          
04 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)  for 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)  unpaid sabbatical under AS 47.45.035;                                                                         
15    * Sec. 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 1998.