00SENATE BILL NO. 9                                                                                                       
01 "An Act relating to municipal capital project matching grants for a municipality                                        
02 organized under federal law as an Indian reserve; and providing for an effective                                        
03 date."                                                                                                                  
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1.  AS 37.06 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                   
06  Sec. 37.06.040.  Municipalities organized under federal law.  An entity                                               
07 organized under federal law as an Indian reserve that existed before enactment of                                       
08 43 U.S.C. 1618(a) and is continued in existence under that subsection is a municipality                                 
09 for purposes of AS 37.06.010 - 37.06.090 and may not receive a grant under                                              
10 AS 37.06.020.  In addition to other eligibility requirements applicable to municipalities,                              
11 to qualify to receive a grant under AS 37.06.010, a municipality organized under                                        
12 federal law as an Indian reserve shall form a community development corporation with                                    
13 authority to determine how the grant money will be used.  The corporation's charter                                     
14 must require that the governing board of the corporation shall be elected at an annual                                  

01 election open to all residents of the municipality who are registered and qualified to                                  
02 vote in state elections.  The Department of Administration may distribute money for                                     
03 the municipality only to a corporation organized in accordance with this section and                                    
04 only after the corporation has delivered a written waiver of sovereign immunity from                                    
05 legal action by the state to recover all or a portion of the money distributed under                                    
06 AS 37.06.010.                                                                                                           
07    * Sec. 2.  TRANSITION.  Money in an individual grant account established under                                       
08 AS 37.06.020 before the effective date of this Act for a municipality organized under federal                           
09 law as an Indian reserve that existed before enactment of 43 U.S.C. 1618(a) and is continued                            
10 in existence under that subsection shall be transferred by the Department of Community and                              
11 Regional Affairs to the Department of Administration and allocated to the individual grant                              
12 account established for that municipality under AS 37.06.010.                                                           
13    * Sec. 3.  This Act takes effect July 1, 1997.