00HOUSE BILL NO. 120                                                                                                    
01 "An Act providing education funding for the Alaska National Guard Challenge                                             
02 Youth Corps program and relating to limited teacher certificates to allow persons                                       
03 to teach in the program; and providing for an effective date."                                                          
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05    * Section 1.  AS 14.17 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                 
06  Sec. 14.17.445.  Money for National Guard Challenge Youth Corps.  Money                                             
07 for the instructional services provided in a fiscal year by the National Guard Challenge                                
08 Youth Corps within the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs includes an                                         
09 allocation from the public school account in an amount calculated by multiplying the                                    
10 base student allocation in AS 14.17.470 by the number of students enrolled in the                                       
11 program and multiplying that product by 65 percent.  The department shall determine                                     
12 the number of students enrolled in the program by treating the National Guard                                           
13 Challenge Youth Corps as if it were a school district and applying the student counting                                 
14 provisions of AS 14.17.600.  The department shall transfer money required to be                                         

01 allocated under this section to the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs for the                                
02 support of the National Guard Challenge Youth Corps.                                                                    
03    * Sec. 2.  AS 14.20.025 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                             
04  (b)  Notwithstanding AS 14.20.020(b), upon application, the department shall                                          
05 issue a limited teaching certificate to a person who is employed as a teacher in the                                    
06 National Guard Challenge Youth Corps program and who the department determines                                          
07 has demonstrated instructional skills and prior experience in alternative high school                                   
08 programs.  A limited teaching certificate issued under this subsection allows the person                                
09 to teach in the National Guard Challenge Youth Corps program.                                                           
10    * Sec. 3.  This Act takes effect July 1, 1999.