00                CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 25(MLV)                                                               
01 Urging the United States Congress to adopt the United States House of Representatives                                   
02 version of the Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act of 2005, including sec. 303.                                     
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04       WHEREAS a large number of Alaskans are currently serving or have served in the                                  
05 military; and                                                                                                           
06       WHEREAS the Alaska veterans mortgage program is currently restricted by a 1986                                  
07 federal tax code provision that provides tax-exempt bonds for housing loans for veterans to                             
08 only those veterans who served before January 1, 1977; and                                                              
09       WHEREAS, in 2005, the number of veterans in Alaska who qualified for and applied                              
10 for loans funded by tax-exempt bonds for housing loans for veterans has decreased to fewer                              
11 than 60; and                                                                                                            
12       WHEREAS the courageous men and women of Alaska who serve in the armed forces                                    
13 and make sacrifices for our country should all be entitled to low-cost veterans' housing loans;                         
14       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature requests that the United States                                
15 Congress include in the final conference report of the Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation                              
16 Act of 2005, H.R. 4297, sec. 303, repealing the requirement that a veteran must have served                             

01 in the military before January 1, 1977, in order to qualify for a veterans' housing loan.                               
02       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable George W. Bush, President                              
03 of the United States; the Honorable Richard B. Cheney, Vice-President of the United States                              
04 and President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Bill Frist, Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate;                         
05 the Honorable Harry Reid, Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable J. Dennis                                   
06 Hastert, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable John Boehner, Majority                             
07 Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader of                             
08 the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable Larry Craig, Chair of the U.S. Senate                                  
09 Committee on Veterans' Affairs; the Honorable Steve Buyer, Chair of the U.S. House of                                   
10 Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs; the Honorable Frank H. Murkowski,                                       
11 Governor of Alaska; the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Lisa Murkowski, U.S.                                    
12 Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska                                       
13 delegation in Congress; and, by electronic transmission, all other members of the U.S. Senate                           
14 and the U.S. House of Representatives serving in the 109th United States Congress.