00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 183(FIN)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to the Village Safe Water Act; and providing for an effective date."                                   
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 46.07.080(2) is repealed and reenacted to read:                                                    
04                 (2)  "village" means                                                                                    
05                      (A)  a second class city;                                                                          
06                      (B)  a first class city with a population of less than 1,000;                                      
07                      (C)  a home rule municipality with a population of less than                                       
08            1,000;                                                                                                       
09                      (D)  the Annette Island Reserve established by 25 U.S.C. 495                                       
10            for the Metlakatla Indian Community;                                                                         
11                      (E)  a community with a population between 25 and 1,000 that                                       
12            is represented by a                                                                                          
13                           (i)  council organized under 25 U.S.C. 476 (sec. 16 of                                        
14                 the Indian Reorganization Act); or                                                                      
15                           (ii)  traditional village council recognized by the United                                    

01                 States as eligible for federal aid to Indians.                                                        
02    * Sec. 2. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                          
03 read:                                                                                                                   
04       TRANSITION. Notwithstanding AS 46.07.080(2), repealed and reenacted by this Act,                                  
05 a village for which Village Safe Water Act project funding was appropriated in a capital                                
06 budget bill approved by the legislature for a fiscal year before fiscal year 2012 shall remain                          
07 eligible to receive that Village Safe Water Act project funding after the effective date of this                        
08 Act regardless of whether the village meets the definition of "village" in AS 46.07.080(2),                             
09 repealed and reenacted by this Act.                                                                                     
10    * Sec. 3. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).