00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 161(JUD)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to the civil legal services fund."                                                                     
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 37.05.590 is amended to read:                                                                    
04 Sec. 37.05.590. Civil legal services fund. The civil legal services fund is                                           
05 established as a special account in the general fund. The fund consists of                                              
06 appropriations to it. Annually, the legislature may appropriate to the fund only from                                   
07 amounts deposited into the general fund of the state under AS 09.17.020(j) and an                                       
08 amount from the general fund that is up to 25 [10] percent of the filing fees received                              
09 by the Alaska Court System during the previous closed fiscal year. The legislature                                      
10 may make appropriations from the fund to organizations that provide civil legal                                         
11 services to low-income individuals. An organization may not use funds received                                      
12 under this section to provide legal assistance for issues arising under AS 34.03                                    
13 (Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act). Nothing in this section creates a                                    
14 dedicated fund. In this section, "low-income individual" means an individual with an                                    
15 income equal to or less than 125 percent of the most recent federal poverty guidelines                                  

01       for Alaska set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.