1997-01-13                     House Journal                      Page 0027
HB 2                                                                         
(Prefile released January 3, 1997)                                             
HOUSE BILL NO. 2 by Representatives KOTT AND MULDER, and                       
Kubina, entitled:                                                              
                                                                               
An Act allowing, for the purposes of permanent fund dividend                  
eligibility, an individual to accompany, as the spouse or minor or             
disabled dependent, another eligible resident who is absent for any            
of the following reasons:  vocational, professional, or other                  
specific education for which a comparable program is not                       
reasonably available in the state; secondary or postsecondary                  
education; military service; medical treatment; service in the                 
Congress or in the peace corps; to care for the individual's                   
terminally ill parent, spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild; for up to         
220 days to settle the estate of the individual's deceased parent,             
spouse, sibling, child, or stepchild; to care for a parent, spouse,            
sibling, child, or stepchild with a critical life-threatening illness          
whose treatment plan, as recommended by the attending physician,               
requires travel outside of the state for treatment at a medical                
speciality complex; or other reasons that the commissioner of                  
revenue may establish by regulation; requiring, for the purposes of            
permanent fund dividend eligibility, a state resident to have the              
intent to remain indefinitely; relating to the eligibility for 1992,           
1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 permanent fund dividends of                   
certain spouses and dependents of eligible applicants; and                     
providing for an effective date.                                               
                                                                               
was read the first time and referred to the Finance Committee.