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SB 220                                                                                                                        
The Finance Committee considered:                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
     CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 220(FIN)                                                                                            
     "An Act relating to energy efficiency, energy conservation, and                                                            
     alternative energy, to an emerging energy technology fund, to the                                                          
     lease of state land to a public electric utility, to the Alaska heating                                                    

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     assistance program, to state energy use data, to the Southeast                                                             
     energy fund, to nuclear energy production and facilities, to the                                                           
     definition of 'power project' or 'project' as it relates to rural and                                                      
     statewide energy programs and the Alaska Energy Authority, and                                                             
     to the definition of 'alternative energy system'; establishing an                                                          
     Alaska energy efficiency revolving loan fund; directing the                                                                
     Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to prepare a                                                            
     report on the feasibility of using compressed natural gas to power                                                         
     vehicles in the state, including vehicles owned or operated by the                                                         
     state, and including in that study, if warranted, a pilot program                                                          
     proposal for powering some vehicles owned or operated by the                                                               
     state with compressed natural gas; authorizing and relating to the                                                         
     issuance of bonds by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation;                                                               
     relating to a report regarding a municipal energy improvements                                                             
     financing program and to an energy report by the Office of the                                                             
     Governor; and providing for an effective date."                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
and recommends it be replaced with:                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
     HOUSE CS FOR CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 220(FIN)                                                                               
     "An Act relating to energy efficiency, energy conservation, and                                                            
     alternative energy, to an emerging energy technology fund, to the                                                          
     lease of state land to a public electric utility, to an exemption from                                                     
     taxation by a municipality of certain residential renewable energy                                                         
     systems, to the Alaska heating assistance program, to state energy                                                         
     use data, to the Southeast energy fund, to the alternative energy                                                          
     revolving loan fund, to nuclear energy production and facilities, to                                                       
     the definition of 'power project' or 'project' as it relates to rural and                                                  
     statewide energy programs and the Alaska Energy Authority, and                                                             
     to the definition of 'alternative energy system'; establishing an                                                          
     Alaska energy efficiency revolving loan fund; directing the                                                                
     Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to prepare a                                                            
     report on the feasibility of using compressed natural gas to power                                                         
     vehicles in the state, including vehicles owned, operated, or paid                                                         
     for in whole or in part by the state, and including in that study, if                                                      
     warranted, a pilot program proposal for powering some vehicles                                                             
     owned, operated, or paid for in whole or in part by the state with                                                         
     compressed natural gas; authorizing and relating to the issuance of                                                        
     bonds by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation; relating to a                                                             
     report regarding a municipal energy improvements financing                                                                 

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     program and to an energy report by the Office of the Governor;                                                             
     and providing for an effective date."                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
     (HCR 28 - title change resolution)                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
The report was signed by Representatives Stoltze and Hawker, Co-                                                                
chairs, with the following individual recommendations:                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
Do pass (9):  N. Foster, Joule, Thomas, Austerman, Gara, Kelly,                                                                 
Salmon, Stoltze, Hawker                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
No recommendation (1):  Doogan                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Amend (1):  Fairclough                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
The following fiscal note(s) apply to HCS CSSB 220(FIN):                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
3. Zero, Dept. of Environmental Conservation                                                                                    
6. Indeterminate, Dept. of Health & Social Services                                                                             
7. Fiscal, Dept. of Commerce, Community, & Economic                                                                             
Development                                                                                                                     
8. Fiscal, Dept. of Commerce, Community, & Economic                                                                             
Development                                                                                                                     
9. Zero, Dept. of Revenue                                                                                                       
11. Zero, Dept. of Administration                                                                                               
13. Zero, Dept. of Revenue                                                                                                      
14. Fiscal, Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
CSSB 220(FIN) is on today's calendar.