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SB 147                                                                                                                        
HOUSE CS FOR CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 147(L&C) am H "An                                                                           
Act relating to workers' compensation reemployment rights and                                                                   
benefits; establishing a workers' compensation stay-at-work program;                                                            
relating to the workers' compensation benefits guaranty fund; relating                                                          
to the presumption of compensability for workers' compensation                                                                  
claims related to post-traumatic stress disorder; relating to the Alaska                                                        
senior benefits payment program; and providing for an effective date"                                                           
was enrolled, signed by the President and Secretary, Speaker and                                                                
Chief Clerk and the engrossed and enrolled copies transmitted to the                                                            
Office of the Governor at 3:10 p.m., July 3, 2024.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                

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Memorandum dated June 12 from Hilary V. Martin, Revisor of                                                                      
Statutes, was received stating:                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
In accordance with Rule 43, Uniform Rules of the Alaska State                                                                   
Legislature, I am reporting the following manifest error in HCS CSSB
(L&C) am H, which has been corrected in enrolling.                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
In addition to more minor technical errors discovered in enrolling the                                                          
above bill, section 18 has been given an immediate effective date to                                                            
correct a manifest error. Section 18 extends the sunset of the Alaska                                                           
senior benefits payment program from June 30, 2024, to June 30,                                                                 
2034.                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
What is now section 18 was added by amendment 1, which was                                                                      
adopted on the House floor.  Amendment 1 did not make any changes                                                               
to the effective date of the bill. At the time amendment 1 was adopted,                                                         
the underlying bill, HCS CSSB 147(L&C) had an immediate effective                                                               
date. Therefore, when amendment 1 was adopted, section 18 had an                                                                
immediate effective date. Amendment 2 was then adopted on the                                                                   
House floor, which changed the effective date for the entire bill to                                                            
January 1, 2025. If section 18 were to take effect on January 1, 2025,                                                          
the Alaska senior benefits payment program would have already                                                                   
expired before that date, thus making the legislature's action in                                                               
adopting amendment 1 meaningless.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
For these reasons, and in order to carry out the intent of the legislature                                                      
in adopting amendment 1, section 18 has been given an immediate                                                                 
effective date in enrolling.                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Memorandum from Division of Legal and Research Services,                                                                        
Legislative Affairs Agency, was received, reporting the following                                                               
manifest errors in HOUSE CS FOR CS FOR SENATE BILL                                                                              
NO. 147(L&C) am H which have been corrected in enrolling:                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
Page 9, line 28:                                                                                                                
         Delete the third occurrence of "the"                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Page 9, line 30:                                                                                                                
         Delete the second occurrence of "the"                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                

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Page 15, following line 16:                                                                                                     
         Insert a new bill section to read:                                                                                     
"* Sec. 19. Section 18 of this Act takes effect immediately under                                                             
AS 01.10.070(c)."                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Page 15, line 17:                                                                                                               
         Delete "Sec. 19."                                                                                                    
         Insert "Sec. 20. Except as provided in sec. 19 of this Act,"