05/12/2017 01:30 PM House RULES

        SB 100-MUNICIPAL LIENS: AUTHORITY FOR & PRIORITY                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
1:31:53 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR LEDOUX announced  that the only order of  business would be                                                               
SENATE BILL NO. 100, "An Act relating to municipal liens."                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
1:32:00 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  CLAMAN   moved  to  adopt  the   House  committee                                                               
substitute  (HCS)  for  SB   100,  Version  30-LS0709\U,  Shutts,                                                               
5/11/17,  as  a working  document.    There being  no  objection,                                                               
Version U was before the committee.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
1:32:31 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
COURTNEY ENRIGHT, Staff,  Representative Gabrielle LeDoux, Alaska                                                               
State Legislature, on behalf  of Representative LeDoux, explained                                                               
the changes to  SB 100 proposed under Version U.   First, Version                                                               
U would  allow a second-class  borough to establish  an emergency                                                               
service area  encompassing a state highway  corridor and publicly                                                               
owned  property  along it.    Second,  Version  U would  allow  a                                                               
municipality to provide a property  tax exemption for a specified                                                               
period,  rather  than five  years  at  a  time, and  broaden  the                                                               
criteria for  property that  can get a  tax exemption.   Finally,                                                               
Version U would  change the property tax  exemption for sprinkler                                                               
systems from mandatory to optional.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
1:33:44 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE EASTMAN moved to adopt  Amendment 1, which read as                                                               
follows:                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
     Page 4, line 2, following "fees":                                                                                      
           Insert "if the fees were accrued after the                                                                       
      municipality provided opportunity to opt out of the                                                                   
     utility service"                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE CLAMAN objected.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE EASTMAN spoke to Amendment 1.   He said there is a                                                               
concern regarding  the ability,  under SB 100,  of municipalities                                                               
to  put liens  on properties  for purposes  of utilities,  and he                                                               
indicated  this  concern  is  accompanied  by  the  opinion  that                                                               
municipalities  should not  be allowed  to  do so  if a  property                                                               
owner  has never  used and  has no  intention of  ever using  the                                                               
utility.   He said  Amendment 1 would  provide the  opportunity a                                                               
property  owner to  declare he/she  is  not using  a service  and                                                               
therefore does not want to pay for it.                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
1:34:54 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE CLAMAN maintained his objection.                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
1:34:59 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
A  roll call  vote was  taken.   Representative Eastman  voted in                                                               
favor  of Amendment  1  to Version  U.   Representatives  Stutes,                                                               
Kito, Reinbold, Claman, and LeDoux  voted against it.  Therefore,                                                               
Amendment 1 failed to be adopted by a vote of 1-5.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
1:35:31 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE CLAMAN  moved to  report HCS  for SB  100, Version                                                               
30-LS0709\U, Shutts,  5/11/17, out  of committee  with individual                                                               
recommendations and the previous zero  fiscal notes.  There being                                                               
no  objection, HCS  SB 100(RLS)  was  reported out  of the  House                                                               
Rules Standing Committee.