HB  13-MUNICIPAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
8:43:34 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR  HIMSCHOOT announced  that  the next  order of  business                                                               
would  be SPONSOR  SUBSTITUTE  FOR  HOUSE BILL  NO.  13, "An  Act                                                               
relating  to  optional  municipal  property  tax  exemptions  for                                                               
certain long-term  rental units, certain mobile  home parks, real                                                               
property rented  to low-income families, real  property owned and                                                               
occupied as a  permanent place of abode, and  real property owned                                                               
by first-time homebuyers."                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
8:43:54 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
KYLE JOHANSEN,  Staff, Representative  Andrew Gray,  Alaska State                                                               
Legislature,  on behalf  of Representative  Gray, prime  sponsor,                                                               
gave a brief summary of the  bill and said a committee substitute                                                               
(CS) was being  drafted by Legislative Legal  Services to reflect                                                               
the  committee's  recommendations.    Based  on  the  committee's                                                               
feedback,  the  bill  sponsor  was  fine  tuning  the  low-income                                                               
language  and  working  to incorporate  borough  eligibility  and                                                               
considerations for first  time homebuyers.  He said  the CS would                                                               
be given to municipalities for feedback.                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
CO-CHAIR HIMSCHOOT  opened public  testimony on  SSHB 13.   After                                                               
ascertaining  that no  one  wished to  testify,  she stated  that                                                               
public testimony would be left open, and the bill held over.