HOUSE BILL NO. 106                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act allowing appropriations to the civil legal                                                                         
     services fund from court filing fees."                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
4:30:25 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE ZACH  FANSLER, SPONSOR,  relayed that  it was                                                                    
his second  time presenting  HB 106.  The legislation  was a                                                                    
civil  legal services  fund bill  that provided  a mechanism                                                                    
for funding  Alaska Legal  Services, an  entity representing                                                                    
indigent clients around the state.                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Foster  indicated that his office  had not received                                                                    
any  amendments for  the bill.  Representative Gara  was not                                                                    
currently  present to  review  the  fiscal notes  associated                                                                    
with the bill.                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Seaton  relayed  that  there  was  one  previously                                                                    
published  zero fiscal  note  by  the Judiciary  Department;                                                                    
Appropriation:  Alaska   Court  System;   Allocation:  Trial                                                                    
Courts;  Office of  Management  and  Budget (OMB)  Component                                                                    
Number: 768.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
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Co-Chair  Seaton   reported  that  there  was   also  a  new                                                                    
indeterminate  fiscal  note  by  OMB;  Appropriation:  Funds                                                                    
Transfer;  Allocation:   Civil  Legal  Services   Fund;  OMB                                                                    
Component Number: 3015.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Representative Wilson wanted to  clarify that the reason the                                                                    
fiscal note  was indeterminate  was because  the legislature                                                                    
could place  zero to 25  percent each year.  She highlighted                                                                    
that  Page  2 contained  the  full  estimated amount  at  25                                                                    
percent.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Representative Fansler responded  that Representative Wilson                                                                    
was correct.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair   Foster    acknowledged   Representative   Pruitt,                                                                    
Representative  Grenn,  and  Representative  Tilton  at  the                                                                    
table.                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Seaton  asked if the  fund would serve  people with                                                                    
less than 125 percent of poverty.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Representative  Fansler thought  he  had  materials that  he                                                                    
could provide showing the information.                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
4:34:31 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Representative Wilson  asked the chairman if  he intended to                                                                    
move the bill out of committee.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Foster responded,  "If it is the will  of the body,                                                                    
yes."                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Representative  Wilson  MOVED  to   report  HB  106  out  of                                                                    
Committee   with   individual    recommendations   and   the                                                                    
accompanying fiscal notes.                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Seaton  OBJECTED.  He believed  there  were  three                                                                    
fiscal notes.                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Foster confirmed there were two fiscal notes.                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
Representative  Wilson restated  her motion  clarifying that                                                                    
there were two accompanying fiscal notes.                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Foster  asked Representative  Fansler if he  had an                                                                    
answer to Representative Seaton's last question.                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Representative Fansler answered that  the information he had                                                                    
been looking for was in the  bill on Page 1, Lines 11-14. It                                                                    
defined a  low-income individual. He read  directly from the                                                                    
bill:                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
     In  this  section,  "low-income  individual"  means  an                                                                    
     individual with  an income  equal to  or less  than 125                                                                    
     percent of  the most recent federal  poverty guidelines                                                                    
     for  Alaska  set by  the  United  States Department  of                                                                    
     Health and Human Services.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Seaton  WITHDREW  his OBJECTION.  There  being  NO                                                                    
OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
HB  106 was  REPORTED  out  of committee  with  a "do  pass"                                                                    
recommendation  and  with   one  previously  published  zero                                                                    
fiscal note: FN1(AJS) and with  one new indeterminate fiscal                                                                    
note by the Office of the Governor.                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
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