HB 443-TEACHERS AND NURSES HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Number 2132                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR WILSON announced that the  final order of business would be                                                               
HOUSE BILL  NO. 443,  "An Act relating  to eligibility  of nurses                                                               
for the teachers' and nurses'  housing loan program of the Alaska                                                               
Housing Finance Corporation."  She  reminded the members that the                                                               
identical bill was passed out  of the House Health, Education and                                                               
Social Services Standing Committee last session.                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  BETH KERTTULA,  Alaska  State  Legislature, as  a                                                               
sponsor of  HB 443 presented  the bill.   She explained  that the                                                               
bill makes  a slight change to  the current law which  allows for                                                               
all  nurses to  be  able  to participate  in  the Alaska  Housing                                                               
Finance Corporation  program.  There is  no cost to the  state as                                                               
this is a loan program.                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
Number 2158                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE SEATON moved  to report HB 443, version  A, out of                                                               
committee  with individual  recommendations and  the accompanying                                                               
fiscal notes.  There being no  objection, HB 443 was reported out                                                               
of  the  House Health,  Education  and  Social Services  Standing                                                               
Committee.