HB0161b -1- CSHB 161(JUD)
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CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 161(JUD)
IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE - SECOND SESSION
BY THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Offered: 2/15/24
Referred: Finance
Sponsor(s): REPRESENTATIVES WRIGHT, Hannan, Armstrong, Gray, Mina
A BILL
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED
"An Act relating to the civil legal services fund." 1
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 2
* Section 1. AS 37.05.590 is amended to read: 3
Sec. 37.05.590. Civil legal services fund. The civil legal services fund is 4
established as a special account in the general fund. The fund consists of 5
appropriations to it. Annually, the legislature may appropriate to the fund only from 6
amounts deposited into the general fund of the state under AS 09.17.020(j) and an 7
amount from the general fund that is up to 25 [10] percent of the filing fees received
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by the Alaska Court System during the previous closed fiscal year. The legislature 9
may make appropriations from the fund to organizations that provide civil legal 10
services to low-income individuals. An organization may not use funds received 11
under this section to provide legal assistance for issues arising under AS 34.03 12
(Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act). Nothing in this section creates a 13
dedicated fund. In this section, "low-income individual" means an individual with an 14
income equal to or less than 125 percent of the most recent federal poverty guidelines 15 33-LS0746\B
CSHB 161(JUD) -2- HB0161b
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for Alaska set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. 1