"An Act relating to the Comprehensive Health Insurance Association; granting a 50 percent premium tax credit for assessments against members of the Comprehensive Health Insurance Association; requiring members to provide information to the association's board of directors or the director of the division of insurance; modifying voting rights for the association members by basing their exercise on a member's share of assessments; basing assessments on major medical premiums; modifying the manner of determining members' liabilities for losses; and changing the definition of major medical coverage for purpose of state health insurance and providing for exclusions to major medical coverage. "

Section 1: Insurers who contribute to ACHIA are entitled to a premium tax credit.

Section 2: Insurers who contribute to ACHIA shall submit reports and provide information required by the board or director.

Section 3: Amends the voting rights section of ACHIA.

Section 4: Clarifies that insurers' contributions to ACHIA are based on the "major medical" premiums they write in Alaska.

Section 5: Amends the way ACHIA determines liability for unpaid assessments for those insurers who cease to do business in the state.

Section 6: An insurer who is required to contribute to ACHIA, may offset 50% of its ACHIA assessment as a tax credit on their premium taxes. The tax credit is applied in the following year based on the previous year's ACHIA assessment.

Section 7: Redefines "major medical."

Section 8: Premium tax credit applied starting January 1, 2007.

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