00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 244(FIN)                                                                    
01 "An Act creating an Alaska Decoration of Honor and establishing criteria for awarding                                   
02 the decoration."                                                                                                        
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 26.05.190 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                           
05            (e)  The adjutant general shall maintain the Alaska Decoration of Honor Roll.                                
06    * Sec. 2. AS 26.05 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                     
07            Sec. 26.05.342. Alaska Decoration of Honor. (a) There is created an Alaska                                 
08       Decoration of Honor. The Alaska Decoration of Honor may be awarded to an                                          
09       individual who has been killed in action on or after January 1, 2000, while                                       
10                 (1)  engaged in an action against any enemy of the United States;                                       
11                 (2)  engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing                                 
12       foreign force;                                                                                                    
13                 (3)  serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict                                  
14       against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party;                            

01       or                                                                                                                
02                 (4)  serving in or deploying to or from a combat zone as designated by                                  
03       presidential order.                                                                                               
04            (b)  To be eligible to receive the Alaska Decoration of Honor, an individual                                 
05       must have been, at the time the individual was killed in action, a member of                                      
06                 (1)  the Alaska National Guard who was a legal resident of the state;                                   
07                 (2)  the United States military reserves who was a legal resident of the                                
08       state; or                                                                                                         
09                 (3)  the regular United States armed forces who was                                                     
10                      (A)  a legal resident of the state; or                                                             
11                      (B)  stationed in the state by a proper order of the United States                                 
12            Department of Defense.                                                                                       
13            (c)  The Alaska Decoration of Honor shall be awarded by a concurrent                                         
14       resolution drafted in consultation with the adjutant general's office. The resolution                             
15       must be                                                                                                           
16                 (1)  introduced by the president of the senate, the speaker of the house                                
17       of representatives, a member of the legislature who is the authorized representative of                           
18       the president of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives, or the chair                          
19       of the committee of each house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over                                  
20       military and veterans' affairs; and                                                                               
21                 (2)  adopted by both houses of the legislature.                                                         
22            (d)  The Joint Armed Services Committee shall make arrangements for the                                      
23       designing and awarding of the Alaska Decoration of Honor.                                                         
24            (e)  The adjutant general shall                                                                              
25                 (1)  annually obtain from the United States government a list of                                        
26       individuals who fulfill the criteria described in (a)(1) - (4) and (b)(1) - (3) of this                           
27       section during the previous calendar year; and                                                                    
28                 (2)  not later than December 31 each year, provide this list of                                         
29       individuals to the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives;                           
30       the adjutant general may edit the list to remove from it the name of any individual                               
31       whose service, in the judgment of the adjutant general, would have resulted in the                                

01       individual's discharge or release under conditions that were other than honorable.                                
02            (f)  The adjutant general shall enter the name of each recipient of the Alaska                               
03       Decoration of Honor on the Alaska Decoration of Honor Roll maintained under                                       
04       AS 26.05.190(e).