Enrolled HB 244: Creating an Alaska Decoration of Honor and establishing criteria for awarding the decoration.
00Enrolled HB 244 01 Creating an Alaska Decoration of Honor and establishing criteria for awarding the decoration. 02 _______________ 03 * Section 1. AS 26.05.190 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: 04 (e) The adjutant general shall maintain the Alaska Decoration of Honor Roll. 05 * Sec. 2. AS 26.05 is amended by adding a new section to read: 06 Sec. 26.05.342. Alaska Decoration of Honor. (a) There is created an Alaska 07 Decoration of Honor. The Alaska Decoration of Honor may be awarded to an 08 individual who has been killed in action on or after the date Alaska achieved statehood 09 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
01 against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party; 02 or 03 (4) serving in or deploying to or from a combat zone as designated by 04 presidential order. 05 (b) To be eligible to receive the Alaska Decoration of Honor, an individual 06 must have been, at the time the individual was killed in action, a member of 07 (1) the Alaska National Guard who was a legal resident of the state; 08 (2) the United States military reserves who was a legal resident of the 09 state; or 10 (3) the regular United States armed forces who was 11 (A) a legal resident of the state; or 12 (B) stationed in the state by a proper order of the United States 13 Department of Defense. 14 (c) The Alaska Decoration of Honor shall be awarded by a concurrent 15 resolution drafted in consultation with the adjutant general's office. The resolution 16 must be 17 (1) introduced by the president of the senate, the speaker of the house 18 of representatives, a member of the legislature who is the authorized representative of 19 the president of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives, or the chair 20 of the committee of each house of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over 21 military and veterans' affairs; and 22 (2) adopted by both houses of the legislature. 23 (d) The Joint Armed Services Committee shall make arrangements for the 24 designing and awarding of the Alaska Decoration of Honor. 25 (e) The adjutant general shall 26 (1) annually obtain from the United States government a list of 27 individuals who fulfill the criteria described in (a)(1) - (4) and (b)(1) - (3) of this 28 section during the previous calendar year; and 29 (2) not later than December 31 each year, provide this list of 30 individuals to the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives; 31 the adjutant general may edit the list to remove from it the name of any individual
01 whose service, in the judgment of the adjutant general, would have resulted in the 02 individual's discharge or release under conditions that were other than honorable. 03 (f) The adjutant general shall enter the name of each recipient of the Alaska 04 Decoration of Honor on the Alaska Decoration of Honor Roll maintained under 05 AS 26.05.190(e). 06 * Sec. 3. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to 07 read: 08 INITIAL LIST TO BE OBTAINED BY ADJUTANT GENERAL. The initial list of 09 individuals obtained from the United States government by the adjutant general under 10 AS 26.05.342(e)(1) must include all individuals who meet the criteria described in 11 AS 26.05.342(a)(1) - (4) and (b)(1) - (3) and were killed in action at some time after 12 January 2, 1959, and before January 1, 2007.