00                      CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 19(STA)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to a public officer's taking official action regarding, or influencing, a                              
02 matter in which the public officer has a personal or financial interest; prohibiting                                    
03 certain persons from engaging in activity as lobbyists; and defining 'official action'                                  
04 under the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act and related law."                                                          
05 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
06    * Section 1. AS 39.52.110(b) is repealed and reenacted to read:                                                    
07            (b)  Notwithstanding (a) of this section, a public officer's action or influence                             
08       with respect to the officer's personal or financial interest in a specific matter is not a                        
09       violation of public trust or a violation of this chapter                                                          
10                 (1)  if the public officer's action or influence in the matter would have                               
11       only an insignificant or conjectural effect on the matter; or                                                     
12                 (2)  if the public officer's                                                                            
13                      (A)  personal or financial interest is of a type that is possessed                                 
14            generally by the public or a large class of persons to which the public officer                              

01            belongs;                                                                                                     
02                      (B)  personal interest is insignificant; or                                                        
03                      (C)  financial interest is solely in regard to a business and                                      
04            neither the public officer nor a member of the public officer's immediate                                    
05            family                                                                                                       
06                           (i)  owns a controlling interest in the business and the                                      
07                 controlling interest has a fair market value of $5,000 or more;                                         
08                           (ii)  owns stock or options to buy stock that, when                                           
09                 combined, equal more than one percent of the stock in the business or                                   
10                 have a total fair market value of more than $5,000;                                                     
11                           (iii)  owns or has an option to buy an equity interest in                                     
12                 the business the fair market value of which is more than $5,000 or one                                  
13                 percent of the total fair market value of the business, whichever is less;                              
14                           (iv)  is a member of the board of directors or another                                        
15                 governing body of the business;                                                                         
16                           (v)  is an officer of the business;                                                           
17                           (vi)  provides or has an option to provide personal or                                        
18                 professional services to the business;                                                                  
19                           (vii)  has a contract or an option for a contract with the                                    
20                 business; or                                                                                            
21                           (viii)  is an employee of the business.                                                       
22    * Sec. 2. AS 39.52.180(d) is amended to read:                                                                      
23            (d)  A former governor, lieutenant governor, [OR] head or deputy head of a                               
24       principal department in the executive branch, director of a division within a                                 
25       principal department in the executive branch, employee of the Office of the                                   
26       Governor in a policy-making position, or chair of a state board or commission                                 
27       that has the authority to adopt regulations, other than a board or commission                                 
28       named in AS 08.01.010, may not engage in activity as a lobbyist under AS 24.45 for a                          
29       period of one year after leaving service as the governor, lieutenant governor, [OR]                               
30       department head or deputy head, division director, chair of a state board or                                  
31       commission, or employee of the Office of the Governor in a policy-making                                      

01       position, as appropriate. This subsection does not prohibit service as a volunteer                            
02       lobbyist described in AS 24.45.161(a)(1) or a representational lobbyist as defined                                
03       under regulations of the Alaska Public Offices Commission.                                                      
04    * Sec. 3. AS 39.52.960(14) is amended to read:                                                                   
05                 (14)  "official action" means performance of any duties in the course                               
06       and scope of a public official's employment, including review, advice,                                        
07       participation, assistance, or another kind of involvement regarding a matter,                                 
08       such as a recommendation, decision, approval, disapproval, vote, or other similar                             
09       action, including inaction, by a public officer;                                                                  
10    * Sec. 4. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                          
11 read:                                                                                                                   
12       APPLICABILITY. Section 2 of this Act applies to a person who leaves state service                                 
13 on or after the effective date of sec. 2 of this Act.