CSSB 201(STA): "An Act relating to the establishment and maintenance of an Internet website providing public finance information; and identifying the information to be available on the Internet website."
00 CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 201(STA) 01 "An Act relating to the establishment and maintenance of an Internet website providing 02 public finance information; and identifying the information to be available on the 03 Internet website." 04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 05 * Section 1. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section 06 to read: 07 SHORT TITLE. This Act may be known as the Alaska Open Government Act. 08 * Sec. 2. AS 37.05 is amended by adding a new section to article 2 to read: 09 Sec. 37.05.215. Public finance Internet website. (a) The Department of 10 Administration shall develop, operate, and maintain a searchable Internet website that 11 is accessible to the public at no cost and that provides financial information available 12 from the central accounting system describing 13 (1) state revenue for the preceding month, including 14 (A) a receipt or deposit by a state agency into a fund or account
01 established within the state treasury; 02 (B) proceeds from taxes received, including a compulsory 03 contribution imposed by the state for the purpose of financing services; 04 (C) agency earnings, including amounts collected for sales or 05 services, licenses or permits issued, or otherwise received by an agency under 06 the agency's regulations; 07 (D) revenue received for the use of state money or property, 08 including interest and lease payments; 09 (E) gifts, donations, and federal receipts; and 10 (F) other revenue; and 11 (2) expenditures for the preceding month, including 12 (A) the name and location of any person to whom payment was 13 made; 14 (B) the amount of the expenditure disbursed; 15 (C) the type of transaction, by account code, including the 16 purpose of the expenditure; 17 (D) other information specified by the department. 18 (b) The Department of Administration shall update the information described 19 in (a) of this section on the Internet website on a monthly basis. 20 (c) The Department of Revenue and other state agencies shall provide 21 information to the Department of Administration that is necessary to comply with the 22 requirements of this section. 23 (d) Nothing in this section requires disclosure of information that is 24 confidential under state or federal law. However, the Department of Administration 25 shall provide aggregated or summarized information describing confidential revenue 26 and expenditures if the aggregated or summarized information continues to protect 27 confidentiality. 28 (e) In this section, 29 (1) "expenditure" means a payment from the state treasury that is 30 greater than $1,000 and that is made as a grant, subgrant, contract, subcontract, loan, 31 lease, cooperative agreement, purchase order, task order, delivery order, or other form
01 of financial transaction; however, "expenditure" does not include the transfer of 02 money between state agencies, individual payments to state employees or retirees, or 03 payment of state or federal assistance to an individual; 04 (2) "searchable Internet website" means an Internet website that allows 05 searching, extracting, compiling, and aggregating information from the data available 06 on the website. 07 * Sec. 3. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to 08 read: 09 DELAYED AVAILABILITY. The Internet website established under AS 37.05.215, 10 added by sec. 2 of this Act, shall be available to the public on or before October 1, 2009. 11 * Sec. 4. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to 12 read: 13 TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS. The initial Internet website established under 14 AS 37.05.215, added by sec. 2 of this Act, must, notwithstanding the requirement of 15 AS 37.05.215(a) that financial information be reported by month, list information from the 16 previous fiscal year. Beginning on October 1, 2010, the list shall be updated on a monthly 17 basis.