00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 153(JUD)                                                                    
01 "An Act exempting municipal service area boards from the requirements of conducting                                     
02 meetings open to the public when a meeting is administrative or managerial in nature;                                   
03 and amending the definition of 'meeting' as it relates to public governmental meetings."                                
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1. AS 44.62.310(d) is amended to read:                                                                   
06            (d)  This section does not apply to                                                                          
07                 (1)  a governmental body performing a judicial or quasi-judicial                                        
08       function when holding a meeting solely to make a decision in an adjudicatory                                      
09       proceeding;                                                                                                       
10                 (2)  juries;                                                                                            
11                 (3)  parole or pardon boards;                                                                           
12                 (4)  meetings of a hospital medical staff;                                                              
13                 (5)  meetings of the governmental body or any committee of a hospital                                   
14       when holding a meeting solely to act upon matters of professional qualifications,                                 

01       privileges, or discipline;                                                                                    
02                 (6)  staff meetings or other gatherings of the employees of a public                                    
03       entity, including meetings of an employee group established by policy of the Board of                             
04       Regents of the University of Alaska or held while acting in an advisory capacity to the                           
05       Board of Regents; [OR]                                                                                            
06                 (7)  meetings held for the purpose of participating in or attending a                                   
07       gathering of a national, state, or regional organization of which the public entity,                              
08       governmental body, or member of the governmental body is a member, but only if no                                 
09       action is taken and no business of the governmental body is conducted at the                                      
10       meetings; or                                                                                                  
11                 (8)  meetings of municipal service area boards established under                                    
12       AS 29.35.450 - 29.35.490 when meeting solely to act on matters that are                                       
13       administrative or managerial in nature.                                                                       
14    * Sec. 2. AS 44.62.310(h)(2) is amended to read:                                                                   
15                 (2)  "meeting" means a gathering of members of a governmental body                                      
16       when                                                                                                              
17                      (A)  more than three members or a majority of the members,                                         
18            whichever is less, are present, a matter upon which the governmental body is                                 
19            empowered to act is considered by the members collectively, and the                                          
20            governmental body has the authority to establish policies or make decisions for                              
21            a public entity; or                                                                                          
22                      (B)  more than three members or a majority of the                                              
23            members, whichever is less, are present, the gathering is prearranged for the                            
24            purpose of considering a matter upon which the governmental body is                                          
25            empowered to act, and the governmental body has only authority to advise or                              
26            make recommendations for a public entity but has no authority to establish                                   
27            policies or make decisions for the public entity;