00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 331(JUD)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to funding for youth courts; and relating to accounting for criminal                                   
02 fines."                                                                                                                 
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 12.55.035 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                           
05            (g)  Fines imposed and collected under this section shall be separately                                      
06       accounted for under AS 37.05.142.                                                                                 
07    * Sec. 2. AS 37.05.146(c) is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                            
08                 (86)  fines imposed and collected under AS 12.55.035.                                                 
09    * Sec. 3. AS 47.12 is amended by adding a new section to article 3 to read:                                        
10            Sec. 47.12.410. Funding for youth courts. The legislature may appropriate up                               
11       to 25 percent of the fines imposed under AS 12.55.035 and collected and separately                                
12       accounted for by the state under AS 37.05.142 to the department for distribution to                               
13       youth courts established and operating under AS 47.12.400. Nothing in this section                                
14       creates a dedicated fund.                                                                                         

01    * Sec. 4. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                          
02 read:                                                                                                                   
03       TRANSITION. Notwithstanding the requirements of AS 12.55.035(g), enacted by sec.                                  
04 1 of this Act, and AS 47.12.410, enacted by sec. 3 of this Act, that fines collected under                              
05 AS 12.55.035 be accounted for separately, the Alaska Court System shall deposit money                                   
06 collected under AS 12.55.035 in the general fund and shall, by January 1 of each year,                                  
07 provide to the Department of Administration, to the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee,                             
08 and to each house of the legislature an estimate of the money collected under AS 12.55.035                              
09 for that fiscal year.                                                                                                   
10    * Sec. 5. Section 4 of this Act is repealed on the date that the Alaska Court System has the                       
11 capability separately to track, and account for electronically, money collected under                                   
12 AS 12.55.035. The executive director of the Alaska Court System shall notify the lieutenant                             
13 governor and the revisor of statutes when the electronic capability described in this section                           
14 has been obtained.