00                HOUSE CS FOR CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 95(STA)                                                             
01 "An Act relating to the right of first refusal of a volunteer search and rescue group with                              
02 respect to obsolete or surplus state property."                                                                         
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section                          
05 to read:                                                                                                                
06       SHORT TITLE. This Act may be known as the Ellie Mae Act.                                                          
07    * Sec. 2. AS 44.68.110 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                              
08            (c)  A group of volunteers that is organized to provide search and rescue                                    
09       services in the state, including participation in a search and rescue party under                                 
10 AS 18.60.120, may exercise a right of first refusal with respect to obsolete or surplus                                 
11 state property that may assist in carrying out search and rescue services before the                                    
12 property is sold, leased, licensed, or disposed of under (a) of this section. To qualify                                
13 under this subsection, the group shall be organized as a nonprofit corporation under                                    
14 AS 10.20 or exercise the right of first refusal through and in the name of the                                          
15 municipality in which the group is located or a Native village council operating in the                                 

01 area in which the group is located that agrees to accept the property and use the                                       
02 property for search and rescue services. If the group exercises the right of first refusal                              
03 through and in the name of a municipality or Native village council, the municipality                                   
04 or Native village council shall own the property. The Department of Administration                                      
05 shall provide public notice of the availability of obsolete or surplus state property that                              
06 may assist in carrying out search and rescue services before the property is sold,                                      
07 leased, licensed, or disposed of under (a) of this section, as provided by regulation. In                               
08 this subsection, "search and rescue services" means a search for a person who is lost,                                  
09 injured, killed, or in need of immediate rescue, the provision of aid to a person who is                                
10       in distress or in immediate danger, or the retrieval of a person's remains.