00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 326                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to cross-deputization agreements with federally recognized tribes and                                  
02 peace officers employed by federally recognized tribes."                                                                
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 18.65 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                
05                  Article 9A. Cross-Deputization Agreements.                                                           
06 Sec. 18.65.690. Cross-deputization agreements. (a) The Department of                                                  
07 Public Safety or a municipal police force may enter into a cross-deputization                                           
08 agreement with a federally recognized tribe or a peace officer employed by a federally                                  
09 recognized tribe who is not employed as a village or regional public safety officer                                     
10       under AS 18.65.670 - 18.65.688 only if the agreement does not grant an expansion of                               
11       the tribe's or peace officer's criminal jurisdiction or authority over nontribal members                          
12       on nontribal land.                                                                                                
13            (b)  Notwithstanding (a) of this section, the Department of Public Safety and                                
14       members of the state troopers may command assistance from a tribal peace officer                                  

01       under AS 18.65.100.                                                                                               
02            (c)  In this section,                                                                                        
03                 (1)  "cross-deputization agreement" means an agreement that authorizes                                  
04       peace officers employed by a federally recognized tribe to enforce state, municipal,                              
05       and tribal criminal law outside of the tribe's criminal jurisdiction;                                             
06                 (2)  "federally recognized tribe" has the meaning given in                                              
07       AS 23.20.520.                                                                                                     
08    * Sec. 2. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                          
09 read:                                                                                                                   
10       APPLICABILITY. AS 18.65.690, enacted by sec. 1 of this Act, applies to cross-                                     
11 deputization agreements entered into on or after the effective date of this Act.