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HB 109                                                                                                                        
The State Affairs Committee considered:                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
    HOUSE BILL NO. 109                                                                                                          
    "An Act relating to the requirement for candidates, groups,                                                                 
    legislators, public officials, and other persons to submit reports                                                          
    electronically to the Alaska Public Offices Commission; relating                                                            
    to disclosures by legislators, public members of the Select                                                                 
    Committee on Legislative Ethics, legislative directors, public                                                              
    officials, and certain candidates for public office concerning                                                              
    services performed for compensation and concerning certain                                                                  
    income, gifts, and other financial matters; requiring legislators,                                                          
    public members of the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics,                                                               

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    legislative directors, public officials, and municipal officers to                                                          
    make certain financial disclosures when they leave office; relating                                                         
    to insignificant ownership interest in a business and to gifts from                                                         
    lobbyists for purposes of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act;                                                           
    relating to certain restrictions on employment after leaving state                                                          
    service for purposes of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act;                                                             
    and providing for an effective date."                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
and recommends it be replaced with:                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
    CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 109(STA)                                                                                              
    "An Act relating to campaign financing and ethics, including                                                                
    disclosures, in state and municipal government, to lobbying, and                                                            
    to employment, service on boards, and disclosures by certain                                                                
    public officers and employees who leave state or municipal                                                                  
    service or leave certain positions in state or municipal                                                                    
    government; restricting representation of others by legislators and                                                         
    legislative employees; relating to blind trusts approved by the                                                             
    Alaska Public Offices Commission; and providing for an effective                                                            
    date."                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
The report was signed by Representative Lynn, Chair, with the                                                                   
following individual recommendations:                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
Do pass (3):  Roses, Doll, Lynn                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
No recommendation (1):  Johansen                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Amend (3):  Johnson, Coghill, Gruenberg                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
The following fiscal note(s) apply to CSHB 109(STA):                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
1.  Zero, Dept. of Administration                                                                                               
2.  Zero, Dept. of Law                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
HB 109 was referred to the Judiciary Committee.