00 SENATE BILL NO. 68                                                                                                      
01 "An Act relating to the donation of food by meat processors and seafood                                                 
02 processors and to who qualifies as a food bank."                                                                        
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 17.20.347 is amended to read:                                                                       
05  Sec. 17.20.347.  "DONOR'' AND "FOOD BANK'' DEFINED.  In                                                               
06 AS 17.20.345 and 17.20.346                                                                                              
07   (1)  "donor"                                                                                                         
08   (A)  includes a person, farmer, retailer, slaughterhouse under                                                      
09 state supervision, freight company, distributor, wholesaler, meat processor,                                           
10 seafood processor, or similar entity;                                                                                  
11   (B)  except as otherwise provided under (A) of this                                                                
12 paragraph for meat processors and seafood processors, excludes a person                                                
13 who acts in a commercial capacity as a manufacturer, packer, processor, bottler,                                        
14 or similar entity, if that activity is the person's primary activity;                                                   
01   (2)  "food bank" means a nonprofit [AN] organization [RECOGNIZED                                                   
02 BY THE STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS A NONPROFIT                                                                       
03 ORGANIZATION AND] that operates principally to collect, inspect, and salvage                                            
04 donated food for free distribution either to needy persons or to nonprofit                                           
05 organizations for free distribution to needy persons; in this paragraph, "nonprofit                                     
06 organization" means an organization recognized by the state or federal                                                  
07 government as a nonprofit organization.