00 SENATE BILL NO. 275                                                                                                   
01 "An Act relating to contributions to the governor, the lieutenant governor, and                                         
02 candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor; and providing for                                       
03 an effective date."                                                                                                     
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05    * Section 1.  AS 15.13.072(d) is amended to read:                                                                  
06  (d)  A candidate or an individual who has filed with the commission the                                               
07 document necessary to permit that individual to incur election-related expenses under                                   
08 AS 15.13.100 may not solicit or accept a contribution if the legislature is convened in                                 
09 a regular or special legislative session, and the candidate or individual is                                            
10    (1)   a member of the legislature [,] or employed as a member of the                                              
11 legislator's staff or as a member of the staff of a legislative committee ;                                            
12   (2)  the governor or employed as a member of the governor's staff;                                                   
13 or                                                                                                                      
14   (3)  the lieutenant governor or employed as a member of the                                                          
01 lieutenant governor's staff .                                                                                          
02    * Sec. 2.  AS 15.13.074(c) is amended to read:                                                                     
03  (c)  A person or group may not make a contribution                                                                    
04   (1)  to a candidate for governor or lieutenant governor or an individual                                             
05 who files with the commission the document necessary to permit that individual to                                       
06 incur certain election-related expenses as authorized by AS 15.13.100 for governor or                                   
07 lieutenant governor, when the office is to be filled at a general election,  while the                                 
08 state legislature is convened in its regular legislative session and  before the later                                 
09 of the following dates:                                                                                                 
10   (A)  the date the individual                                                                                        
11   (i)  becomes a candidate; or                                                                                       
12   (ii)  files with the commission the document necessary                                                             
13 to permit the individual to incur certain election-related expenses as                                                  
14 authorized by AS 15.13.100; or                                                                                          
15   (B)  January 1 of the year of the general election;                                                                 
16   (2)  to a candidate for the state legislature or an individual who files                                             
17 with the commission the document necessary to permit that individual to incur certain                                   
18 election-related expenses as authorized by AS 15.13.100 for the state legislature, when                                 
19 the office is to be filled at a general election, while the legislature is convened in its                              
20 regular legislative session and before the later of the following dates:                                                
21   (A)  the date the individual                                                                                        
22   (i)  becomes a candidate; or                                                                                       
23   (ii)  files with the commission the document necessary                                                             
24 to permit the individual to incur certain election-related expenses as                                                  
25 authorized by AS 15.13.100; or                                                                                          
26   (B)  January 1 of the year of the general election;                                                                 
27   (3)  to a candidate or an individual who files with the commission the                                               
28 document necessary to permit that individual to incur certain election-related expenses                                 
29 as authorized by AS 15.13.100 for an office that is to be filled at a special election or                               
30 municipal election before the later of the following dates:                                                             
31   (A)  the date the individual                                                                                        
01   (i)  becomes a candidate; or                                                                                       
02   (ii)  files with the commission the document necessary                                                             
03 to permit that individual to incur certain election-related expenses as                                                 
04 authorized by AS 15.13.100;                                                                                             
05   (B)  is nine months before the date of the general or regular                                                       
06 municipal election or that is before the date of the proclamation of the special                                        
07 election at which the candidate or individual seeks election to public office; or                                       
08   (4)  to any candidate later than the 45th day                                                                        
09   (A)  after the date of a primary election if the candidate                                                          
10   (i)  has been nominated at the primary election or is                                                              
11 running as a write-in candidate; and                                                                                    
12   (ii)  is not opposed at the general election;                                                                      
13   (B)  after the date of the primary election if the candidate was                                                    
14 not nominated at the primary election; or                                                                               
15   (C)  after the date of the general election, or after the date of a                                                 
16 municipal or municipal runoff election, if the candidate was opposed at the                                             
17 general, municipal, or municipal runoff election.                                                                       
18    * Sec. 3.  This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).