00 CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 27(FIN)                                                                                        
01 "An Act relating to school records and driver license records of certain children."                                     
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03    * Section 1.  AS 14.03 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                 
04  Sec. 14.03.115.  Access to school records by parent or guardian.  Upon                                              
05 request of a parent or guardian of a child under 18 years of age who is currently or                                    
06 was previously enrolled in a municipal school district or a school district that is a                                   
07 regional educational attendance area, the school district shall provide a copy of the                                   
08 child's record.  This section does not apply to                                                                         
09   (1)  a record of a child who is an emancipated minor; or                                                             
10   (2)  record information that consists of the child's address if the school                                           
11 district determines that the release of the child's address poses a threat to the health or                             
12 safety of the child.                                                                                                    
13    * Sec. 2.  AS 14.30.710 is amended to read:                                                                        
14  Sec. 14.30.710.  Required records upon transfer.  Within 14 days after                                              
01 enrolling a child as a transfer student from this or another state in an elementary or                                  
02 secondary school, the school or school district shall request directly from the child's                                 
03 previous school a certified copy of the child's record.  An elementary or secondary                                     
04 school or a school district in this state requested to forward a copy of a transferring                                 
05 child's record to another school shall comply with the request within 10 days after                                     
06 receiving the request unless the record has been flagged under AS 14.30.700.  Upon                                      
07 receipt of a request for a record that has been flagged, the school or school district                                  
08 shall immediately notify the Department of Public Safety.  Unless directed to do so by                                  
09 the Department of Public Safety, a school or a school district may not forward a copy                                   
10 of a flagged record.   In this section, "record" includes information about the                                        
11 child's commission of an offense that is punishable as a felony or that involved the                                    
12 use of a deadly weapon, as that term is defined in AS 11.81.900(b).                                                    
13    * Sec. 3.  AS 28.15.151(c) is amended to read:                                                                     
14  (c)  The department shall, upon request, subject to the applicable provisions of                                      
15 AS 12.62 and (f) of this section and without charging a fee, furnish  (1)   a municipal,                              
16 state, or federal administrative or judicial agency with a certified abstract of the driving                            
17 record of a driver ; and (2) a parent or guardian of a driver who is under 18 years                                    
18 of age and not an emancipated minor an abstract of the driving record of that                                           
19 driver; the department may refuse to release the driver's address to the parent                                         
20 or guardian if the department determines that the release of the driver's address                                       
21 poses a threat to the health or safety of the driver .  The abstract must include a                                    
22 listing of accidents in which the driver has been determined by the department or a                                     
23 court of competent jurisdiction to have been liable, convictions of vehicle, driver, and                                
24 traffic offenses, any actions taken upon the driver's license, and information relating                                 
25 to financial responsibility.