00                       CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 387(CRA)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to fines for moving motor vehicle or traffic offenses committed within                                 
02 highway work or school zones; and providing for an effective date."                                                     
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 28.05.151(d) is amended to read:                                                                  
05            (d) The supreme court, in establishing scheduled amounts of bail under this                                  
06       section, and each municipality that establishes or has established a fine schedule under                          
07       this section shall provide that the scheduled amount of bail or fine, as applicable, for a                        
08       moving motor vehicle or traffic offense that is committed in a highway work or                            
09       school zone shall be double the amount of the bail or fine for the offense if it had not                      
10       been committed in a highway work or school zone.  If the offense was committed in                         
11       a zone with differential speed limits, the double bail or fine applies only during                            
12       the period of time when a lower speed limit is in effect.                                                     
13    * Sec. 2.  AS 28.40.070 is amended to read:                                                                        
14            Sec. 28.40.070.  Fines for offenses committed within highway work and                                    
01       school zones doubled.  Whenever a person violates a moving motor vehicle or                               
02       traffic provision of this title or a regulation adopted under the authority of this title                     
03       within a highway work or school zone, notwithstanding the amount of the fine or the                           
04       maximum fine set under this title, the fine, or maximum fine, is double the amount                                
05       provided in this title.                                                                                           
06    * Sec. 3.  AS 28.40.100(a) is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                           
07                 (27)  "school zone"  means an area identified by signs as being near a                                  
08       school.                                                                                                           
09    * Sec. 4.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2005.