00                             SENATE BILL NO. 42                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to the office of victims' rights."                                                                     
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 24.65.110(a) is amended to read:                                                                  
04            (a)  The victims' advocate shall assist crime victims in obtaining the rights                                
05       crime victims are guaranteed under the constitution and laws of the state with regard                             
06       to the contacts crime victims have with [THE] justice agencies [OF THE STATE].                                    
07    * Sec. 2.  AS 24.65.250 is amended to read:                                                                        
08            Sec. 24.65.250.  Definitions.  In this chapter,                                                            
09                 (1)  "justice agency" means a department, office, institution,                                          
10       corporation, authority, organization, commission, committee, council, court, or board                             
11       of a municipality or in the executive or judicial branches of the state government that                       
12       is, in any manner, involved with or responsible for the apprehension, prosecution,                                
13       incarceration, or supervision of criminal or juvenile offenders; it also includes an                              
14       officer, employee, or member of an agency acting or purporting to act in the exercise                             
15       of official duties;                                                                                               
01                 (2)  "victim"                                                                                           
02                      (A)  has the meaning given in AS 12.55.185; or                                             
03                      (B)  for crimes related to AS 47.07, means the state.                                          
04    * Sec. 3.  The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                         
05 read:                                                                                                                   
06       APPLICABILITY.  The amendments to AS 24.65.110 and 24.65.250 in this Act do                                       
07 not affect the repeal of those sections by secs. 41 and 51, ch. 92, SLA 2001.  Sections 41 and                          
08 51, ch. 92, SLA 2001, repeal the amendments to AS 24.65.110 and 24.65.250 made in this                                  
09 Act.