00                             HOUSE BILL NO. 309                                                                          
01 "An Act requiring a legislator to abstain from voting on questions affecting an                                         
02 enterprise if the legislator or a member of the legislator's immediate family has an                                    
03 equity or ownership interest in the enterprise that is substantial, and requiring a                                     
04 legislator to abstain from taking or withholding official action or exerting official                                   
05 influence in certain matters in which the legislator's action or influence could benefit or                             
06 harm the financial interest of a person by whom the legislator or a member of the                                       
07 legislator's immediate family is employed or with whom the legislator or a member of                                    
08 the legislator's immediate family is negotiating for employment; making the Act                                         
09 conditionally effective; and providing for an effective date."                                                          
10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
11    * Section 1. AS 24.60.030(e) is amended to read:                                                                   
12            (e)  A legislator may not directly, or by authorizing another to act on the                                  
01       legislator's behalf,                                                                                              
02                 (1)  agree to, threaten to, or state or imply that the legislator will take or                          
03       withhold a legislative, administrative, or political action, including support for or                         
04       opposition to a bill, employment, nominations, and appointments, as a result of a                                 
05       person's decision to provide or not provide a political contribution, donate or not                               
06       donate to a cause favored by the legislator, or provide or not provide a thing of value;                          
07                 (2)  state or imply that the legislator will perform or refrain from                                    
08       performing a lawful constituent service as a result of a person's decision to provide or                          
09       not provide a political contribution, donate or not donate to a cause favored by the                              
10       legislator, or provide or not provide a thing of value; or                                                        
11                 (3)  [UNLESS REQUIRED BY THE UNIFORM RULES OF THE                                                       
12       ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE,] take or withhold official action or exert official                                     
13       influence that could substantially benefit or harm the financial interest of another                              
14       person with whom the legislator or a member of the legislator's immediate family is                           
15       negotiating for employment or by whom the legislator or a member of the                                       
16       legislator's immediate family is employed.                                                                    
17    * Sec. 2. AS 24.60.030(g) is amended to read:                                                                      
18            (g)  A [UNLESS REQUIRED BY THE UNIFORM RULES OF THE                                                      
19       ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE, A] legislator may not vote on a question if the                                         
20                 (1)  legislator or a member of the legislator's immediate family has                            
21       an equity or ownership interest in a business, investment, real property, lease, or other                         
22       enterprise if the interest is substantial and the effect on that interest of the action to be                     
23       voted on is greater than the effect on a substantial class of persons to which the                                
24       legislator or the family member, whichever one has the equity or ownership                                    
25       interest, belongs as a member of a profession, occupation, industry, or region; or                        
26                 (2)  legislator's voting could substantially benefit or harm the                                    
27       financial interest of another person with whom the legislator or a member of the                              
28       legislator's immediate family is negotiating for employment or by whom the                                    
29       legislator or a member of the legislator's immediate family is employed.                                      
30    * Sec. 3. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                          
31 read:                                                                                                                   
01       CONDITIONAL EFFECT. This Act takes effect only if Rule 34(b), Uniform Rules of                                    
02 the Alaska State Legislature, is amended to require a member to abstain from voting when the                            
03 member reasonably believes that casting a vote would violate a specific provision of                                    
04 AS 24.60.030 that requires the member's abstention.                                                                     
05    * Sec. 4. If, under sec. 3 of this Act, this Act takes effect, it takes effect on the later of the                 
06 effective date of the amendment made to Rule 34(b), Uniform Rules of the Alaska State                                   
07 Legislature, as described in sec. 3 of this Act or the date described in AS 01.10.070(c).