00                             SENATE BILL NO. 205                                                                         
01 "An Act removing the prohibition against individuals who are related to a legislator or                                 
02 legislative employee being eligible for employment by the legislature in certain                                        
03 positions."                                                                                                             
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1.  AS 24.60.090(a) is amended to read:                                                                  
06            (a)  An individual who is related to a member of the legislature may not be                                  
07       employed (1) for compensation [(1) DURING THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION IN                                          
08       THE HOUSE IN WHICH THE LEGISLATOR IS A MEMBER, (2)] by an agency of                                               
09       the legislature established under AS 24.20, [(3) IN EITHER HOUSE DURING THE                                       
10       INTERIM BETWEEN SESSIONS,] or (2) [(4),] whether for compensation or not, by                                  
11       the committee. [AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS RELATED TO A LEGISLATIVE                                                     
12       EMPLOYEE MAY NOT BE EMPLOYED IN A POSITION OVER WHICH THE                                                         
13       EMPLOYEE HAS SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY.] In this subsection, "an individual                                           
14       who is related to" means a member of the legislator's [OR LEGISLATIVE                                             
01       EMPLOYEE'S] immediate family or a person who is a legislator's [OR                                                
02       LEGISLATIVE EMPLOYEE'S] domestic partner living together in a conjugal                                            
03       relationship not a legal marriage with the legislator or legislative employee [, AND                              
04       "INTERIM BETWEEN SESSIONS" MEANS THE PERIOD BEGINNING ON THE                                                      
05       EIGHTH DAY AFTER THE LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS FROM A REGULAR                                                          
06       SESSION, AND ENDING EIGHT DAYS BEFORE THE DATE THAT THE                                                           
07       LEGISLATURE SHALL CONVENE UNDER AS 24.05.090].