00 CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 10(STA) 01 "An Act creating certain exceptions to limitations under the Alaska Executive Branch 02 Ethics Act on the use of state resources to provide or pay for transportation of spouses 03 and children of the governor and the lieutenant governor." 04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 05  * Section 1. AS 39.52.120(b) is amended to read: 06 (b) A public officer may not 07 (1) seek other employment or contracts through the use or attempted 08 use of official position; 09 (2) accept, receive, or solicit compensation for the performance of 10 official duties or responsibilities from a person other than the state; 11 (3) use state time, property, equipment, or other facilities to benefit 12 personal or financial interests; 13 (4) take or withhold official action in order to affect a matter in which 14 the public officer has a personal or financial interest; 01 (5) attempt to benefit a personal or financial interest through coercion 02 of a subordinate or require another public officer to perform services for the private 03 benefit of the public officer at any time; or 04 (6) use or authorize the use of state funds, facilities, equipment, 05 services, or another government asset or resource for a partisan political purpose 06 [PURPOSES]; this paragraph does not prohibit use of the governor's residence for 07 meetings to discuss political strategy and does not prohibit use of state aircraft or the 08 communications equipment in the governor's residence so long as there is no charge to 09 the state for the use [; IN THIS PARAGRAPH, "FOR PARTISAN POLITICAL 10 PURPOSES" 11 (A) MEANS HAVING THE INTENT TO 12 DIFFERENTIALLY BENEFIT OR HARM A 13 (i) CANDIDATE OR POTENTIAL CANDIDATE 14 FOR ELECTIVE OFFICE; OR 15 (ii) POLITICAL PARTY OR GROUP; 16 (B) BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE HAVING THE INTENT TO 17 BENEFIT THE PUBLIC INTEREST AT LARGE THROUGH THE 18 NORMAL PERFORMANCE OF OFFICIAL DUTIES]. 19  * Sec. 2. AS 39.52.120(f) is amended to read: 20 (f) Use of state aircraft for a partisan political purpose [PURPOSES] is 21 permitted under (b) of this section only when the use is collateral or incidental to the 22 normal performance of official duties and does not exceed 10 percent of the total of 23 the use of the aircraft for official purposes and partisan political purposes, combined, 24 on a single trip. A public officer who authorizes or makes any partisan political use of 25 a state aircraft under (b) of this section shall disclose the authorization and use under 26 AS 39.52.210 or 39.52.220 for each trip, and the person who uses the aircraft shall 27 reimburse the state for the proportionate share of the actual cost of the use. 28  * Sec. 3. AS 39.52.120 is amended by adding new subsections to read: 29 (g) Notwithstanding (a) and (b)(1) - (5) of this section, state resources may be 30 used to transport or pay the cost of transporting a person who is the spouse or child of 31 the governor or lieutenant governor to an event. This subsection authorizes 01 transportation or payment of the cost of transportation of a person who is a child of the 02 governor or lieutenant governor if the person is a biological child, an adopted child, or 03 a stepchild of the governor or lieutenant governor and is under 19 years of age or, 04 without regard to age, is dependent on the governor or lieutenant governor for care 05 because of a physical, intellectual, or developmental disability. Under this subsection, 06 use of state resources is permitted if the event does not have a partisan political 07 purpose and 08 (1) the person is transported with the governor or lieutenant governor 09 and the state is reimbursed for the actual cost or, if the actual cost is not reasonably 10 calculable, the fair market value of the person's transportation; or 11 (2) the person's attendance is a benefit to the state; under this 12 paragraph, a benefit to the state is presumed when 13 (A) the person's attendance at the event is required for official 14 action of the state; 15 (B) the event is state-sponsored and the person's attendance has 16 been customary at similar events; 17 (C) the person is attending as an officially designated 18 representative of the state; or 19 (D) the person is invited by the sponsor of the event before the 20 transportation occurs, the event is related to issues important to the state, the 21 governor or lieutenant governor attends, and 22 (i) the event is a family-oriented or youth-oriented event 23 at which the person's attendance is particularly appropriate; or 24 (ii) the invitation and the person's attendance have been 25 customary for similar events. 26 (h) In this section, "partisan political purpose" 27 (1) means a purpose intended differentially to benefit or harm a 28 (A) candidate or potential candidate for elective office; or 29 (B) political party or group; 30 (2) does not include a purpose intended to benefit the public interest at 31 large through the normal performance of official duties.