00HOUSE BILL NO. 395                                                                                                      
01 "An Act relating to retirement benefits for the administrative director of courts;                                      
02 and providing for an effective date."                                                                                   
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 22.25.012(a) is amended to read:                                                                    
05  (a)  An administrative director of the Alaska court system appointed under art.                                       
06 IV, sec. 16 of the state constitution is entitled to retirement benefits under this chapter                             
07 on the terms and conditions applicable to a superior court judge appointed after July 1,                                
08 1978, if the administrative director elects to participate in this chapter before the                                  
09 effective date of this Act.  However, [EXCEPT THAT] an administrative director                                         
10 may receive retirement benefits only with service as administrative director for 10 or                                  
11 more years.                                                                                                             
12    * Sec. 2.  AS 39.35.158 is amended to read:                                                                          
13  Sec. 39.35.158.  ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR OF COURTS.  (a)  Except                                                     
14 as provided in AS 22.25.012, an [AN] administrative director of the Alaska court                                       

01 system is a member of this system.                                                                                     
02  (b)  An administrative director who has been a member of the judicial                                                 
03 retirement system under AS 22.25.012 and who later withdraws from the judicial                                       
04 retirement system under AS 22.25.012 is eligible for membership in the system and                                       
05 shall receive credited service in the system for service rendered as administrative                                     
06 director.  To be eligible for membership in the system under this subsection, the                                       
07 administrative director must contribute to the system                                                                   
08   (1)  the amount the director would have contributed if the director had                                              
09 been a member during the director's period of membership in the judicial retirement                                     
10 system; and                                                                                                             
11   (2)  any contributions for services as administrative director refunded                                              
12 by the system at the time the director became a member of the judicial retirement                                       
13 system.                                                                                                                 
14    * Sec. 3.  AS 39.35.680(21)(C)(vii) is repealed.                                                                     
15    * Sec. 4.  This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).