00HOUSE BILL NO. 200 am S                                                                                                 
01 "An Act reassigning responsibility for the custody of persons pending their                                             
02 arraignments, commitment to the custody of the commissioner of corrections, or                                          
03 admission to a state correctional facility, and authorizing the commissioner of                                         
04 corrections to employ guards for emergencies on the same basis as the                                                   
05 commissioner of public safety, as partially exempt service employees; and providing                                     
06 for an effective date."                                                                                                 
07 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
08    * Section 1.   AS 33.30.071(a) is amended to read:                                                                   
09  (a)  [NOTWITHSTANDING AS 33.30.011(1), THE COMMISSIONER OF                                                            
10 PUBLIC SAFETY SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE CUSTODY, CARE, AND                                                                  
11 DISCIPLINE OF PRISONERS PENDING ARRAIGNMENT, COMMITMENT BY A                                                            
12 COURT TO THE  CUSTODY OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONS, OR                                                            
13 ADMISSION TO A STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.  EXCEPT                                                                     
14 AS PROVIDED IN (c) OF THIS SECTION, THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR                                                              

01 PROVIDING NECESSARY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR PRISONERS REMAINS                                                              
02 WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONS UNDER AS 33.30.011(4).]  The                                                       
03 commissioner is [OF CORRECTIONS AND THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC                                                        
04 SAFETY ARE] not responsible for providing custody, care, and discipline for a person                                    
05 detained under AS 47.30.705 or AS 47.37.170 [,] unless the person is admitted into                                      
06 a state correctional facility.                                                                                          
07    * Sec. 2.  AS 33.30.071(b) is amended to read:                                                                       
08     (b)  The responsibility of the commissioner [OF PUBLIC SAFETY] under                                              
09 AS 33.30.011 begins when [ (a) OF THIS SECTION DOES NOT BEGIN UNTIL]                                                   
10 a prisoner is accepted into the commissioner's custody [OF THE COMMISSIONER                                           
11 OF PUBLIC SAFETY,] or admitted into a correctional facility [OR OTHER                                                   
12 FACILITY DESIGNED FOR HOLDING PRISONERS , AND THE COMMISSIONER                                                          
13 OF PUBLIC SAFETY IS NOTIFIED OF THE ACCEPTANCE OR ADMISSION].                                                           
14    * Sec. 3.  AS 39.25.120(c) is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                             
15   (19) guards employed by the Department of Corrections, other than in                                                 
16 state correctional facilities, to carry out the responsibility of the commissioner of                                   
17 Corrections under AS 33.30.071(b);                                                                                      
18    * Sec. 4.  This Act takes effect July 1, 1995.