00HOUSE BILL NO. 474                                                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to correctional officers."                                                                             
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03    * Section 1.  AS 18.65.285 is amended to read:                                                                     
04  Sec. 18.65.285.  Municipal correctional employees.  A municipality that                                             
05 employs persons in a municipal correctional facility  that does not, under contract                                    
06 with the state, house prisoners committed to the custody of the commissioner of                                         
07 corrections  may, by ordinance, require that those persons meet the requirements of                                    
08 AS 18.65.130 - 18.65.290 that are applicable to correctional officers.                                                  
09    * Sec. 2.  AS 18.65.290(2) is amended to read:                                                                     
10   (2)  "correctional officer" means a person                                                                           
11    (A)   appointed by the commissioner of corrections whose                                                         
12 primary duty under AS 33.30 is to provide custody, care, security, control, and                                         
13 discipline of persons charged or convicted of offenses against the state or held                                        
14 under authority of state law;                                                                                           

01    (B)  employed on a full-time basis by a municipality and                                                          
02 whose primary duty is to provide custody, care, security, control, and                                                  
03 discipline of persons charged or convicted of offenses or held under                                                    
04 authority of law in a municipal correctional facility, and the municipality                                             
05   (i)  holds persons who are committed to the custody                                                                
06 of the commissioner of corrections in the correctional facility under                                                   
07 a contract with the department of corrections; or                                                                       
08   (ii)  has adopted an ordinance under AS 18.65.285                                                                  
09 making AS 18.65.130 - 18.65.290 applicable;