00HOUSE BILL NO. 251                                                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to the criminal and juvenile justice systems; and providing for                                        
02 an effective date."                                                                                                     
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1.  CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM ACCOMPLISHMENTS                                                 
05 REPORT.  (a)  The legislature finds and declares that the state's criminal and juvenile justice                         
06 systems should accomplish the following:                                                                                
07   (1)  restore a crime victim and the community to pre-offense condition through                                        
08 monetary and social restitution;                                                                                        
09   (2)  provide for offender reclamation and reintroduction into the community;                                          
10   (3)  protect the safety of the public;                                                                                
11   (4)  provide for appropriate crime victim and community input throughout the                                          
12 criminal and juvenile justice process, including pre-adjudication diversion and use of                                  
13 alternative sanctions, during trial and at sentencing, during punishment, community service,                            
14 and restitution, and during reclamation and reintroduction of the offender into the community;                          

01   (5)  provide for ongoing crime victim protection and restoration of the crime                                         
02 victim to the community; and                                                                                            
03   (6)  provide for swift and consistent consequences that are appropriate to the                                        
04 offense and the offender.                                                                                               
05  (b)  The Departments of  Administration, Corrections, Education, Fish and Game,                                        
06 Health and Social Services, Law, Natural Resources, and Public Safety and the administrative                            
07 director of the Alaska Court System shall individually report in writing to the legislature no                          
08 later than the 10th day of the Second Regular Session of the Twenty-First Alaska State                                  
09 Legislature regarding whether the respective departments and the system currently accomplish                            
10 the objectives identified in (a) of this section and how they meet those objectives.  If a                              
11 department or the system does not accomplish an objective, the department or system shall                               
12 identify statutory restrictions that prevent the department or system from accomplishing the                            
13 objective and shall make suggestions for statutory changes so that the objective may be                                 
14 accomplished.  The departments and the system shall also identify any statutory changes that                            
15 could assist the departments or the system in improving the criminal and juvenile justice                               
16 systems and the accomplishment of the objectives identified in (a) of this section.                                     
17    * Sec. 2.  This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).