00SENATE BILL NO. 62                                                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to the definition of `conviction' for registration of sex                                              
02 offenders and child kidnappers; and providing for an effective date."                                                   
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1.  PURPOSE.  The purpose of the amendment to AS 12.63.100 in sec. 2 of this                             
05 Act is to clarify the law in order to validate and affirm the long-standing policy contained in                         
06 state regulation defining "conviction" for purposes of registration of sex offenders and child                          
07 kidnappers under AS 12.63 to include a variety of judgments, including those set aside by                               
08 suspended imposition of sentence under AS 12.55.085.                                                                    
09    * Sec. 2.  AS 12.63.100 is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                              
10   (7)  "conviction" means that an adult, or a juvenile charged as an adult                                             
11 under AS 47.12 or a similar procedure in another jurisdiction, has entered a plea of                                    
12 guilty, guilty but mentally ill, or nolo contendere, or has been found guilty or guilty                                 
13 but mentally ill by a court or jury, of a sex offense or child kidnapping, regardless of                                
14 whether the judgment was set aside under AS 12.55.085 or a similar procedure in                                         

01 another jurisdiction or was the subject of a pardon or other executive clemency;                                        
02 "conviction" does not include a judgment that has been reversed or vacated by a court.                                  
03    * Sec. 3.  This Act applies to convictions for an offense that requires registration of sex                        
04 offenders and child kidnappers under AS 12.63 and that occurred before, on, or after the                                
05 effective date of this Act.                                                                                             
06    * Sec. 4.  This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).