00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 262                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to the offense of interference with access to public buildings or                                      
02 transportation facilities, when a person conditions access to a public building or                                      
03 transportation facility on consent to certain physical contact or to an electronic process                              
04 that produces a picture of the private exposure of the person."                                                         
05 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
06    * Section 1. AS 11.76 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                  
07            Sec. 11.76.118. Interference with access to public buildings or                                            
08       transportation facilities. (a) A person commits the offense of interference with                                
09       access to public buildings or transportation facilities if the person, as a condition for                         
10       access to a public building or transportation facility, requires another person to consent                        
11       or otherwise submit to                                                                                            
12                 (1)  physical contact by any person touching directly or through                                        
13       clothing the genitals, buttocks, or female breast of the person seeking access; or                                
14                 (2)  any electronic process that produces an electronic image of the                                    

01       genitals, anus, or female breast or otherwise creates an electronic image of the person                           
02       seeking access that exposes or reveals a physical characteristic that is normally hidden                          
03       by clothing and is not normally visible to the public.                                                            
04            (b)  The defense of justification provided in AS 11.81.420 is not available in a                             
05       prosecution under this section.                                                                                   
06            (c)  In this section, "public building" does not include a correctional facility or                          
07       probation office, a restricted access area of a law enforcement building or federal                               
08       building, a courtroom, offices of the Alaska Court System, or a courthouse that is                                
09       occupied only by the Alaska Court System and other justice agencies.                                              
10            (d)  Interference with access to public buildings or transportation facilities is a                          
11       class A misdemeanor.