00                       CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 3(JUD)                                                                     
01 "An Act relating to the definition of 'disaster.'"                                                                      
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 26.23.900(2) is amended to read:                                                                   
04                 (2)  "disaster" means the occurrence or imminent threat of widespread                                   
05       or severe damage, injury, loss of life or property, or shortage of food, water, or fuel                           
06       resulting from                                                                                                    
07 (A)  an incident such as storm, high water, wind-driven water,                                                          
08 tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide,                                                
09 avalanche, snowstorm, prolonged extreme cold, drought, fire, flood, epidemic,                                           
10            explosion, or riot;                                                                                          
11                      (B)  the release of oil or a hazardous substance if the release                                    
12            requires prompt action to avert environmental danger or mitigate                                             
13            environmental damage;                                                                                        
14                      (C)  equipment failure if the failure is not a predictably frequent                                
15            or recurring event or preventable by adequate equipment maintenance or                                       

01            operation;                                                                                                   
02 (D)  enemy or terrorist attack or a credible threat of imminent                                                         
03 enemy or terrorist attack in or against the state that the adjutant general of the                                      
04 Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs or a designee of the adjutant                                              
05 general, in consultation with the commissioner of public safety or a designee of                                        
06 the commissioner of public safety, certifies to the governor has a high                                                 
07 probability of occurring in the near future; the certification must meet the                                            
08 standards of AS 26.20.040(c); in this subparagraph, "attack" has the meaning                                            
09            given under AS 26.20.200; [OR]                                                                               
10 (E)  an outbreak of disease or a credible threat of an imminent                                                         
11 outbreak of disease that the commissioner of health and social services or a                                            
12 designee of the commissioner of health and social services certifies to the                                             
13 governor has a high probability of occurring in the near future; the certification                                      
14 must be based on specific information received from a local, state, federal, or                                         
15 international agency, or another source that the commissioner or the designee                                           
16            determines is reliable; or                                                                               
17 (F)  a cyber attack that affects critical infrastructure in the                                                     
18 state, an information system owned or operated by the state or a political                                          
19 subdivision of the state, information that is stored on, processed by, or                                           
20 transmitted on an information system owned or operated by the state or a                                            
21 political subdivision of the state, or a credible threat of an imminent cyber                                       
22 attack or cyber event that the commissioner of administration or                                                    
23 commissioner's designee certifies to the governor has a high probability of                                         
24 occurring in the near future; the certification must be based on specific                                           
25 information that critical infrastructure in the state, an information system                                        
26 owned or operated by the state or a political subdivision of the state, or                                          
27 information that is stored on, processed by, or transmitted on an                                                   
28 information system owned or operated by the state or a political                                                    
29 subdivision of the state may be affected; in this subparagraph, "critical                                           
30 infrastructure" means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so                                           
31 vital to the state that the incapacity or destruction of the systems and                                            

01            assets would have a debilitating effect on security, state economic security,                            
02            state public health or safety, or any combination of those matters;