00                            SENATE BILL NO. 232                                                                         
01 "An Act relating to employee intellectual property."                                                                    
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 23.10 is amended by adding a new section to article 1 to read:                                     
04 Sec. 23.10.038. Employee intellectual property. (a) A person may not require                                          
05 as a condition of employment that an employee assign or offer to assign the                                             
06 employee's rights in an invention that the employee developed entirely on the                                           
07 employee's own time without using the person's equipment, supplies, facilities, or                                      
08       trade secret information unless the invention                                                                     
09                 (1)  relates, at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the                                 
10       invention, to the person's business or actual or anticipated research or development; or                          
11                 (2)  results from work performed by the employee for the person.                                        
12            (b)  A provision in an employment agreement that violates (a) of this section is                             
13       unenforceable.                                                                                                    
14            (c)  A provision in an employment agreement that prohibits an employee who                                   
15       resides and works in this state from seeking relief under this section in the courts of                           

01       this state is unenforceable.                                                                                      
02    * Sec. 2. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                          
03 read:                                                                                                                   
04       APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to employment agreements entered into on or                                       
05 after the effective date of this Act.