00                            SENATE BILL NO. 38                                                                          
01 "An Act establishing the crime of interference with emergency communications."                                          
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 11.56 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                  
04            Sec. 11.56.785. Interference with emergency communications. (a) A person                                   
05       commits the crime of interference with emergency communications if the person                                     
06       knowingly                                                                                                         
07 (1)  makes repeated emergency communications to report a previously                                                     
08 reported incident with no change in circumstance with the intent to cause an                                            
09 emergency police, fire, or medical service response, after an emergency                                                 
10       communications worker instructs the person to stop initiating contact for the                                     
11       previously reported incident;                                                                                     
12                 (2)  makes repeated emergency communications knowing that there is                                      
13       not a police, fire, or medical emergency; or                                                                      
14                 (3)  threatens an emergency communications worker during an                                             
15       emergency communication.                                                                                          

01            (b)  In this section,                                                                                        
02                 (1)  "emergency communication" means a communication made to or                                         
03       from an emergency communications center or between police, fire, or medical service                               
04       personnel in response to an emergency;                                                                            
05                 (2)  "emergency communications center" means a facility that is                                         
06       designed to receive requests for emergency assistance and staffed to perform one or                               
07       more of the following tasks:                                                                                      
08                      (A)  determine the location at which an emergency response is                                      
09            being requested;                                                                                             
10 (B)  interrogate callers to identify, assess, prioritize, and classify                                                  
11            requests for emergency assistance and other information;                                                     
12                      (C)  determine the appropriate emergency response required;                                        
13 (D)  assess the available emergency response resources that are                                                         
14            or will be available in the time required;                                                                   
15                      (E)  dispatch appropriate police, fire, or medical personnel;                                      
16 (F)  transfer or exchange requests for emergency assistance and                                                         
17 other information with other emergency communications centers and                                                       
18            emergency response providers;                                                                                
19 (G)  analyze and respond to communications received from                                                                
20            emergency response providers and coordinate appropriate actions; and                                         
21                      (H)  support incident command functions;                                                           
22 (3)  "emergency communications worker" means a person handling                                                          
23       emergency communications at an emergency communications center.                                                   
24            (c)  Interference with emergency communications is a class B misdemeanor.                                    
25    * Sec. 2. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                          
26 read:                                                                                                                   
27 APPLICABILITY. AS 11.56.785, enacted by sec. 1 of this Act, applies to offenses                                         
28 committed on or after the effective date of this Act.