00                            HOUSE BILL NO. 377                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to public records; relating to managing and preserving audio and                                       
02 video recordings; and relating to fees for the inspection and copying of public records                                 
03 under the Alaska Public Records Act."                                                                                   
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1. AS 40.21.150(6) is amended to read:                                                                   
06 (6)  "record" means any document, paper, book, letter, drawing, map,                                                    
07 plat, photo, photographic file, motion picture film, audio or video recording,                                      
08 microfilm, microphotograph, exhibit, magnetic or paper tape, punched card, electronic                                   
09 record, or other document of any other material, regardless of physical form or                                         
10 characteristic, developed or received under law or in connection with the transaction                                   
11 of official business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by an agency or a                                    
12 political subdivision, as evidence of the organization, function, policies, decisions,                                  
13 procedures, operations, or other activities of the state or political subdivision or                                    
14 because of the informational value in them; the term does not include library and                                       

01 museum material developed or acquired and preserved solely for reference, historical,                                   
02 or exhibition purposes, extra copies of documents preserved solely for convenience of                                   
03       reference, or stocks of publications and processed documents;                                                     
04    * Sec. 2. AS 40.25.110 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:                                              
05 (j)  Notwithstanding (c) of this section, a municipality may require a requester                                        
06 to pay the municipality's actual personnel costs to perform the search and copying                                      
07 tasks to complete a request for production of a record. The personnel costs may not                                     
08 exceed the actual salary and benefit costs for the personnel time required to perform                                   
09 the search and copying tasks. The requester shall pay the costs before the records are                                  
10       disclosed, and the municipality may require payment in advance of the search.                                     
11    * Sec. 3. AS 40.25.220(3) is amended to read:                                                                      
12 (3)  "public records" means books, papers, files, audio or video                                                    
13 recordings, accounts, writings, including drafts and memorializations of                                            
14 conversations, and other items, regardless of format or physical characteristics, that                                  
15 are developed or received by a public agency, or by a private contractor for a public                                   
16 agency, and that are preserved for [THEIR] informational value or as evidence of the                                    
17 organization or operation of the public agency; "public records" does not include                                       
18       proprietary software programs.