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SB 119                                                                                            
The State Affairs Committee considered SENATE BILL NO. 119 "An                                      
Act eliminating the Alaska Public Offices Commission; transferring                                  
campaign, public official, and lobbying financial disclosure record-                                
keeping duties to the division of elections; relating to reports,                                   
summaries, and documents regarding campaign, public official, and                                   
lobbying financial disclosure; providing for enforcement by the                                     
Department of Law; making conforming statutory amendments; and                                      
providing for an effective date" and recommended it be replaced with                                
                                                                                                    
     CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 119(STA) "An Act                                                        
     authorizing the Alaska Public Offices Commission to issue                                      
     advisory opinions; amending campaign financial disclosure                                      
     requirements and the limits on lobbyists' campaign                                             
     contributions to candidates; removing municipal elections                                      
     and municipal officials from the campaign finance and                                          
     public official financial disclosure laws; amending                                            
     campaign contribution limits; amending the time limit on                                       
     contributions after primary elections; amending the                                            
     complaint procedures of the Alaska Public Offices                                              
     Commission; amending the definition of 'political party' for                                   
     state election campaigns; relating to the crime of campaign                                    
     misconduct; providing for increased use of electronic filing                                   
     for reports to the Alaska Public Offices Commission;                                           
     amending the definitions of 'administrative action' and                                        
     'lobbyist' in the regulation of lobbying laws; amending the                                    
     requirements for the reporting of financial interests by                                       
     public officials; repealing restrictions on solicitation and                                   
     acceptance of contributions during legislative sessions and                                    
     in the capital city; making conforming amendments; and                                         
     providing for an effective date."                                                              
                                                                                                    

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Signing do pass: Senator Gary Stevens, Chair; Senators Cowdery,                                     
Dyson.                                                                                              
                                                                                                    
The following fiscal information was published today:                                               
 Fiscal Note No. 4, zero, Department of Administration                                              
                                                                                                    
The bill was referred to the Finance Committee.