05/05/1998 01:10 PM House JUD

CSSB 232(JUD) - ELECTRONIC RECORDS; RECORD REQUIREMENTS                        
                                                                               
Number 0678                                                                    
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN GREEN announced the next order of business to be CSSB
(JUD), "An Act relating to electronic signatures, electronic                
records, requirements for records, and the reproduction of public              
records."                                                                      
                                                                               
Number 0706                                                                    
                                                                               
RICHARD VITALE, Legislative Assistant to Senator Sean Parnell,                 
Alaska State Legislature, stated that the bill establishes                     
electronic signature in law to be equivalent to a written signature            
and repeals some of the notarization requirements from the                     
government to do business so they can use electronic signatures.               
                                                                               
Number 0716                                                                    
                                                                               
REPRESENTATIVE PORTER asked if this was the same bill that the                 
House Special Committee on Telecommunications heard.                           
                                                                               
MR. VITALE replied that it is the same bill with the exception of              
the archiving provisions in it.  The only amendment made on the                
Senate side was to put in a penalty of unsworn falsification site              
of statute and clarified that a certifying authority can be done by            
the state if the state is part of the exchange process of the                  
electronic signature.  He stated that if two private entities want             
to do so they do not have to come to the state to do it.                       
                                                                               
Number 0750                                                                    
                                                                               
REPRESENTATIVE PORTER made a motion to move CSSB 232(JUD), 0-                  
LS1301\E.                                                                      
                                                                               
CHAIRMAN GREEN asked if there was an objection.  Hearing none, CSSB
(JUD), 0-LS1301\E, moved from the House Judiciary Standing                  
Committee.