Legislature(2013 - 2014)CAPITOL 120
02/27/2013 01:00 PM House JUDICIARY
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Confirmatin Hearing(s): || Violent Crimes Compensation Board | |
Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar | |
Commission on Judicial Conduct | |
Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar | |
HB83 | |
HB33 | |
HB104 | |
HB63 | |
Adjourn |
* first hearing in first committee of referral
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
+ teleconferenced
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*+ | HB 33 | TELECONFERENCED | |
+ | HB 104 | TELECONFERENCED | |
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+= | HB 83 | TELECONFERENCED | |
= | HB 63 | ||
HB 104 - ELECTION PROCEDURES; REAA ADVISORY BOARDS 2:27:01 PM CHAIR KELLER announced that the next order of business would be HOUSE BILL NO. 104, "An Act relating to election practices and procedures; relating to the election of an advisory school board in a regional educational attendance area; and providing for an effective date." [Before the committee was CSHB 104(STA).] 2:27:45 PM REPRESENTATIVE LYNN moved to adopt the proposed committee substitute (CS) for HB 104, Version 28-GH1983\O, Bullard, 2/27/13, as the working document. There being no objection, Version O was before the committee. 2:28:24 PM TOM WRIGHT, Staff, Representative Mike Chenault, Alaska State Legislature, referred to Version O's proposed repeal and reenactment of AS 15.25.150 via Section 24, and explained that this provision would address an issue that's arisen with regard to candidates for political office seeking nomination by petition, whose names appear only on the ballot for the general election and who [therefore may not necessarily have submitted their documents in time to] be subject to the same campaign- disclosure [deadlines] as candidates whose names appear on the ballot for the primary election. Under Section 24's proposed changes to AS 15.25.150, candidates seeking nomination by petition would be required to submit their documents by June 1 and thereby be subject to the same campaign-disclosure [deadlines] as all other candidates [except write-in candidates]. CHAIR KELLER characterized Version O's Section 24 as an improvement. REPRESENTATIVE LEDOUX indicated favor with Section 24's proposed changes. MR. WRIGHT mentioned that the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC), after having spoken with the drafter, now concurs that Section 24 accomplishes the intended goal. In response to questions, he relayed that [Section 24 of the bill] would not apply to write-in candidates, and reiterated that its proposed changes to AS 15.25.150 would result in all candidates [except write-in candidates] being subject to the same disclosure deadlines. 2:35:54 PM GAIL FENUMIAI, Director, Central Office, Division of Elections, Office of the Lieutenant Governor, added that under current law, candidates seeking nomination by petition must file their [declaration of candidacy] by June 1, and must submit the required documents by 5:00 p.m. on the day of the primary election. Under both current law and under Section 24's proposed changes to AS 15.25.150, any candidate seeking nomination by petition who misses the June 1 deadline would instead have to run as a write-in candidate. In response to further questions, she clarified that under existing Alaska law, a candidate must [sign under oath] that he/she "is not a candidate for any other office to be voted on at the primary or general election and that the candidate is not a candidate for this office under any other nominating petition or declaration of candidacy"; and concurred that under Section 24, all candidates [except for write-in candidates] would be subject to the same disclosure deadlines. 2:44:06 PM ALPHEUS BULLARD, Attorney, Legislative Legal Counsel, Legislative Legal and Research Services, Legislative Affairs Agency (LAA), as the drafter of HB 104, paraphrased Version O's Section 37 - proposing to add a new subsection (h) to AS 15.58.030 - and explained that its requirements regarding posting candidate photographs and statements on the Division of Election's Internet web site pertains to those of candidates running for the office of U.S. President, U.S. Vice President, U.S. senator, U.S. representative, governor, lieutenant governor, state senator, or state representative, and to those of judges and justices seeking retention; Version O's Section 37 reads: (h) The lieutenant governor shall prepare and publish on the division's Internet website the photograph and statement of a candidate for an office designated under (a), (b), or (g) of this section. The lieutenant governor shall indicate that the photograph and statement are provided and paid for by the candidate. A photograph and a statement of a candidate that have been timely filed with the lieutenant governor shall be published on the website at least 15 days before an election at which the candidate will appear on the ballot. REPRESENTATIVE GRUENBERG questioned whether Section 37 could be changed to require candidates' photographs and statements to be published on the web site earlier than 15 days before the election. MS. FENUMIAI explained that 15 days was chosen because the division knew it could meet that deadline, particularly given that the majority of candidates submit items on the very last day possible, and it takes a great deal of time to get those items into a format suitable for publishing as required. Changing the bill such that those items would have to be published immediately upon receipt, for example, would not be practical for the division, she warned. In response to a question, she indicated that the election pamphlet for the general election is available online about three weeks before a general election, and that for last year's primary election, for example, candidates' photographs and statements were available online about two weeks before the primary election. REPRESENTATIVE PRUITT referred, then, to Sections 27-32 of Version O - proposing changes to how vacancies in the office of U.S. senator or U.S. representative are filled, via conforming changes to AS 15.40.140, the creation of new AS 15.40.141 and AS 15.40.142, and conforming changes to AS 15.40.160, AS 15.40.165, AS 15.40.170, and AS 15.40.220 - and indicated that the proposed new procedures and voting requirements pertaining to special elections and special runoff elections for such congressional seats somewhat model what occurs at the municipal level in Anchorage. REPRESENTATIVE MILLETT referred, then, to what she termed, "running from a safe seat," and noted that incumbent state representatives cannot, and that the bill doesn't yet address that issue. 2:58:25 PM REPRESENTATIVE SHELLEY HUGHES, Alaska State Legislature, referring to Version O's proposed change to AS 15.20.081(e) - deleting the reference to AS 15.20.081(h) contained therein - and proposed repeal of AS 15.20.081(h) via Sections 9 and 41, respectively, requested that HB 104 be changed such that [proposed AS 15.20.081] would stipulate that [mailed] absentee ballots may not be counted unless received by the close of business on the fifteenth day after the election. Currently the bill is proposing a ten-day deadline for [all such mailed] absentee ballots, whereas existing law provides for [both a ten- day deadline for those absentee ballots mailed from within the U.S., and] a fifteen-day deadline for those absentee ballots mailed from outside the U.S. or from a qualified overseas voter. She offered her understanding that for the 2012 election, for example, several valid absentee ballots which were counted would not have been under the bill's current proposed changes [to the deadline]. All who mail in an absentee ballot, she opined, should be subject to the same rules regardless of where they mail their ballot from. [HB 104, Version O, was held over.]
Document Name | Date/Time | Subjects |
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Alaska Bar - Gordon #3.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
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Alaska Bar - Trombley #3.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
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Judicial Conduct - Groseclose #3.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
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Violent Crimes - Godfrey #3.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
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HB 33 Sponsor Statement.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 33 |
HB 33 ver U.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 33 |
HB33 Fiscal Note-Department of Commerce.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 33 |
HB 33 Fiscal Note-Public Defenders Agency.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 33 |
HB 33 Fiscal Note-Office of Public Advocacy.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 33 |
HB 33 Fiscal Note-Department of Law.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 33 |
HB 33 Gravity & Switchblade Knife Definitions.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 33 |
HB 104 H(JUD) Hearing Request Letter.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 104 |
03 Gov Transmittal Letter HB 104.PDF |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM HSTA 2/19/2013 8:00:00 AM |
HB 104 |
CSHB 104(STA) sectional analysis.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 104 |
CSHB 104(STA).pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 104 |
HB104.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 104 |
HB 104 Draft Amendment Version A.1.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 104 |
HB 104 Draft Amendment ver C.1.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 104 |
Explanation for Draft Amendment C.1.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 104 |
CSHB 104(STA) witness list.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 104 |
HSTA Committee Report HB 104 2-19-2013.pdf |
HJUD 2/27/2013 1:00:00 PM |
HB 104 |