02/19/2013 08:00 AM House STATE AFFAIRS

          HB  10-EXEC ETHICS: LEGAL FEES/FAMILY TRAVEL                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
9:00:43 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR LYNN  announced that the  last order of business  was HOUSE                                                               
BILL NO.  10, "An Act  authorizing state agencies to  pay private                                                               
legal fees  and costs incurred  by persons exonerated  of alleged                                                               
violations of  the Alaska Executive  Branch Ethics  Act; allowing                                                               
certain  public officers  and former  public  officers to  accept                                                               
state payments to offset private  legal fees and costs related to                                                               
defending against  complaints under  the Alaska  Executive Branch                                                               
Ethics Act; and creating certain  exceptions to limitations under                                                               
the  Alaska Executive  Branch  Ethics  Act on  the  use of  state                                                               
resources to  provide or  pay for  transportation of  spouses and                                                               
children of the governor and the lieutenant governor."                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
9:00:51 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  KELLER  moved  to adopt  the  proposed  committee                                                               
substitute (CS)  for HB 10, Version  28-LS0040\N, Wayne, 2/15/13,                                                               
as a work  draft.  [No objection was stated;  therefore Version N                                                               
was treated as before the committee.]                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
9:01:10 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
TED  MADSEN, Staff,  Representative Max  Gruenberg, Alaska  State                                                               
Legislature, explained the changes made  in Version N.  The first                                                               
change was to  incorporate an amendment adopted  by the committee                                                               
without  objection  during the  previous  hearing  of HB  10  [on                                                               
1/31/13],  which  changed  "or  mental" to  ",  intellectual,  or                                                               
developmental",  on  [page  3,  line  12  of  the  original  bill                                                               
version], which  is found on  page 3, line 5  of Version N.   The                                                               
second change, he said, was to  delete the language of Sections 4                                                               
and 5  from the original  bill.   Mr. Madsen explained  that that                                                               
language dealt  with attorneys'  fees.  He  noted that  there was                                                               
also a  corresponding title change  made in Version N  to reflect                                                               
the deletion of those sections.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
9:03:08 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  GATTIS  moved  to  report CSHB  10,  Version  28-                                                               
LS0040\N,  Wayne,  2/15/13  out   of  committee  with  individual                                                               
recommendations and  the accompanying fiscal notes.   There being                                                               
no objection,  CSHB 10(STA) was  reported out of the  House State                                                               
Affairs Standing Committee.