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SENATE BILL NO. 225
IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE - SECOND SESSION
BY SENATOR SHOWER
Introduced: 2/24/20
Referred: Judiciary, Finance
A BILL
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED
1 "An Act relating to the crimes of coercion and bribery involving legislators; and
2 providing for an effective date."
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:
4 * Section 1. AS 11.41.530(a) is amended to read:
5 (a) A person commits the crime of coercion if the person compels another to
6 engage in conduct from which there is a legal right to abstain or abstain from conduct
7 in which there is a legal right to engage, by means of instilling in the person who is
8 compelled a fear that, if the demand is not complied with, the person who makes the
9 demand or another may
10 (1) inflict physical injury on anyone, except under circumstances
11 constituting robbery in any degree, or commit any other crime;
12 (2) accuse anyone of a crime;
13 (3) expose confidential information or a secret, whether true or false,
14 tending to subject a person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule or to impair the person's
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1 credit or business repute;
2 (4) take or withhold action as a public servant or cause a public servant
3 to take or withhold action;
4 (5) bring about or continue a strike, boycott, or other collective
5 unofficial action, if the property is not demanded or received for the benefit of the
6 group in whose interest the person making the threat or suggestion purports to act;
7 (6) testify or provide information or withhold testimony or information
8 with respect to a person's legal claim or defense;
9 (7) take or withhold action against a legislator or cause a person to
10 take or withhold action against a legislator, including a reduction in staff, travel
11 authorization, committee assignment, and a favorable position in a legislative
12 caucus.
13 * Sec. 2. AS 11.56.100(a) is amended to read:
14 (a) A person commits the crime of bribery if the person confers, offers to
15 confer, or agrees to confer a benefit upon a public servant with the intent to
16 (1) influence the public servant's vote, opinion, judgment, action,
17 decision, or exercise of official discretion; or
18 (2) bind a legislator's vote on any measure.
19 * Sec. 3. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to
20 read:
21 APPLICABILITY. This Act applies to offenses committed on or after the effective
22 date of this Act.
23 * Sec. 4. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).
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Statutes affected:
SB0225A, AM SB 225, introduced 02/24/2020: 11.41.530, 11.56.100