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HOUSE BILL NO. 133
IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION
BY REPRESENTATIVE SUMNER
Introduced: 3/27/23
Referred: Community and Regional Affairs, State Affairs
A BILL
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED
1 "An Act exempting municipal service area boards from the requirements of the Open
2 Meetings Act; and providing for an effective date."
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:
4 * Section 1. AS 44.62.310(d) is amended to read:
5 (d) This section does not apply to
6 (1) a governmental body performing a judicial or quasi-judicial
7 function when holding a meeting solely to make a decision in an adjudicatory
8 proceeding;
9 (2) juries;
10 (3) parole or pardon boards;
11 (4) meetings of a hospital medical staff;
12 (5) meetings of the governmental body or any committee of a hospital
13 when holding a meeting solely to act on [UPON] matters of professional
14 qualifications, privileges, or discipline;
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1 (6) staff meetings or other gatherings of the employees of a public
2 entity, including meetings of an employee group established by policy of the Board of
3 Regents of the University of Alaska or held while acting in an advisory capacity to the
4 Board of Regents;
5 (7) meetings held for the purpose of participating in or attending a
6 gathering of a national, state, or regional organization of which the public entity,
7 governmental body, or member of the governmental body is a member, but only if no
8 action is taken and no business of the governmental body is conducted at the meetings;
9 or
10 (8) meetings of municipal service area boards established under
11 AS 29.35.450 - 29.35.490 [WHEN MEETING SOLELY TO ACT ON MATTERS
12 THAT ARE ADMINISTRATIVE OR MANAGERIAL IN NATURE].
13 * Sec. 2. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).
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Statutes affected:
HB0133A, AM HB 133, introduced 03/27/2023: 44.62.310