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Alaska Statutes.

Title 24. Legislature

Chapter 20. Agencies of the Legislature

Section 680. Legislative Review.

AS 24.20.680. Legislative Review.

(a) The Homeland Security and Emergency Management Subcommittee is established as a subcommittee of the Joint Armed Services Committee established under AS 24.20.650 . The subcommittee shall be organized within 15 days after the organization of the committee each legislature. The subcommittee is established to review confidential activities, plans, reports, recommendations, and other materials of the Alaska division of homeland security and emergency management established in AS 26.20.025 , or of other agencies or persons, relating to matters concerning homeland security and civil defense, emergencies, or disasters in the state or to the state's preparedness for or ability to mount a prompt response to matters concerning homeland security and civil defense, emergencies, or disasters.

(b) Subject to (c) of this section, the subcommittee is composed of six to eight members, as follows:

(1) the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives;

(2) the respective chairs of the subcommittees of the House and Senate Finance Committees that consider the military and veterans' affairs budget;

(3) if the chair of the senate subcommittee described in (2) of this subsection is

(A) not a member of the Joint Armed Services Committee established in AS 24.20.650 , two senate members of the Joint Armed Services Committee, selected by the president of the senate, one of whom is not a member of the political party to which a majority of members of the senate belong;

(B) a member of the Joint Armed Services Committee established in AS 24.20.650, one senate member of the Joint Armed Services Committee selected by the president of the senate;

(4) if the chair of the house subcommittee described in (2) of this subsection is

(A) not a member of the Joint Armed Services Committee established in AS 24.20.650 , two house members of the Joint Armed Services Committee selected by the speaker of the house of representatives, one of whom is not a member of the political party to which a majority of members of the house of representatives belong;

(B) a member of the Joint Armed Services Committee established in AS 24.20.650, one house member of the Joint Armed Services Committee selected by the speaker of the house of representatives.

(c) To be eligible for service on the subcommittee, a member shall have a federal security clearance at the secret level at the time of entering service or shall have an interim security clearance at the secret level at the time of entering service and shall apply for and receive a federal security clearance at the secret level. Members holding a federal security clearance at the secret level at the time of entering service or receiving the clearance subsequent to entering service shall maintain the federal security clearance at the secret level to remain qualified to serve on the subcommittee.

(d) The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives may condition service on the subcommittee by members upon the execution of appropriate confidentiality agreements by the members or by persons assisting those members. Information and documents received by members serving on the subcommittee or persons assisting members under a confidentiality agreement as described in this subsection are not public records and are not subject to public disclosure under AS 40.25.100 - 40.25.220.

(e) Members who remain qualified to serve on the subcommittee under this section serve for the duration of the legislature during which the members enter service. If a member is reelected or a member's term of office extends into the next succeeding legislature and the member remains qualified under this section, the member shall continue to serve until the member reenters service on the subcommittee through the operation of (b) of this section or until the member's successor enters service.

(f) When a member files a declaration of candidacy for an elective office other than that of member of either house of the legislature, and the member has not resigned from service, the member's service terminates on the date that the member leaves legislative office.