Bill > SB8

This bill aims to reduce barriers to employment for people who have been convicted of low-level marijuana possession crimes that would be legal under current laws. The key provisions of the bill are: 1. Agencies are prohibited from releasing records of criminal cases where the defendant was convicted only of possessing less than one ounce of a controlled substance under state law, as long as the defendant requests that the records not be released. 2. The Alaska Court System is required to make court records of such cases confidential and limit access to them. 3. The provisions related to making certain case records confidential are considered an indirect amendment to the Alaska Rules of Administration. 4. The confidentiality provisions take effect only if they receive the required two-thirds majority vote in each house of the state legislature. 5. The overall bill takes effect 120 days after becoming law.