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Senate committee adopts substitute and reports SB167 on wrongful‑conviction compensation and PFD recoupment
Summary
The Senate State Affairs Committee adopted a committee substitute to SB167 and voted to report the bill out of committee with individual recommendations and a fiscal note after clarifying language excluding dismissals that were part of plea agreements under Rule 11.
Juneau — The Senate State Affairs Committee on May 1 adopted a committee substitute and reported Senate Bill 167 out of committee with individual recommendations and an attached fiscal note. The substitute clarified the bill’s scope by excluding dismissals that were part of a plea agreement under Rule 11 of the Alaska Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Committee staff Sally Raffson told the panel the committee substitute (version A to N) added a single change on page 1, lines 12–13: the text now specifies that “the dismissal was not part of a plea agreement in another criminal case under Rule 11, Alaska Rules of Criminal Procedure,” to make clear the measure would not apply to defendants who took plea agreements.
Senator Bjorkman moved to adopt the committee substitute as the working document; after brief discussion the committee raised no objections. Senator Bjorkman then moved that SB167 be reported out of committee with individual recommendations and an attached fiscal note. The chair asked for objections; hearing none, the committee reported SB167 to its next referral with the noted fiscal attachment.
The committee did not debate policy details of SB167 at length during the May 1 session; staff indicated the committee substitute reflected a clarification to the bill’s eligibility language.
