There’s no way to tell what bills will gain traction and which won’t in the coming year, but it’s a sure bet that at least some will be among the legislation introduced during the first year of the 30th Alaska Legislature. The following list contains all bills and resolutions introduced by the Legislature last year. Bills are ordered by number and include the author, a one-sentence summary of what the bill does, and where the bill sits at the end of the fourth special session. Summaries were compiled from past reporting, sponsor statements, transmission letters, and press releases. Status and sponsor information is from BASIS, with the exception of a handful of bills that were amended into other legislation and passed that way.
HOUSE BILLS
HB 1 (Rep. Chris Tuck, D-Anchorage) — Alaskans can register to vote on Election Day. (Senate State Affairs)
HB 2 (Tuck) — Employers can prefer veterans when hiring. (Senate Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 3 (Tuck) — An employer must give someone time off to serve in the National Guard, even if they’re a member of the National Guard in another state. (Senate Rules)
HB 4 (Rep. Steve Thompson, R-Fairbanks) — Expands the use of “military facility zones” designed to help military development, to areas without an incorporated municipality. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 5 (Rep. Charisse Millett, R-Anchorage) — The spouses and children of a firefighter or police officer who is killed on the job can continue to receive health insurance. (House Finance; signed into law under HB 23)
HB 6 (Rep. George Rauscher, R-Sutton) — Creates the Jonesville Public Use Area near Sutton on vacant state-owned land. (House Rules)
HB 7 (Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins) — It’s OK to take a ballot “selfie.” (Senate Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 8 (Rep. Bryce Edgmon, D-Dillingham) — Law enforcement is required to enforce a protective order issued Outside as long as it appears authentic. (Senate Rules)
HB 9 (Rep. Dan Saddler, R-Eagle River) — The Alaska Board of Pharmacy regulates drug wholesalers that ship medical drugs into the state. (House Finance)
HB 10 (Rep. Tammie Wilson, R-North Pole) — When the Office of Children’s Services takes a child away from his or her parents, OCS has to consider whether the removal is likely to “result in serious emotional or physical damage.” (House Health and Social Services)
HB 11 (Rep. Scott Kawasaki, D-Fairbanks) — Public employees and teachers can take early retirement (up to three years early) through 2020. (House State Affairs)
HB 12 (Wilson) — The Office of Children’s Services can only take custody of a child (unless there’s an emergency) with a court order. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 13 (Rep. Andy Josephson, D-Anchorage) — Alaska will not participate in any federal effort to register Americans on the grounds of race or religion. (House Judiciary)
HB 14 (Josephson) — The Legislature gets more say on Pebble Mine. (House Resources)
HB 15 (Josephson) — Replaces the terms “husband” and “wife” in state statutes. (House Judiciary)
HB 16 (Thompson) — Police must be trained to recognize and appropriately deal with people who have disabilities. (Signed into law)
HB 17 (Josephson) — Creates a fund to collect donations from people who want to support the Alaska Department of Fish and Game but don’t like predator control. (House Resources)
HB 18 (Rep. Dan Ortiz, I-Ketchikan) — The Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce’s “Race to Alaska” can operate a lottery. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HB 19 (Rep. Harriet Drummond, D-Anchorage) — A type of pesticide called a neonicotinoid cannot be used outside. (House Finance)
HB 20 (Rep. Matt Claman, D-Anchorage) — Any elected office-holder can make a marriage official in Alaska. (House Rules)
HB 21 (Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla) — Spends $666.4 million from the Permanent Fund to pay the portion of the Dividend vetoed by Gov. Walker in 2016. (House State Affairs)
HB 22 (Eastman) — Pays out the $666.4 million appropriated in HB 21 as a supplemental dividend to each eligible Alaskan. (House State Affairs)
HB 23 (Josephson) — The spouses and children of a firefighter or police officer who is killed on the job can continue to receive health insurance. (Signed into law)
HB 24 (Millett) — A designer drug called U-47700 is on the schedule of illegal drugs. (House floor; amended into SB 54)
HB 25 (Claman) — Health insurance has to cover birth control. (House Rules)
HB 26 (Tarr) — Employers have to provide scheduled breaks for nursing mothers. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 27 (Tarr) — State agencies have to publish a list of chemicals likely to harm children, and three specific flame-retardant chemicals are forbidden. (House Resources)
HB 28 (Tarr) — Makeup (and other cosmetics) has to list its ingredients on the packaging. (House Resources)
HB 29 (Tarr) — Genetically modified fish can’t be sold in Alaska. (House Fisheries)
HB 30 (Tarr) — Employers must provide paid sick leave. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 31 (Tarr) — Alaska police have to list how many untested “rape kits” they have, and the Alaska Department of Public Safety has to give a full accounting. (Senate State Affairs; amended into passed bill)
HB 32 (Tarr) — Genetically engineered food must be labeled. (House Resources)
HB 33 (Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome) — May 31 each year is “Katie John Day.” (House Rules)
HB 34 (Tarr) — No one can sell alcohol within 500 feet of a school or church, but places that already have a license can stick with the old limit of 200 feet. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 35 (Gara) — Creates a state fund for giving towns and boroughs money for public safety. If the Legislature cuts state revenue sharing, this fund takes up some of the slack. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 36 (Gara) — Most for-profit organizations have to pay a corporate tax. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 37 (Josephson) — If a policeman or firefighter has to take leave from work because of an on-the-job injury, he or she still earns service days toward retirement benefits. (House Finance)
HB 38 (Josephson) — Increases the amount paid by an employer to a permanently disabled employee, and if an employee is killed on the job but has no family, the employer has to pay a death benefit to the employee’s estate. (House Finance)
HB 39 (Josephson) — Limits predator control. (House Resources)
HB 40 (Josephson) — Trapping game is not allowed within 200 feet of a hiking trail or a campsite. (House Resources)
HB 41 (Gara) — A group of legislators can all be lead sponsors of the same bill. (House Finance)
HB 42 (Wilson) — Eliminates civil forfeiture, except under specific circumstances. (House Finance)
HB 43 (Rep. Jason Grenn, I-Anchorage) — A doctor can’t get in trouble for prescribing a test drug or treatment to a fatally ill patient. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 44 (Grenn) — Legislators can’t vote on a topic if they have a conflict of interest, or if their immediate family does. (Senate State Affairs)
HB 45 (Tarr) — The state’s minimum wage is $15 per hour starting Jan. 1, 2018. (House State Affairs)
HB 46 (Tarr) — Raw milk can be sold without state regulation, and Alaska seafood gets a bigger preference under state purchase contracts. (House Finance)
HB 47 (Foster) — The 60 or so towns that lost at least 25 percent of their population between 2000 and 2010, and didn’t keep up with their contributions to the state’s employee retirement system, get to pay a smaller interest penalty. (Senate State Affairs)
HB 48 (Rep. Sam Kito III, D-Juneau) — Extends the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors through 2025 and adds a landscape architect to the board. (Signed into law)
HB 49 (Kito) — Extends the Board of Certified Direct-Entry Midwives through 2021. (Signed into law)
HB 50 (Kito) — Encourages state-funded contracts to use Alaska architects, engineers and land surveyors. (House State Affairs)
HB 51 (Rep. Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak) — State ferries are exempt from the 1 percent for art program and have an alternative way to meet sewage pollution guidelines. (House Finance)
HB 52 (Kawasaki) — Elementary schools in Alaska must provide pre-kindergarten programs for kids 3-5 years old. (House Education)
HB 53 (Drummond) — Restricts the kind of flame retardants that can be used on furniture and kids’ clothing. (House Resources)
HB 54 (Drummond) — Doctors can prescribe fatal doses of medication to terminally ill people seeking to end their life. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 55 (Rep. Mark Neuman, R-Big Lake) — The state has to publish a list of new regulations and repealed regulations each half-year, along with the costs associated with the regulations. (House State Affairs)
HB 56 (Ortiz) — The state can loan up to $400,000 to commercial fishermen. (Senate Finance)
HB 57 (Gov. Bill Walker) — This is the bill containing the operating budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. (Signed into law)
HB 58 (governor) – This is the bill containing the capital construction budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. (House Finance; companion bill signed into law)
HB 59 (governor) — This bill contains the mental health budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. (Signed into law)
HB 60 (governor) — The governor proposes to triple the state’s gasoline (and jet fuel, boat fuel, etc.) taxes by summer 2018. (House Finance)
HB 61 (governor) — The governor proposes to use a portion of the investment earnings of the Permanent Fund to pay for state government services; it passed the Senate as Senate Bill 128 last year but died in the House. (House Finance)
HB 62 (Rep. Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage) — The state can’t approve a new regulation unless it also removes one at the same time. It must be a 1-for-1 swap, unless there’s an emergency or the state uses one or more broad exceptions within the bill. (House State Affairs)
HB 63 (Pruitt) — State agriculture falls under the Department of Revenue instead of the Department of Commerce. (House State Affairs)
HB 64 (Drummond) — Creates a task force to draft recommendations to fight dyslexia and reading problems in schools. (Senate Education)
HB 65 (Rep. George Rauscher, R-Sutton) — Reverses the $1,000 PFD payment vetoed by Gov. Walker last year. (House State Affairs)
HB 66 (Rauscher) — Appropriates money from the Permanent Fund to pay for a supplemental Permanent Fund dividend under House Bill 65. (House State Affairs)
HB 67 (Eastman) — If you don’t work, you can’t get food stamps. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 68 (Eastman) — If you don’t pay child support, you can’t get food stamps. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 69 (governor) — Eliminates the workers’ compensation appeals commission. (Senate Judiciary)
HB 70 (governor) — Approves the sale of state royalty oil to Petro Star Inc. (House Resources)
HB 71 (governor) — The governor proposes to freeze the pay of about 5,000 nonunion state employees in the university, court system, Legislature and executive branch for two years. (House State Affairs)
HB 72 (Thompson) — If a company collects biometric information, it can’t do so secretly. You have to know your information is being collected, and the collector has to keep your information safe. (House Judiciary)
HB 73 (governor) — Officially names the new Alaska-class ferries Tazlina and Hubbard, respectively. (House Transportation)
HB 74 (governor) — The state has two sets of driver’s licenses; one set that abides by the standards of the federal REAL ID Act, and one that doesn’t. If you have one that doesn’t, you’ll need a passport to fly on a commercial flight. (Senate Finance)
HB 75 (Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage) — If a court deems you a danger to yourself or others, you could lose their ability to own or buy a gun for up to six months. (House Judiciary)
HB 76 (Ortiz) — If you operate a hatchery for aquatic plants or seed shellfish, you’re eligible for the state’s loan fund for mariculture. (Senate Finance)
HB 77 (Legislative Council) — The annual fix for technical errors in legislation passed last year. (Signed into law)
HB 78 (Rep. Dean Westlake, D-Kotzebue) — Alongside Columbus Day, Alaska has Indigenous People’s Day. (Signed into law)
HB 79 (governor) — Reduces costs in the state’s workers’ compensation program and increases service as part of an omnibus overhaul. (House Finance)
HB 80 (Rep. Adam Wool, D-Fairbanks) — Boroughs and municipalities can levy a tax to pay for energy efficiency improvements or clean energy programs, even if they don’t run the utility. (Signed into law)
HB 81 (Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, D-Sitka) — Tribes are eligible for the state’s energy efficiency loan fund. (Senate Finance)
HB 82 (Kreiss-Tomkins) — Makes it easier for the state to issue an “off-road system” driver’s license that doesn’t require you to take a driving test. (Senate Transportation)
HB 83 (Rep. Sam Kito III, D-Juneau) — State employees and teachers can choose either a defined benefit pension or a defined contribution retirement account. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 84 (Kreiss-Tomkins) — Allows municipalities to exempt up to $150,000 in property from local taxes. Currently, the maximum exemption is $50,000. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 85 (Kreiss-Tomkins) — Petersburg, as a new borough, can select 14,666 acres of state land for municipal use. (House Finance; companion bill signed into law)
HB 86 (Rep. Matt Claman, D-Anchorage) — The state can no longer revoke your driver’s license if you fail to pay your student loans. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HB 87 (Stutes) — Any Board of Fisheries board member who holds a license in a fishery being considered for regulation changes can vote on the issue unless a majority of the board says otherwise. (Senate State Affairs)
HB 88 (Stutes) — The Board of Fish has nine members, not seven. (House Fisheries)
HB 89 (Tuck) — Radiologists and X-ray technicians have to have a state license to work. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 90 (Kito) — All of the state’s occupational licenses will share investigative costs to lighten the burden on occupations with few licenses but lots of investigations. Occupations with lots of licenses but fewer investigations will pay a bit more. (House Rules)
HB 91 (Kito) — The state will tax lobbyists for lobbying services. (House Finance)
HB 92 (Rep. Cathy Tilton, R-Wasilla) — Creates a spending limit for state government in statute. Tilton also has proposed a constitutional spending limit, but that one couldn’t become effective until 2019. This one could become effective this year. (House Judiciary)
HB 93 (Kopp) — Fixes a land-ownership problem with the law that transferred the Alaska Railroad to the state in 1983 but made it more difficult for landowners near the tracks to use their land. (House Resources; fixed administratively)
HB 94 (Tarr) — October 25 each year is African American Soldiers’ Contribution to Building the Alaska Highway Day. (House State Affairs)
HB 95 (governor) — This is the governor’s supplemental budget; it changes the budget for the current fiscal year to match what’s actually being spent. (House Finance)
HB 96 (Thompson) — Cruise ships that allow gambling can’t deduct federal taxes from the amount subject to state taxes. Cigarette taxpayers can’t deduct the cost of tax filings from the amount owed by the state. (House Finance)
HB 97 (Thompson) — Alaskans can’t get a tax credit by giving money to the Alaska Fire Standards Council. (House Finance)
HB 98 (Thompson) — Alaska businesses can’t get a tax credit for employing a veteran. (House Military and Veterans Affairs)
HB 99 (Josephson) — Oil and gas companies that get tax credit subsidies from the state have to disclose what they’re using them for. (House Resources)
HB 100 (Tuck) — June 27 is Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day. (Senate State Affairs)
HB 101 (Wilson) — If someone accidentally shoots an undersize or wrong-sex big game animal but lets Fish and Game know and surrenders all the meat, antlers, hide and skull, he or she might not be found guilty of a crime. (House Resources)
HB 102 (Kreiss-Tomkins) — Schools can hire foreign-language and Native-language teachers who may not have a bachelor’s degrees. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HB 103 (Rep. Ivy Spohnholz, D-Anchorage) — Optometrists can do more things currently restricted to ophthalmologists. (Signed into law)
HB 104 (House Judiciary committee) — Attorneys don’t have to automatically report information about settlements in civil cases anymore. (Signed into law)
HB 105 (Josephson) — Wolves can’t be hunted in an area near Denali National Park. (Passed House; sent to Senate)
HB 106 (Rep. Zach Fansler, D-Bethel) — One-quarter of the filing fees paid to the Alaska Court System will go to pay for legal services given to people who otherwise couldn’t afford them. (Senate Finance)
HB 107 (Rep. David Talerico, R-Healy) — The state creates a new permit so private fish hatcheries and small-scale fish hatcheries can operate more easily. (House Resources)
HB 108 (Claman) — If you die, your will can include instructions on what should be done with your Facebook page, bitcoins and your World of Warcraft account ─ things you own digitally but not physically. (Signed into law)
HB 109 (Rep. Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski) — If you work for the state, you have to live in the state. (House State Affairs)
HB 110 (Kito) — Massage therapists have to have 625 hours of classroom instruction before getting a state license to give massages. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 111 (House Resources Committee) — Oil and gas producers have to pay higher taxes, and the state won’t subsidize them as much. (Signed into law)
HB 112 (Claman) — A police officer can’t have sex with a prostitute while working undercover. (House State Affairs)
HB 113 (Rep. Harriet Drummond, D-Anchorage) — You’re driving under the influence of marijuana (a crime) if you have THC in your system. (House Judiciary)
HB 114 (House Labor and Commerce) — If boiler inspectors turn in a paper copy of their inspection form to the state, they have to pay a $10 fee. There’s no fee for electronic copies, and the inspection has to be reported in 15 days, not 30 days. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HB 115 (House Finance Committee) — Proposes an income tax and spending a portion of the Alaska Permanent Fund’s earnings to balance most of the state’s annual deficit. (Failed in Senate)
HB 116 (Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla) — The state no longer has to spend 1 percent of public projects’ budgets on art. (House State Affairs)
HB 117 (Transportation Committee) — The state’s 1 percent for art program doesn’t apply to the two new Alaska-class ferries or the new Tustumena-class ferry under consideration. (House Transportation)
HB 118 (Kawasaki) — Wrongfully imprisoned Alaskans can get health care and free tuition from the university as well as a cash payment if their wrongful imprisonment claim is upheld. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 119 (governor) — If the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority takes a big hit on an investment, its dividend to the state will be calculated differently. (House Finance)
HB 120 (governor) — If the attorney general gets involved in pipeline issues, the legal costs will be paid by a fee levied on the state’s utilities. (Senate Finance)
HB 121 (Labor and Commerce Committee) — The state commissioner of labor, instead of the Legislature, sets the maximum and minimum penalties for violating state labor laws. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HB 122 (Tilton) — A committee chairman can sponsor a bill on behalf of the committee only if the chairman first talks to every member of the committee. (House State Affairs)
HB 123 (Spohnholz) — Clinics and hospitals have to publish how much their most common procedures and services cost. (Senate Health and Social Services)
HB 124 (Kito) — There can be such a thing as a “benefit corporation,” whose purpose is a public benefit. (Passed House; sent to Senate)
HB 125 (Tarr) — Lao and Hmong who served for the U.S. during the Vietnam War can get a veteran designation on their state-issued driver’s license or ID. (Senate State Affairs)
HB 126 (House Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs) — Members of the state militia are eligible for workers’ compensation if they’re injured on mobilization or during training. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HB 127 (Kawasaki) — Anyone who lost their Permanent Fund Dividend because of a criminal conviction can reapply for the dividend if their conviction is overturned. (Senate State Affairs)
HB 128 (Ortiz) — The state can allow shellfish hatcheries in the same way they authorize salmon hatcheries. (Senate Finance)
HB 129 (governor) — If someone has their hunting/fishing license revoked in another state, they can’t hunt or fish in Alaska. If you own a hunting/fishing license but don’t have it on you when wildlife troopers catch you, you can come back later with a copy of the license. You also can provide a digital form of the license instead of the paper one. (House Judiciary)
HB 130 (governor) — The borders of some of the state game refuges are redrawn to correct errors in the official description. (Senate Resources)
HB 131 (House Transportation Committee) — If the Department of Transportation has to tear down a building or move a house because of a construction project, the owner gets paid more money. (Senate Finance)
HB 132 (Wool) — Uber and Lyft can operate in Alaska. (Signed into law)
HB 133 (Gara) — Increases most oil and gas production taxes. (House Resources)
HB 134 (Josephson) — The Board of Game has to include someone from the tourism industry, and at least one of the board’s members has to represent non-hunting interests. (House Rules)
HB 135 (Westlake) — If a school district gets state money for school construction or renovation, they can get an extension on the time needed for the local match if they show good cause. (Senate Finance)
HB 136 (Claman) — Auto manufacturers have to relax their rules on car dealer franchises. (House Transportation)
HB 137 (House Education Committee) — The Alaska State Council on the Arts is a state-owned corporation rather than part of the Department of Education and Early Development. (Signed into law)
HB 138 (Westlake) — March is Sobriety Awareness Month. (Senate Health and Social Services)
HB 139 (Wilson) — The state can no longer block people from getting professional licenses if they’ve gotten a black mark from the Office of Children’s Services. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 140 (Wilson) — If the state wants to take kids from their parents, the parents have the right to request a jury trial. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 141 (Fansler) — Extends the funding formula for the Alaska Workforce Investment Board. (Signed into law)
HB 142 (Tuck) — Increases unemployment payments for Alaskans making more than $42,000 per year before they lost their job. (House Finance)
HB 143 (Chenault) — Names an Anchorage office building after Dan Fauske. (Signed into law)
HB 144 (Kito) — Keeps the Board of Veterinary Examiners running through 2025. (House Finance)
HB 145 (Westlake) — The state can’t refuse someone a massage therapist license because they’ve been convicted of a crime. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 146 (Claman) — Starts a school tax of at least $100 per year. Alaskans making more money would pay more, based on their salary. (House Finance)
HB 147 (Thompson) — Certified Public Accountants can’t work for companies that don’t have a state license, and you no longer have to be at least 19 to get a CPA license. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 148 (Chenault) — Boroughs can create a service area to provide services in a place where no one lives. (Held in House; added as amendment to passed legislation)
HB 149 (Chenault) — The fish and game boards can hold as many meetings as they need to. (House Fisheries)
HB 150 (House Military and Veterans Affairs) — The state militia gets paid the same regardless of whether they’re called to service by the governor or the president. (Passed House; sent to Senate)
HB 151 (Gara) — Foster care workers are limited in the number of cases they can handle, and generally reforms the foster care program. (Passed House; sent to Senate)
HB 152 (House Military and Veterans Affairs) — The 1955 military code that applies to the state militia is updated. (House State Affairs)
HB 153 (Eastman) — The state won’t regulate the number of hospitals and clinics through its “certificate of need” program anymore. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 154 (Fansler) — The state can create fish and game reserves, and the first one created is around the Holitna River in southwest Alaska. (House Fisheries)
HB 155 (Ortiz) — The Mental Health Trust exchanges land near Ketchikan with the federal government. (House Finance; companion bill signed into law)
HB 156 (Tilton) — Municipalities can exempt something from local taxes for as long as they want, instead of just five years. (House Rules)
HB 157 (House Labor and Commerce) — The state’s life insurance laws are rewritten under model legislation from a national group of life insurance experts. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HB 158 (Eastman) — The Alaska Public Offices Commission doesn’t have to operate 20 physical offices across the state or provide physical copies of documents, except at its central office. (House Finance)
HB 159 (governor) — Restricts how opioid painkillers can be prescribed by doctors, including veterinarians (Signed into law)
HB 160 (Tilton) — There are fewer restrictions on how the local 911 phone fee can be used. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 161 (Rauscher) — There should be an advisory vote asking Alaskans if they want to use the earnings reserve of the Permanent Fund for government services. (House State Affairs)
HB 162 (governor) — Streamlines the state’s criminal and civil background check process and allows appeals of conditions that bar someone from holding a particular license. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 163 (governor) — Tribes and municipalities can pay the state to provide trooper coverage. (House State Affairs)
HB 164 (governor) — Allows the state ombudsman’s office to disclose a person’s identity if the disclosure allows an investigation into a case of elder neglect to go forward. (House Finance; companion bill signed into law)
HB 165 (Rep. Justin Parish, D-Juneau) — A veteran who can document relevant military experience can substitute that experience for another requirement when applying for a state job. (Senate State Affairs)
HB 166 (Parish) — Creates (but doesn’t fund) a museum renovation and construction grant program. (House Finance)
HB 167 (House Rules) — Eliminates the requirement that state departments conduct performance reviews. (House Rules)
HB 168 (Chenault) — Legislative committees and the governor have oversight of regulations approved by state agencies. (House State Affairs)
HB 169 (Tuck) — The state will pay for members of Congress to visit ANWR. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 170 (House Labor and Commerce) — Modernizes the Alaska Securities Act, which was adopted in 1961. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HB 171 (Westlake) — The Commissioner of Corrections can put prisoners to work. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 172 (Drummond) — Industrial hemp is not a controlled substance. (House Finance)
HB 173 (Josephson) — Creates a climate change commission within the governor’s office. (House Resources)
HB 174 (governor) — Extends a declaration of emergency for the opioid crisis. (House Rules)
HB 175 (Fansler) — Alaska will choose its Electoral College delegates by popular vote if enough other states agree to do the same. (House Judiciary)
HB 176 (Fansler) — The state will subsidize ambulance service for poor people. (House Finance)
HB 177 (Tarr) — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has a special fund to fight the spread of invasive species into Alaska waters, and it has the ability to declare an invasive species emergency, giving it special powers. (House Finance)
HB 178 (Eastman) — Regularizes the process of naming a bridge or a portion of road in honor of a veteran. (House Military and Veterans Affairs)
HB 179 (Stutes) — Any commercial aviator must have $500,000 in injury or death insurance for each passenger, instead of $150,000. (House Transportation)
HB 180 (Fansler) — Anyone who wires money or exchanges currencies faces new regulations. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 181 (Kreiss-Tomkins) — An independent panel will recommend how much money legislators should get for living expenses. (House Finance)
HB 182 (Knopp) — Raises are less common for state employees. (House State Affairs)
HB 183 (Talerico) — Creates a land lottery open only to Permanent Fund Dividend recipients. Land could be purchased from the state by docking the dividends of winners. (House State Affairs)
HB 184 (Josephson) — Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity is illegal. (House State Affairs)
HB 185 (Sullivan-Leonard) — The Legislature should meet in Anchorage, not Juneau. (House State Affairs)
HB 186 (Talerico) — It’s easier to donate excess food to food banks. (House Rules)
HB 187 (Wilson) — Changes the rules for deposits into and withdrawals from the Alaska Permanent Fund. (House State Affairs)
HB 188 (Kreiss-Tomkins) — Alaskans can create fisheries trusts to buy limited-entry commercial fishing permits, then lease those permits to Alaskans who otherwise couldn’t afford one. (House Fisheries)
HB 189 (Wilson) — The Department of Education can create a fee to pay for school bus inspections. (House Education)
HB 190 (Talerico) — If someone requests the chance to give oral public comments on a state regulation change, a regulatory board has to give it to them. (House State Affairs)
HB 191 (Rep. Lora Reinbold, R-Eagle River) — Doctors can’t be barred from working at a hospital just because they haven’t kept their certificates up to date. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 192 (Pruitt) — This is an alternative way to reduce some of the deficit using the Permanent Fund without capping dividends. (House Finance)
HB 193 (Grenn) — If someone has a medical emergency, their insurance company can’t charge them a higher rate because they had to use an out-of-network hospital or ambulance during the emergency. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 194 (Claman) — The state’s definition of “veteran” includes veterans of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the NOAA Corps.
HB 195 (governor) — An insurance company can use your credit history to determine your insurance rate. This bill was vetoed by the governor last year, so he added more consumer protections to the bill and is resubmitting it. (Senate Finance)
HB 196 (Kreiss-Tomkins) — Opioids are taxed at one cent per morphine milligram equivalent, and the money goes into the drug abuse treatment and prevention fund. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 197 (Johnston) — The Department of Natural Resources can help set up and operate community seed libraries and exchanges. (House Finance)
HB 198 (Rep. Colleen Sullivan-Leonard, R-Wasilla) — Legislators’ per diem expense payments can’t be more than what state employees get. (House State Affairs)
HB 199 (Stutes) — If a construction project disturbs a salmon-bearing stream, there’s a bigger permitting process, and the constructor has to explain how they’ll make good any damage to that stream. (House Fisheries)
HB 200 (LeDoux) — Alaska has a “top two” primary system for state and national office. (House State Affairs)
HB 201 (Josephson) — Municipalities can regulate the trapping of fur-bearing animals in their boundaries. (House Rules)
HB 202 (Sullivan-Leonard) — Cellphone bills would include a surcharge for hearing-impaired phone service. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 203 (Kawasaki) — It’s easier to stake land for a remote cabin on state land. (House Resources)
HB 204 (Kawasaki) — If you see a stopped road maintenance vehicle by the side of the road while driving, you have to pull into the lane farthest from the vehicle. (Senate Transportation)
HB 205 (Eastman) — Municipalities can’t become sanctuary cities. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 206 (Talerico) — Someone installing a satellite dish isn’t covered by regulations requiring oversight of electrical work. (House Energy)
HB 207 (Wool) — Restricts the ability of the Alaska Railroad to use its land without the approval of its CEO or board of directors. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 208 (Johnson) — Judges don’t have to decide as many issues pertaining to financial trusts. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HB 209 (Kito) — If a piece of heavy equipment breaks under warranty or within one year of purchase, the manufacturer has to provide a refund or replacement, including the cost of getting it to Alaska. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 210 (Sullivan-Leonard) — State employees can opt out of the fee they pay to benefit vocational training programs. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 211 (Westlake) — Nonresidents who hunt caribou in a particular game area of northwest Alaska have to be accompanied by a guide or family member who lives there. (Senate State Affairs)
HB 212 (Westlake) — The rural schools fund can be used for maintenance as well as construction, and there will be an annual report on school construction and maintenance in rural areas. (House Education)
HB 213 (Parish) — The Legislature can only pull out 4.75 percent of the Public School Trust Fund each year. (House Finance)
HB 214 (Drummond) — Renames the Alaska Safe Children’s Act as Bree’s Law. (House Education)
HB 215 (House Finance) — The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services’ Division of Public Health can collect fees. (House Finance)
HB 216 (Kopp) — If you’re a felon and your Permanent Fund Dividend is withheld, that money will go to a “restorative justice account” to pay crime victims and pay for the other costs of your crime. (House Judiciary)
HB 217 (Tarr) — You can sell raw milk. (House Resources)
HB 218 (Tarr) — The state veterinarian is under the Department of Natural Resources, not the Department of Environmental Conservation. (House Resources)
HB 219 (governor) — Creates new security procedures for state employees who have access to federal tax information. (House Judiciary)
HB 220 (Rauscher) — “Defensive display of a firearm” doesn’t count as using a firearm when considering third-degree assault, fourth-degree assault, or reckless endangerment charges. (House Judiciary)
HB 221 (Drummond) — The Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education can collect statistics about education and the state’s workforce. (House Education)
HB 222 (Claman) — Manicurists and nail technicians don’t have to take 250 hours of classroom work to get a license. (Senate Rules; amended into passed bill)
HB 223 (Claman) — Municipalities can’t punish you more for violating a law than the state does for the same crime. (House Judiciary)
HB 224 (Johnston) — School districts can re-employ retired teachers at a discount. (House State Affairs)
HB 225 (Johnston) — Municipal liens have the same ability to collect money from miscreants as state and federal liens do. (House Judiciary)
HB 226 (Ortiz) — Putting a child into a cage is first-degree child endangerment. (House Judiciary)
HB 227 (Sullivan-Leonard) — Legislators can’t run their own political action committees. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 228 (Reinbold) — Partially repeals the criminal justice bill known as Senate Bill 91. (House Judiciary)
HB 229 (Seaton) — Oil and gas companies don’t have to post their required cash bond until Jan. 1, 2019. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HB 230 (Drummond) — Telecom companies can’t collect your private information without your consent. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 231 (governor) — Cuts salaries for commissioners on the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission and makes commission employees classified, not exempt. (House Fisheries)
HB 232 (Kawasaki) — Telecom companies can’t collect your private information without your consent. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 233 (Tuck) — Extends the expiration date for the education tax credit from 2018 to 2025. (House Education)
HB 234 (Guttenberg) — The Alaska Health Care Commission can keep working through 2023. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 235 (Kreiss-Tomkins) — Police, firefighters, and other first responders who are injured or killed on the job can receive the North Star Medal, which is created for that purpose. (Senate State Affairs)
HB 236 (Kawasaki) — The Alaska Senior Benefits Program continues through 2022. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 237 (Neuman) — Fisheries escapement goals must be enshrined in regulation. (House Fisheries)
HB 238 (Guttenberg) — Anyone drilling for oil and gas in Cook Inlet must pay land rental and royalty fees. (House Resources)
HB 239 (Chenault) — Limits the ability of the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation to issue bonds to develop a natural gas export port. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 240 (Guttenberg) — Pharmacy benefits managers must be registered and are subject to audits. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 241 (Johnson) — Legislators can’t collect per diem if they don’t pass a fully funded operating budget in the first 90 days of the Legislative session. (House State Affairs)
HB 242 (Gara) — Planes landing at the Deadhorse airport have to pay a fee, and the Dalton Highway is turned into a toll road. (House Transportation)
HB 243 (Eastman) — Alaskans get to vote their opinion on whether there should be a state income tax. (House State Affairs)
HB 244 (Parish) — Mediators can decide conflicting workers’ compensation claims. (House Labor and Commerce)
HB 245 (Eastman) — Female circumcision is illegal unless there’s a medical reason for it, and a doctor that performs one can lose their license. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 246 (Guttenberg) — The Alaska Broadband Commission is created to boost Internet access in rural Alaska. (House State Affairs)
HB 247 (Edgmon) — A bridge over Wood River is named the Raymond Conquest Bridge. (House Transportation)
HB 248 (Eastman) — Alaskans get to vote their opinion on whether there should be a state income tax, a state sales tax, or a bill that changes the calculation of the Permanent Fund Dividend. (House State Affairs)
HB 249 (Eastman) — Alaskans can donate their Permanent Fund Dividend to pay for state services. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 250 (Eastman) — Abortion is illegal. (House Health and Social Services)
HB 251 (Eastman) — The Legislature can remove a judge. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 252 (Stutes) — Villages can ban smoking in public places. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HB 253 (Eastman) — If you’re just in your car to stay warm, you can’t be charged with DUI. (House Transportation)
HB 254 (Reinbold) — Partially repeals the criminal justice bill known as Senate Bill 91. (House State Affairs)
HB 4001 (governor) — Creates a payroll tax that requires Alaskans to pay a share of their salaries to the state. (House Finance)
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTIONS
HJR 1 (Josephson) — Calls for a constitutional amendment reversing Alaska’s previous constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. (House State Affairs)
HJR 2 (Rauscher) — Proposes a constitutional amendment setting a spending limit in the Alaska Constitution at $4 billion in operating expenses per year, adjusted for inflation and population each year from 2017 onward. (House State Affairs)
HJR 3 (Claman) — Calls for a constitutional amendment setting the Legislative session’s length at 90 days instead of 121 days. (House State Affairs)
HJR 4 (Talerico) — Congress should open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. (House Arctic Policy, Economic Development and Tourism)
HJR 5 (Westlake) — Congress should open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. (Approved by House and Senate)
HJR 6 (Edgmon) — Congress should permit the construction of a road between Cold Bay and King Cove on the Alaska Peninsula through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. (Approved by House and Senate)
HJR 7 (Tilton) — Proposes a constitutional amendment that limits any increase in state spending to the average increase of the previous three years. (House State Affairs)
HJR 8 (Rep. Neal Foster, D-Nome) — The state wants walrus, mammoth and mastodon ivory exempted from any national ivory ban. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HJR 9 (Ortiz) — The federal government should work with Canada to protect Alaska salmon rivers near the border from the effects of Canadian mining. (House floor)
HJR 10 (Rep. George Rauscher, R-Sutton) — Congress should enact limits on the president’s ability to create national monuments. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
HJR 11 (Tarr) — Congress should pass legislation overturning the Supreme Court case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. (House State Affairs)
HJR 12 (Tarr) — Congress should require the labeling of genetically engineered products. (House State Affairs)
HJR 13 (Eastman) — Congress should split the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. (House State Affairs)
HJR 14 (Edgmon) — The Federal Communications Commission should increase the Rural Health Care Program Budget. (Senate Rules)
HJR 15 (Johnson) — Congress should repeal the REAL ID Act of 2005. (Senate State Affairs)
HJR 16 (Neuman) — The federal government should respect the 10th Amendment more. (House Judiciary)
HJR 17 (Tarr) — Congress should pass legislation giving full military burial rights to Hmong veterans of the Vietnam War. (House Military and Veterans Affairs)
HJR 18 (Tuck) — Alaska’s Congressional delegation should try to implement a renewable energy testing program in the state. (House Energy)
HJR 19 (Westlake) — The Arctic Waterways Safety Committee is doing good work, and the federal government should continue efforts to avoid spills in the Arctic Ocean. (Senate Arctic Policy)
HJR 20 (Parish) — Congress and the president should keep Medicaid Expansion in place. (House Health and Social Services)
HJR 21 (Guttenberg) — The federal government should not interfere in state marijuana policy. (House State Affairs)
HJR 22 (Thompson) — The Trump administration should reverse restrictions on drilling onshore and offshore in the Arctic. (House Arctic Policy, Economic Development and Transportation)
HJR 23 (Tuck) — Spending from the Alaska Permanent Fund should be limited to 5 percent of the fund’s value, or the fund’s net income for the most recent fiscal year, whichever is lower. Half of that amount should be for dividends. (House Finance)
HJR 24 (Talerico) — Gov. Walker and Alaska’s Congressional delegation should expedite oil development to increase the amount of oil transported through the trans-Alaska Pipeline System. (House Resources)
HJR 25 (Eastman) — Congress should amend the Alaska Statehood Act to recognize Alaska’s constitutional right to do what it wants with territory within its boundaries. (House State Affairs)
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS
HCR 1 (Grenn) — If you’re a legislator and you have a conflict of interest on a piece of legislation, it’s harder for you to vote on that legislation. (Failed in House)
HCR 2 (Tarr) — The governor should work to stop bad things from happening to children. (House State Affairs)
HCR 3 (Tarr) — April 2017 is Child Abuse Prevention Month. (House Rules)
HCR 4 (Eastman) — Instead of announcing committee meetings at least 24 hours in advance, the Legislature has to announce them the day before. (House State Affairs)
HCR 5 (Eastman) — The Legislature’s Committee on Committees isn’t limited to just five members.
HCR 6 (Johnson) — The Legislature can’t work on other bills until it finishes its budget business. (House State Affairs)
HCR 7 (Chenault) — The governor should support a different option for the Cooper Landing Bypass. (Senate Transportation)
HCR 8 (House Fisheries) — The University of Alaska should keep the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center open. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
HCR 9 (House Transportation) — Suspends Legislative rules to speed the passage of SB 3. (Approved)
HCR 10 (Chenault) — Standing Legislative committees also have jurisdiction over regulations proposed or adopted to implement legislation under the committee’s purview. (House State Affairs)
HCR 11 (House Rules) — Suspends Legislative rules to speed the passage of SB 100. (Approved)
HCR 12 (House Rules) — Suspends Legislative rules to speed the passage of SB 55. (Approved)
HCR 13 (Edgmon) — Dedicates a committee room in honor of former legislator Al Adams. (Approved)
HCR 14 (House Rules) — Suspends Legislative rules to speed the passage of SB 51. (Approved)
HCR 401 (House Judiciary) — Suspends Legislative rules to speed the passage of SB 54 in the fourth special session. (Approved)
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS
HR 1 (House Rules) — Re-establishes the House committee on Arctic policy, tourism and economic development. (Approved)
HR 2 (House Rules) — Re-establishes the House committee on energy. (Approved)
HR 3 (House Rules) — Re-establishes the House committee on fisheries. (Approved)
HR 4 (House Rules) — Re-establishes the House committee on the military and veterans affairs. (Approved)
HR 5 (Knopp) — The House of Representatives should model its per diem policy after the policy used by the federal Department of Defense. (House State Affairs)
HR 201 (Tarr) — The House supports the ongoing review of the state’s oil and gas fiscal policy. (Approved, in second special session)
SENATE BILLS
SB 1 (Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla) — Spends $666.4 million from the Permanent Fund to pay the portion of the Dividend vetoed by Gov. Walker in 2016. (Withdrawn)
SB 2 (Dunleavy) — Pays out the $666.4 million appropriated in SB 1 as a supplemental dividend to each eligible Alaskan. (Senate Finance)
SB 3 (Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka) — Exempts ferry construction from the state’s “percent for art” program and gives ferries an alternative way to meet sewage discharge standards. (Signed into law)
SB 4 (Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna) — A barber doesn’t have to be tested on bleaching, dying or waving hair if the barber applies for a special license that doesn’t allow those practices. (Senate Finance)
SB 5 (Sen. Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage) — Legislators can’t bypass the spirit of campaign finance regulations by setting up personal political action committees. (House Community and Regional Affairs)
SB 6 (Sen. Shelly Hughes, R-Palmer) — Industrial hemp is not a controlled substance. (House Finance)
SB 7 (Sen. Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak) — Creates (but doesn’t fund) a museum renovation and construction grant program. (Senate Finance)
SB 8 (Stevens) — Pick.Click.Give. can give money to tribal governments as well as charities. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 9 (Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole) — Expands the use of “military facility zones” designed to help military development, to areas without an incorporated municipality. (Signed into law)
SB 10 (Dunleavy) — Medicaid will pay for home care, and the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services allows adult foster care homes, where a home cares on a 24-hour basis for up to three disabled adults. (Senate Health and Social Services)
SB 11 (Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks) — It’s easier for the state to allow an antlerless moose hunt. (Senate Resources)
SB 12 (Bishop) — Establishes a school tax on residents and nonresidents earning money in the state. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 13 (Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage) — Legislators can’t collect per diem payments for food or housing starting in the 91st day of the session unless they’ve already passed an operating budget for the year. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 14 (Sen. Mia Costello, R-Anchorage) — Allows Uber, Lyft and similar companies to operate in Alaska. (House Rules; companion signed into law)
SB 15 (Stevens) — You must be at least 19 to buy an e-cigarette or e-liquid. (Senate FInance)
SB 16 (Hughes) — When you die, your will can require someone to delete your Facebook account, Twitter account, your internet browser history, and they can take possession of your “digital assets.” (Senate Judiciary)
SB 17 (Costello) — Establishes an exchange program for political science students at the universities of Hawaii and Alaska. (Senate Finance)
SB 18 (Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel) — Limits the powers of third-class boroughs. (Senate Community and Regional Affairs)
SB 19 (Wielechowski) — A doctor can’t get in trouble for prescribing an experimental drug or treatment to a fatally ill patient. (Senate Health and Social Services)
SB 20 (Sen. Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage) — Adds a drug called U-47700 to the list of Schedule I-A controlled substances. (Senate Judiciary; incorporated into another bill, signed into law)
SB 21 (Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka) — Instead of being allocated automatically by formula, funding for Permanent Fund Dividends is picked by legislators. (Senate Finance)
SB 22 (governor) — This is the bill containing the operating budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. (Companion bill signed into law)
SB 23 (governor) — This is the bill containing the capital construction budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. (Signed into law)
SB 24 (governor) — This bill contains the mental health budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. (Companion bill signed into law)
SB 25 (governor) — The governor proposes to triple the state’s gasoline (and jet fuel, boat fuel, etc.) taxes by summer 2018. (Senate Finance)
SB 26 (governor) — The governor proposes to use a portion of the investment earnings of the Permanent Fund to pay for state government services. (Conference committee)
SB 27 (Dunleavy) — Creates a task force to draft recommendations to fight dyslexia and reading problems in schools. (Senate Education)
SB 28 (Stedman) — Petersburg Borough gets 14,666 acres of state land. (Signed into law)
SB 29 (governor) — Eliminates the workers’ compensation appeals commission. (Senate Judiciary)
SB 30 (governor) — Approves the sale of state royalty oil to Petro Star Inc. (Signed into law)
SB 31 (governor) — The governor proposes to freeze the pay of about 5,000 nonunion state employees in the university, court system, Legislature and executive branch for two years. (Senate Rules)
SB 32 (Sen. Shelley Hughes, R-Palmer) — Just as pharmacists can prescribe generic drugs in place of brand-name ones, they can prescribe generic “biological products” that are non-drug medical items. (House Finance)
SB 33 (governor) — Officially names the new Alaska-class ferries Tazlina and Hubbard, respectively. (Signed into law)
SB 34 (governor) — The state has two sets of driver’s licenses; one set that abides by the standards of the federal REAL ID Act, and one that doesn’t. If you have one that doesn’t, you’ll need a passport to fly on a commercial flight. (Companion bill signed into law)
SB 35 (Costello) — Individual Alaskans can personally invest their savings in the trans-Alaska natural gas pipeline. (Senate Resources)
SB 36 (Sen. Cathy Giessel, R-Anchorage) — Optometrists can do more of the services currently limited to eye surgeons. (Senate Finance)
SB 37 (Giessel) — The Alaska Board of Pharmacy regulates drug wholesalers that ship medical drugs into the state. (Senate Finance)
SB 38 (Giessel) — Pharmacy benefits managers must be registered and are subject to audits. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 39 (Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole) — Boroughs and municipalities can levy a fee on commercial property owners to pay for energy efficiency improvements or clean energy programs, even if the municipality doesn’t run the utility. (Senate Finance)
SB 40 (governor) — Reduces costs in the state’s workers’ compensation program and increases service as part of an omnibus overhaul. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 41 (Giessel) — Tramadol and related drugs are listed as Schedule IVA restricted. (Senate Health and Social Services)
SB 42 (Giessel) — Police must be trained to recognize and appropriately deal with people who have disabilities. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 43 (Gov. Bill Walker) — This is the governor’s supplemental budget; it changes the budget for the current fiscal year to match what’s actually being spent. (Companion bill signed into law)
SB 44 (Sen. Berta Gardner, D-Anchorage) — Oil and gas companies that get tax credit subsidies from the state have to disclose what they’re using them for. (Senate Resources)
SB 45 (Senate Labor and Commerce committee) — If you build your own house and sell it within two years, you have to report it to the state so the government can confirm you’re not trying to get around the state’s rules for registered contractors. (House Labor and Commerce)
SB 46 (Sen. David Wilson, R-Wasilla) — October 25 each year is African American Soldiers’ Contribution to Building the Alaska Highway Day. (Signed into law)
SB 47 (Meyer) — Auto manufacturers have to relax their rules on car dealer franchises. (Senate Judiciary)
SB 48 (Coghill) — Provides health insurance for the children and spouses of police and firefighters killed on the job. (Senate Finance)
SB 49 (Giessel) — Changes the membership of the State Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Board. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 50 (Giessel) — Instead of paying $5 to the state for every studded tire you buy, you pay a fee of $75 per tire. (Senate Finance)
SB 51 (Sen. Natasha Von Imhof, R-Anchorage) —The state board of veterinary examiners can keep running through 2025. (Signed into law)
SB 52 (Sen. Dennis Egan, D-Juneau) — State employees and teachers can choose either a defined benefit pension or a defined contribution retirement account. (Senate Community and Regional Affairs)
SB 53 (Sen. Berta Gardner, D-Anchorage) — Women who buy birth control pills can buy up to 12 months’ worth at a time, instead of only three months’ worth. (Senate Health and Social Services)
SB 54 (Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole) — Last year’s reductions in criminal sentences went too far; this raises the punishment for some crimes, including violating conditions of release. (Signed into law)
SB 55 (Coghill) — These are all the technical and grammar corrections for last year’s criminal justice reform bill. (Signed into law)
SB 56 (Giessel) — If a piece of heavy equipment breaks under warranty or within one year of purchase, the manufacturer has to provide a refund or replacement, including the cost of getting it to Alaska. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 57 (governor) — If the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority takes a big hit on an investment, its dividend to the state will be calculated differently. (Senate Finance)
SB 58 (governor) — If the attorney general gets involved in pipeline issues, the legal costs will be paid by a fee levied on the state’s utilities. (Senate Finance)
SB 59 (Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage) — Lao and Hmong who served for the U.S. during the Vietnam War can get a veteran designation on their state-issued driver’s license or ID. (Senate State Affairs; passed as amendment to another bill)
SB 60 (governor) — If someone has their hunting/fishing license revoked in another state, they can’t hunt or fish in Alaska. If you own a hunting/fishing license but don’t have it on you when wildlife troopers catch you, you can come back later with a copy of the license. You also can provide a digital form of the license instead of the paper one. (Senate Judiciary)
SB 61 (governor) — The borders of some of the state game refuges are redrawn to correct errors in the official description. (Senate Resources)
SB 62 (Sen. David Wilson, R-Wasilla) — The state won’t regulate the number of hospitals and clinics through its “certificate of need” program anymore. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 63 (Micciche) — You can’t smoke indoors in public workplaces. (House Judiciary)
SB 64 (Micciche) — A piece of environmentally contaminated property can be bought or sold as long as the sale includes a disclosure notice that stays with the property until it is cleaned up, regardless of how long that takes. (House Labor and Commerce)
SB 65 (Dunleavy) — Establishes the Jonesville Public Use Area near Sutton. (XXXX)
SB 66 (Senate Education Committee) — The Alaska State Council on the Arts is a state-owned corporation rather than part of the Department of Education and Early Development. (Senate Finance)
SB 67 (Sen. John Coghill, R-North Pole) — The Alaska Judicial Council doesn’t have to collect and record information about all civil settlements in Alaska. (Senate Judiciary)
SB 68 (Dunleavy) — Fixes a land-ownership problem with the law that transferred the Alaska Railroad to the state in 1983 but made it more difficult for landowners near the tracks to use their land. (Senate Transportation; accomplished by administrative action)
SB 69 (Sen. Dennis Egan, D-Juneau) — If you have a weapon in your car, get pulled over by a police officer, and don’t tell the officer you have a weapon, it’s fifth-degree weapons misconduct. (Senate Judiciary)
SB 70 (Senate Finance Committee) — Fixes a big part of the state’s budget deficit with money from the Alaska Permanent Fund’s earnings reserve, creates a new formula for dividend distribution, and implements a spending cap. (Senate Finance)
SB 71 (Stevens) — Fishermen can borrow more money from the state loan fund set up for them. (Senate Finance)
SB 72 (Gardner) — Discrimining against someone because of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression is illegal. (Senate Health and Social Services)
SB 73 (Gardner) — Police officers aren’t allowed to have sex with prostitutes while investigating prostitution. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 74 (Wilson) — Clears up language used when referring to juvenile detention facilities. (Senate Health and Social Services)
SB 75 (Costello) — Schools can hire foreign-language and Native-language teachers who may not have a bachelor’s degrees. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 76 (Micciche) — Comprehensively reforms the section of state law covering alcohol sales. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 77 (Micciche) — Boroughs can create a service area to provide services in a place where no one lives. (Senate State Affairs; companion bill was amended into a bill that became law)
SB 78 (Bishop) — Creates a Permanent Fund Dividend lottery to benefit education. (House Finance)
SB 79 (governor) — Restricts how opioid painkillers can be prescribed by doctors, including veterinarians. (Senate Finance; companion bill signed into law)
SB 80 (Costello) — Cellphone bills would include a surcharge for hearing-impaired phone service. (House Labor and Commerce)
SB 81 (governor) — Streamlines the state’s criminal and civil background check process and allows appeals of conditions that bar someone from holding a particular license. (Senate Health and Social Services)
SB 82 (governor) — Tribes and municipalities can pay the state to provide trooper coverage. (Senate Community and Regional Affairs)
SB 83 (governor) — Allows the state ombudsman’s office to disclose a person’s identity if the disclosure allows an investigation into a case of elder neglect to go forward. (Signed into law)
SB 84 (Dunleavy) — If the earnings of the Permanent Fund are used for government expenses, the amount used for expenses can’t exceed the amount paid in dividends. (Senate Finance)
SB 85 (Senate Labor and Commerce) — Adjusts the funding formula for the Alaska Workforce Investment Board. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 86 (Coghill) — Restricts the ability of the Alaska Railroad to use its land without the approval of its CEO or board of directors. (Senate Resources)
SB 87 (MacKinnon) — A working group will design standardized construction standards for schools across the state. (Senate Finance)
SB 88 (Stedman) — Exchanges land near Ketchikan with the federal government. (Signed into law)
SB 89 (Stevens) — Allows shellfish and crab hatcheries in the same way salmon hatcheries operate. (Senate Finance)
SB 90 (Wilson) — Eliminates matching grants for human services programs. (Senate Community and Regional Affairs)
SB 91 (governor) — Extends a declaration of emergency for the opioid crisis. (Signed into law)
SB 92 (Micciche) — Requires tougher standards for boat registration and insurance to fight the number of derelict and abandoned boats in the state. (Senate Resources)
SB 93 (Coghill) — Parents can put a security freeze on their kids’ credit if something goes wrong, and someone serving as a guardian for someone else who is disabled or incapable can do the same. (House Labor and Commerce)
SB 94 (Costello) — Changes the powers of trust appointees. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 95 (Stevens) — Creates a state loan fund to support hatcheries that grow aquatic plants or shellfish. (Senate Finance)
SB 96 (Senate Education Committee) — Kids can enroll in online schools to fulfill their legal education requirement. (Senate Finance)
SB 97 (Sen. Anna MacKinnon, R-Anchorage) — The state can issue pension obligation bonds to cover its retirement debt. (House Finance)
SB 98 (governor) — An insurance company can use your credit history to determine your insurance rate. This bill was vetoed by the governor last year, so he added more consumer protections to the bill and is resubmitting it. (Senate Finance)
SB 99 (Begich) — Establishes early education programs for children as young as four. (Senate Education)
SB 100 (Egan) — Municipal liens have the same ability to collect money from miscreants as state and federal liens do. (Signed into law)
SB 101 (Sen. Donny Olson, D-Golovin) — Creates a state income tax. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 102 (Senate Finance) — The state will increase spending on Internet connections for public schools. (Senate Rules)
SB 103 (Senate Finance) — Eliminates the Alaska Performance Scholarship program and creates “education innovation grants” directed at school districts that promote alternatives to traditional instruction. (House Education)
SB 104 (Senate Finance) — The state school board isn’t required to review schools’ curriculums for three years. (Senate Rules)
SB 105 (Wilson) — Rewrites the requirements to be certified as a marital and family therapist. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 106 (Coghill) — Municipalities can exempt something from property taxes forever, if they want. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 107 (Senate Finance) — Taps the Alaska Capital Income Fund, which gets money from the Permanent Fund, to pay for deferred maintenance projects at state-owned buildings. (House Finance)
SB 108 (Giessel) — The state medical board can authorize someone other than the board to issue a medical license. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 109 (governor) — Creates new security procedures for state employees who have access to federal tax information. (Senate Judiciary)
SB 110 (Senate Labor and Commerce) — Transforms the state’s tourism marketing agency into a self-funding board. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 111 (Hughes) — Sets out requirements to join the state militia and rewrites some of the rules for the militia. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 112 (Giessel) — This bill includes a long suite of reforms to the state’s workers’ compensation system. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 113 (Stevens) — The Legislature meets for one 90-day session in its first year, and a 120-day session in its second year. (Senate Finance)
SB 114 (Coghill) — If someone is required by a court to wear a blood-alcohol-monitoring device, it’s a crime to interfere with that device. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 115 (governor) — Cuts salaries for commissioners on the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission and makes commission employees classified, not exempt. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 116 (Coghill) — Extends the expiration date for the education tax credit from 2018 to 2025. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 117 (Dunleavy) — You can’t track someone’s cellphone without their consent. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 118 (Wielechowski) — Websites have to tell you what information they collect about you and what they share. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 119 (Hughes) — Clinics and hospitals have to publish how much their most common procedures and services cost. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 120 (Giessel) — Naturopaths don’t have to graduate from a four-year school to receive a license from the state. (Senate Labor and Commerce)
SB 121 (Senate Finance) — The state militia gets paid the same, regardless of whether they’re called to service by the state or the federal government. (Senate State Affairs)
SB 122 (Coghill) — Creates a public review panel to examine whether the state is handling child abuse and neglect cases correctly. (Senate Health and Social Services)
SB 4001 (governor) — Creates a payroll tax that requires Alaskans to pay a share of their salaries to the state. (Senate Finance)
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS
SJR 1 (Wielechowski) — This is a constitutional amendment that would protect the account that pays Permanent Fund Dividends and require them to be paid as they were in 2013. (Senate Judiciary)
SJR 2 (Senate State Affairs) — Proposes a constitutional amendment limiting state spending to $4.25 billion per year (adjusted for population and inflation), and there’s 14 different exceptions to this spending cap. (Senate State Affairs)
SJR 3 (Wielechowski) — The President and Congress should do what they can to limit the harm done to Alaska’s seafood industry when they abandoned plans for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (Senate State Affairs)
SJR 4 (Olson) — Alaska’s Congressional delegation should support bills that protect the right to possess walrus, mammoth, and mastodon ivory. (Senate Resources)
SJR 5 (Dunleavy) — The Trump Administration should relax federal restrictions on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in federal waters of the Arctic Ocean, and in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. (Senate Resources)
SJR 6 (Wielechowski) — Congress and the President should propose a U.S. Constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision. (Senate State Affairs)
SJR 7 (Dunleavy) — The Alaska Constitution should be amended to prohibit any new tax or tax increase without voter approval.
SJR 8 (Begich) — Spending from the Alaska Permanent Fund should be limited to 5 percent of the fund’s value, or the fund’s net income for the most recent fiscal year, whichever is lower. Half of that amount should be for dividends. (Senate State Affairs)
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS
SCR 1 (Gardner) — If someone requests to be excused from voting on a bill because of a conflict of interest, but is required to vote by his or her fellow senators, the secretary will record who declared a conflict, why there was a conflict, and who required them to vote. (Senate State Affairs)
SCR 2 (Meyer) — April 2017 is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. (House Rules Committee)
SCR 3 (Senate Arctic committee) — Speeds the passage of HJR 5. (Approved by House and Senate)
SCR 4 (Hughes) — The Legislature’s Task Force on Unmanned Aircraft Systems continues to exist. (Approved by House and Senate)
SCR 5 (Gardner) — March 2, 2018 is Alaska Reads Day. (Senate State Affairs)
SCR 6 (Micciche) — The governor should support a different option for the Cooper Landing Bypass. (Senate Transportation)
SCR 7 (Stevens) — The University of Alaska should keep the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center open. (Senate Education)
SCR 8 (Senate State Affairs) — Speeds passage of HB 16 by suspending some Legislative rules. (Approved by House and Senate)
SCR 9 (Senate Judiciary) — Speeds passage of HB 24 by suspending some Legislative rules. (Held on House floor)
SCR 10 (Costello) — 2018 is the Alaska Year of Innovation. (Senate State Affairs)
SCR 11 (Senate State Affairs) — Speeds passage of HB 148 by suspending some Legislative rules. (Held on House floor)
SCR 12 (Senate Resources) — Speeds passage of HB 111 by suspending some Legislative rules. (Approved by House and Senate)
SCR 13 (Senate Finance) — Speeds passage of HB 222 by suspending some Legislative rules. (Held on Senate Secretary’s desk)
SCR 101 (Senate Finance) — Work on House Bill 159 can continue in the first special session from where it left off at the end of the regular session. (Approved by House and Senate)
SCR 201 (Senate Rules) — Work on House Bill 57 can continue in the first special session from where it left off at the end of the regular session. (Approved by House and Senate)
SCR 202 (Senate Rules) — Work on House Bill 111 can continue in the second special session from where it left off at the end of the regular session. (Approved by House and Senate)
SCR 301 (Senate Rules) — Work on Senate Bill 23 can continue in the third special session from where it left off at the end of the regular session. (Approved by House and Senate)
SCR 401 (Senate Rules) — Work on Senate Bill 54 can continue in the fourth special session from where it left off at the end of the regular session. (Approved by House and Senate)
SENATE RESOLUTIONS
SR 1 (Senate Rules) — Re-establishes the Senate committee on world trade. (Approved)
SR 2 (Senate Rules) — Re-establishes the Senate committee on the Arctic.(Approved)
SR 3 (Begich) — February 2017 is Black History Month. (Approved)
SR 4 (Giessel) — Congress should let the state manage wildlife on federal parks and preserves. (Approved)
SR 5 (Coghill) — The Senate celebrates the 150th anniversary of the purchase of Alaska, and Alaska will have a beautiful future if allowed the freedom to pursue it. (Approved)
SR 6 (Senate Finance) — The DMV shouldn’t use Social Security numbers to verify ID (Approved)
SR 201 (Giessel) — The Senate supports the ongoing review of the state’s oil and gas fiscal policy. (Approved, in second special session)
• Contact state reporter James Brooks at 523-2258 or james.k.brooks@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @AK_OK.
