State legislature
Official Alaska bill text, status, plain English summaries, and amendment notes tied back to the Legislature's own records.
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2026
This law changes the name of 'physician assistant' to 'physician associate,' sets new rules limiting government control over pharmacist agreements, requires doctors offering certain opioid prescriptions to offer overdose medicine, updates medical board membership, and allows delegation of routine duties.
This law adds registered interior designers to state rules, changes how construction costs are counted for certain projects, updates the board that oversees design professionals, and sets new requirements for building permits.
This law adds a faculty member to the University of Alaska Board of Regents and sets rules for how that person is chosen.
This law requires the University of Alaska to send students email notices about new mandatory fees and provide billing statements that list tuition and fees separately.
This law updates the rules for proving you live in Alaska to get hunting, trapping, or fishing licenses.
This law requires the state to provide ethics and budget training for school board members who are required by other laws, changes rules about terms of office for municipal school boards, updates city council sizes in second-class cities, and sets an effective date.
This law updates rules for growing industrial hemp in Alaska, sets testing limits and corrective actions for noncompliant crops, allows state land to be used for farming, and names the O-S Cross cabbage as the official state vegetable.
This law allows vehicle owners in Alaska to transfer titles to insurance companies without notarization or handwritten signatures after the insurer pays for damages.
This law requires health insurers to pay the same rate for telehealth as in-person visits, creates disease presumptions for firefighters with specific service records, repeals two medical assistance programs, and updates rules for public employee insurance.
This bill requires groups supporting or opposing candidates to have a state address, raises contribution limits for individuals and organizations, sets automatic updates every ten years starting in 2031, adds reporting rules on complaints, and addresses foreign-influenced contributions.
This law creates new taxes on specific natural gas projects to fund public schools, municipal grants, and affordable heating fuel while setting rules for the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation.
This law removes three specific state funds from Alaska statutes: the public access fund, the temporary assistance program emergency account, and a reserve fund for the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games.
This law allows Alaska's Department of Labor and Workforce Development to share employment data with other state agencies, including the University of Alaska, for specific research and statistics purposes.
This law allows Alaska to issue electronic driver's licenses and ID cards, sets rules for sharing driving data with government agencies, and states that showing an electronic license does not give police permission to search other parts of a person's phone.
This law requires companies running virtual currency kiosks to hold a money transmission license, register each location with the state, submit detailed reports on their business and suspicious activities, display specific warnings about fraud risks, and use software tools to help prevent crime.
This law updates Alaska rules for business transactions under the Uniform Commercial Code, clarifies that certain bonds are negotiable instruments without needing extra filing to secure them, adds fraud protections regarding child support transfers, and sets penalties for vehicle title crimes.
This law changes how often a military report is sent, adds new members to the committee that studies military issues in Alaska, and updates what tasks the group must do.
This bill changes how many members serve on the Local Boundary Commission and updates their term lengths.
This law updates rules for businesses that send money or use virtual currency, requiring them to get a license from the state.
This law updates rules for health worker licenses, creates agreements to share licenses between states, sets up a new group to help rural health programs, and adds specific duties for respiratory care workers.
This law allows dissolved Alaska Native village corporations to apply for reinstatement at any time, regardless of previous two-year limits, and requires certain proxy solicitation materials sent to shareholders to be filed with the state administrator.
This law allows Alaska municipalities to choose whether to lower property taxes for volunteer emergency workers, specific rental properties, mobile home parks, first-time homebuyers, permanent residents, and those renting to low-income families.
This bill proposed setting specific time limits for state agencies to pay contractors and organizations, requiring interest payments if deadlines are missed.
This law updates rules for licensing physical therapists, occupational therapists, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists in Alaska.
This law approves the transfer of about 84.8 acres of land owned by the Alaska Railroad Corporation to the City of Whittier in exchange for fair market value.
This law establishes the first Friday of every October as Alaska Arts and Culture Day.
This law updates the duties of the state board that oversees barbers, hairdressers, manicurists, estheticians, tattoo artists, piercing shops, and braiders.
This law updates training requirements for certified nurse aides to include specific skills on communication, safety, client rights, and caring for people with cognitive disabilities or mental health needs.
This law sets a minimum funding rate of $26.89 per student for Alaska's special education service agency, effective July 1, 2026.
This bill would stop restaurants and the state from using polystyrene foam containers for food starting in 2027, but includes exceptions for emergencies, customer-provided items, old stock, local rules, and financial hardship.
This law increases the total number of superior court judges in Alaska to 46 by adding one judge specifically for the third judicial district.
This law provides money to run state government agencies and specific programs from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027.
This law provides money to state agencies for mental health programs, legal services, and related support during the fiscal year starting July 1, 2026.
This bill establishes the Alaska-Ireland Trade Commission to promote trade, investment, and cooperation between Alaska and Ireland.
This law updates rules for state lawmakers about gifts, office use, and political activities while changing which groups can issue subpoenas.
This law sets rules for taxing travel insurance sold to Alaska residents, defines key industry terms, and creates specific limited licenses for selling rental car insurance and portable electronics protection.
This law updates rules about mental health care, medical coverage eligibility, and placement options for children in the state foster system.
This law raises the maximum loan amount from Alaska's bulk fuel accounts to $1,500,000 and sets rules for repaying these loans within one year.
This law requires Alaska school districts to give parents neutral information about hearing technology and communication methods, let them choose the best method for their child, and ensure staff are trained in that choice.
This law updates the definition of a 'snow classic' to allow these games at any specific location and removes restrictions requiring them to be run by Four Valleys Community School, Inc.
This law adds complex care residential homes to the list of health facilities regulated by the state and sets an effective date for these changes.
This bill proposes renaming the University of Alaska's research institute and a state marine park to honor Vic Fischer, but it was vetoed by the governor.
This bill establishes an advisory board to study wages, working conditions, and payment rates for home care workers in Alaska.
This law makes information about tax credit recipients public, limits how much of a taxpayer's bill can be covered by the credit, sets an end date for qualifying equipment purchases, and allows businesses to ask if their plans qualify before spending money.
This bill creates a new advisory council to help state agencies manage harmful non-native species, sets up a fund for their work, and requires regular reports.
This law changes how voters must approve certain changes to local service areas for roads, fire protection, or parks, and updates the rules for getting special tax assessments on farm land.
APPROP: CAPITAL/FUNDS/SUPP/REAPPROP/AMEND An Act making appropriations, including capital appropriations, supplemental appropriations, and reappropriations; making appropriations to capitalize funds; amending appropriations; and providing for an effective date.
This law designates specific National Wildlife Refuges as state game refuges, establishes the Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge with detailed land descriptions, updates boundaries for existing areas like Izembek, and adjusts the Jonesville Public Use Area.
This law allows the registration of legally imported vehicles at least 25 years old without current federal safety standards, lets driving test applicants retake only failed portions, and sets longer insurance requirements for repeat suspensions due to unpaid judgments.
This law creates a new executive administrator position for the Board of Dental Examiners and establishes one for the Big Game Commercial Services Board.
This law allows state officials to require electronic monitoring on trawl boats catching finfish only if the boats already have cameras from federal rules, bans charging fees for these programs, and creates a new management area for set net fishing permits.
This law adds a new purpose for the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to finance workforce housing projects with three or more units and requires municipalities to exempt certain authority assets from property taxes.
This bill changes the name of Alaska's civil rights agency to the Alaska State Commission for Civil Rights, updates how it handles complaints and reports, defines who counts as an employer, sets rules for removing commissioners, and adds protections for religious groups.
This law updates rules for crimes like murder and assault by raising the age of protection from 16 to 18 in some cases, allows victims of childhood sexual abuse to sue for damages, creates an address confidentiality program, and adjusts parole and licensing requirements.
This law requires the Department of Education to create a hands-only CPR curriculum for public schools and gives state officials authority to designate hospitals capable of treating major emergencies like heart attacks.
This law requires an annual report on school performance, pays districts for energy costs if they do not increase usage compared to the previous year, allows students leaving online programs to keep their materials, permits regional board members to substitute teach in emergencies, sets rules about felony convictions for board members, and starts a pilot program to help teachers repay student loans.
This bill enacts the Multistate Tax Compact into Alaska law to set rules for how businesses split their income among different states when paying taxes.
This bill changes tax rules for a specific natural gas project to help residents get affordable fuel while creating new funding methods for public schools facing enrollment drops or consolidations.
This bill repeals a specific section of Alaska law regarding income taxes on pass-through entities effective January 1, 2028.
This law allows patriotic organizations to sell all types of alcohol at their events, removes the need for reciprocity agreements so members can buy alcohol at other licensed clubs, and defines which groups count as patriotic organizations.