Anchorage Daily News

Following is the status as of 4 p.m. Saturday of some of the legislation the Daily News has published stories about. The Legislature adjourns today.

HB: House Bill; SB: Senate Bill; HJR: House Joint Resolution; HCR: House Concurrent Resolution; SCR: Senate Concurrent Resolution

MONEY

SB 221: Capital budget — Passed Senate 15-5; awaiting action by the House

HB 310:$11.2 billion state operating budget — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

SB 230: Gives tax credit to movie makers — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

SB 125: Makes changes to contributions to state retirement system — Passed Legislature; signed into law by governor

HB 287: Requires the Permanent Fund and state retirement funds to divest of stocks in companies doing business in Sudan — Still in first committee, House State Affairs

HB 273: Revises state funding of schools — Passed Legislature; signed into law by governor

SB 256: Appropriates extra money for the current year’s state budget — Passed Legislature; signed into law by governor after vetoing $58 million in projects

HJR 28: Proposes constitutional amendment to create new oil savings account from which the Legislature can spend — Passed House 30-7; awaiting action by the Senate

HB 156: Raises mining taxes — Cleared one committee; now in House Resource Committee

SB 242: Rolls back some provisions of the new oil tax enacted last fall — Still in first committee, Senate Finance

HB 396: Adds a $500 energy rebate to the Permanent Fund Dividend — Cleared one committee; now in House Finance Committee

HB 147: Changes the tourism industry’s required match of state funding for marketing — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

CONSUMERS

HB 387: Allows delivery of only one phone book per household to minimize recycling and trash — Still in first committee, House Community & Regional Affairs

SB 305: Allows customers to leave restaurant with unfinished bottle of wine — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

HB 106: Eliminates state fees on the sale of tires — Passed House 39-0; now in Senate Transportation Committee

SB 202: Blocks spending state money to meet a 2005 federal law on a national ID card — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

HEALTH

HB 190: Requires employers to give break time to nursing mothers — Cleared one committee; now in House Labor & Commerce Committee

HB 65: Requires that consumers be notified if their personal information has been improperly accessed; allows consumers to prevent release of their credit reports — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

ETHICS

HB 281: Extends statute of limitations on ethics violations to five years; requires lobbyists to retain records for six years — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

HB 317: Lets a legislative aide donate a kidney to Rep. Richard Foster, D-Nome — Passed Legislature; signed into law by governor

CRIME

SB 265: Imposes harsher penalties for bootlegging, sex offenses and child pornography Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

HB 107: Raises penalties for being convicted of assault a third time and for animal cruelty — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

SB 38: Outlaws Salvia divinorum, a hallucinogen — Cleared two committees; now in Senate Finance Committee

HB 268: Makes it a felony to torch a vehicle on public land; aimed at the Jim Creek area of Mat-Su — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

SB 185: Requires sex offenders to register their e-mail or IM addresses with the state — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

WILDLIFE

SB 284: Expands size of Board of Fisheries; adds sport fishing members — Still in first committee, Senate Resources

SCR 21:Sets up a Cook Inlet salmon task force within the Legislature — Passed Legislature

HB 256: Streamlines state game laws aimed at boosting moose, deer and caribou populations — Passed House 25-12; now in Senate Judiciary Committee

MISCELLANEOUS

HB 301: Bans partial-birth abortions — Passed House 21-16; now in Senate Judiciary Committee

HB 54: Calls for construction of a new Capitol building — Cleared two House committees; awaiting action of full House

HB 293: Moves legislative sessions to Anchorage — Cleared one House committee; now in House Finance Committee

HB 318: Moves special legislative sessions to a location on the interconnected state road system — Still in first committee, House State Affairs

SB 268: Requires public review of any deal on a Knik Arm bridge — Still in first committee, Senate Transportation

HB 365: Requires public review of any deal on a Knik Arm bridge — Still in first committee, House Transportation

HJR 2: Requires public vote before allowing for-profit gambling — Passed House 33-6; now in Senate Finance Committee

SB 97: Ensures that only art works made by Natives in Alaska can carry the Silver Hand seal — Passed Legislature; signed into law by governor

SB 231: Gives the state authority to expand homeless programs ­— Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

HB 37: Declares the first Saturday in March each year as Susan Butcher Day — Passed Legislature; signed into law by governor

HB 294: Creates Marine Transportation Advisory Board to help develop strategic plans for the state ferry system — Passed Legislature; to be sent to governor

HB 358: Proposal to reform the state foster care system — Still in first committee, House Health, Education & Social Services

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