Anchorage Daily News

Following is the final status of some of the legislation the Daily News has published stories about. The Legislature adjourned Sunday.

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

MONEY

PASSED

SB 221: Capital budget totaling about $2.9 billion -- Passed Legislature; awaiting action by governor

HB 310: $11.2 billion state operating budget -- Passed Legislature; awaiting action by governor

HB 315: Calls for issuing $315 million on bonds for road projects -- Passed Legislature; governor expected to sign it, sending it to voters for approval in November

SB 230: Gives tax credit to movie makers -- Passed Legislature; awaiting action by governor

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

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

HB 147: Changes the tourism industry's required match of state funding for marketing -- Passed Legislature; awaiting action by governor

DIED

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

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

HB 156: Raises mining taxes -- Cleared one committee; died in House Resource Committee

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

HB 396: Adds a $500 energy rebate to the Permanent Fund dividend -- Cleared one committee; died in House Finance Committee

CONSUMERS

PASSED

SB 305: Allows customers to leave restaurant with unfinished bottle of wine -- Passed Legislature; awaiting action by governor

DIED

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

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

HEALTH

PASSED

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; awaiting action by governor

DIED

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

ETHICS

PASSED

HB 281: Extends statute of limitations on ethics violations to five years; requires lobbyists to retain records for six years -- Passed Legislature; awaiting action by governor

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

CRIME

PASSED

SB 265: Imposes harsher penalties for bootlegging, sex offenses and child pornography -- Passed Legislature; awaiting action by governor

HB 107: Raises penalties for being convicted of assault a third time and for animal cruelty -- Passed Legislature; awaiting action by governor

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

SB 185: Requires sex offenders to register their e-mail or IM addresses with the state -- Passed Legislature; awaiting action by governor

DIED

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

WILDLIFE

PASSED

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

DIED

SB 284: Expands size of Board of Fisheries; adds sportfishing members -- Died in first committee, Senate Resources

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

MISCELLANEOUS

PASSED

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; awaiting action by 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; awaiting action by governor

DIED

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

HB 54: Calls for construction of a new Capitol building -- Cleared two House committees; died in House Rules Committee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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