---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act providing for an exception to the regulation of the practice of medicine for a physician who provides medical services to an athletic team from another state."
description: "An Act providing for an exception to the regulation of the practice of medicine for a physician who provides medical services to an athletic team from another state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "30"
identifier: "SB 126"
citation: "Alaska SB 126 (30)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LICENSING", "MEDICAL CARE", "OCCUPATIONS & PROFESSIONS", "PHYSICIANS", "SCHOOLS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["MACKINNON"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 45
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea9cc2b3-d2f0-4d6b-9b2c-22c5c5509ed7"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/30?Root=SB126"
source_hash: "b7ee80443d2b3d098f2a10b492550c6ef2dc7683e5022b1dbddcfb038e7d398e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ak"]
---

# Alaska SB 126 (30) — An Act providing for an exception to the regulation of the practice of medicine for a physician who provides medical services to an athletic team from another state.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB0126A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=SB0126A)
2. **SB0126Z** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=SB0126Z)

## Votes

- Shall SENATE BILL NO. 126 "An Act providing for an exception to the regulation of the practice of medicine for a physician who provides medical services to an athletic team from another state" pass the Senate? — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Shall SB 126 pass the House? — **37–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- MACKINNON — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-08** Prefile released `filing`
- **2018-01-16** Read the first time - REFERRALS `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-16** L&C
- **2018-01-31** L&C RPT 4DP
- **2018-01-31** L&C Do Pass: COSTELLO, MICCICHE, MEYER, GARDNER `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31** Fiscal Note 1: (Commerce, Community & Economic Development)
- **2018-01-31** FIN REFERRAL ADDED AFTER L&C
- **2018-02-05** FIN RPT 4DP
- **2018-02-05** FIN Do Pass: MACKINNON, BISHOP, STEVENS, MICCICHE `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05** Fiscal Note 1: (Commerce, Community & Economic Development)
- **2018-02-12** RULES TO CALENDAR 2/12/2018
- **2018-02-12** Read the second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-12** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC
- **2018-02-12** Read the third time SB 126 `reading-3`
- **2018-02-12** PASSED Y19 N- V1 `passage`
- **2018-02-12** TRANSMITTED TO (H)
- **2018-02-12** VERSION: SB 126
- **2018-02-14** Read the first time - REFERRALS `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** L&C, FIN
- **2018-03-15** L&C RPT 6DP
- **2018-03-15** L&C Do Pass: SULLIVAN-LEONARD, WOOL, JOSEPHSON, BIRCH, KNOPP, KITO `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-15** Fiscal Note 1: (Commerce, Community & Economic Development)
- **2018-04-12** FIN RPT 10DP
- **2018-04-12** FIN Do Pass: GARA, WILSON, KAWASAKI, GRENN, ORTIZ, TILTON, THOMPSON, GUTTENBERG, SEATON, `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-12** FOSTER
- **2018-04-12** Fiscal Note 1: (Commerce, Community & Economic Development)
- **2018-04-12** CROSS SPONSOR(S): GARA
- **2018-04-30** RULES TO CALENDAR 4/30/2018
- **2018-04-30** Read the second time `reading-2`
- **2018-04-30** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/1 CALENDAR
- **2018-05-01** Read the third time SB 126 `reading-3`
- **2018-05-01** PASSED Y37 E2 A1 `passage`
- **2018-05-01** SADDLER NOTICE OF RECONSIDERATION
- **2018-05-01** RECON TAKEN UP SAME DAY UC
- **2018-05-01** PASSED ON RECONSIDERATION Y38 E2 `passage`
- **2018-05-01** RETURN TO (S), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2018-05-01** VERSION: SB 126
- **2018-05-01** CROSS SPONSOR(S): JOSEPHSON
- **2018-06-27** LEG FINANCE APPROPRIATION MESSAGE 6/4/18
- **2018-06-27** LEG FINANCE APPROPRIATION MESSAGE 6/4/18
- **2018-06-27** FN(S) ATTACHED TO APPROP. BILL HB 286
- **2018-06-27** Fiscal Note 1: (Commerce, Community & Economic Development)
- **2018-06-27** 12:54 PM 6/13/18 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-06-27** Signed into law 6/18 CHAPTER 28 SLA 18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-06-27** EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 9/16/18

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ea9cc2b3-d2f0-4d6b-9b2c-22c5c5509ed7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).