---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing the month of March as Sobriety Awareness Month."
description: "An Act establishing the month of March as Sobriety Awareness Month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "30"
identifier: "SB 208"
citation: "Alaska SB 208 (30)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALCOHOL", "DRUGS", "EDUCATION", "HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES", "HOLIDAYS", "PROCLAMATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["GARDNER"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-19"
last_action: "2018-11-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df18c6e1-5de5-49b1-80f6-c7e58cc71247"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/30?Root=SB208"
source_hash: "f16af560b7efdd1c1b4c2db391bc8660676edf328bcc0819d498ea54e7f1a57a"
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 208 (30) — An Act establishing the month of March as Sobriety Awareness Month.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB0208A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=SB0208A)
2. **SB0208Z** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=SB0208Z)

## Votes

- Shall SB 208 pass the House? — **36–0** (pass) · lower
- Shall SENATE BILL NO. 208 "An Act establishing the month of March as Sobriety Awareness Month" pass the Senate? — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- GARDNER — primary (person)
- Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Costello — cosponsor (person)
- Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Giessel — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- MacKinnon — cosponsor (person)
- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
- Micciche — cosponsor (person)
- Olson — cosponsor (person)
- Shower — cosponsor (person)
- von Imhof — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-19** Read the first time - REFERRALS `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-19** Referred to Health & Social Services and State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Cosponsors added: OLSON
- **2018-04-10** HSS RPT 4DP
- **2018-04-10** HSS Do Pass: WILSON, BEGICH, MICCICHE, GIESSEL `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-10** Fiscal Note 1: No fiscal impact (Legislative Agency)
- **2018-04-11** STA REFERRAL WAIVED UC
- **2018-04-12** RULES TO CALENDAR 4/12/2018
- **2018-04-12** Read the second time `reading-2`
- **2018-04-12** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC
- **2018-04-12** Read the third time SB 208 `reading-3`
- **2018-04-12** Cosponsors added: MICCICHE, MEYER, HUGHES, EGAN, MACKINNON, GIESSEL, VON IMHOF
- **2018-04-12** SHOWER, COSTELLO, BISHOP, KELLY
- **2018-04-12** PASSED Y20 N- `passage`
- **2018-04-12** TRANSMITTED TO (H)
- **2018-04-12** VERSION: SB 208
- **2018-04-13** Read the first time - REFERRALS `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-04-13** Referred to Health & Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-13** CROSS SPONSOR(S): SADDLER, TUCK
- **2018-04-18** HSS RPT 5DP
- **2018-04-18** HSS Do Pass: JOHNSTON, TARR, ZULKOSKY, KITO, SPOHNHOLZ `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-18** Fiscal Note 1: No fiscal impact (Legislative Agency)
- **2018-04-26** RULES TO CALENDAR 4/25/2018
- **2018-04-26** SESSION CANCELED 4/25 - ON 4/26 CALENDAR
- **2018-04-26** Read the second time `reading-2`
- **2018-04-26** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 4/27 CALENDAR
- **2018-04-26** CROSS SPONSOR(S): BIRCH
- **2018-04-27** NOT TAKEN UP 4/27 - ON 4/28 CALENDAR
- **2018-04-28** Read the third time SB 208 `reading-3`
- **2018-04-28** PASSED Y36 E4 `passage`
- **2018-04-28** RETURN TO (S), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2018-04-28** VERSION: SB 208
- **2018-04-28** CROSS SPONSOR(S): ZULKOSKY, TARR, EDGMON, KAWASAKI, MILLETT, DRUMMOND, LEDOUX,
- **2018-04-28** JOSEPHSON, GRENN
- **2018-11-07** 3:57 PM 8/23/18 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-11-07** Signed into law 8/29 CHAPTER 98 SLA 18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-11-07** EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 11/27/18

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df18c6e1-5de5-49b1-80f6-c7e58cc71247`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).