---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing October 25 of each year as African American Soldiers' Contribution to Building the Alaska Highway Day."
description: "An Act establishing October 25 of each year as African American Soldiers' Contribution to Building the Alaska Highway Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "30"
identifier: "SB 46"
citation: "Alaska SB 46 (30)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HIGHWAYS", "MILITARY", "PROCLAMATIONS", "VETERANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["WILSON"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-01"
last_action: "2017-05-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5aa1e44-55e1-4125-a6dd-9fe0f2ec70a5"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/30?Root=SB46"
source_hash: "36177e8ab21374b8f65d4615b26ef0021b011cbc9094d25973361eaf58e13deb"
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 46 (30) — An Act establishing October 25 of each year as African American Soldiers' Contribution to Building the Alaska Highway Day.

## Version chain

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

1. **SB0046A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=SB0046A)
2. **SB0046Z** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=SB0046Z)

## Votes

- Shall SENATE BILL NO. 46 "An Act establishing October 25 of each year as African American Soldiers' Contribution to Building the Alaska Highway Day" pass the Senate? — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Shall SB 46 pass the House? — **39–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- WILSON — primary (person)
- Begich — cosponsor (person)
- Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Costello — cosponsor (person)
- Dunleavy — cosponsor (person)
- Egan — cosponsor (person)
- Gardner — cosponsor (person)
- Giessel — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- MacKinnon — cosponsor (person)
- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
- Micciche — cosponsor (person)
- Olson — cosponsor (person)
- Stedman — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Wielechowski — cosponsor (person)
- von Imhof — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-01** Read the first time - REFERRALS `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** Referred to Transportation and State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Cosponsors added: BEGICH, WIELECHOWSKI, MEYER, OLSON, EGAN, HUGHES, GARDNER,
- **2017-02-01** STEVENS, MACKINNON, GIESSEL, COSTELLO, BISHOP
- **2017-02-15** Cosponsors added: DUNLEAVY, MICCICHE, VON IMHOF, STEDMAN
- **2017-02-17** TRA RPT 4DP
- **2017-02-17** TRA Do Pass: STEDMAN, BISHOP, WILSON, EGAN `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-17** Fiscal Note 1: No fiscal impact (Military and Veterans' Affairs)
- **2017-03-01** STA RPT 3DP 1NR
- **2017-03-01** STA No Recommendation: DUNLEAVY
- **2017-03-01** STA Do Pass: EGAN, GIESSEL, WILSON `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-01** Fiscal Note 1: No fiscal impact (Military and Veterans' Affairs)
- **2017-03-06** RULES TO CALENDAR 3/6/2017
- **2017-03-06** Read the second time `reading-2`
- **2017-03-06** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC
- **2017-03-06** Read the third time SB 46 `reading-3`
- **2017-03-06** PASSED Y19 N- E1 `passage`
- **2017-03-06** TRANSMITTED TO (H)
- **2017-03-06** VERSION: SB 46
- **2017-03-08** Read the first time - REFERRALS `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-03-08** Referred to State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** CROSS SPONSOR(S): KAWASAKI
- **2017-03-10** CROSS SPONSOR(S): LEDOUX
- **2017-03-13** CROSS SPONSOR(S): KOPP
- **2017-03-24** STA RPT 7DP
- **2017-03-24** STA Do Pass: JOHNSON, WOOL, LEDOUX, KNOPP, BIRCH, TUCK, KREISS-TOMKINS `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-24** Fiscal Note 1: No fiscal impact (Military and Veterans' Affairs)
- **2017-03-29** CROSS SPONSOR(S): MILLETT
- **2017-03-31** RULES TO CALENDAR 3/31/2017
- **2017-03-31** HELD TO 4/3 CALENDAR
- **2017-03-31** CROSS SPONSOR(S): TUCK, GARA
- **2017-04-03** Read the second time `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 4/5 CALENDAR
- **2017-04-03** CROSS SPONSOR(S): GRENN, WESTLAKE
- **2017-04-05** Read the third time SB 46 `reading-3`
- **2017-04-05** PASSED Y39 N1 `passage`
- **2017-04-05** RETURN TO (S), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2017-04-05** VERSION: SB 46
- **2017-04-05** CROSS SPONSOR(S): PARISH, WOOL, GUTTENBERG, BIRCH, DRUMMOND, FANSLER, JOHNSON,
- **2017-04-05** TARR, STUTES, SPOHNHOLZ, SULLIVAN-LEONARD, SEATON, PRUITT, THOMPSON, JOSEPHSON
- **2017-04-14** 3:03 PM 4/14/17 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-03** Signed into law 4/30 CHAPTER 5 SLA 17 `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-03** EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 7/29/17

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e5aa1e44-55e1-4125-a6dd-9fe0f2ec70a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).