---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relating to dementia awareness and health care capacity; and providing for an effective date."
description: "An Act relating to dementia awareness and health care capacity; and providing for an effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "32"
identifier: "HB 308"
citation: "Alaska HB 308 (32)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMUNICATIONS", "EDUCATION", "FEDERAL AID", "HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES", "HOSPITALS", "MEDICAL CARE", "MENTAL HEALTH", "PHYSICIANS", "SENIOR CITIZENS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["STUTES"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 71
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-07"
last_action: "2022-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7222d128-249e-4ac0-adb5-ead65db1ff42"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/32?Root=HB308"
source_hash: "4b33543aa98ea1df143a196a23376013999a63cc390145189e10dc9af9c6524b"
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 HB 308 (32) — An Act relating to dementia awareness and health care capacity; and providing for an effective date.

## Version chain

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

1. **CSHB 308(FIN)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/32?Hsid=HB0308B)
2. **Enrolled HB 308** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/32?Hsid=HB0308Z)
3. **HB 308** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/32?Hsid=HB0308A)

## Votes

- (H) PASSED Y34 N4 E2 #2771 — **34–4** (pass) · lower
- (S) PASSED Y20 N- #2935 — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- STUTES — primary (person)
- Cronk — cosponsor (person)
- Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Josephson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaufman — cosponsor (person)
- McCarty — cosponsor (person)
- McKay — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz — cosponsor (person)
- Rasmussen — cosponsor (person)
- Schrage — cosponsor (person)
- Story — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Tuck — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-07** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** (H) HSS, FIN
- **2022-02-15** (H) HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES at 03:00 PM DAVIS 106
- **2022-02-15** (H) Heard & Held
- **2022-02-15** (H) Minutes (HHSS)
- **2022-02-17** (H) COSPONSOR(S): STORY
- **2022-02-17** (H) HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES at 03:00 PM DAVIS 106
- **2022-02-17** (H) Scheduled but Not Heard
- **2022-02-17** (H) Minutes (HHSS)
- **2022-02-23** (H) COSPONSOR(S): MCKAY
- **2022-02-24** (H) HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES at 03:00 PM DAVIS 106
- **2022-02-24** (H) Moved HB 308 Out of Committee
- **2022-02-28** (H) HSS RPT 5DP 1DNP
- **2022-02-28** (H) DP: FIELDS, MCCARTY, SPOHNHOLZ, SNYDER, ZULKOSKY
- **2022-02-28** (H) DNP: KURKA
- **2022-02-28** (H) FN1: (DHS)
- **2022-03-15** (H) FINANCE at 09:00 AM ADAMS 519
- **2022-03-15** (H) Heard & Held
- **2022-03-15** (H) Minutes (HFIN)
- **2022-03-31** (H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- **2022-03-31** (H) -- Public Testimony -- -- MEETING CANCELED --
- **2022-04-15** (H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- **2022-04-15** (H) Moved CSHB 308(FIN) Out of Committee
- **2022-04-15** (H) Minutes (HFIN)
- **2022-04-20** (H) FIN RPT CS(FIN) NEW TITLE 4DP 1DNP 2NR
- **2022-04-20** (H) DP: ORTIZ, EDGMON, LEBON, JOSEPHSON
- **2022-04-20** (H) DNP: CARPENTER
- **2022-04-20** (H) NR: JOHNSON, MERRICK
- **2022-04-20** (H) FN2: (DHS/DOH)
- **2022-04-26** (H) COSPONSOR(S): FIELDS, RASMUSSEN
- **2022-05-04** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/4/2022
- **2022-05-04** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2022-05-04** (H) FIN CS ADOPTED UC
- **2022-05-04** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC `reading-3`
- **2022-05-04** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME CSHB 308(FIN) `reading-3`
- **2022-05-04** (H) PASSED Y34 N4 E2 `passage`
- **2022-05-04** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2022-05-04** (H) COSPONSOR(S): KAUFMAN, TUCK, SCHRAGE, JOSEPHSON, THOMPSON, MCCARTY, CRONK,
- **2022-05-04** (H) ORTIZ, TARR
- **2022-05-04** (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S) `passage`
- **2022-05-04** (H) VERSION: CSHB 308(FIN)
- **2022-05-05** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2022-05-05** (S) FIN
- **2022-05-05** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): KIEHL, COSTELLO, HUGHES, KAWASAKI, HOLLAND, BEGICH, BISHOP
- **2022-05-05** (S) OLSON, MICCICHE
- **2022-05-10** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): GRAY-JACKSON
- **2022-05-16** (S) FINANCE at 09:00 AM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2022-05-16** (S) <Bill Hearing Rescheduled to 1:00 pm>
- **2022-05-16** (S) FINANCE at 01:00 PM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2022-05-16** (S) <Bill Hearing Rescheduled from 9:00 am> -- MEETING CANCELED --
- **2022-05-17** (S) FIN RPT 7DP
- **2022-05-17** (S) DP: STEDMAN, BISHOP, HOFFMAN, WILSON, WIELECHOWSKI, OLSON, VON IMHOF
- **2022-05-17** (S) FN3: (DHS/DOH)
- **2022-05-17** (S) RULES TO FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL CALENDAR 5/17/2022
- **2022-05-17** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2022-05-17** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/18 CAL `reading-3`
- **2022-05-17** (S) FINANCE at 09:00 AM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2022-05-17** (S) -- Invited & Public Testimony -- -- MEETING CANCELED --
- **2022-05-17** (S) FINANCE at 01:00 PM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2022-05-17** (S) Moved CSHB 308(FIN) Out of Committee
- **2022-05-18** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME CSHB 308(FIN) `reading-3`
- **2022-05-18** (S) PASSED Y20 N- `passage`
- **2022-05-18** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2022-05-18** (S) RETURN TO (H), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2022-05-18** (S) VERSION: CSHB 308(FIN)
- **2022-10-05** (H) 2:00 P.M. 8/25/22 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-10-05** (H) Signed into law 9/4 CHAPTER 70 SLA 22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-10-05** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 9/5/22 `became-law`
- **2022-10-05** (H) LEG FINANCE APPROPRIATION MESSAGE 8/10/22
- **2022-10-05** (H) FN(S) ATTACHED TO APPROP. BILL HB 281
- **2022-10-05** (H) FN3: (DHS/DOH)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7222d128-249e-4ac0-adb5-ead65db1ff42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).