---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act naming the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots' Memorial Bridge."
description: "An Act naming the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots' Memorial Bridge."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "32"
identifier: "HB 34"
citation: "Alaska HB 34 (32)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HIGHWAYS", "PLACE NAMES", "VETERANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["SHAW"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 73
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-08-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a4631d7-dcf9-46e1-b15e-4e096f4e0d72"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/32?Root=HB34"
source_hash: "3ac219c1ae25bbdfff2a9e9b2678c793acebcdeb527d71d7bf37c2590e9837b1"
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 34 (32) — An Act naming the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots' Memorial Bridge.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled HB 34** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/32?Hsid=HB0034Z)
2. **HB 34** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/32?Hsid=HB0034A)

## Votes

- (H) PASSED Y36 N2 E2 #870 — **36–2** (pass) · lower
- (S) PASSED Y20 N- #1110 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- (S) PASSED ON RECONSIDERATION Y20 N- #1110 — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- SHAW — primary (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Cronk — cosponsor (person)
- Edgmon — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Josephson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaufman — cosponsor (person)
- Kreiss-Tomkins — cosponsor (person)
- LeBon — cosponsor (person)
- McCabe — cosponsor (person)
- Merrick — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz — cosponsor (person)
- Patkotak — cosponsor (person)
- Rasmussen — cosponsor (person)
- Rauscher — cosponsor (person)
- Schrage — cosponsor (person)
- Spohnholz — cosponsor (person)
- Story — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Tilton — cosponsor (person)
- Tuck — cosponsor (person)
- Vance — cosponsor (person)
- Wool — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-18** (H) Prefile released 1/8/21 `filing`
- **2021-02-18** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2021-02-18** (H) MLV, STA
- **2021-02-19** (H) FIN REPLACES STA REFERRAL
- **2021-03-01** (H) COSPONSOR(S): MCCABE
- **2021-03-02** (H) MILITARY & VETERANS' AFFAIRS at 01:00 PM GRUENBERG 120
- **2021-03-02** (H) Heard & Held
- **2021-03-02** (H) Minutes (HMLV)
- **2021-03-04** (H) MILITARY & VETERANS' AFFAIRS at 01:00 PM GRUENBERG 120
- **2021-03-04** (H) Moved HB 34 Out of Committee
- **2021-03-04** (H) Minutes (HMLV)
- **2021-03-05** (H) COSPONSOR(S): RAUSCHER
- **2021-03-09** (H) MILITARY & VETERANS' AFFAIRS at 01:00 PM GRUENBERG 120
- **2021-03-09** (H) Moved HB 34 Out of Committee
- **2021-03-09** (H) Minutes (HMLV)
- **2021-03-10** (H) MLV RPT 6DP
- **2021-03-10** (H) DP: CLAMAN, TARR, NELSON, STORY, SHAW, TUCK
- **2021-03-10** (H) FN1: (DOT)
- **2021-03-10** (H) COSPONSOR(S): TILTON, TUCK
- **2021-03-12** (H) COSPONSOR(S): CARPENTER
- **2021-05-03** (H) COSPONSOR(S): EDGMON, THOMPSON, JOHNSON, MERRICK, JOSEPHSON, ORTIZ, RASMUSSEN
- **2021-05-03** (H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- **2021-05-03** (H) Moved HB 34 Out of Committee
- **2021-05-03** (H) Minutes (HFIN)
- **2021-05-04** (H) FIN RPT 9DP
- **2021-05-04** (H) DP: ORTIZ, EDGMON, LEBON, CARPENTER, THOMPSON, JOHNSON, JOSEPHSON, RASMUSSEN,
- **2021-05-04** (H) MERRICK
- **2021-05-04** (H) FN1: (DOT)
- **2021-05-04** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/4/2021
- **2021-05-04** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2021-05-04** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC `reading-3`
- **2021-05-04** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME HB 34 `reading-3`
- **2021-05-04** (H) PASSED Y36 N2 E2 `passage`
- **2021-05-04** (H) COSPONSOR(S): FOSTER, STORY, PATKOTAK, SPOHNHOLZ, NELSON, SCHRAGE, VANCE,
- **2021-05-04** (H) KREISS-TOMKINS, TARR, WOOL, CRONK, KAUFMAN
- **2021-05-04** (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S) `passage`
- **2021-05-04** (H) VERSION: HB 34
- **2021-05-05** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2021-05-05** (S) TRA
- **2021-05-05** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): HUGHES, REVAK, SHOWER, STEVENS, HOLLAND, WIELECHOWSKI,
- **2021-05-05** (S) GRAY-JACKSON, WILSON, COSTELLO, MYERS, REINBOLD, KAWASAKI, STEDMAN, BISHOP,
- **2021-05-05** (S) MICCICHE
- **2021-05-13** (S) TRANSPORTATION at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2021-05-13** (S) Moved HB 34 Out of Committee
- **2021-05-13** (S) Minutes (STRA)
- **2021-05-14** (S) TRA RPT 4DP
- **2021-05-14** (S) DP: MYERS, MICCICHE, KIEHL, SHOWER
- **2021-05-14** (S) FN1: (DOT)
- **2021-05-14** (S) FIN REFERRAL ADDED AFTER TRA
- **2021-05-14** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): KIEHL, BEGICH, VON IMHOF
- **2021-05-17** (S) FINANCE at 01:00 PM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2021-05-17** (S) Moved HB 34 Out of Committee
- **2021-05-17** (S) Minutes (SFIN)
- **2021-05-18** (S) FIN RPT 7DP
- **2021-05-18** (S) DP: STEDMAN, BISHOP, HOFFMAN, WILSON, WIELECHOWSKI, OLSON, VON IMHOF
- **2021-05-18** (S) FN1: (DOT)
- **2021-05-18** (S) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/18/2021
- **2021-05-18** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2021-05-18** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC `reading-3`
- **2021-05-18** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME HB 34 `reading-3`
- **2021-05-18** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): HOFFMAN
- **2021-05-18** (S) PASSED Y20 N- `passage`
- **2021-05-18** (S) HUGHES NOTICE OF RECONSIDERATION
- **2021-05-18** (S) RECON TAKEN UP SAME DAY UC
- **2021-05-18** (S) PASSED ON RECONSIDERATION Y20 N- `passage`
- **2021-05-18** (S) RETURN TO (H), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2021-05-18** (S) VERSION: HB 34
- **2021-06-28** (H) LEG FINANCE APPROPRIATION MESSAGE 6/14/21
- **2021-06-28** (H) FN(S) ATTACHED TO APPROP. BILL HB 69
- **2021-06-28** (H) FN1: (DOT)
- **2021-08-23** (H) 12:35 P.M. 8/23/21 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-08-31** (H) Signed into law 8/28 CHAPTER 30 SLA 21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-08-31** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 11/26/21 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a4631d7-dcf9-46e1-b15e-4e096f4e0d72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).