---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing the month of October as Filipino American History Month."
description: "An Act establishing the month of October as Filipino American History Month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "33"
identifier: "HB 23"
citation: "Alaska HB 23 (33)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOLIDAYS", "PROCLAMATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mina"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 49
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-10-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2c593f5-dbcd-4e8e-98fc-397e903065c0"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=HB23"
source_hash: "4822a649318913408512ea2d40b67dede8728c709505b2e761248a665ba24557"
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 23 (33) — An Act establishing the month of October as Filipino American History Month.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled HB 23** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=HB0023Z)
2. **HB 23** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=HB0023A)

## Votes

- (H) PASSED Y36 E4 #520 — **36–0** (pass) · lower
- (S) PASSED Y19 N- A1 #1117 — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mina — primary (person)
- Allard — cosponsor (person)
- Armstrong — cosponsor (person)
- Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Claman — cosponsor (person)
- Coulombe — cosponsor (person)
- Cronk — cosponsor (person)
- D.Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Dunbar — cosponsor (person)
- Edgmon — cosponsor (person)
- Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Galvin — cosponsor (person)
- Giessel — cosponsor (person)
- Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Gray-Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Groh — cosponsor (person)
- Himschoot — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Josephson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaufman — cosponsor (person)
- Kawasaki — cosponsor (person)
- Kiehl — cosponsor (person)
- Mccormick — cosponsor (person)
- Mears — cosponsor (person)
- Merrick — cosponsor (person)
- Olson — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz — cosponsor (person)
- Prax — cosponsor (person)
- Ruffridge — cosponsor (person)
- Schrage — cosponsor (person)
- Shaw — cosponsor (person)
- Shower — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Story — cosponsor (person)
- Stutes — cosponsor (person)
- Sumner — cosponsor (person)
- Tilton — cosponsor (person)
- Tobin — cosponsor (person)
- Tomaszewski — cosponsor (person)
- Wielechowski — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** (H) Prefile released 1/9/23 `filing`
- **2023-01-19** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2023-01-19** (H) STA
- **2023-01-30** (H) COSPONSOR(S): HIMSCHOOT
- **2023-02-06** (H) COSPONSOR(S): SCHRAGE
- **2023-02-08** (H) COSPONSOR(S): WRIGHT
- **2023-02-27** (H) COSPONSOR(S): GROH
- **2023-02-28** (H) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:00 PM GRUENBERG 120
- **2023-02-28** (H) Heard & Held
- **2023-02-28** (H) Minutes (HSTA)
- **2023-03-14** (H) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:00 PM GRUENBERG 120
- **2023-03-14** (H) Moved HB 23 Out of Committee
- **2023-03-14** (H) Minutes (HSTA)
- **2023-03-17** (H) STA RPT 6DP
- **2023-03-17** (H) DP: STORY, WRIGHT, C.JOHNSON, CARPENTER, ALLARD, SHAW
- **2023-03-17** (H) FN1: ZERO(GOV/COMBINED)
- **2023-03-17** (H) COSPONSOR(S): RUFFRIDGE, EDGMON, CARPENTER, FOSTER, PRAX, COULOMBE, ALLARD,
- **2023-03-17** (H) SUMNER, SHAW, CRONK, D.JOHNSON, MEARS, STORY, TOMASZEWSKI, MCCORMICK,
- **2023-03-17** (H) ARMSTRONG, GRAY, GALVIN
- **2023-03-29** (H) COSPONSOR(S): ORTIZ
- **2023-03-31** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 3/31/2023
- **2023-03-31** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2023-03-31** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC `reading-3`
- **2023-03-31** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME HB 23 `reading-3`
- **2023-03-31** (H) PASSED Y36 E4 `passage`
- **2023-03-31** (H) COSPONSOR(S): FIELDS, JOSEPHSON, STUTES, TILTON
- **2023-03-31** (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S) `passage`
- **2023-03-31** (H) VERSION: HB 23
- **2023-04-03** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2023-04-03** (S) STA
- **2023-04-03** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): GRAY-JACKSON, MERRICK, CLAMAN, BISHOP, KAWASAKI,
- **2023-04-03** (S) WIELECHOWSKI, TOBIN, KIEHL, DUNBAR, STEVENS
- **2023-05-04** (S) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2023-05-04** (S) Moved HB 23 Out of Committee
- **2023-05-04** (S) Minutes (SSTA)
- **2023-05-05** (S) STA RPT 4DP
- **2023-05-05** (S) DP: KAWASAKI, WIELECHOWSKI, BJORKMAN, MERRICK
- **2023-05-05** (S) FN1: ZERO(GOV/COMBINED)
- **2023-05-11** (S) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/11/23
- **2023-05-11** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2023-05-11** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/12 CAL `reading-3`
- **2023-05-12** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME HB 23 `reading-3`
- **2023-05-12** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): HUGHES, SHOWER, KAUFMAN, GIESSEL, OLSON
- **2023-05-12** (S) PASSED Y19 N- A1 `passage`
- **2023-05-12** (S) RETURN TO (H), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2023-05-12** (S) VERSION: HB 23
- **2023-10-16** (H) 3:10 P.M. 7/11/23 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-10-16** (H) Signed into law 7/20 CHAPTER 18 SLA 23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-16** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 10/18/23 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2c593f5-dbcd-4e8e-98fc-397e903065c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).