---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing 4-H Day."
description: "An Act establishing 4-H Day."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "33"
identifier: "HB 337"
citation: "Alaska HB 337 (33)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOLIDAYS", "MINORS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mears"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-20"
last_action: "2024-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf529ee1-eb16-46f2-9b90-0a84ccbb4337"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=HB337"
source_hash: "57a1f83b82999947f81974461bd09ba34352858bf793241d24ca6e45f26eb396"
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 337 (33) — An Act establishing 4-H Day.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled HB 337** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=HB0337Z)
2. **HB 337** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=HB0337A)

## Votes

- (H) PASSED Y40 #2330 — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- (S) PASSED Y20 N- #2708 — **20–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mears — primary (person)
- Armstrong — cosponsor (person)
- Bjorkman — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Cronk — cosponsor (person)
- Dunbar — cosponsor (person)
- Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Galvin — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Josephson — cosponsor (person)
- Kawasaki — cosponsor (person)
- Rauscher — cosponsor (person)
- Saddler — cosponsor (person)
- Shower — cosponsor (person)
- Stapp — cosponsor (person)
- Tilton — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-20** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2024-02-20** (H) CRA
- **2024-02-21** (H) PRIME SPONSOR CHANGED: MEARS REPLACED FIELDS
- **2024-02-22** (H) COSPONSOR(S): CARPENTER
- **2024-03-13** (H) COSPONSOR(S): RAUSCHER
- **2024-03-28** (H) CRA RPT 5DP 1NR
- **2024-03-28** (H) DP: HIMSCHOOT, MCKAY, BAKER, MEARS, MCCORMICK
- **2024-03-28** (H) NR: MCCABE
- **2024-03-28** (H) FN1: ZERO(GOV/COMBINED)
- **2024-03-28** (H) COMMUNITY & REGIONAL AFFAIRS at 08:00 AM BARNES 124
- **2024-03-28** (H) Moved HB 337 Out of Committee
- **2024-03-28** (H) Minutes (HCRA)
- **2024-04-15** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 4/15/2024
- **2024-04-15** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2024-04-15** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 4/17 CALENDAR `reading-3`
- **2024-04-15** (H) COSPONSOR(S): GALVIN, JOSEPHSON, WRIGHT
- **2024-04-17** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME HB 337 `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** (H) PASSED Y40 `passage`
- **2024-04-17** (H) COSPONSOR(S): CRONK, STAPP, ARMSTRONG, SADDLER, TILTON
- **2024-04-17** (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S) `passage`
- **2024-04-17** (H) VERSION: HB 337
- **2024-04-19** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2024-04-19** (S) CRA
- **2024-04-23** (S) COMMUNITY & REGIONAL AFFAIRS at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2024-04-23** (S) Heard & Held
- **2024-04-25** (S) COMMUNITY & REGIONAL AFFAIRS at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2024-04-25** (S) Moved HB 337 Out of Committee
- **2024-04-26** (S) CRA RPT 3DP
- **2024-04-26** (S) DP: DUNBAR, GRAY-JACKSON, BJORKMAN
- **2024-04-26** (S) FN1: ZERO(GOV/COMBINED)
- **2024-05-13** (S) RULES TO FIRST SUP CALENDAR 5/13/2024
- **2024-05-13** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2024-05-13** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/14 CAL `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): HUGHES, DUNBAR, BJORKMAN, SHOWER
- **2024-05-14** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME HB 337 `reading-3`
- **2024-05-14** (S) PASSED Y20 N- `passage`
- **2024-05-14** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): KAWASAKI
- **2024-05-14** (S) RETURN TO (H), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2024-05-14** (S) VERSION: HB 337
- **2024-10-09** (H) 10:16 A.M. 8/19/24 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-10-09** (H) Signed into law 8/24 CHAPTER 35 SLA 24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-10-09** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 11/22/24 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bf529ee1-eb16-46f2-9b90-0a84ccbb4337`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).