---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relating to state identifications and driver's licenses for persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections; relating to state identifications issued by the Department of Corrections; relating to the duties of the commissioner of corrections; relating to misconduct involving confidential information; relating to voter identification; relating to identification for fishing permits; relating to identification for debtor financing statements; and providing for an effective date."
description: "An Act relating to state identifications and driver's licenses for persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections; relating to state identifications issued by the Department of Corrections; relating to the duties of the commissioner of corrections; relating to misconduct involving confidential information; relating to voter identification; relating to identification for fishing permits; relating to identification for debtor financing statements; and providing for an effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "33"
identifier: "SB 119"
citation: "Alaska SB 119 (33)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTIONS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "EMPLOYMENT", "RIGHTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Myers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 50
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-31"
last_action: "2023-10-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee3a3328-2283-4eb7-b551-696d1187c3ed"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=SB119"
source_hash: "77890ad650cb65d067751f59e045cc29fed3ef367ddbf1d872b6fbeebe4dd3a8"
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 119 (33) — An Act relating to state identifications and driver's licenses for persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections; relating to state identifications issued by the Department of Corrections; relating to the duties of the commissioner of corrections; relating to misconduct involving confidential information; relating to voter identification; relating to identification for fishing permits; relating to identification for debtor financing statements; and providing for an effective date.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled SB 119** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=SB0119Z)
2. **SB 119** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=SB0119A)

## Votes

- (S) PASSED Y20 N- #1041 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- (H) PASSED Y40 #1089 — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Myers — primary (person)
- Armstrong — cosponsor (person)
- Bjorkman — cosponsor (person)
- Claman — cosponsor (person)
- Dunbar — cosponsor (person)
- Galvin — cosponsor (person)
- Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Gray-Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Hannan — cosponsor (person)
- Himschoot — cosponsor (person)
- Josephson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaufman — cosponsor (person)
- Kawasaki — cosponsor (person)
- Kiehl — cosponsor (person)
- Mccormick — cosponsor (person)
- Merrick — cosponsor (person)
- Mina — cosponsor (person)
- Olson — cosponsor (person)
- Ruffridge — cosponsor (person)
- Schrage — cosponsor (person)
- Shower — cosponsor (person)
- Stutes — cosponsor (person)
- Tobin — cosponsor (person)
- Tomaszewski — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-31** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2023-03-31** (S) STA
- **2023-04-12** (S) COSPONSOR(S): SHOWER
- **2023-04-13** (S) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2023-04-13** (S) Heard & Held
- **2023-04-13** (S) Minutes (SSTA)
- **2023-04-25** (S) COSPONSOR(S): GRAY-JACKSON
- **2023-05-02** (S) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2023-05-02** (S) Moved SB 119 Out of Committee
- **2023-05-02** (S) Minutes (SSTA)
- **2023-05-03** (S) STA RPT 2DP 2NR 1AM
- **2023-05-03** (S) AM: KAWASAKI
- **2023-05-03** (S) DP: CLAMAN, BJORKMAN
- **2023-05-03** (S) NR: WIELECHOWSKI, MERRICK
- **2023-05-03** (S) FN1: ZERO(DPS)
- **2023-05-03** (S) FN2: ZERO(COR)
- **2023-05-09** (S) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/9/23
- **2023-05-09** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2023-05-09** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/10 CAL `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME SB 119 `reading-3`
- **2023-05-10** (S) COSPONSOR(S): KIEHL, TOBIN, KAUFMAN, DUNBAR, OLSON, MERRICK, BJORKMAN, CLAMAN,
- **2023-05-10** (S) KAWASAKI
- **2023-05-10** (S) PASSED Y20 N- `passage`
- **2023-05-10** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2023-05-10** (S) TRANSMITTED TO (H) `passage`
- **2023-05-10** (S) VERSION: SB 119
- **2023-05-11** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2023-05-11** (H) STA
- **2023-05-11** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): HANNAN
- **2023-05-11** (H) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:00 PM GRUENBERG 120
- **2023-05-11** (H) Moved SB 119 Out of Committee
- **2023-05-11** (H) Minutes (HSTA)
- **2023-05-12** (H) STA RPT 6DP
- **2023-05-12** (H) DP: ARMSTRONG, CARPENTER, C.JOHNSON, STORY, WRIGHT, SHAW
- **2023-05-12** (H) FN1: ZERO(DPS)
- **2023-05-12** (H) FN2: ZERO(COR)
- **2023-05-13** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/13/2023
- **2023-05-13** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2023-05-13** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC `reading-3`
- **2023-05-13** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME SB 119 `reading-3`
- **2023-05-13** (H) PASSED Y40 `passage`
- **2023-05-13** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2023-05-13** (H) RETURN TO (S), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2023-05-13** (H) VERSION: SB 119
- **2023-05-13** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): HIMSCHOOT, GALVIN, ARMSTRONG, RUFFRIDGE, SCHRAGE, STUTES,
- **2023-05-13** (H) JOSEPHSON, MCCORMICK, GRAY, TOMASZEWSKI, WRIGHT, MINA
- **2023-10-16** (S) MANIFEST ERROR(S)
- **2023-10-16** (S) 3:45 P.M. 7/20/23 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-10-16** (S) Signed into law 8/5 CHAPTER 23 SLA 23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-16** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 1/1/24 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee3a3328-2283-4eb7-b551-696d1187c3ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).