---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relating to costs of and charges for textbooks and other course materials required for University of Alaska courses; and providing for an effective date."
description: "An Act relating to costs of and charges for textbooks and other course materials required for University of Alaska courses; and providing for an effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "33"
identifier: "SB 13"
citation: "Alaska SB 13 (33)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DISCLOSURE", "EDUCATION", "FEES", "INTERNET", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "RIGHTS", "UNIVERSITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Myers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 57
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2024-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95cfa617-ace7-4a5b-b9e6-1b75fb9282cb"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=SB13"
source_hash: "c7964cda7ba9ff0ee3c296b9660cbe7274dbe28a709fa0186c45d2a9b9267e8b"
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 13 (33) — An Act relating to costs of and charges for textbooks and other course materials required for University of Alaska courses; 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 13** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=SB0013Z)
2. **SB 13** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=SB0013A)

## Votes

- (S) PASSED Y19 N1 #977 — **19–1** (pass) · upper
- (H) PASSED Y40 #3323 — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Myers — primary (person)
- Dibert — cosponsor (person)
- Dunbar — cosponsor (person)
- Galvin — cosponsor (person)
- Gray-Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Josephson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaufman — cosponsor (person)
- Kawasaki — cosponsor (person)
- Kiehl — cosponsor (person)
- Mina — cosponsor (person)
- Saddler — cosponsor (person)
- Shower — cosponsor (person)
- Tobin — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-18** (S) Prefile released 1/9/23 `filing`
- **2023-01-18** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2023-01-18** (S) EDC
- **2023-03-13** (S) EDUCATION at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2023-03-13** (S) Heard & Held
- **2023-03-13** (S) Minutes (SEDC)
- **2023-03-15** (S) COSPONSOR(S): GRAY-JACKSON, DUNBAR, TOBIN
- **2023-03-20** (S) EDUCATION at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2023-03-20** (S) Moved SB 13 Out of Committee
- **2023-03-20** (S) Minutes (SEDC)
- **2023-03-20** (H) EDUCATION at 08:00 AM DAVIS 106
- **2023-03-20** (H) Minutes (HEDC)
- **2023-03-22** (S) EDC RPT 4DP
- **2023-03-22** (S) DP: TOBIN, GRAY-JACKSON, STEVENS, KIEHL
- **2023-03-22** (S) FN1: ZERO(UA)
- **2023-03-22** (S) COSPONSOR(S): HUGHES, KIEHL, KAWASAKI
- **2023-03-27** (S) COSPONSOR(S): SHOWER
- **2023-05-03** (S) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/3/23
- **2023-05-03** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2023-05-03** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/5 CAL `reading-3`
- **2023-05-05** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME SB 13 `reading-3`
- **2023-05-05** (S) PASSED Y19 N1 `passage`
- **2023-05-05** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2023-05-05** (S) COSPONSOR(S): KAUFMAN
- **2023-05-05** (S) TRANSMITTED TO (H) `passage`
- **2023-05-05** (S) VERSION: SB 13
- **2023-05-08** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2023-05-08** (H) EDC
- **2024-02-02** (H) EDUCATION at 08:00 AM DAVIS 106
- **2024-02-02** (H) Heard & Held
- **2024-02-02** (H) Minutes (HEDC)
- **2024-02-12** (H) EDC RPT 7DP
- **2024-02-12** (H) DP: HIMSCHOOT, STORY, MCKAY, PRAX, MCCORMICK, RUFFRIDGE, ALLARD
- **2024-02-12** (H) FN2: ZERO(UA)
- **2024-02-12** (H) EDUCATION at 08:00 AM DAVIS 106
- **2024-02-12** (H) Moved SB 13 Out of Committee
- **2024-02-12** (H) Minutes (HEDC)
- **2024-05-09** (H) RULES at 06:00 PM GRUENBERG 120
- **2024-05-09** (H) <Pending Referral> -- MEETING CANCELED --
- **2024-05-12** (H) RULES at 01:00 PM GRUENBERG 120
- **2024-05-12** (H) -- MEETING CANCELED --
- **2024-05-15** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/15/2024
- **2024-05-15** (H) MOVED TO BOTTOM OF CALENDAR
- **2024-05-15** (H) MOVED TO BOTTOM OF CALENDAR
- **2024-05-15** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2024-05-15** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME SB 13 `reading-3`
- **2024-05-15** (H) PASSED Y40 `passage`
- **2024-05-15** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2024-05-15** (H) RETURN TO (S), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2024-05-15** (H) VERSION: SB 13
- **2024-05-15** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): DIBERT, JOSEPHSON, MINA, GALVIN, SADDLER
- **2024-05-15** (H) RULES at 09:00 AM GRUENBERG 120
- **2024-05-15** (H) -- MEETING CANCELED --
- **2024-10-09** (S) 12:40 P.M. 8/26/24 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-10-09** (S) Signed into law 9/5 CHAPTER 58 SLA 24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-10-09** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 7/1/26 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95cfa617-ace7-4a5b-b9e6-1b75fb9282cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).