---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing Alaska Veterans' Poppy Day; and providing for an effective date."
description: "An Act establishing Alaska Veterans' Poppy Day; and providing for an effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "33"
identifier: "SB 159"
citation: "Alaska SB 159 (33)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOLIDAYS", "MILITARY", "PROCLAMATIONS", "VETERANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dunbar"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 47
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-16"
last_action: "2024-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ab3d431-2d29-4bbe-a2b7-24dfb0e25868"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=SB159"
source_hash: "8b893c1a01a9538605ba3219f68f6c990a1a961c132c564b9916b71d4a487c29"
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 159 (33) — An Act establishing Alaska Veterans' Poppy Day; 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 159** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=SB0159Z)
2. **SB 159** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=SB0159A)

## Votes

- (S) PASSED Y20 N- #1695 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- (H) PASSED Y39 E1 #2464 — **39–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dunbar — primary (person)
- Armstrong — cosponsor (person)
- Bishop — cosponsor (person)
- Bjorkman — cosponsor (person)
- Claman — cosponsor (person)
- Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Gray-Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Groh — cosponsor (person)
- Josephson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaufman — cosponsor (person)
- Mears — cosponsor (person)
- Merrick — cosponsor (person)
- Myers — cosponsor (person)
- Saddler — cosponsor (person)
- Schrage — cosponsor (person)
- Stapp — cosponsor (person)
- Stedman — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Stutes — cosponsor (person)
- Tomaszewski — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-16** (S) Prefile released 1/8/24 `filing`
- **2024-01-16** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2024-01-16** (S) STA
- **2024-02-01** (S) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2024-02-01** (S) Heard & Held
- **2024-02-01** (S) Minutes (SSTA)
- **2024-02-13** (S) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2024-02-13** (S) Moved SB 159 Out of Committee
- **2024-02-13** (S) Minutes (SSTA)
- **2024-02-14** (S) STA RPT 5DP
- **2024-02-14** (S) DP: KAWASAKI, WIELECHOWSKI, CLAMAN, MERRICK, BJORKMAN
- **2024-02-14** (S) FN1: ZERO(GOV/COMBINED)
- **2024-02-19** (S) RULES TO CALENDAR 2/19/2024
- **2024-02-19** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2024-02-19** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 2/21 CAL `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** (S) COSPONSOR(S): CLAMAN, MYERS, BJORKMAN, BISHOP, STEDMAN,
- **2024-02-21** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME SB 159 `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** (S) PASSED Y20 N- `passage`
- **2024-02-21** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2024-02-21** (S) TRANSMITTED TO (H) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** (S) VERSION: SB 159
- **2024-02-22** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** (H) STA
- **2024-02-22** (H) STA REFERRAL REMOVED
- **2024-02-22** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): ARMSTRONG
- **2024-04-17** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 4/17/2024
- **2024-04-17** (H) RETURNED TO RLS COMMITTEE
- **2024-04-17** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): WRIGHT, SADDLER
- **2024-04-22** (H) RULES at 05:30 PM GRUENBERG 120
- **2024-04-22** (H) Moved SB 159 Out of Committee
- **2024-04-24** (H) RLS RPT 5DP 1NR
- **2024-04-24** (H) DP: SCHRAGE, SHAW, FIELDS, TILTON, C.JOHNSON
- **2024-04-24** (H) NR: ALLARD
- **2024-04-24** (H) FN1: ZERO(GOV/COMBINED)
- **2024-04-26** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 4/26/2024
- **2024-04-26** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2024-04-26** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC `reading-3`
- **2024-04-26** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME SB 159 `reading-3`
- **2024-04-26** (H) PASSED Y39 E1 `passage`
- **2024-04-26** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2024-04-26** (H) RETURN TO (S), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2024-04-26** (H) VERSION: SB 159
- **2024-04-26** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): GROH, JOSEPHSON, FIELDS, GRAY, STUTES, SCHRAGE, TOMASZEWSKI,
- **2024-04-26** (H) MEARS, STAPP
- **2024-10-09** (S) 4:40 P.M. 8/19/24 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-10-09** (S) LAW W/O GOV SIGNATURE 9/11 CH 59 SLA 24 `became-law`
- **2024-10-09** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 9/12/24 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ab3d431-2d29-4bbe-a2b7-24dfb0e25868`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).