---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act authorizing the Alaska Railroad Corporation to issue revenue bonds to finance the replacement of the Alaska Railroad Corporation's passenger dock and related terminal facility in Seward, Alaska; and providing for an effective date."
description: "An Act authorizing the Alaska Railroad Corporation to issue revenue bonds to finance the replacement of the Alaska Railroad Corporation's passenger dock and related terminal facility in Seward, Alaska; and providing for an effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "34"
identifier: "HB 65"
citation: "Alaska HB 65 (34)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BONDS & BONDING", "CAPITAL PROJECTS", "DEBT", "FUNDS", "LOANS", "PUBLIC CORPORATIONS", "RAILROAD"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stutes"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-24"
last_action: "2025-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b47bf717-6caf-4f80-a24c-7164d13464ca"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/34?Root=HB65"
source_hash: "148a42355ca846ce4f823d21c1f815651f213d3139611ad6dd54962a97caacc0"
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 65 (34) — An Act authorizing the Alaska Railroad Corporation to issue revenue bonds to finance the replacement of the Alaska Railroad Corporation's passenger dock and related terminal facility in Seward, Alaska; and providing for an effective date.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled HB 65** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0065Z)
2. **HB 65** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0065A)

## Votes

- (H) PASSED Y36 E4 #201 — **36–0** (pass) · lower
- (S) PASSED Y18 N- E2 #364 — **18–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stutes — primary (person)
- Bjorkman — cosponsor (person)
- Bynum — cosponsor (person)
- Claman — cosponsor (person)
- Costello — cosponsor (person)
- Cronk — cosponsor (person)
- D.Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Elam — cosponsor (person)
- Galvin — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Josephson — cosponsor (person)
- Kaufman — cosponsor (person)
- Mccabe — cosponsor (person)
- Prax — cosponsor (person)
- Rauscher — cosponsor (person)
- Saddler — cosponsor (person)
- Schrage — cosponsor (person)
- Stedman — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tomaszewski — cosponsor (person)
- Yundt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-24** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2025-01-24** (H) FIN
- **2025-02-12** (H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- **2025-02-12** (H) Moved HB 65 Out of Committee
- **2025-02-12** (H) Minutes (HFIN)
- **2025-02-14** (H) FIN RPT 9DP
- **2025-02-14** (H) DP: TOMASZEWSKI, BYNUM, JIMMIE, GALVIN, STAPP, ALLARD, HANNAN, FOSTER, JOSEPHSON
- **2025-02-14** (H) FN1: ZERO(CED)
- **2025-02-14** (H) COSPONSOR(S): GALVIN
- **2025-02-17** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 2/17/2025
- **2025-02-17** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2025-02-17** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC `reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME HB 65 `reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** (H) PASSED Y36 E4 `passage`
- **2025-02-17** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2025-02-17** (H) COSPONSOR(S): SADDLER, BYNUM, ELAM, MCCABE, COSTELLO, SCHRAGE, NELSON,
- **2025-02-17** (H) JOSEPHSON, RAUSCHER
- **2025-02-17** (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** (H) VERSION: HB 65
- **2025-02-19** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19** (S) FIN
- **2025-02-19** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): BJORKMAN, HUGHES, CRONK, STEVENS
- **2025-02-19** (S) FINANCE at 09:00 AM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2025-02-19** (S) Scheduled but Not Heard
- **2025-02-19** (S) Minutes (SFIN)
- **2025-02-24** (S) FIN RPT 6DP
- **2025-02-24** (S) DP: STEDMAN, HOFFMAN, KAUFMAN, CRONK, MERRICK, KIEHL
- **2025-02-24** (S) FN1: ZERO(CED)
- **2025-02-24** (S) RULES TO CALENDAR 2/24/2025
- **2025-02-24** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 2/26 CAL `reading-3`
- **2025-02-24** (S) FINANCE at 09:00 AM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2025-02-24** (S) Moved HB 65 Out of Committee
- **2025-02-24** (S) Minutes (SFIN)
- **2025-02-26** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME HB 65 `reading-3`
- **2025-02-26** (S) PASSED Y18 N- E2 `passage`
- **2025-02-26** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2025-02-26** (S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): KAUFMAN, CLAMAN, STEDMAN, YUNDT
- **2025-02-26** (S) RETURN TO (H), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2025-02-26** (S) VERSION: HB 65
- **2025-02-28** (H) 11:58 A.M. 2/28/25 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-10** (H) Signed into law 3/6 CHAPTER 1 SLA 25 `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-10** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 3/7/25 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b47bf717-6caf-4f80-a24c-7164d13464ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).