---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act establishing the month of March as Women's History Month."
description: "An Act establishing the month of March as Women's History Month."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "34"
identifier: "SB 43"
citation: "Alaska SB 43 (34)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOLIDAYS", "PROCLAMATIONS", "WOMEN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gray-Jackson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25bab701-0b4a-4aac-99a4-33dbb6369ce5"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/34?Root=SB43"
source_hash: "ae97886be1f5c2597513620af7a16a0b6fcd84bc8f138bdcad082a88c146f043"
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 43 (34) — An Act establishing the month of March as Women's History Month.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled SB 43** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=SB0043Z)
2. **SB 43** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=SB0043A)

## Votes

- (H) PASSED Y33 N2 E5 #566 — **33–2** (pass) · lower
- (S) PASSED Y19 N- E1 #404 — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gray-Jackson — primary (person)
- Eischeid — cosponsor (person)
- Galvin — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hannan — cosponsor (person)
- Josephson — cosponsor (person)
- Schrage — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** (S) Prefile released 1/17/25 `filing`
- **2025-01-22** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2025-01-22** (S) STA
- **2025-02-18** (S) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2025-02-18** (S) Heard & Held
- **2025-02-18** (S) Minutes (SSTA)
- **2025-02-25** (S) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2025-02-25** (S) Moved SB 43 Out of Committee
- **2025-02-25** (S) Minutes (SSTA)
- **2025-02-26** (S) STA RPT 5DP
- **2025-02-26** (S) DP: KAWASAKI, WIELECHOWSKI, GRAY-JACKSON, BJORKMAN, YUNDT
- **2025-02-26** (S) FN1: ZERO(GOV/COMBINED)
- **2025-02-28** (S) RULES TO CALENDAR 2/28/2025
- **2025-02-28** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 3/3 CAL `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME SB 43 `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** (S) PASSED Y19 N- E1 `passage`
- **2025-03-03** (S) TRANSMITTED TO (H) `passage`
- **2025-03-03** (S) VERSION: SB 43
- **2025-03-05** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** (H) STA
- **2025-03-05** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): GALVIN, HANNAN
- **2025-03-06** (H) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:15 PM GRUENBERG 120
- **2025-03-06** (H) Moved SB 43 Out of Committee
- **2025-03-06** (H) Minutes (HSTA)
- **2025-03-10** (H) STA RPT 5DP 1NR
- **2025-03-10** (H) DP: MOORE, HOLLAND, HIMSCHOOT, STORY, CARRICK
- **2025-03-10** (H) NR: VANCE
- **2025-03-10** (H) FN1: ZERO(GOV/COMBINED)
- **2025-03-11** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): HALL
- **2025-03-26** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 3/26/2025
- **2025-03-26** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 3/28 CALENDAR `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): JOSEPHSON, EISCHEID
- **2025-03-28** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME SB 43 `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28** (H) PASSED Y33 N2 E5 `passage`
- **2025-03-28** (H) RETURN TO (S), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2025-03-28** (H) VERSION: SB 43
- **2025-03-28** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): SCHRAGE
- **2025-04-02** (S) 10:30 A.M. 4/2/25 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-04** (S) Signed into law 4/3 CHAPTER 3 SLA 25 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-04** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 7/2/25 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/25bab701-0b4a-4aac-99a4-33dbb6369ce5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).