---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relating to physician assistants; relating to collaborative agreements between physicians and physician assistants; relating to the practice of medicine; relating to health care providers; and relating to provisions regarding physician assistants in contracts between certain health care providers and health care insurers."
description: "An Act relating to physician assistants; relating to collaborative agreements between physicians and physician assistants; relating to the practice of medicine; relating to health care providers; and relating to provisions regarding physician assistants in contracts between certain health care providers and health care insurers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "34"
identifier: "SB 89"
citation: "Alaska SB 89 (34)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS & COMMISSIONS", "CONTRACTS", "DRUGS", "INSURANCE", "LICENSING", "MEDICAL CARE", "OCCUPATIONS & PROFESSIONS", "PHYSICIANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tobin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 89
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2026-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/742b37ac-5c09-4820-acb7-3764c8c8ccf7"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/34?Root=SB89"
source_hash: "a9e6459524d685d859fc15c2ccd7a3c1e89b568228b1ee07a07ba5b19b37379c"
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 89 (34) — An Act relating to physician assistants; relating to collaborative agreements between physicians and physician assistants; relating to the practice of medicine; relating to health care providers; and relating to provisions regarding physician assistants in contracts between certain health care providers and health care insurers.

## Version chain

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

1. **CSSB 89(2d L&C)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=SB0089C)
2. **CSSB 89(L&C)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=SB0089B)
3. **Enrolled SB 89** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=SB0089Z)
4. **HCS CSSB 89(HSS)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=SB0089D)
5. **SB 89** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=SB0089A)

## Votes

- (S) PASSED Y18 N- E1 A1 #1832 — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- (S) CONCUR AM OF (H) Y18 N- E1 A1 #2535 — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- (H) PASSED Y38 N2 #2442 — **38–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tobin — primary (person)
- Giessel — cosponsor (person)
- Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Gray-Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Prax — cosponsor (person)
- Ruffridge — cosponsor (person)
- Tomaszewski — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2025-02-07** (S) HSS, L&C
- **2025-02-07** (S) COSPONSOR(S): GRAY-JACKSON, GIESSEL
- **2025-02-18** (S) HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES at 03:30 PM BUTROVICH 205
- **2025-02-18** (S) Heard & Held -- Agenda Change --
- **2025-02-18** (S) Minutes (SHSS)
- **2025-02-26** (S) COSPONSOR(S): HUGHES
- **2025-02-27** (S) HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES at 03:30 PM BUTROVICH 205
- **2025-02-27** (S) Heard & Held -- Agenda Change --
- **2025-02-27** (S) Minutes (SHSS)
- **2025-03-04** (S) HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES at 03:30 PM BUTROVICH 205
- **2025-03-04** (S) Moved SB 89 Out of Committee
- **2025-03-04** (S) Minutes (SHSS)
- **2025-03-05** (S) HSS RPT 5DP
- **2025-03-05** (S) DP: DUNBAR, CLAMAN, GIESSEL, TOBIN, HUGHES
- **2025-03-05** (S) FN1: ZERO(CED)
- **2025-03-05** (S) FN2: ZERO(CED)
- **2025-03-14** (S) LABOR & COMMERCE at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2025-03-14** (S) Heard & Held
- **2025-03-14** (S) Minutes (SL&C)
- **2025-04-16** (S) LABOR & COMMERCE at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2025-04-16** (S) Heard & Held
- **2025-04-16** (S) Minutes (SL&C)
- **2025-05-02** (S) LABOR & COMMERCE at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2025-05-02** (S) Heard & Held
- **2025-05-02** (S) Minutes (SL&C)
- **2025-05-16** (S) LABOR & COMMERCE at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2025-05-16** (S) <Bill Hearing Canceled>
- **2025-05-16** (S) Minutes (SL&C)
- **2025-05-19** (S) L&C RPT CS 2DP 2NR 1AM SAME TITLE
- **2025-05-19** (S) DP: BJORKMAN, GRAY-JACKSON
- **2025-05-19** (S) NR: MERRICK, YUNDT
- **2025-05-19** (S) AM: DUNBAR
- **2025-05-19** (S) FN1: ZERO(CED)
- **2025-05-19** (S) FN2: ZERO(CED)
- **2025-05-19** (S) LABOR & COMMERCE at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2025-05-19** (S) Moved CSSB 89(L&C) Out of Committee
- **2025-05-19** (S) Minutes (SL&C)
- **2026-02-18** (S) RETURNED TO L&C COMMITTEE
- **2026-02-23** (S) LABOR & COMMERCE at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2026-02-23** (S) Moved CSSB 89(2d L&C) Out of Committee
- **2026-02-25** (S) L&C RPT CS(2D L&C) 3NR 1DP SAME TITLE
- **2026-02-25** (S) NR: BJORKMAN, MERRICK, YUNDT
- **2026-02-25** (S) DP: GRAY-JACKSON
- **2026-02-25** (S) FN3: ZERO(CED)
- **2026-02-25** (S) LABOR & COMMERCE at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2026-02-25** (S) <Bill Hearing Canceled>
- **2026-03-02** (S) RULES TO CALENDAR 3/2/2026
- **2026-03-02** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2026-03-02** (S) 2D L&C CS ADOPTED UC
- **2026-03-02** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 3/4 CAL `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME CSSB 89(2D L&C) `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** (S) PASSED Y18 N- E1 A1 `passage`
- **2026-03-04** (S) TRANSMITTED TO (H) `passage`
- **2026-03-04** (S) VERSION: CSSB 89(2D L&C)
- **2026-03-05** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2026-03-05** (H) HSS, L&C
- **2026-03-05** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): GRAY, TOMASZEWSKI
- **2026-03-09** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): PRAX
- **2026-03-10** (H) HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES at 03:15 PM DAVIS 106
- **2026-03-10** (H) Heard & Held; Assigned to Subcommittee
- **2026-03-19** (H) HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES at 03:15 PM DAVIS 106
- **2026-03-19** (H) Moved HCS CSSB 89(HSS) Out of Committee
- **2026-03-23** (H) HSS RPT HCS(HSS) 6DP
- **2026-03-23** (H) DP: PRAX, FIELDS, GRAY, MEARS, SCHWANKE, MINA
- **2026-03-23** (H) FN4: ZERO(CED)
- **2026-03-30** (H) LABOR & COMMERCE at 03:15 PM BARNES 124
- **2026-03-30** (H) Heard & Held
- **2026-04-01** (H) CROSS SPONSOR(S): RUFFRIDGE
- **2026-04-01** (H) LABOR & COMMERCE at 03:15 PM BARNES 124
- **2026-04-01** (H) Moved HCS CSSB 89(HSS) Out of Committee
- **2026-04-08** (H) L&C RPT HCS(HSS) 4DP
- **2026-04-08** (H) DP: FRIER, CARRICK, FIELDS, HALL
- **2026-04-08** (H) FN4: ZERO(CED)
- **2026-05-06** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/6/2026
- **2026-05-06** (H) HELD TO 5/7 CALENDAR
- **2026-05-07** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2026-05-07** (H) HSS HCS ADOPTED UC
- **2026-05-07** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC `reading-3`
- **2026-05-07** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME HCS CSSB 89(HSS) `reading-3`
- **2026-05-07** (H) PASSED Y38 N2 `passage`
- **2026-05-07** (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S) AS AMENDED `passage`
- **2026-05-07** (H) VERSION: HCS CSSB 89(HSS)
- **2026-05-08** (S) CONCUR MESSAGE READ AND TAKEN UP
- **2026-05-08** (S) CONCUR AM OF (H) Y18 N- E1 A1
- **2026-05-28** (S) MANIFEST ERROR(S)
- **2026-06-04** (S) 10:14 A.M. 6/1/26 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-19** (S) LAW W/O GOV SIGNATURE 6/18 CH 21 SLA 26 `became-law`
- **2026-06-19** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 9/16/26 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/742b37ac-5c09-4820-acb7-3764c8c8ccf7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).