---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act repealing the assistive technology loan guarantee and interest subsidy program; and providing for an effective date."
description: "An Act repealing the assistive technology loan guarantee and interest subsidy program; and providing for an effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "33"
identifier: "HB 219"
citation: "Alaska HB 219 (33)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPROPRIATIONS", "DISABILITIES", "FUNDS", "LOANS", "SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY", "VOCATIONAL TRAINING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Saddler"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 51
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-16"
last_action: "2024-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c8aa790-3ba8-4b9d-9238-4ad82110f7de"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=HB219"
source_hash: "c2e7037f98e85faebe6b5c12e8f488df75a066305fe89f342b7b05eca87ac505"
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 219 (33) — An Act repealing the assistive technology loan guarantee and interest subsidy program; 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 219** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=HB0219Z)
2. **HB 219** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/33?Hsid=HB0219A)

## Votes

- (S) PASSED Y20 N- #2719 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- (H) PASSED Y39 E1 #2347 — **39–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Saddler — primary (person)
- Armstrong — cosponsor (person)
- Cronk — cosponsor (person)
- Fields — cosponsor (person)
- Galvin — cosponsor (person)
- Schrage — cosponsor (person)
- Stapp — cosponsor (person)
- Story — cosponsor (person)
- Tilton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-16** (H) Prefile released 1/8/24 `filing`
- **2024-01-16** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2024-01-16** (H) FIN
- **2024-02-15** (H) COSPONSOR(S): FIELDS
- **2024-02-20** (H) COSPONSOR(S): ARMSTRONG
- **2024-03-22** (H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- **2024-03-22** (H) Heard & Held
- **2024-03-22** (H) Minutes (HFIN)
- **2024-04-12** (H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- **2024-04-12** (H) Moved HB 219 Out of Committee
- **2024-04-15** (H) FIN RPT 9DP 1NR
- **2024-04-15** (H) DP: STAPP, GALVIN, HANNAN, JOSEPHSON, COULOMBE, ORTIZ, CRONK, EDGMON, FOSTER
- **2024-04-15** (H) NR: TOMASZEWSKI
- **2024-04-15** (H) FN1: ZERO(LWF)
- **2024-04-15** (H) COSPONSOR(S): GALVIN
- **2024-04-17** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 4/17/2024
- **2024-04-17** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2024-04-17** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 4/18 CALENDAR `reading-3`
- **2024-04-17** (H) COSPONSOR(S): SCHRAGE, STORY, CRONK, STAPP
- **2024-04-18** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME HB 219 `reading-3`
- **2024-04-18** (H) PASSED Y39 E1 `passage`
- **2024-04-18** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2024-04-18** (H) COSPONSOR(S): TILTON
- **2024-04-18** (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S) `passage`
- **2024-04-18** (H) VERSION: HB 219
- **2024-04-19** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2024-04-19** (S) FIN
- **2024-05-01** (S) FINANCE at 09:00 AM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2024-05-01** (S) Heard & Held
- **2024-05-01** (S) Minutes (SFIN)
- **2024-05-06** (S) FINANCE at 01:30 PM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2024-05-06** (S) <Bill Hearing Rescheduled to 05/07/24 9:00am > -- Please Note Time Change --
- **2024-05-07** (S) FIN RPT 4DP 2NR
- **2024-05-07** (S) DP: HOFFMAN, WILSON, KIEHL, BISHOP
- **2024-05-07** (S) NR: STEDMAN, OLSON
- **2024-05-07** (S) FN1: ZERO(LWF)
- **2024-05-07** (S) FINANCE at 09:00 AM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2024-05-07** (S) Moved HB 219 Out of Committee
- **2024-05-07** (S) Minutes (SFIN)
- **2024-05-12** (S) RULES TO FIRST SUP CALENDAR 5/12/2024
- **2024-05-12** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2024-05-12** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/13 CAL `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME HB 219 `reading-3`
- **2024-05-13** (S) HELD IN THIRD READING TO 5/14 CAL `reading-3`
- **2024-05-14** (S) PASSED Y20 N- `passage`
- **2024-05-14** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2024-05-14** (S) RETURN TO (H), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2024-05-14** (S) VERSION: HB 219
- **2024-10-09** (H) 2:10 P.M. 8/27/24 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-10-09** (H) Signed into law 9/3 CHAPTER 52 SLA 24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-10-09** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW 9/4/24 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c8aa790-3ba8-4b9d-9238-4ad82110f7de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).