republic-os/legislation/us/states/ak/33/sb-159.md

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Bill	An Act establishing Alaska Veterans' Poppy Day; and providing for an effective date.	An Act establishing Alaska Veterans' Poppy Day; and providing for an effective date.	us/states/ak	Alaska Legislature	33	SB 159	Alaska SB 159 (33)	bill	HOLIDAYS MILITARY PROCLAMATIONS VETERANS	enacted	Dunbar	2	47	2	2024-01-16	2024-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/3ab3d431-2d29-4bbe-a2b7-24dfb0e25868	https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=SB159	8b893c1a01a9538605ba3219f68f6c990a1a961c132c564b9916b71d4a487c29	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. SB 159 (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/3ab3d431-2d29-4bbe-a2b7-24dfb0e25868. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).