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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relating to a special audit; relating to the duties of the Department of Health and Social Services; relating to training and workload standards for employees of the Department of Health and Social Services and providing immunity from damages related to those standards; relating to foster care home licensing; relating to civil and criminal history background checks for foster care licensing and payments; relating to placement of a child in need of aid; relating to the rights and responsibilities of foster parents; relating to completed investigations of reports of harm to a child; requiring the Department of Health and Social Services to provide information to a child or person released from the department's custody; and providing for an effective date."
description: "An Act relating to a special audit; relating to the duties of the Department of Health and Social Services; relating to training and workload standards for employees of the Department of Health and Social Services and providing immunity from damages related to those standards; relating to foster care home licensing; relating to civil and criminal history background checks for foster care licensing and payments; relating to placement of a child in need of aid; relating to the rights and responsibilities of foster parents; relating to completed investigations of reports of harm to a child; requiring the Department of Health and Social Services to provide information to a child or person released from the department's custody; and providing for an effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "30"
identifier: "HB 151"
citation: "Alaska HB 151 (30)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADOPTION", "AGE OF PERSONS", "CHILD ABUSE", "CHILD CUSTODY", "COURTS", "CRIMES", "DISCLOSURE", "EMPLOYMENT", "FAMILIES", "FOSTER CARE", "HEALTH & SOCIAL SERVICES", "HEARINGS", "MINORS", "NATIVE ORGANIZATIONS", "PRIVACY", "PUBLIC RECORDS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["GARA"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 74
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-01"
last_action: "2018-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b63147ab-ed16-4b66-8e78-097de42618d1"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/30?Root=HB151"
source_hash: "7f212bfb124af29c8b927bd98d71ac0688503affb20d2344de84c8dcffe8f0d5"
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 151 (30) — An Act relating to a special audit; relating to the duties of the Department of Health and Social Services; relating to training and workload standards for employees of the Department of Health and Social Services and providing immunity from damages related to those standards; relating to foster care home licensing; relating to civil and criminal history background checks for foster care licensing and payments; relating to placement of a child in need of aid; relating to the rights and responsibilities of foster parents; relating to completed investigations of reports of harm to a child; requiring the Department of Health and Social Services to provide information to a child or person released from the department's custody; and providing for an effective date.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB0151A** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=HB0151A)
2. **HB0151B** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=HB0151B)
3. **HB0151C** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=HB0151C)
4. **HB0151D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=HB0151D)
5. **HB0151E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=HB0151E)
6. **HB0151Z** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/30?hsid=HB0151Z)
## Votes
- Shall SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 151(FIN) "An Act relating to a special audit; relating to the duties of the Department of Health and Social Services; relating to training and workload standards for employees of the Department of Health and Social Services and providing immunity from damages related to those standards; relating to foster care home licensing; relating to civil 05-09-2018 Senate Journal 3023 and criminal history background checks for foster care licensing and payments; relating to placement of a child in need of aid; relating to the rights and responsibilities of foster parents; relating to completed investigations of reports of harm to a child; requiring the Department of Health and Social Services to provide information to a child or person released from the department's custody; and providing for an effective date" pass the Senate? — **180** (pass) · upper
- Shall CSHB 151(FIN) pass the House? — **2317** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- GARA — primary (person)
- Drummond — cosponsor (person)
- Fansler — cosponsor (person)
- Grenn — cosponsor (person)
- Josephson — cosponsor (person)
- Kawasaki — cosponsor (person)
- Kopp — cosponsor (person)
- LeDoux — cosponsor (person)
- Millett — cosponsor (person)
- Ortiz — cosponsor (person)
- Parish — cosponsor (person)
- Spohnholz — cosponsor (person)
- Tuck — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-03-01** Read the first time - REFERRALS `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-03-01** Referred to Health & Social Services and Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** HSS RPT CS(HSS) NT 3DP 1DNP 1NR 2AM
- **2017-03-24** HSS Do Pass: TARR, EDGMON, SPOHNHOLZ `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-24** HSS Do Not Pass: EASTMAN `committee-failure`
- **2017-03-24** HSS No Recommendation: KITO
- **2017-03-24** HSS Amend: JOHNSTON, SULLIVAN-LEONARD
- **2017-03-24** Fiscal Note 1: No fiscal impact (Administration)
- **2017-03-24** Fiscal Note 2: Indeterminate fiscal impact (Health and Social Services)
- **2017-03-24** Fiscal Note 3: (Health and Social Services)
- **2017-03-24** Fiscal Note 4: (Health and Social Services)
- **2017-03-24** Fiscal Note 5: (Health and Social Services)
- **2017-03-24** Fiscal Note 6: (Health and Social Services)
- **2017-03-24** Fiscal Note 7: (Health and Social Services)
- **2017-03-24** Fiscal Note 8: (Health and Social Services)
- **2017-04-16** Cosponsors added: SPOHNHOLZ, DRUMMOND, PARISH, FANSLER, TUCK, GRENN, ORTIZ
- **2017-05-16** FIN RPT CS(FIN) NT 4DP 1NR 4AM
- **2017-05-16** FIN Do Pass: ORTIZ, GARA, SEATON, FOSTER `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-16** FIN No Recommendation: GUTTENBERG
- **2017-05-16** FIN Amend: TILTON, THOMPSON, KAWASAKI, WILSON
- **2017-05-16** Fiscal Note 1: No fiscal impact (Administration)
- **2017-05-16** Fiscal Note 9: (Health and Social Services)
- **2017-05-16** Fiscal Note 10: (Health and Social Services)
- **2017-05-16** RULES TO CALENDAR 5/16/2017
- **2017-05-16** Read the second time `reading-2`
- **2017-05-16** FIN CS ADOPTED UC
- **2017-05-16** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/17 CALENDAR
- **2017-05-17** Read the third time CSHB 151(FIN) `reading-3`
- **2017-05-17** PASSED Y23 N17 `passage`
- **2017-05-17** EFFECTIVE DATE(S) ADOPTED Y38 N1 A1
- **2017-05-17** TRANSMITTED TO (S)
- **2017-05-17** VERSION: CSHB 151(FIN)
- **2018-01-18** Read the first time - REFERRALS `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-18** Referred to Health & Social Services and Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-06** HSS RPT SCS 2DP 1NR 1AM NEW TITLE
- **2018-04-06** TITLE CHANGE: SCR 21
- **2018-04-06** HSS Amend: WILSON
- **2018-04-06** HSS Do Pass: BEGICH, GIESSEL `committee-passage`
- **2018-04-06** HSS No Recommendation: VON IMHOF
- **2018-04-06** Fiscal Note 11: (Health and Social Services)
- **2018-04-06** Fiscal Note 12: (Health and Social Services)
- **2018-04-06** FISCAL INFORMATION FORTHCOMING
- **2018-05-02** FIN RPT SCS 6DP 1NR NEW TITLE
- **2018-05-02** FIN Do Pass: HOFFMAN, MACKINNON, BISHOP, VON IMHOF, STEVENS, OLSON `committee-passage`
- **2018-05-02** FIN No Recommendation: MICCICHE
- **2018-05-02** Fiscal Note 11: (Health and Social Services)
- **2018-05-02** Fiscal Note 12: (Health and Social Services)
- **2018-05-02** FISCAL INFORMATION FORTHCOMING
- **2018-05-09** RULES TO CALENDAR 5/9/2018
- **2018-05-09** Read the second time `reading-2`
- **2018-05-09** FIN SCS ADOPTED UC
- **2018-05-09** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC
- **2018-05-09** Read the third time SCS CSHB 151(FIN) `reading-3`
- **2018-05-09** CROSS SPONSOR(S): KELLY, GIESSEL, MACKINNON, MICCICHE, STEDMAN, STEVENS, BISHOP
- **2018-05-09** COSTELLO, HOFFMAN, GARDNER, HUGHES, EGAN, OLSON, WIELECHOWSKI, WILSON, COGHILL
- **2018-05-09** MEYER, VON IMHOF
- **2018-05-09** PASSED Y18 N- E2 `passage`
- **2018-05-09** EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2018-05-09** TRANSMITTED TO (H) AS AMENDED
- **2018-05-09** VERSION: SCS CSHB 151(FIN)
- **2018-05-10** CONCUR MESSAGE READ AND HELD
- **2018-05-10** CONCUR MESSAGE TAKEN UP
- **2018-05-10** TITLE CHANGE: SCR 21
- **2018-05-10** CONCUR AM OF (S) Y37 N1 E1 A1
- **2018-05-10** EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2018-05-10** Cosponsors added: MILLETT, KAWASAKI, JOSEPHSON, LEDOUX, KOPP
- **2018-06-27** LEG FINANCE APPROPRIATION MESSAGE 6/4/18
- **2018-06-27** FN(S) ATTACHED TO APPROP. BILL HB 286
- **2018-06-27** Fiscal Note 11: (Health and Social Services)
- **2018-06-27** Fiscal Note 12: (Health and Social Services)
- **2018-06-27** 2:08 PM 6/6/18 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-06-27** MANIFEST ERROR(S)
- **2018-06-27** Signed into law 6/7 CHAPTER 15 SLA 18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-06-27** EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW SEE CHAPTER
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b63147ab-ed16-4b66-8e78-097de42618d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).