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AK Stat § 24.05.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 3. Meeting and Organization.|Sec. 24.05.140. Quorum.

A majority of the membership of each house constitutes a quorum to do business. However, a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may compel the attendance of absent members in the manner, and under the penalties, provided by law or the rules of the legislature.
AK Stat § 24.05.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 3. Meeting and Organization.|Sec. 24.05.150. Adjournment.

(a) Neither house may recess or adjourn for longer than three days unless the other concurs. If the two houses cannot agree on the time for adjournment and either house certifies the disagreement to the governor, the governor may adjourn the legislature by issuing an executive order and transmitting a copy of it to the president or secretary of the senate and speaker or chief clerk of the house of representatives. (b) The legislature shall adjourn from a regular session within 90 consecutive calendar days, including the day the legislature first convenes in that regular session.
AK Stat § 24.05.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 3. Meeting and Organization.|Sec. 24.05.160. Organization of a first regular session; new members.

On the day set for the assembling of the first regular session of a legislature, the lieutenant governor shall call each house to order and direct the calling of roll of its districts and the names of the new members who are certified as being elected from each district. The lieutenant governor shall then direct the administration of the oath of office of each new member. The lieutenant governor shall then call for the nomination of a temporary president or speaker, as appropriate. Upon the election of the temporary presiding officers, the lieutenant governor shall relinquish the chair, and each house shall proceed to its further organization. If the lieutenant governor is unable to perform the duties imposed by this section, the chief justice of the supreme court shall act in the lieutenant governor's place.
AK Stat § 24.05.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 3. Meeting and Organization.|Sec. 24.05.170. Organization of second and special sessions; new members.

On the day set for the assembly of the second regular session or a special session of the legislature, the presiding officer elected at the first regular session shall administer the oath of office to new members and proceed with the business of the house in accordance with the rules of the legislature.
AK Stat § 24.05.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 4. Committees.|Sec. 24.05.180. Committees.

(a) Each house shall have standing committees to facilitate the transaction of business in accordance with the rules of the legislature. The rules may provide for the appointment of special committees, as needed, by the presiding officer of each house. The legislature shall provide for the use of joint committees to facilitate and expedite business. (b) [Repealed by § 7 ch 100 SLA 1963.]
AK Stat § 24.05.182 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 4. Committees.|Sec. 24.05.182. Review of administrative regulations by standing committees of the legislature.

(a) A standing committee of the legislature may, consistent with the committee's jurisdiction as provided in the uniform rules of the legislature, review a proposed or adopted regulation, amendment of a regulation, or repeal of a regulation .  (b) [Repealed, § 23 ch. 7 SLA 2018.] (c) [Repealed, § 23 ch. 7 SLA 2018.] (d) [Repealed, § 23 ch. 7 SLA 2018.]
AK Stat § 24.05.184 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 4. Committees.|Sec. 24.05.184. Termination of interim committee membership.

When a member of the legislature who serves on a committee created during a between-session interim by either house or its presiding officers, the legislative council or the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee, files a declaration of candidacy for an elective office other than that of member of either house of the legislature, and the member has not resigned from membership on the interim committee, the member's interim committee membership terminates on the date of filing.
AK Stat § 24.05.186 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 4. Committees.|Sec. 24.05.186. Legislative hearings on initiatives certified by the lieutenant governor.

(a) A standing committee of the legislature, selected jointly by the presiding officers of the house of representatives and senate, shall hold at least one hearing on an initiative that the lieutenant governor has determined was properly filed under AS 15.45.160. (b) The standing committee selected jointly by the presiding officers of the house of representatives and senate under (a) of this section shall hold at least one hearing under this section within 30 days after the convening of the legislative session preceding the statewide election at which the initiative proposition must appear on the election ballot under AS 15.45.190.
AK Stat § 24.05.188 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 4. Committees.|Sec. 24.05.188. Federal statutes, regulations, presidential executive orders and actions, and secretarial orders and actions.

After receiving a report from the attorney general under AS 44.23.020(h) that a state law is in conflict with a federal statute, regulation, presidential executive order or action, or secretarial order or action that is unconstitutional or was not properly adopted in accordance with federal statutory authority, the house and senate committees having jurisdiction over judicial matters may each consider whether legislative action is necessary in response to the findings by the attorney general.
AK Stat § 24.05.190 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 5. Legislative Space.|Sec. 24.05.190. Control of legislative space.

(a) The state capitol, with the exception of the capitol space now occupied by the Office of the Governor, and space occupied in any other state building by the legislature or its agencies is under the control of and subject to assignment by the Legislative Affairs Agency as directed by the legislature. The Legislative Affairs Agency is responsible for the equitable allocation of parking spaces at the capitol according to the needs of the legislature and other agencies occupying capitol offices. (b) Access to legislative space during sessions is generally governed by the uniform rules of the legislature and by (a) of this section. During a session of the legislature a person not a member or an authorized employee of the legislature or its agencies may not, without the invitation of the presiding officer or the house, enter upon the floor of either house while it is sitting, or enter upon the floor of either house during a recess or when adjourned for the day, without the invitation of a member of that house.
AK Stat § 24.08.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.010. General procedure.

The procedure for handling bills from the time of their prefiling or introduction until they become law is provided in this chapter subject to implementing rules adopted by the legislature. Resolutions shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of the uniform rules of the legislature.
AK Stat § 24.08.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.020. Subject of bills.

The subject of each bill shall be expressed in its title and every bill shall be confined to one subject unless it is an appropriation bill or one codifying, revising, or rearranging existing laws. The limitation to one subject shall be liberally construed to permit the subject to include all matters that reasonably can be considered germane to the subject in accomplishing the legal objective of the bill.
AK Stat § 24.08.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.030. Appropriation bills.

Bills for appropriation shall be confined to appropriations and shall include the amount involved and the purpose, method, manner, and other related conditions of payment.
AK Stat § 24.08.036 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.036. Fiscal notes on bills affecting state retirement systems.

Before a bill which would have an effect on the retirement systems of the state is reported to the rules committee, there shall be attached to the bill an analysis of the long-term and short-term costs to the state if the bill is adopted, as well as the impact of the bill on the actuarial soundness of the fund. The analysis is in addition to the fiscal note requirements of AS 24.08.035.
AK Stat § 24.08.037 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.037. General obligation bond bills.

A bill authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds creating a state debt for capital improvements shall contain a statement of the scope of each project included in the proposed bond issue. The statement shall include a brief description of each capital improvement project, its location, and, in dollars, that portion of the total bond issue to be allocated to the project.
AK Stat § 24.08.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.040. Enacting clause.

The enacting clause for each bill shall be: “Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Alaska.”
AK Stat § 24.08.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.050. Prefiling of bills and resolutions.

Any member of the legislature whose term extends into a forthcoming session or legislature, or a member-elect may file a bill or resolution or a proposal for a bill or resolution with the Legislative Affairs Agency at any time before January 1. The agency shall place a prefiled bill or resolution, which is approved by the sponsor, in proper form and deliver it to the chief clerk of the appropriate house on the day on which the next session convenes or is organized for business. Prefiled bills or resolutions shall be considered as introduced on the day of their delivery to each house.
AK Stat § 24.08.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.060. Introduction of bills and resolutions.

(a) A member of the legislature or a committee chairman, with the concurrence of a majority of the active members of the committee and on behalf of the committee, may introduce a bill or resolution. Bills and resolutions shall be prepared and introduced in the manner and form prescribed in the uniform rules and the legislative style manual. (b) Bills introduced by the legislative council shall be delivered with a letter of explanation to the rules committee of either house and bear the inscription “Rules Committee by Request of the Legislative Council”; bills introduced by the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee shall be delivered with a letter of explanation to the rules committee of either house and bear the inscription “Rules Committee by Request of the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee”; bills presented by the governor shall be delivered with a letter to the rules committee of either house and bear the inscription “Rules Committee by Request of the Governor”; bills so presented and inscribed shall be received as bills carrying the approval of the governor as to policy and budget impact. The governor may submit a statement of purpose and effect with each bill and appear personally or through a representative before any committee considering legislation.
AK Stat § 24.08.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.070. Numbering of bills.

The chief clerk of the house in which the bill is introduced shall number it in the order of its introduction and thereafter the bill shall be designated by the number given to it.
AK Stat § 24.08.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.080. Readings.

A bill may not become law unless it has passed three readings in each house on three separate days, except that a bill may be advanced from second to third reading on the same day by concurrence of three-fourths of the house considering it.
AK Stat § 24.08.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.090. Vote on passage.

A bill may not become law without the affirmative vote of a majority of the membership of each house. The yeas and the nays on final passage shall be recorded in the journal.
AK Stat § 24.08.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.100. Action upon veto.

When the governor vetoes a bill or by veto strikes or reduces an item in an appropriation bill, during a regular session of the legislature, the legislature shall proceed to act in accordance with art. II, sec. 16, Constitution of the State of Alaska, as it is implemented by the rules of the legislature. A bill vetoed after adjournment of the first regular session shall be reconsidered by the legislature sitting as one body no later than the fifth day of the next regular or special session convened during that legislature. Bills vetoed after adjournment of the second regular session shall be reconsidered by the legislature sitting as one body no later than the fifth day of a special session of that legislature, if one is called.
AK Stat § 24.08.105 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.105. Record of votes.

The voting record for each legislator shall be made available to any person on request. The Legislative Affairs Agency shall keep voting records compiled annually under this section on the agency data system and shall distribute copies to all legislative information offices for a fee established under AS 40.25.115.
AK Stat § 24.08.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 1. Bills.|Sec. 24.08.110. Bills carry over.

A bill introduced but not receiving final action in the first regular session of a legislature carries over in the same reading or status into the second regular session of the same legislature.
AK Stat § 24.08.200 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 2. Constitutional Amendments and Executive Orders.|Sec. 24.08.200. Constitutional amendments.

The legislature may propose amendments to the state constitution through the adoption of a joint resolution by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the membership of each house. Resolutions proposing constitutional amendments shall be treated as bills.
AK Stat § 24.08.210 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 2. Constitutional Amendments and Executive Orders.|Sec. 24.08.210. Executive orders.

An executive order proposing a change in the executive branch and requiring the force of law under art. III, sec. 23, Constitution of the State of Alaska shall be submitted to the presiding officer of each house on the day the house organizes. The legislature has 60 days of a regular session, or a full session if of shorter duration to disapprove the order. Unless disapproved by a special concurrent resolution introduced in either house, concurred in by a majority of the members in joint session, the order becomes effective at a date thereafter to be designated by the governor. An order submitted to but not disapproved by the legislature shall be published in the bound session laws and any codification of state law.
AK Stat § 24.08.300 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 3. Filing, Printing, and Distribution.|Sec. 24.08.300. Delivery by governor.

When the governor has signed a bill or allowed it to become law without the governor's signature, and when the governor has signed or noted resolutions, the governor's office is to deliver the original enrolled copy of each law or resolution to the executive director of the Legislative Affairs Agency. The director shall sign for each bill and resolution, and when it has been photographed for duplication it shall be returned on receipt to the office of the governor.
AK Stat § 24.08.310 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 3. Filing, Printing, and Distribution.|Sec. 24.08.310. Filing and effect.

The lieutenant governor shall file the original enrolled copies of all acts and resolutions and all executive orders having the effect of law that were submitted by the governor to the legislature and that were not rejected by it. These documents shall be kept on file for at least two years. All laws and executive orders having the force of law in the cumulative supplements to or replacement pamphlets for the Alaska Statutes are prima facie a part of the Alaska Statutes.
AK Stat § 24.08.320 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 3. Filing, Printing, and Distribution.|Sec. 24.08.320. Session laws.

The Legislative Affairs Agency is responsible for arranging for the production, editing, publishing, and distribution of the laws of each session. The executive director shall have the slip law copies of the enrolled acts produced in sufficient quantity for one complete set to be provided each legislator pending the publication of supplements to the Alaska Statutes. The commissioner of education and early development is to receive sufficient copies of the slip laws for official state distribution and the commissioner may charge for other distribution on the basis of production and handling costs.
AK Stat § 24.08.330 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 08. Enactments|Article 3. Filing, Printing, and Distribution.|Sec. 24.08.330. Distribution of Alaska Statutes.

(a) The Department of Education and Early Development is responsible for making official distribution of the Alaska Statutes to state executive branch agencies. The administrative director of the Alaska Court System is responsible for distribution to the court system. Distribution shall be made on the basis of written lists submitted by the department and the court system to the Legislative Affairs Agency within 90 days after the last day of each regular session of the legislature. A legislator is entitled to receive one set of the statutes for the member's personal use, and this entitlement is restricted to the one set issued during a member's entire legislative service. The commissioner of education and early development may deposit one set of the statutes in each free public library within the state. The right of sale to persons and organizations remains exclusively with the publisher. (b) Agencies receiving sets of the Alaska Statutes shall mark each volume or binder received “Property of the State of Alaska.”
AK Stat § 24.10.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 10. Officers, Employees, and Compensation|Article 1. Officers of the Legislature.|Sec. 24.10.010. Legislative officers.

The senate shall elect from its membership a presiding officer who shall be called the “President of the Senate” and the house of representatives shall elect from its membership a presiding officer who shall be called the “Speaker of the House of Representatives.” The presiding officer of each house shall have such powers, duties, and prerogatives as may be assigned them under the rules of the legislature and by law.
AK Stat § 24.10.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 10. Officers, Employees, and Compensation|Article 1. Officers of the Legislature.|Sec. 24.10.020. Presiding officers pro tempore.

The majority leader of each house serves as the presiding officer pro tempore of that house if the elected presiding officer resigns, becomes incapacitated, or dies. The presiding officer pro tempore is authorized to perform the duties of that office until the house elects a regular presiding officer, and the election shall be made the order of business of the house at the earliest appropriate hour.
AK Stat § 24.10.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 10. Officers, Employees, and Compensation|Article 1. Officers of the Legislature.|Sec. 24.10.030. Chief clerk and senate secretary.

Each house shall select from outside its membership a person of known stenographic and administrative ability to serve as chief administrative clerk; a chief clerk in the house of representatives and a secretary in the senate. When nominated and elected in conformity with the uniform rules, they continue to serve for the duration of the legislature at the pleasure of the house to which assigned. Pending the organization of a new legislature, they may continue to serve at the request and direction of the legislative council until their respective houses formally reappoint or replace them. The chief clerk and senate secretary are responsible for the performance of duties provided for by law, the uniform rules, and orders of the house. They may be requested to report to the legislative council for duty for a period not to exceed two weeks immediately preceding the convening of the session and shall remain at the capital until the completion of their work is determined by the director of the council.
AK Stat § 24.10.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 10. Officers, Employees, and Compensation|Article 1. Officers of the Legislature.|Sec. 24.10.040. Legislative fiscal officer.

The fiscal officer of the Legislative Affairs Agency serves as the fiscal officer of the legislature.
AK Stat § 24.10.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 10. Officers, Employees, and Compensation|Article 1. Officers of the Legislature.|Sec. 24.10.050. Other officers.

Provision for the election or appointment of other officers for either or both houses may be made in the rules.