The Alaska House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill relaxing the requirements for assault arrests in hospitals and clinics.<\/p>\n
If signed into law, House Bill 312<\/a> allows police to arrest perpetrators of fourth-degree assault without a warrant if the assault takes place in a hospital or other health care facility. The bill also has a section that allows prosecutors to pursue tougher penalties for felony assault if the victim of the assault was a health care worker.<\/p>\n HB 312 passed the House 31-1 on Friday and now advances to the Senate. The sole “no” vote came from Rep. David Eastman, R-Wasilla.<\/p>\n Its lead sponsor is Rep. Matt Claman, D-Anchorage, and it had support from minority members of the House as well.<\/p>\n Ivory support<\/span><\/p>\n In a 16-0 vote Friday morning, members of the Alaska Senate approved a resolution<\/a> calling on the U.S. Congress to pass a bill exempting walrus, mastodon and mammoth ivory from federal restrictions on the possession and use of ivory.<\/p>\n Those restrictions are intended to target elephant ivory and elephant poaching but would have a detrimental impact on Alaska-made goods that incorporate ivory from animals that are not endangered or threatened.<\/p>\n Senate Joint Resolution 4 now advances to the House for consideration.<\/p>\n • Contact reporter James Brooks at james.k.brooks@juneauempire.com or call 523-2258.<\/b><\/p>\n The Alaska House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill relaxing the requirements for assault arrests in hospitals and clinics. If signed into law, House Bill 312 allows police to arrest perpetrators of fourth-degree assault without a warrant if the assault takes place in a hospital or other health<\/a> care facility. The bill also has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alaska-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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