{"id":9492,"date":"2017-01-15T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/legislatures-preseason-ends-with-another-round-of-proposals\/"},"modified":"2017-01-15T09:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T17:01:53","slug":"legislatures-preseason-ends-with-another-round-of-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/legislatures-preseason-ends-with-another-round-of-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislature’s ‘preseason’ ends with another round of proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 30th Alaska Legislature convenes Tuesday. On Friday, lawmakers released the last batch of prefiled legislation before the start of session. Here are one-sentence summaries of those bills:<\/p>\n

[First round of prefiled bills<\/a>]<\/p>\n

HOUSE<\/strong><\/p>\n

HB 34 \u2014<\/strong> No one can sell alcohol within 500 feet of a school or church, but places that already have a license can stick with the old limit of 200 feet.<\/p>\n

HB 35 \u2014<\/strong> Creates a state fund for giving towns and boroughs money for public safety. If the Legislature cuts state revenue sharing, this fund takes up some of the slack.<\/p>\n

HB 36 \u2014<\/strong> Most for-profit organizations have to pay a corporate tax.<\/p>\n

HB 37 \u2014<\/strong> If a policeman or firefighter has to take leave from work because of an on-the-job injury, he or she still earns service days toward retirement benefits.<\/p>\n

HB 38 \u2014<\/strong> Increases the amount paid by an employer to a permanently disabled employee, and if an employee is killed on the job but has no family, the employer has to pay a death benefit to the employee\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n

HB 39 \u2014<\/strong> Limits predator control.<\/p>\n

HB 40 \u2014 <\/strong>Trapping game is not allowed within 200 feet of a hiking trail or a campsite.<\/p>\n

HB 41 \u2014<\/strong> A group of legislators can all be lead sponsors of the same bill.<\/p>\n

HB 42 \u2014<\/strong> Eliminates civil forfeiture, except under specific circumstances.<\/p>\n

HB 43 \u2014 <\/strong>A doctor can\u2019t get in trouble for prescribing a test drug or treatment to a fatally ill patient.<\/p>\n

HB 44 \u2014<\/strong> Legislators can\u2019t vote on a topic if they have a conflict of interest, or if their immediate family does.<\/p>\n

HB 45 \u2014<\/strong> The state\u2019s minimum wage is $15 per hour starting Jan. 1, 2018.<\/p>\n

HB 46 \u2014<\/strong> Raw milk can be sold without state regulation, and Alaska seafood gets a bigger preference under state purchase contracts.<\/p>\n

HB 47 \u2014<\/strong> The 60 or so towns that lost at least 25 percent of their population between 2000 and 2010, and didn\u2019t keep up with their contributions to the state\u2019s employee retirement system, get to pay a smaller interest penalty.<\/p>\n

&nbsp;<\/p>\n

SENATE<\/strong><\/p>\n

SB 15 \u2014 <\/strong>You must be at least 19 to buy an e-cigarette or e-liquid.<\/p>\n

SB 16 \u2014<\/strong> When you die, your will can require someone to delete your Facebook account, Twitter account, your internet browser history, and they can take possession of your \u201cdigital assets.\u201d<\/p>\n

SB 17 \u2014<\/strong> Establishes an exchange program for political science students at the universities of Hawaii and Alaska.<\/p>\n

SB 18 \u2014<\/strong> Limits the powers of third-class boroughs.<\/p>\n

SB 19 \u2014<\/strong> A doctor can\u2019t get in trouble for prescribing an experimental drug or treatment to a fatally ill patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 30th Alaska Legislature convenes Tuesday. On Friday, lawmakers released the last batch of prefiled legislation before the start of session. Here are one-sentence summaries of those bills: [First round of prefiled bills] HOUSE HB 34 \u2014 No one can sell alcohol within 500 feet of a school or church, but places that already have […]<\/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":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","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=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}