Sarah Vance

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Bills this legislator primary-sponsored. Data from OpenStates.

• HB 357 An Act relating to abortion; relating to who may perform an abortion; relating to civil enforcement of abortion laws; relating to abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat; amending Rules 3 and 82, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure, and Rule 508, Alaska Rules of Appellate Procedure; and providing for an effective date. · May 1, 2026
• HB 356 An Act relating to health and sanitary requirements and certain permits for commercial fishing vessels; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 23, 2026
• HB 47 An Act relating to distribution of a forged digital likeness; relating to crime and criminal procedure; relating to distribution of a generated sexual depiction; relating to generated obscene child sexual abuse material; relating to teaching certificates; relating to licensing of school bus drivers; relating to civil penalties for an organization that facilitates the generation of child sexual abuse material; relating to social media and minors; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · Apr 13, 2026
• HB 315 An Act relating to the qualifications and confirmation of appointees to the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 11, 2026
• HB 150 An Act requiring the Department of Family and Community Services to develop a shared screening methodology; requiring shelters for runaway minors to screen minors for victimization relating to sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and commercial sexual exploitation; requiring the Department of Family and Community Services to screen children in need of aid for victimization relating to sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and commercial sexual exploitation; and relating to the duty of the Department of Family and Community Services to investigate the experiences of missing children in need of aid who have been located. · Mar 17, 2026
• HB 354 An Act relating to virtual currency kiosks; relating to transactions involving virtual currency; and providing for an effective date. · Feb 23, 2026
• HB 353 An Act relating to the sale and lease of agricultural land; defining 'agricultural purposes' under the Alaska Land Act; and providing for an effective date. · Feb 23, 2026
• HB 355 An Act relating to agricultural loans; relating to agricultural cooperatives; relating to workers' compensation; and providing for an effective date. · Feb 23, 2026
• HB 254 An Act relating to increases in property assessments. · Jan 23, 2026
• HB 29 An Act relating to group insurance coverage and self-insurance coverage for school district employees, employees of the University of Alaska, and employees of other governmental units in the state; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 30, 2025
• HB 118 An Act establishing the Council on Human and Sex Trafficking; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 2, 2025
• HB 46 An Act relating to minors; and relating to the distribution and use of electronic applications. · Jan 22, 2025
• HB 2 An Act relating to contracts with public agencies; and relating to the State of Israel. · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 329 An Act relating to state tideland leases; relating to geoduck seed transfers; and relating to aquatic farming or related hatchery operation site leases. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 330 An Act relating to the use and possession of electronic devices by prisoners; and relating to prisoner communication reimbursement rates. · Passed Legislature · May 15, 2024
• HB 259 An Act establishing the Council on Human and Sex Trafficking; and relating to the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. · May 14, 2024
• HB 254 An Act relating to minors and the Internet; and relating to use of social media by minors. · Passed Legislature · May 6, 2024
• HR 8 Encouraging the Department of Fish and Game to adopt certain regulations relating to fisheries bycatch. · May 2, 2024
• HB 265 An Act changing the term 'child pornography' to 'child sexual abuse material.' · Passed Legislature · Apr 30, 2024
• HB 264 An Act requiring the Department of Family and Community Services to develop a shared screening methodology; requiring shelters for runaway minors to screen minors for victimization relating to sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and commercial sexual exploitation; requiring the Department of Family and Community Services to screen children in need of aid for victimization relating to sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and commercial sexual exploitation; and relating to the duty of the Department of Family and Community Services to investigate the experiences of missing children in need of aid who have been located. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 24, 2024
• HJR 26 Urging the expansion of state jurisdiction over coastal water. · Apr 18, 2024
• HB 242 An Act extending the Alaska senior benefits payment program; and providing for an effective date. · Feb 19, 2024
• HB 21 An Act relating to group insurance coverage and self-insurance coverage for school district employees, employees of the University of Alaska, and employees of other governmental units in the state; and providing for an effective date. · Feb 15, 2024
• HB 4 An Act relating to elections. · Feb 5, 2024
• HB 52 An Act relating to the right of patients and residents to have a support person in person during treatment and during stays at certain facilities; and relating to a requirement that health care facilities make certain information available to the public. · Apr 19, 2023
• HB 52 An Act providing that operation of the Tutka Bay Lagoon Hatchery in Kachemak Bay is compatible with the functions of Kachemak Bay State Park; and providing for an effective date. · May 2, 2022
• HB 239 An Act relating to contracts with public agencies; and relating to the State of Israel. · Mar 4, 2022
• HB 252 An Act relating to the right of patients to have a support person present during treatment and during stays at certain facilities. · Jan 18, 2022
• HB 221 An Act relating to the powers of the governor and the powers of the Department of Health and Social Services during a disaster emergency. · May 19, 2021
• HB 196 An Act relating to voting and elections; relating to voter registration; relating to ballots and a system of tracking and accounting for ballots; relating to retention of election data; designating as a class A misdemeanor the collection of ballots from other voters; designating as a class C felony intentionally opening or tampering with a sealed ballot, certificate, or package of ballots without authorization from the director of the division of elections; designating as a class C felony breaching, hacking, altering, or tampering with election data or ballots; designating as a class B felony election fraud; designating as a class C felony sharing election data results before the close of the polls on election day; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 28, 2021
• HB 140 An Act relating to expiration and renewal of driver's licenses. · Mar 19, 2021

Bills this legislator coauthored or cosponsored. Data from OpenStates.

• HB 249 An Act relating to the transfer of a vehicle to an insurance company. · Became Law · Jul 27, 2026
• SB 143 An Act relating to ethics and budget training for school board members; relating to the terms of office of municipal school board members; relating to the size of the city council in second class cities; and providing for an effective date. · To Executive · Jul 27, 2026
• SB 249 An Act relating to virtual currency kiosks; relating to transactions involving virtual currency; relating to unfair trade or deceptive acts or practices; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Jul 16, 2026
• HB 39 An Act relating to public school students who are deaf or hard of hearing. · Became Law · Jul 3, 2026
• HB 278 An Act establishing the Alaska-Ireland Trade Commission; and providing for an effective date. · Vetoed · Jul 3, 2026
• SB 23 An Act relating to civics education, civics assessments, and secondary school graduation requirements; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Jun 19, 2026
• HJR 18 Supporting and recognizing the importance of a natural gas pipeline project in the state; and urging the federal government to take all necessary actions to expedite the state natural gas pipeline project. · To Executive · Jun 17, 2026
• HB 1 An Act relating to specie as legal tender in the state; and relating to borough and city sales and use taxes on specie. · Became Law · Jun 4, 2026
• HJR 23 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska requiring the governor to submit a balanced budget to the legislature. · May 19, 2026
• SB 26 An Act petitioning the United States Department of Transportation to change the time zones of Alaska; exempting the state from daylight saving time; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · May 18, 2026
• HB 202 An Act designating the O-S Cross cabbage, commonly known as 'giant green cabbage,' as the official state vegetable; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · May 15, 2026
• HB 40 An Act relating to school athletics, recreation, athletic teams, and sports. · May 11, 2026
• HB 77 An Act making the theft of mail or an article within mail theft in the second degree. · Apr 29, 2026
• HB 101 An Act relating to civil claims by victims of sexual abuse of a minor; relating to homicide; relating to assault in the third degree; relating to stalking; relating to sexual abuse of a minor; relating to enticement of a minor; relating to endangering the welfare of a child; relating to indecent exposure; relating to sending an explicit image of a minor; relating to solicitation or production of an indecent picture of a minor; relating to distribution of indecent material to minors; relating to the testimony of children in criminal proceedings; relating to sentencing; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · Apr 13, 2026
• HB 242 An Act relating to sexual assault. · Apr 8, 2026
• HJR 22 Requesting the United States Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives and as a member of the United States Senate; and requesting the United States Congress to call for a constitutional convention of the states to propose a single amendment to the Constitution of the United States to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives and as a member of the United States Senate. · Apr 8, 2026
• HB 64 An Act relating to the surrender of infants; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 1, 2026
• HB 295 An Act relating to allowable absences for eligibility for a permanent fund dividend; and providing for an effective date. · Mar 27, 2026
• HB 161 An Act relating to minimum paid sick leave requirements; and providing for an effective date. · Feb 27, 2026
• SJR 19 Urging the United States Congress to honor the terms of the Mineral Leasing Act and the Alaska Statehood Act and provide the state with a 90 percent share of all bonuses, royalties, and rentals received by the federal government from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. · To Executive · Jul 30, 2025
• HB 11 An Act relating to contributions and donations from permanent fund dividends. · May 16, 2025
• HB 6 An Act restricting fiduciary actions by a fiduciary of a state fund, the Alaska Retirement Management Board, and the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation Board that have the purpose of furthering social, political, or ideological interests. · May 14, 2025
• HB 223 An Act relating to special needs and intensive services funding for correspondence study programs; and providing for an effective date. · May 7, 2025
• HB 143 An Act relating to the privacy of firearm transactions; relating to discrimination against firearm retailers by financial institutions and payment networks; relating to the disclosure of financial records by financial institutions and payment networks; and amending Rules 65 and 82, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure. · Apr 25, 2025
• HJR 16 Urging the Export-Import Bank of the United States to prioritize funding for domestic projects, including the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas project, that do not compete with long-term national export goals. · Apr 7, 2025
• HB 83 An Act disapproving the recommendations of the State Officers Compensation Commission; and providing for an effective date. · Feb 10, 2025
• HJR 7 Supporting and expressing gratitude to President Donald J. Trump for the Executive Order titled "Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential" and for the president's recognition of the role of the federal government in revitalizing the state's economy, energy production, and resource development. · Jan 31, 2025
• HB 202 An Act relating to the availability and administration of opioid overdose drugs in public schools; relating to correspondence study programs; and relating to allotments for correspondence study programs; and relating to an annual report relating to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grants and opioid overdose drug distribution; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2024
• SB 170 An Act relating to the Alaska longevity bonus program and the Alaska senior benefits payment program; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · Oct 16, 2024
• HB 238 An Act relating to criminal mischief in the third degree; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• SB 179 An Act relating to municipal property tax; relating to assessment of property, boards of equalization, and certification of assessors; prohibiting municipalities from levying a tax on the transfer of real property; prohibiting the state from levying a tax on the transfer of real property; relating to municipal taxation of mobile telecommunications services; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 233 An Act relating to rates and time allowances for motor vehicle warranty work; and relating to unfair practices by manufacturers. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 251 An Act relating to the Board of Agriculture and Conservation; relating to loans and limitations under the Alaska Agricultural Loan Act; exempting certain foods and drinks prepared in an uninspected kitchen from state labeling, licensing, packaging, permitting, and inspection requirements; permitting a person to acquire meat from a producer by way of an ownership share in an animal if certain conditions are met; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 345 An Act relating to grants to unit owners for disaster relief; relating to safety ladders at municipal harbor facilities; relating to the harbor facility grant fund; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 104 An Act relating to timber sales. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HCR 8 Honoring United States military veterans exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War; and expressing gratitude for the courageous service of those veterans to the United States. · To Executive · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 19 An Act relating to the registration of commercial vessels; and relating to the derelict vessel prevention program fund. · Vetoed · Oct 9, 2024
• HJR 3 Encouraging Congress to pass the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act or a similar bill. · To Executive · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 347 An Act relating to assessment of property, boards of equalization, and certification of assessors; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · May 14, 2024
• HB 183 An Act relating to school athletics, recreation, athletic teams, and sports. · Passed Legislature · May 14, 2024
• HB 358 An Act relating to defamation claims based on the use of deepfakes; and relating to the use of deepfakes in electioneering communications. · Passed Legislature · May 13, 2024
• HB 111 An Act relating to public school students who are deaf or hard of hearing. · Passed Legislature · May 13, 2024
• HB 169 An Act relating to certain fish; and establishing a fisheries rehabilitation permit. · Passed Legislature · May 8, 2024
• HB 286 An Act relating to victim restitution and compensation. · Passed Legislature · May 3, 2024
• HB 3 An Act relating to specie as legal tender in the state; and relating to borough and city sales and use taxes on specie. · Passed Legislature · Apr 24, 2024
• HB 45 An Act relating to contributions from permanent fund dividends to the general and permanent funds. · Apr 22, 2024
• HB 327 An Act relating to the Board of Massage Therapists; and providing for an effective date. · Mar 11, 2024
• HB 98 An Act relating to state ownership of submerged land underlying navigable water within the boundaries of and adjacent to federal areas; and providing for an effective date. · Feb 9, 2024
• HB 182 An Act relating to abandoned vehicles. · Jan 30, 2024
• SB 10 An Act providing for trapping licenses for active members of the Alaska National Guard and military reserves without charge; making sport fishing, hunting, and trapping permanent identification cards available to certain disabled veterans without charge; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2023
• HJR 11 Urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to develop a woodstove certification program that addresses the threat to clean and healthy winter air in Fairbanks; and urging the state Department of Environmental Conservation to develop an economically and legally defensible state implementation plan for the Fairbanks North Star Borough nonattainment area. · To Executive · Oct 16, 2023
• HJR 10 Disapproving the proposed rule by the National Park Service limiting non-subsistence hunting methods; and urging the National Park Service to withdraw the rule. · To Executive · Oct 16, 2023
• HJR 5 Urging the United States Secretary of Commerce, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and other federal and state agencies to defend the state's fisheries, including the Southeast Alaska troll fishery. · To Executive · Oct 16, 2023
• HB 61 An Act relating to restrictions on firearms and other weapons. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2023
• HB 135 An Act relating to and disapproving recommendations of the State Officers Compensation Commission; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · May 17, 2023
• HB 1 An Act relating to elections. · May 2, 2023
• HB 124 An Act relating to commercial motor vehicle drivers' license requirements; and providing for an effective date. · May 1, 2023
• HJR 6 Supporting oil and gas leasing and development within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska; and urging President Biden and the United States Department of the Interior to approve the Willow Master Development Plan. · To Executive · Mar 1, 2023
• HB 187 An Act relating to the elimination or modification of state agency publications that are outdated, duplicative, or excessive or that could be improved or consolidated with other publications or exclusively delivered electronically; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 5, 2022
• HB 325 An Act relating to petitions for a change of name for certain persons; relating to the duty to register as a sex offender; relating to sexual offenses; relating to domestic violence; relating to the code of military justice; relating to consent; relating to the testing of sexual assault examination kits; relating to lifetime revocation of a teaching certificate for certain offenses; amending Rule 84, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 5, 2022
• HB 168 An Act requiring the Department of Health to provide and allow submission of an electronic application for certain state benefits; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 5, 2022
• HB 298 An Act establishing forgivable loan programs for farm development and improvement and for certain meat processing facilities; relating to a program of state inspection for certain meat processing facilities; establishing the Alaska Food Strategy Task Force; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 5, 2022
• HB 41 An Act relating to management of enhanced stocks of shellfish; authorizing certain nonprofit organizations to engage in shellfish enhancement projects; relating to application fees for salmon hatchery permits and shellfish enhancement project permits; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 5, 2022
• HB 123 An Act providing for state recognition of federally recognized tribes; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 5, 2022
• HB 163 An Act relating to the issuance of vehicle registration plates; relating to vehicle title applications; relating to driver's license renewal; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 5, 2022
• HB 31 An Act relating to daylight saving time; and providing for an effective date. · May 17, 2022
• HB 167 An Act relating to specie as legal tender in the state; and relating to borough and city sales and use taxes on specie. · Apr 28, 2022
• HJR 34 Supporting oil and gas leasing and development within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. · To Executive · Apr 20, 2022
• HB 136 An Act naming the Congressman Don Young Bridge. · Apr 13, 2022
• HB 230 An Act relating to school athletics, recreation, athletic teams, and sports. · Apr 7, 2022
• HB 108 An Act relating to concurrent vocational education, training, and on-the-job trade experience programs for students enrolled in public secondary schools; relating to child labor; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 5, 2022
• HB 124 An Act relating to filling a vacancy in the legislature by appointment. · Mar 31, 2022
• HB 235 An Act establishing the Sunday after the first Saturday of March of each year as James 'Hobo Jim' Varsos Day. · Mar 28, 2022
• HB 158 An Act relating to contributions from permanent fund dividends to the general fund. · Mar 16, 2022
• HB 287 An Act making an appropriation for oil and gas tax credits; and providing for an effective date. · Mar 3, 2022
• HB 365 An Act relating to the establishment of the optimum number of commercial fishing entry permits for a fishery. · Feb 22, 2022
• HB 86 An Act relating to the establishment and maintenance of an Internet website providing information on state government financial transactions and specifying the information to be made available on the website. · Feb 21, 2022
• HB 233 An Act relating to religious services during disasters; and providing for an effective date. · Feb 2, 2022
• HB 201 An Act relating to special registration plates commemorating police officers killed in the line of duty. · Jan 26, 2022
• HB 228 An Act relating to nondiscrimination in public education. · Jan 24, 2022
• HB 63 An Act relating to the duties of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities; renaming the Alaska Marine Transportation Advisory Board the Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board; relating to the membership and duties of the Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board; and relating to the comprehensive, intermodal, long-range transportation plan for the state. · Became Law · Jan 18, 2022
• HB 175 An Act relating to COVID-19 immunization rights. · Oct 26, 2021
• HB 34 An Act naming the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots' Memorial Bridge. · Became Law · Aug 31, 2021
• HJR 14 Supporting the passage by the United States Congress of the SAFE Banking Act of 2019, sec. 110606 of the Heroes Act, or similar legislation relating to cannabis-related legitimate businesses' access to financial services. · To Executive · Jun 17, 2021
• HB 115 An Act relating to aquatic farming and hatchery site leases; and requiring the director of the division of lands to provide the legislature with an annual report relating to aquatic farming and hatchery site leases. · Became Law · Jun 15, 2021
• HJR 12 Urging the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, to honor the recent lease sales and proceed with permitting in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; urging the President of the United States to defend the 2020 Record of Decision approving the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; opposing designation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a National Monument; urging the Alaska delegation in Congress to work to repeal sec. 20001(b)(5) of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to honor the Alaska Statehood Act with respect to the state's share of bonuses, royalties, and rentals from exploration and development in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; and requesting that the Alaska delegation in Congress defeat any effort to alter or repeal other provisions of sec. 20001 of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 if the result would adversely affect oil and gas development efforts in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. · To Executive · May 13, 2021
• HB 191 An Act relating to borough school district budgets; relating to the time required for school districts to notify tenured teachers of layoff or nonretention; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 28, 2021
• HB 179 An Act relating to firearms and other weapons restrictions. · Apr 26, 2021
• HB 178 An Act adding to the duties of the victims' advocate and the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; and relating to informing certain peace officers, firefighters, correctional employees, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, ambulance attendants, emergency responders, and medical professionals of legal protections that may be available if they become crime victims. · Apr 16, 2021
• HB 23 An Act relating to elections and voter registration; relating to ballot custody, retention, and destruction; prohibiting possession of another voter's ballot; requiring signature verification; establishing an election offense hotline; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 16, 2021
• HB 1 An Act providing for audits of CARES Act funds expended for the community assistance program and direct grants to municipalities and communities. · Mar 26, 2021
• HB 4 An Act providing immunity from liability and disciplinary action for occupational licensees for exposure of clients to COVID-19; providing immunity from liability for persons engaging in business and their employees for exposure of customers to COVID-19; and providing for an effective date. · Mar 25, 2021
• HJR 11 Requesting the United States Congress to pass legislation that provides a temporary waiver of the Passenger Vessel Services Act to allow cruise ships to sail directly to the state from other United States ports. · Mar 12, 2021