Alaska · Current officeholder
Matt Claman
Democratic Alaska Senate, District H
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Sponsored legislation
78 bills in the current data (19 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCR 10 | Suspending Rules 24(c), 35, 41(b), and 42(e), Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature, concerning House Bill No. 36, relating to the placement of foster children in psychiatric hospitals; relating to the care of children in state custody placed in residential facilities outside the state; and amending Rule 12.1(b), Alaska Child in Need of Aid Rules of Procedure. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | September 30, 2026 |
| SB 23 | An Act relating to civics education, civics assessments, and secondary school graduation requirements; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 30, 2026 |
| HJR 39 | Urging the federal government to waive the new H-1B Visa fees for teachers in the state. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | September 30, 2026 |
| HJR 38 | Urging the United States Congress to recognize public safety telecommunicators as first responders; and urging the United States Congress to pass the Enhancing First Response Act. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | September 30, 2026 |
| HJR 28 | Calling on the United States Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | September 30, 2026 |
| HJR 20 | Encouraging the United States Congress to establish hiring goals for apprentices and veteran apprentices. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | September 30, 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. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | September 30, 2026 |
| HCR 9 | Honoring the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States of America. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | September 30, 2026 |
| HB 48 | An Act relating to appropriations to the civil legal services fund. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 30, 2026 |
| HB 314 | An Act relating to registered interior designers and interior design; relating to project costs for the construction, enlargement, or improvement of airports; extending the termination date of the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; relating to the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; establishing requirements for the practice of registered interior design; relating to the practice of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and registered interior design; relating to the scope of the certification requirements for architects, engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects, and registered interior designers; relating to immunity for design professionals; relating to the cost of construction for recreation centers; relating to liens for labor or materials furnished; relating to the procurement of landscape architectural and interior design services; relating to the cost of construction of safe water and hygienic sewage disposal facilities in villages; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 30, 2026 |
| HB 28 | An Act relating to education; relating to reimbursement of school district energy costs; relating to correspondence study program materials; relating to substitute teaching; relating to the qualifications of school board members; relating to school consolidation; relating to the required local contribution made by a city or borough school district for public school funding; relating to reemploying retired members of the teachers' retirement system at regional resource centers; establishing a teachers' student loan repayment pilot program; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 30, 2026 |
| HB 27 | An Act relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation education in public schools; relating to the duties of the Department of Education and Early Development; relating to medical care for major emergencies; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 30, 2026 |
| HB 239 | An Act relating to crime and criminal procedure; relating to civil claims by victims of sexual abuse of a minor; relating to homicide; relating to assault; relating to sexual assault; relating to stalking; relating to sexual abuse of a minor; relating to enticement and unlawful exploitation of a minor; relating to cruelty to animals; relating to endangering the welfare of a child; relating to indecent exposure; relating to theft; relating to generated obscene child sexual abuse material; 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 prostitution; relating to the Controlled Substances Advisory Committee; relating to the testimony of children in criminal proceedings; relating to sentencing; relating to sexual assault examination kits; restricting the release of certain records of convictions; relating to teaching certificates; relating to the definition of 'victim counseling center' for disclosure of certain communications concerning sexual assault or domestic violence; relating to motor vehicle offenses; relating to the board of parole; relating to parole; relating to medical release for service of sentence by electronic monitoring; relating to licensing of school bus drivers; creating and relating to the address confidentiality program; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 30, 2026 |
| HB 10 | An Act relating to the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | September 30, 2026 |
| SB 208 | An Act relating to industrial hemp; relating to the sale and lease of state land for agricultural uses; designating the O-S Cross cabbage, commonly known as 'giant green cabbage,' as the official state vegetable; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | August 11, 2026 |
| HB 176 | An Act relating to notice of new fees and fee increases from the University of Alaska; relating to billing statements from the University of Alaska; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | August 11, 2026 |
| SB 252 | An Act relating to the Uniform Commercial Code; relating to secured transactions; relating to controllable accounts, controllable electronic records, and controllable payment intangibles; relating to sales; relating to negotiable instruments; relating to letters of credit; relating to warehouse receipts, bills of lading, and other documents of title; relating to investment securities; relating to leases of goods; and relating to fund transfers. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | July 16, 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. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 16, 2026 |
| HB 96 | An Act establishing the Home Care Employment Standards Advisory Board; relating to payment for personal care services; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | July 3, 2026 |
| HB 79 | An Act renaming the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska as the Vic Fischer Institute of Social and Economic Research; and naming the Vic Fischer Shoup Bay State Marine Park. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | July 3, 2026 |
| HB 39 | An Act relating to public school students who are deaf or hard of hearing. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 3, 2026 |
| HB 36 | An Act relating to treatment foster homes; relating to the placement of foster children in hospitals and residential psychiatric treatment centers for psychiatric care; relating to the duties of the Department of Family and Community Services; relating to the care of children in state custody placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities outside the state; amending Rule 12.1(b), Alaska Child in Need of Aid Rules of Procedure; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 3, 2026 |
| HB 298 | An Act relating to the Legislative Ethics Act; relating to legislative subpoenas; relating to the jurisdiction of the office of the ombudsman; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 3, 2026 |
| HB 278 | An Act establishing the Alaska-Ireland Trade Commission; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | July 3, 2026 |
| HB 244 | An Act relating to certified nurse aide training; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 3, 2026 |
| HB 221 | An Act establishing the first Friday of every October as Alaska Arts and Culture Day; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 3, 2026 |
| HB 216 | An Act approving the transfer of land owned by the Alaska Railroad Corporation to the City of Whittier; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 3, 2026 |
| HB 126 | An Act relating to the reinstatement of Native village corporations; relating to proxy solicitations to shareholders of corporations organized under state law under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 3, 2026 |
| SB 230 | An Act relating to state refuges and fish and game critical habitat areas; relating to the boundaries of the Jonesville Public Use Area; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 1, 2026 |
| SB 174 | An Act establishing the Alaska Invasive Species Council in the Department of Fish and Game; relating to management of invasive species; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | July 1, 2026 |
| HB 52 | An Act relating to the rights of minors undergoing evaluation or inpatient treatment at psychiatric hospitals; relating to the use of seclusion or restraint of minors at psychiatric hospitals; relating to a report published by the Department of Health; relating to inspections by the Department of Health of certain psychiatric hospitals; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | June 20, 2026 |
| HB 363 | An Act relating to the sale of alcohol; relating to the sale or dispensing of alcoholic beverages by patriotic organizations; relating to club licenses; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2026 |
| HB 23 | An Act renaming the State Commission for Human Rights the Alaska State Commission for Civil Rights; relating to investigations and conciliation by the Alaska State Commission for Civil Rights; relating to removal of commissioners of the Alaska State Commission for Civil Rights; relating to reports from the Alaska State Commission for Civil Rights; relating to the definition of 'employer' for the purposes of the Alaska State Commission for Civil Rights; relating to local civil rights commissions; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | June 20, 2026 |
| HB 184 | An Act relating to financing by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority for workforce housing development projects; relating to a mandatory exemption from municipal property taxes for certain assets of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority; and providing for an effective date by repealing the effective date of sec. 2, ch. 64, SLA 2018. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2026 |
| SR 4 | Recognizing and commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America; encouraging participation in commemorative events; and encouraging educational institutions to enhance civics education. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | June 19, 2026 |
| SB 41 | An Act relating to mental health education. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | June 19, 2026 |
| SB 83 | An Act relating to health care insurance; relating to insurance reimbursement for health care services provided through telehealth; relating to telehealth; providing for an effective date by repealing the effective date of secs. 9 and 10, ch. 38, SLA 2022; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 16, 2026 |
| SJR 2 | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to actions upon veto. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 266 | An Act relating to reimbursement for non-network health insurance claims. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2026 |
| SB 265 | An Act relating to the duty of an operator immediately after an accident. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 22, 2026 |
| SB 20 | An Act relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation education in public schools; and relating to the duties of the Department of Education and Early Development. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 21, 2026 |
| SB 246 | An Act relating to registered interior designers and interior design; relating to project costs for the construction, enlargement, or improvement of airports; extending the termination date of the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; relating to the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; establishing requirements for the practice of registered interior design; relating to the practice of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and registered interior design; relating to the scope of the certification requirements for architects, engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects, and registered interior designers; relating to immunity for design professionals; relating to the cost of construction for recreation centers; relating to liens for labor or materials furnished; relating to the procurement of landscape architectural and interior design services; relating to the cost of construction of safe water and hygienic sewage disposal facilities in villages; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 23, 2026 |
| SB 219 | An Act relating to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; relating to thermal remediation of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substance contamination; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 12, 2026 |
| SB 233 | An Act relating to the Controlled Substances Advisory Committee. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 6 | An Act requiring education in the history and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | February 16, 2026 |
| SB 54 | An Act relating to registered interior designers and interior design; relating to project costs for the construction, enlargement, or improvement of airports; extending the termination date of the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; relating to the State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors; establishing requirements for the practice of registered interior design; relating to the practice of architecture, engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and registered interior design; relating to the scope of the certification requirements for architects, engineers, land surveyors, landscape architects, and registered interior designers; relating to immunity for design professionals; relating to the cost of construction for recreation centers; relating to liens for labor or materials furnished; relating to the procurement of landscape architectural and interior design services; relating to the cost of construction of safe water and hygienic sewage disposal facilities in villages; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | Vetoed | October 15, 2025 |
| HB 57 | An Act relating to maximum classroom sizes in public schools; relating to education reports; relating to charter schools; relating to student transportation funding; relating to secondary school vocational and technical instruction funding; relating to the base student allocation; relating to reading proficiency incentive grants; relating to wireless telecommunications devices in public schools; relating to the use of tax revenue from highly digitized businesses; relating to the duties of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development; establishing the Task Force on Education Funding; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | October 15, 2025 |
| HB 35 | An Act relating to the use and possession of electronic devices by prisoners; and relating to identification cards. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | August 19, 2025 |
| SR 3 | Urging the United States Congress to grant American Samoans the ability to serve as commissioned officers in the uniformed services of the United States and the right to vote in federal elections. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | July 30, 2025 |
| HJR 5 | Urging the United States Congress and the President of the United States to reinstate the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 and make the funding mechanism in the Act permanent. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | July 30, 2025 |
| HJR 4 | Urging the President of the United States, the United States Secretary of the Interior, the United States Board on Geographic Names, and the members of the state's delegation in Congress to maintain Denali as the official name for the tallest mountain in North America. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | July 30, 2025 |
| HJR 25 | Supporting and encouraging the continued recruitment and retention of international educators on J-1 and H-1B visas in the state. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | July 30, 2025 |
| HJR 13 | Urging the President of the United States to expand evacuation efforts for applicants with approved Special Immigrant Visas, including resumption of evacuation flights organized by the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts; urging the United States Department of State to secure legal protections and humanitarian assistance for Special Immigrant Visa applicants; urging the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in the United States Department of Homeland Security to expedite the review of applications for Special Immigrant Visas; and requesting that the United States Secretary of State provide a report to Congress regarding efforts to reinstate evacuation flights for applicants with approved Special Immigrant Visas. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | July 30, 2025 |
| HJR 11 | Recognizing and honoring the relationship between Canada and Alaska. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | July 30, 2025 |
| HCR 6 | Commemorating the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | July 30, 2025 |
| HB 31 | An Act relating to the registration of commercial vessels; and relating to the derelict vessel prevention program fund. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 30, 2025 |
| HB 174 | An Act relating to the regional educational attendance area and small municipal school district fund; relating to Mt. Edgecumbe High School; and relating to teacher housing. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | July 30, 2025 |
| HB 123 | An Act relating to vehicle rental taxes; relating to the issuance of subpoenas related to tax records; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 30, 2025 |
| HB 121 | An Act relating to the practice of accounting; relating to private professional conservators; amending Rule 17(e), Alaska Rules of Probate Procedure; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | July 30, 2025 |
| SB 49 | An Act relating to workplace violence protective orders; relating to the crime of violating a protective order; relating to the powers of district judges and magistrates; amending Rules 4 and 65, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure, and Rule 9, Alaska Rules of Administration; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 9, 2025 |
| SB 19 | An Act relating to the use and possession of electronic devices by prisoners. | Co-sponsor | In committee | May 7, 2025 |
| SB 138 | An Act relating to vehicle rental taxes; relating to the issuance of subpoenas related to tax records; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 2, 2025 |
| SB 15 | An Act relating to the sale of alcohol; relating to the posting of warning signs for alcoholic beverages; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | April 28, 2025 |
| SB 103 | An Act relating to certified nurse aide training; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2025 |
| SB 90 | An Act relating to the examination and treatment of minors; relating to consent for behavioral and mental health treatment for minors 16 years of age or older; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | In committee | April 25, 2025 |
| HB 69 | An Act relating to the base student allocation; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | April 22, 2025 |
| SB 17 | An Act establishing the crime of airbag fraud. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 14, 2025 |
| SB 44 | An Act relating to the rights of minors undergoing evaluation or inpatient treatment at psychiatric hospitals; relating to the use of seclusion or restraint of minors at psychiatric hospitals; relating to a report published by the Department of Health; relating to inspections by the Department of Health of certain psychiatric hospitals; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 10, 2025 |
| SCR 1 | Relating to the procedure that the Thirty-Fourth Alaska State Legislature will use to reconsider bills and items vetoed by the governor. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| SB 155 | An Act relating to the crime of failure to report a violent crime. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 2, 2025 |
| SB 28 | An Act relating to the Public Employees' Retirement System of Alaska and the teachers' retirement system; providing certain employees an opportunity to choose between the defined benefit and defined contribution plans of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Alaska and the teachers' retirement system; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2025 |
| SJR 6 | Supporting the admittance of Washington, D.C., into the Union as a state of the United States of America. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2025 |
| HB 65 | An Act authorizing the Alaska Railroad Corporation to issue revenue bonds to finance the replacement of the Alaska Railroad Corporation's passenger dock and related terminal facility in Seward, Alaska; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | March 10, 2025 |
| SB 73 | An Act relating to the registration of marijuana establishments; relating to a tax exemption for qualified small businesses; relating to marijuana taxes; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 6, 2025 |
| SB 46 | An Act relating to education funding; relating to the public education fund; relating to the base student allocation; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 5, 2025 |
| SB 1 | An Act relating to appropriations to the civil legal services fund. | Co-sponsor | In committee | January 28, 2025 |
| SJR 3 | Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the duration of regular sessions of the legislature. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 27, 2025 |
| SB 65 | An Act relating to legal representation of public officers in ethics complaints. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 24, 2025 |
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