Alaska · Current officeholder
Cathy Giessel
Republican Alaska Senate, District E
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Sponsored legislation
65 bills in the current data (18 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 9 | An Act relating to the surrender of infants; relating to civil history; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | 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 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 |
| 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 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 93 | An Act changing the residency requirements for hunting, trapping, and sport fishing privileges; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | 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 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 16 | An Act requiring a group supporting or opposing a candidate or ballot proposition in a state or local election to maintain an address in the state; amending campaign contribution limits for state and local office; directing the Alaska Public Offices Commission to adjust campaign contribution limits for state and local office once each decade beginning in 2031; relating to campaign contribution reporting requirements; relating to administrative complaints filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission; and relating to state election expenditures and contributions made by a foreign-influenced corporation or foreign national. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | July 16, 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 89 | An Act relating to physician assistants; relating to collaborative agreements between physicians and physician assistants; relating to the practice of medicine; relating to health care providers; and relating to provisions regarding physician assistants in contracts between certain health care providers and health care insurers. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 19, 2026 |
| SB 41 | An Act relating to mental health education. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | June 19, 2026 |
| SB 24 | An Act relating to tobacco, tobacco products, electronic smoking products, nicotine, and products containing nicotine; raising the minimum age to purchase, exchange, or possess tobacco, a product containing nicotine, or an electronic smoking product; relating to the tobacco use education and cessation fund; relating to retail cigar stores; relating to the taxation of electronic smoking products and vapor products; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | June 19, 2026 |
| HB 26 | An Act relating to the duties of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities; and relating to a statewide public and community transit plan. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | May 21, 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. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 18, 2026 |
| SB 111 | An Act relating to the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of consumer products that use digital electronics to operate; adding an unlawful act to the Alaska Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 17, 2026 |
| SB 147 | An Act relating to the prescription and administration of drugs and devices by pharmacists; relating to reciprocity for pharmacists; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2026 |
| HB 210 | An Act relating to workers' compensation coverage for disability from diseases for certain firefighters; relating to occupational disability benefits and medical benefits available under the public employees' retirement system; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 7, 2026 |
| SJR 2 | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to actions upon veto. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 4, 2026 |
| SB 221 | An Act restricting a fiduciary of a state fund, the Alaska Retirement Management Board, and the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation Board from investing or doing business with DigitalBridge Group, Inc., or an affiliate of DigitalBridge Group, Inc. | Co-sponsor | In committee | April 30, 2026 |
| SB 247 | An Act relating to crime and criminal procedure; relating to generated obscene child sexual abuse material; relating to teaching certificates; and relating to licensing of school bus drivers. | Co-sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| SB 121 | An Act relating to settlement of health insurance claims; relating to allowable charges for health care services or supplies; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2026 |
| SB 154 | 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 | In committee | April 13, 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. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 13, 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. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 13, 2026 |
| SB 226 | An Act relating to the sale of homemade food. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 10, 2026 |
| SB 129 | An Act establishing a 30-day deadline for the payment of contracts under the State Procurement Code; establishing deadlines for the payment of grants, contracts, and reimbursement agreements to nonprofit organizations, municipalities, and Alaska Native organizations; relating to payment of grants to named recipients that are not municipalities; and providing for an effective date. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 11, 2026 |
| SB 205 | An Act relating to occupational disability benefits for peace officers and firefighters; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2026 |
| SB 191 | An Act approving the transfer of land owned by the Alaska Railroad Corporation to the City of Whittier; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2026 |
| SB 34 | An Act relating to the duration of a regular session of the legislature. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 4, 2026 |
| SB 201 | An Act relating to a report regarding involuntary commitment orders. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 23, 2026 |
| SB 220 | An Act establishing a community health worker certification; relating to medical assistance coverage for certified community health worker services; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| SB 199 | An Act repealing the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Limited Entry Commission and transferring its duties to the Department of Fish and Game and the office of administrative hearings. | Primary sponsor | In committee | January 21, 2026 |
| 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 |
| SR 1 | Establishing a Senate Special Committee on Arctic Affairs. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | July 30, 2025 |
| 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. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | July 30, 2025 |
| SJR 17 | Recognizing and honoring the 50th anniversary of The Energy Council. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | July 30, 2025 |
| SB 47 | An Act relating to Chugach State Park; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | July 30, 2025 |
| HJR 9 | Urging the United States Congress to extend enhanced tax credits for health insurance premiums under the Affordable Care Act. | 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 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 11 | Recognizing and honoring the relationship between Canada and Alaska. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | 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 |
| SB 134 | An Act relating to pharmacy benefits managers; relating to third-party administrators; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 17, 2025 |
| SB 122 | An Act relating to insurance; establishing standards for health insurance provider networks; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2025 |
| SJR 21 | Supporting and encouraging the continued recruitment and retention of international educators on J-1 and H-1B visas in the state. | Co-sponsor | In committee | May 12, 2025 |
| SB 32 | An Act relating to costs incurred by certain electric utilities for renewable energy and battery energy storage. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 5, 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. | Primary 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 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. | Co-sponsor | In committee | April 10, 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. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 31, 2025 |
| SB 142 | An Act relating to municipal and state group health insurance plans and policies, including self-insured plans and policies, and the administration and management of pharmacy benefits; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2025 |
| SB 141 | An Act relating to automated external defibrillators in buildings open to the public; relating to opioid overdose response kits in buildings open to the public; relating to civil liability for providing opioid overdose drugs; and providing for an effective date. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2025 |
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