
Alyse Galvin
141:29 - 142:17
"President Stevens, we were at the very end of session by the time we were getting this all the way through. And were it not for the President's support to make sure that this got calendared, that's really a lot of the game is making sure we get the timing just right."
“President Stevens, we were at the very end of session by the time we were getting this all the way through. And were it not for the President's support to make sure that this got calendared, that's really a lot of the game is making sure we get the timing just right.”
Dan Wayne, I think deserves credit too for being in constant contact and also helping us when we had questions. Of course, Monica Schringendorf is very helpful. I want to kudos to Senator Keel for picking up on a couple of things. And then I— the other point that I wanted to make is that President Stevens, we were at the very end of session by the time we were getting this all the way through. And were it not for the President's support to make sure that this got calendared, that's really a lot of the game is making sure we get the timing just right.
Alaska's overhauled Legislative Ethics Act took effect June 24 after Gov. Dunleavy declined to sign it, adding a hard statutory requirement that legislators document the legislative purpose behind any travel gifts they accept.

The Select Committee on Legislative Ethics disclosed Friday that a legislator and a legislative employee submitted only a travel itinerary for an Arctic Winter Games trip and declined to provide any further narrative of legislative purpose, exposing a gap that new state law now closes by making agenda submission a hard statutory requirement.

The Select Committee on Legislative Ethics voted unanimously Friday to direct staff to send a letter to the HR manager and Legislative Counsel seeking relief from conducting sexual harassment and civility training, arguing the assignment falls outside its statutory authority and crowds out substantive ethics instruction.
