
Joyce Anderson
139:31 - 139:45
"the use of the legislature's title was also in here, so we can just mention that statute as well."
“the use of the legislature's title was also in here, so we can just mention that statute as well.”
Um, I've completely forgot about that one. I was going to go through it and look. I think that might be the only one. It's like I said, the rest was more, um— oh, and the use of the legislature's title was also in here, so we can just mention that statute as well. Joyce, why the tabs?
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.
