
Joyce Anderson
138:09 - 138:31
"then it went over to the Senate and Senator Keele had a couple questions. There were a couple amendments made which were areas that were not quite picked up by anybody, which I have to give his office credit for. So we made those technical changes to make it look good."
“then it went over to the Senate and Senator Keele had a couple questions. There were a couple amendments made which were areas that were not quite picked up by anybody, which I have to give his office credit for. So we made those technical changes to make it look good.”
I don't think we've ever, in my term, there's ever been an ethics bill that didn't have amendments. So that was something wonderful. Of course, then it went over to the Senate and Senator Keele had a couple questions. There were a couple amendments made which were areas that were not quite picked up by anybody, which I have to give his office credit for. So we made those technical changes to make it look good.
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.
