The House spent hours debating and eventually passing a bill restricting trans girls from being on girls’ sports teams.
Sen. Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel, left, Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, center, and Sen. Donny Olson, D-Golovin, each a co-chair of the Senate Finance Committee, await a conference committee meeting on May 13, 2024.
Alaska Public Media state government reporter Eric Stone joined Alaska News Nightly host Casey Grove to fill us in on what’s going on in Juneau.: Tell us about that dramatic debate over the trans bill.: So the bill would put into law something that is already in practice by state school board regulation — trans girls would be banned from girls’ sports teams.
The House minority, made up of Democrats, independents and one Republican, put on something of a filibuster by offering just a ton of amendments highlighting flaws in the bill. None wound up passing.And then the bill passed with 22 votes late on Sunday night. — a bill renaming “child pornography” to “child sexual abuse material,” another bill that requires out-of-state sex offenders who move to Alaska to register with the state, and allowing hearsay in grand jury proceedings. There were some changes in Senate Finance, one of which limits hearsay to police officers. Basically, the idea is to make it so that crime victims don’t have to testify to grand juries. They’d still have to testify at trial, though., saying it’s ineffective and unconstitutional.
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