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AK HB8

Bill

Status

Engrossed

4/11/2011

Primary Sponsor

Robert Lynn

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Origin

House of Representatives

27th Legislature

AI Summary

  • Establishes legislative findings that federal statutes, regulations, presidential executive orders, and secretarial orders must be constitutionally valid and properly adopted to qualify as supreme law under the Supremacy Clause.

  • Prohibits unconstitutional or improperly adopted federal statutes, regulations, presidential executive orders, and secretarial orders from preempting Alaska state laws.

  • Requires the Alaska Attorney General to report to house and senate judicial committees when finding that a federal statute, regulation, executive order, or secretarial order is unconstitutional or improperly adopted but would otherwise preempt state law.

  • Mandates the Attorney General's report include the conflicting federal action, citation to the affected state law, written legal opinion on constitutional/statutory defects, explanation of the conflict and preemption effect, and other relevant information.

  • Takes effect immediately upon enactment.

Legislative Description

Federal Regulations & Executive Orders

Legislative Committees

Last Action

REFERRED TO STATE AFFAIRS

4/12/2011

Committee Referrals

State Affairs4/12/2011
Judiciary1/18/2011

Full Bill Text

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