Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher said she would not be able to implement changes to the state’s voting laws if lawmakers did not pass legislation this year.
Conservative Republicans were typically in favor of long sentences for a broader range of opioids; moderate Republicans, independents and Democrats were more likely to want the harsher penalties tailored specifically to fentanyl, and to devote more resources to treatment and rehabilitation.
Angela Harris, who was stabbed in an Anchorage library, is advocating for a bill that would require some violent offenders found incompetent to stand trial to be committed to the state’s psychiatric hospital.