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Senate Judiciary Committee moves SB 90 on mental-health consent for minors to paperwork stage
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a second hearing on Senate Bill 90, sponsored by Sen. Kathy Giesel, heard brief closing remarks from the sponsor, and, with no objections or amendments, voted to move the bill out of committee for paperwork and a subsequent hearing.
The Alaska State Senate Judiciary Committee moved Senate Bill 90 out of committee on April 23, 2025, after a short closing by the bill sponsor and a motion from Senator Tobin.
Senator Kathy Giesel, sponsor of SB 90 and senator for Senate District E, told the committee the measure aims to address teen mental health, saying it “can really help teen mental health and hopefully prevent suicide and substance abuse and other challenges that teens face.”
The bill, described in the hearing as addressing minor mental-health age-of-consent issues, had no amendments submitted by the committee’s advance amendment deadline. Senator Tobin moved “senate bill 90 work order 34-ls0275 backslash a as an Anchorage with individual recommendations and attached 0 fiscal notes.” With no objections, the chair stated, “Hearing and seeing no objections, Senate Bill 90 has moved from committee. We're going to go bridal to sign the paperwork and set up for our next hearing.” The committee did not record a roll-call vote in the transcript.
The hearing was characterized as the bill’s second committee hearing; no committee-level amendments were read into the record and no fiscal notes were attached according to the motion text. Senator Giesel emphasized the testimony heard during the committee process and framed the measure as a response to concerns about teen suicide, substance use and mental-health crises among minors.
No additional details about bill text changes, estimated costs, or scheduled next steps beyond the paperwork routing and a subsequent hearing were provided on the record during this session.
The committee's next scheduled meeting was announced as April 25, 2025, for unrelated introductory hearings. The SB 90 motion was handled on the record and the committee adjourned the day's business following later presentations.
