Scope: State (Alaska)
Branch: Legislative
Severity: Green
Date occurred: July 3, 2026
Alaska HB 36, relating to treatment foster homes and the placement of foster children in hospitals and residential psychiatric treatment centers, has reached its effective date as enacted law. The Act sets duties for the Department of Family and Community Services regarding children in state custody placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities outside the state, and amends Rule 12.1(b) of the Alaska Child in Need of Aid Rules of Procedure.
Constitutional basis: Legislature amending a judicial procedure rule, a power the Alaska Constitution expressly grants by supermajority vote; established mechanism used in ordinary fashion.