Ethics Training

2024 Ethics training handouts

Pursuant to AS 24.60.155, all legislators and legislative employees shall complete a legislative ethics course administered by the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics within 10 days of the first regular session of each legislature. Legislators and legislative employees who take office or begin service after the 10th day of the session, must complete their training within 30 days after taking office or beginning service.

For training information, contact the ethics office at 907-269-8179 or Jacqui.Yeagle@akleg.gov.

Who is covered by the Ethics Act?

  • Legislators
  • Staff to legislators
  • Support staff to the Legislature (except hourly employees who work as tour guides, teleconference moderators, casual laborers, and supply movers).
    • Senate Secretary’s office
    • House Clerk’s office
    • House/Senate Records
    • Administrative Services
    • Information and Teleconferencing
    • Legal and Research
    • Reference Library
    • Print Shop
    • Supply
    • Maintenance
    • Information Technology
    • Security
  • Finance Division
  • Audit Division.
  • Office of the Ombudsman
  • Office of Victims’ Rights
  • Public Members of the Ethics Committee

Alaska Statute 24.60.155. Legislative Ethics Course.
A person who is a legislator, legislative employee, or public member of the committee shall complete a legislative ethics course administered by the committee under AS 24.60.150(a)(4) within 10 days of the first day of the first regular session of each legislature.  However, a person who first takes office or begins employment after the 10th day of the first regular session of a legislature shall complete the course required by this section within 30 days after the person’s first day of service and, thereafter, as required by this section.  The committee may grant a person additional time to complete the course required by this section.

Alaska Statute 24.60.150(a)(4).  Duties of the Committee.
The committee shall within 10 days of the first day of each regular session of the legislature and at other times determined by the committee, administer two types of legislative ethics courses that teach means of compliance with this chapter and are designed to give an understanding of this chapter’s purpose under AS 24.60.010; one course, for returning legislators, legislative employees, or public members of the committee, shall refresh knowledge and review compliance issues; a separate course shall be designed to give first-time legislators, legislative employees, public members of the committee a fundamental understanding of this chapter and how to comply with it.