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Alaska Statute 25.05.261(a)(2) 1, allows anyone 18 years of age or older (including friends, relatives or non-residents of the United States) to perform a marriage ceremony if they first obtain a marriage commissioner appointment from an Alaskan court. The marriage license application and instructions are available on the Vital Statistics website.
In 1996, the Alaska Legislature passed a bill banning same-sex marriage. Governor Tony Knowles declined to veto the bill, but allowed it to go become law without his signature on May 6, 1996. [ 6 ] In 1998, the Legislature passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, which was approved in a referendum on November 3, 1998.
In February 1998, just days after Michalski's ruling, the Alaska Senate Health, Education and Social Services Committee introduced Joint Resolution 42, which stated that "each marriage contract in Alaska may be entered into only by one man and one woman. The legislature may, by law, enact additional requirements relating to marriage."
After the Hawaii Supreme Court seemed poised to legalize same-sex marriage in Hawaii in Baehr v. Miike in 1993, Representative Norm Rokeberg introduced legislation (House Bill 227) to the Alaska House of Representatives in March 1995 to add language restricting marriage to "the union of one man and one woman" in state statutes.
Born Mary Sattler, Peltola is Yup'ik (an Alaska Native people) from the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta in Western Alaska. [15] [16] She was born in Anchorage on August 31, 1973. [17] [4] Her Yup'ik name is Akalleq (transl. the one who rolled). [18] [19] Peltola's father, Ward Sattler, a German-American from Nebraska, moved to Alaska to work as a pilot ...
This is a list of U.S. statewide elected executive officials.These state constitutional officers have their duties and qualifications mandated in state constitutions. This list does not include those elected to serve in non-executive branches of government, such as justices or clerks of the state supreme courts or at-large members of the state legislatures.
Psychologists Arthur and Elaine Aron are known for research behind the “36 Questions That Lead to Love.” They share how their relationship has lasted over 50 years.
He served in the Alaska Senate from 2003 to 2015. He was minority leader from January 2014 until he left office. During this time, French authored an unsuccessful bill to strike down the state's same-sex marriage ban. [1] He is a member of the Democratic Party. He applied for a state judgeship position in July 2015. [2]