# Alaska HB 217: AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COMM. DRIVER LIC.

Alaska HB 217, AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COMM. DRIVER LIC., is a 34th Legislature (2025-2026) House bill sponsored by HOUSE TRANSPORTATION; status failed, last action 2026-05-17 ((S) REFERRED TO RULES); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AK-HB217-34
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: Alaska HB 217
- State: Alaska
- Session: 34th Legislature (2025-2026)
- Title: AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COMM. DRIVER LIC.
- Status: failed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-05-02
- Last action: 2026-05-17, (S) REFERRED TO RULES
- Sponsor: HOUSE TRANSPORTATION
- Cosponsors: 0
- Touches household money: yes
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 5

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Commercial driver applicants get narrower retests: benefit, low. Alaska's Department of Administration may require commercial driver license applicants to retake failed or unfinished driving-test portions. Any required retest is limited to those portions, not parts already passed.
- Small electric delivery devices get an exemption: benefit, low. Qualifying electric personal delivery devices are exempt from this law's autonomous-vehicle section. They must mainly carry property, weigh less than 120 pounds without cargo, and travel no faster than 10 miles per hour. They must operate on a sidewalk or path within a highway right-of-way. They mu…
- Limits on autonomous goods and passenger transport: cost, low. Alaska-registered autonomous vehicles may carry goods only for personal, noncommercial use. For goods transport, gross vehicle weight must be 10,000 pounds or less. The vehicle must be designed for no more than 16 passengers, including the driver. Passenger transport also requires gross vehicle wei…
- Fault rules for autonomous vehicle crashes: mixed, low. Civil lawsuits over crashes involving autonomous vehicles use Alaska's fault-allocation rules under AS 09.17.080. Those rules determine each party's share of fault and how damages are divided. What a party pays or receives depends on the case.
- Safety rules for Alaska autonomous vehicles: mixed, low. Autonomous vehicles operated in Alaska must have a human physically present to monitor them and step in, including operating or shutting them off. Commercial autonomous vehicles transporting passengers are exempt from this human-operator rule. Required operators must meet federal and state requirem…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: HOUSE TRANSPORTATION

## Actions (76)

- 2026-05-17: (S) REFERRED TO RULES (Senate)
- 2026-05-17: (S) FN1: ZERO(ADM) (Senate)
- 2026-05-17: (S) DP: GRAY-JACKSON (Senate)
- 2026-05-17: (S) DNP: BJORKMAN, TILTON (Senate)
- 2026-05-17: (S) STA RPT SCS(TRA) 2DNP 1DP (Senate)
- 2026-05-16: (S) Minutes (SSTA) (Senate)
- 2026-05-16: (S) Moved SCS CSHB 217(TRA) Out of Committee -- Please Note Time Change -- (Senate)
- 2026-05-16: (S) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg) (Senate)
- 2026-05-16: Audio/Video (House)
- 2026-05-14: (S) Minutes (SSTA) (Senate)
- 2026-05-14: (S) Heard & Held (Senate)
- 2026-05-14: (S) STATE AFFAIRS at 03:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg) (Senate)
- 2026-05-14: Audio/Video (House)
- 2026-05-13: (S) FN1: ZERO(ADM) (Senate)
- 2026-05-13: (S) NR: BJORKMAN, KIEHL, STEDMAN, TOBIN (Senate)
- 2026-05-13: (S) TRA RPT SCS 4NR SAME TITLE (Senate)
- 2026-05-12: (S) Moved SCS CSHB 217(TRA) Out of Committee -- Please Note Time Change -- (Senate)
- 2026-05-12: (S) TRANSPORTATION at 01:30 PM BUTROVICH 205 (Senate)
- 2026-05-12: (S) STA REFERRAL ADDED AFTER TRA (Senate)
- 2026-05-12: Audio/Video (House)
- 2026-05-05: (S) Heard & Held (Senate)
- 2026-05-05: (S) TRANSPORTATION at 01:30 PM BUTROVICH 205 (Senate)
- 2026-05-05: Audio/Video (House)
- 2026-05-04: (S) TRA (Senate)
- 2026-05-04: (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS (Senate)
- 2026-05-01: (H) VERSION: CSHB 217(CRA) AM (House)
- 2026-05-01: (H) TRANSMITTED TO (S) (House)
- 2026-05-01: (H) RECONSIDERATION NOT TAKEN UP (House)
- 2026-04-30: (H) JOHNSON NOTICE OF RECONSIDERATION (House)
- 2026-04-30: (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE (House)
- 2026-04-30: (H) PASSED Y39 E1 (House)
- 2026-04-30: (H) READ THE THIRD TIME CSHB 217(CRA) AM (House)
- 2026-04-29: (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 4/30 CALENDAR (House)
- 2026-04-29: (H) ...CHANGES TITLE OF LEGISLATION (House)
- 2026-04-29: (H) AM NO 1 ADOPTED UC (House)
- 2026-04-29: (H) CRA CS ADOPTED UC (House)
- 2026-04-29: (H) READ THE SECOND TIME (House)
- 2026-04-29: (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 4/29/2026 (House)
- 2026-04-16: (H) FN1: ZERO(ADM) (House)
- 2026-04-16: (H) AM: ST. CLAIR (House)
- 2026-04-16: (H) DP: HOLLAND, PRAX, G.NELSON, HALL, HIMSCHOOT, MEARS (House)
- 2026-04-16: (H) CRA RPT CS(CRA) 6DP 1AM (House)
- 2026-04-14: (H) Moved CSHB 217(CRA) Out of Committee (House)
- 2026-04-14: (H) COMMUNITY & REGIONAL AFFAIRS at 08:00 AM BARNES 124 (House)
- 2026-04-14: Audio/Video (House)
- 2026-04-09: (H) Heard & Held -- Delayed to 9:00 am -- (House)
- 2026-04-09: (H) COMMUNITY & REGIONAL AFFAIRS at 08:00 AM BARNES 124 (House)
- 2026-04-09: Audio/Video (House)
- 2026-04-02: (H) Heard & Held (House)
- 2026-04-02: (H) COMMUNITY & REGIONAL AFFAIRS at 08:00 AM BARNES 124 (House)
- 2026-04-02: Audio/Video (House)
- 2026-03-25: (H) FN1: ZERO(ADM) (House)
- 2026-03-25: (H) NR: MCCABE, MINA (House)
- 2026-03-25: (H) DP: G.NELSON, ST. CLAIR, CARRICK, EISCHEID (House)
- 2026-03-25: (H) TRA RPT CS(TRA) 4DP 2NR (House)
- 2026-03-24: (H) Moved CSHB 217(TRA) Out of Committee (House)
- 2026-03-24: (H) TRANSPORTATION at 01:00 PM BARNES 124 (House)
- 2026-03-24: Audio/Video (House)
- 2026-02-26: (H) Minutes (HTRA) (House)
- 2026-02-26: (H) Heard & Held (House)
- 2026-02-26: (H) TRANSPORTATION at 01:00 PM BARNES 124 (House)
- 2026-02-26: Audio/Video (House)
- 2026-02-24: (H) Minutes (HTRA) (House)
- 2026-02-24: (H) Heard & Held -- Please Note Time Change -- (House)
- 2026-02-24: (H) TRANSPORTATION at 01:30 PM BARNES 124 (House)
- 2026-02-24: Audio/Video (House)
- 2026-02-19: (H) Minutes (HTRA) (House)
- 2026-02-19: (H) Heard & Held -- Testimony <Invitation Only> -- (House)
- 2026-02-19: (H) TRANSPORTATION at 01:00 PM BARNES 124 (House)
- 2026-02-19: Audio/Video (House)
- 2025-05-08: (H) Minutes (HTRA) (House)
- 2025-05-08: (H) Heard & Held (House)
- 2025-05-08: (H) TRANSPORTATION at 01:00 PM BARNES 124 (House)
- 2025-05-08: Audio/Video (House)
- 2025-05-02: (H) TRA, CRA (House)
- 2025-05-02: (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS (House)

## Bill text

- SCS CSHB 217(TRA), 2026-05-13: [HTML](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0217E), [PDF](https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0217E.PDF)
- CSHB 217(CRA) am, 2026-04-29: [HTML](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0217D), [PDF](https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0217D.PDF)
- CSHB 217(CRA), 2026-04-16: [HTML](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0217C), [PDF](https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0217C.PDF)
- CSHB 217(TRA), 2026-03-25: [HTML](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0217B), [PDF](https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0217B.PDF)
- HB 217, 2025-05-02: [HTML](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0217A), [PDF](https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0217A.PDF)

## Related bills

- HB 239: CRIME/CNTRL SUBST/ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY (became law)
- HB 246: SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICE AGENCY FUNDING (became law)
- HB 195: PHARMACISTS; PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES (became law)
- HB 73: COMPLEX CARE RESIDENTIAL HOMES (signed)
- HB 28: EDU: SCHOOLS/TEACHERS/SCHOOL BD/LOAN PRGM (became law)
- SB 178: EXPAND EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES (became law)

## Sources
- [SCS CSHB 217(TRA) (HTML)](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0217E)
- [SCS CSHB 217(TRA) (PDF)](https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0217E.PDF)
- [CSHB 217(CRA) am (HTML)](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0217D)
- [CSHB 217(CRA) am (PDF)](https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0217D.PDF)
- [CSHB 217(CRA) (HTML)](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0217C)
- [CSHB 217(CRA) (PDF)](https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0217C.PDF)
- [CSHB 217(TRA) (HTML)](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0217B)
- [CSHB 217(TRA) (PDF)](https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0217B.PDF)
- [HB 217 (HTML)](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/34?Hsid=HB0217A)
- [HB 217 (PDF)](https://www.akleg.gov/PDF/34/Bills/HB0217A.PDF)

## Related
- [HB 239: CRIME/CNTRL SUBST/ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AK-HB239-34)
- [HB 246: SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICE AGENCY FUNDING](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AK-HB246-34)
- [HB 195: PHARMACISTS; PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AK-HB195-34)
- [HB 73: COMPLEX CARE RESIDENTIAL HOMES](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AK-HB73-34)
- [HB 28: EDU: SCHOOLS/TEACHERS/SCHOOL BD/LOAN PRGM](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AK-HB28-34)
- [SB 178: EXPAND EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICES](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AK-SB178-34)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/AK-HB217-34 (as of 2026-11-04).