Alaska and Kansas Governors Act on Slate of Legislative Bills

In Alaska, Gov. Mike Dunleavy took action on a batch of bills passed by the state legislature in mid-2026, allowing a sweeping crime bill that raises the age of consent to 18 to become law without his signature, while vetoing a bill to create an Alaska-Ireland trade commission and another that would have barred software providers from locking the state into proprietary cloud services. In Kansas, the Legislature passed more than 90 bills, including over 30 health-related measures, before adjourning in late March 2026 and sending the package to Gov. Laura Kelly. Ahead of the Legislature's annual veto session, Kelly issued a series of vetoes, rejecting at least eight bills in a single day according to two reports. Among them were two abortion-related measures, including House Bill 2729 (also referred to as House Bill 2719 in one report), which would have required doctors to provide additional state-mandated information to abortion patients; Kelly said such requirements should stay out of Kansans' private health care decisions. She also vetoed bills addressing tax incentives for private school attendance, in-state college tuition for immigrants, and municipal regulation of battery-charged security fences. Reports differ on the exact bill number for the abortion-disclosure measure and on additional characterizations of Kelly's reasoning, with one account describing her broader criticism of the Legislature's 'political games' and 'micro-managing' of executive branch authority. It remains unresolved how many total bills Kelly vetoed beyond the eight described, and what specific status other Alaska bills—beyond those named—ultimately reached. No further legislative or executive follow-up actions are confirmed in the available reporting.