ID card, smoking bills among under-the-radar proposals

With much of the attention this session on addressing Alaska’s multibillion-dollar budget, several bills that could affect residents or their businesses have flown a bit under the radar.
One of them involves identification cards. Alaska has a law, passed in 2008, barring state agencies from spending money to help implement national proof-of-identity standards, known as Real ID. Some lawmakers saw the federal law as overreaching.
If the state is not in compliance when its extension expires