The Alaska legislature is plagued by structural problems that will continue to forestall any meaningful solutions.  They do have published rules of procedure; however, they choose to operate as was explained by Senator Huggins, by use of legislative "traditions". They exempted themselves from state open meeting law (to meet behind closed doors on any topic),  conditioned majority caucus membership on voting for the final budget appropriation (regardless of sustainability) and with voting with caucus leadership on all procedural votes (routinely used to suppress minority amendments),  grant defacto veto power over legislation to individual committee chairs (who simply can simply refuse to hold a bill hearing until the session ends) and absolutely refuse to discipline members for legal and ethical violations ( e.g  violating state procurement law, circumventing campaign donation restrictions, collecting per diem while on vacation.  The current system simply cannot deliver  solutions.