 The bill passed, after watered-down modifications, and was signed into law by Governor Sean Parnell.Bird retired after forty-one years of secondary school instruction in 2015, and immediately signed a contract with Kenai Peninsula College as an adjunct faculty member.He debated Dr. Forrest Nabors of the University of Alaska/Anchorage on November 20, 2015, at the Loussac Library in Anchorage on the topic of "Lincoln's Legacy