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| HB 49 : Early Childhood Ed: Parents As Teachers
Sponsored by Rep. Tuck, Rep. Kawasaki, Rep. Gara, Rep. Petersen | An Act establishing in the Department of Education and Early Development a voluntary parent and early childhood education program for pre-elementary aged children. 
Status: (H) FIN : 2011-03-16
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| HB 80 : Self Defense
Passed House!
Sponsored by Rep. Neuman, Rep. Feige, Rep. Lynn, Rep. Costello | An Act relating to self defense in any place where a person has a right to be.
Status: (S) FIN : 2012-03-23
Alaska Statutes already recognize that we have a right to use deadly force to protect our family, person, and property. HB 80 further clarifies that right exists not only in our home but also in any place that we have a right to be.
This legislation clarifies the individual's right ... Sponsor Statement »
2011-04-09 : House Passes Neuman's Self-Defense Bill
HB 80 Removes Duty to Retreat for any Place a Person has the Legal Right to Be
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| HB 88 : Use Of Foreign Law
Sponsored by Rep. Carl Gatto | An Act prohibiting a court, arbitrator, mediator, administrative agency, or enforcement authority from applying a law, rule, or provision of an agreement that violates an individual's right under the Constitution of the State of Alaska or the United States Constitution.
Status: (H) FIN : 2011-04-04
HB 88 aims at preventing "a court or other enforcement authority" from enforcing foreign law in Alaska. The bill will preempt violations of an individual's constitutional rights resulting from the application of foreign law.
America has unique values of liberty which do ... Sponsor Statement »
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| HB 144 : Report On Fishing Stream Access
Signed Into Law! Chapter 9 SLA 12
Sponsored by Rep. Les Gara | An Act requiring the Department of Natural Resources annually to deliver to the legislature and the governor a report on fishing stream access.
Version: CSHB 144(RES)
Status: Chapter 9 SLA 12 : 2012-04-24
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| HB 168 : Injunction Security: Industrial Operation
Passed House!
Sponsored by Rep. Eric Feige | An Act requiring the amount of the security given by a party seeking an injunction or order vacating or staying the operation of a permit affecting an industrial operation to include an amount for the payment of wages and benefits for employees and payments to contractors and subcontractors that may be lost if the industrial operation is wrongfully enjoined.
Version: CSHB 168(JUD)
Status: (S) JUD : 2012-03-21
Under current law the cost to bring a public litigant lawsuit against a legally permitted project is in effect zero. There is very little risk in bringing a suit. All the risk is borne by the defendants. These actions do shutdown projects at significant costs to working Alaskans, ... Sponsor Statement »
2011-04-07 : Bond Requirement for Public Litigant Lawsuits Passes House
HB 168 Levels Legal Playing Field & Strikes Against Frivolous Lawsuits to Delay Projects
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| HB 174 : Extending Stayed Permits
Sponsored by Rep. Eric Feige | An Act relating to the period in which a permit authorizing activities in the state related to mineral resources, oil or gas, or transportation projects is valid when activities authorized by the permit have been stayed by a court or administrative order.
Status: (H) RES : 2011-02-25
Over the past several years the state of Alaska has established a permitting system and structure to help managers oversee various types of projects undertaken in Alaska. It is one of the most comprehensive permitting regimes in the world. Applicants must pass a rigorous system of ... Sponsor Statement »
• Sectional Analysis  [PDF:44KB]
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| HB 184 : Refund Of Fish Business Tax To Municipalities
Sponsored by Rep. Peggy Wilson | An Act relating to the sharing of tax revenue from the fisheries business tax and fishery resource landing tax with municipalities; and providing for an effective date.
Status: (H) FIN : 2012-02-10
HB 184 deals with two different fisheries taxes paid by either buyers or processors. The first is the Fisheries Business Tax and the second is the Fisheries Resource Landing Tax. This bill will not change the taxes levied. This bill deals with the distribution of the tax revenue once ... Sponsor Statement »
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| HB 191 : Department Of Agriculture And Food
Sponsored by Rep. Steve Thompson | An Act establishing a state department of agriculture and food and relating to its powers and duties; relating to the powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Natural Resources; and providing for an effective date.
Status: (H) RES : 2011-04-07
HB 191 was introduced at the request of the state-wide Alaska Farm Bureau. HB 191 establishes a new state Department of Agriculture and Food with the intent of using the current Division of Agriculture's budget. Currently, statutes and regulations that govern food, food products, ... Sponsor Statement »
• Sectional Analysis
2012-11-20 : Thompson Picks Up a Pair of Public Service Awards
ABC and Farm Bureau Name Fairbanks Representative Legislator of the Year
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| HB 202 : Sales Of Food By Producers To Consumers
Sponsored by Rep. Tammie Wilson | An Act relating to the sale of food products by the producer to the consumer.
Status: (H) L&C : 2011-03-23
House Bill 202 simplifies the sale of food products between two individuals as long as there is no intermediary. No Department of Environmental Conservation regulation is required for these small-scaled food sales. A genuine concern for food freedom and food safety generated this ... Sponsor Statement »
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| HB 233 : Biometric Information For ID
Sponsored by Sen. Berta Gardner | An Act relating to biometric information.
Status: (H) HSS : 2011-04-08
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| HB 237 : Alaska Wild Salmon Day
Sponsored by Rep. Bryce Edgmon | An Act establishing June 10 of each year as Alaska Wild Salmon Day.
Status: (H) FSH : 2011-04-13
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| HB 242 : Public School Funding: Digital Learning
Sponsored by Rep. Peggy Wilson | An Act relating to funding for digital learning as a component of public school funding.
Status: (H) FIN : 2012-02-27
House Bill No. 242 establishes a "digital learning funding factor" in law to assist school districts to implement a full range of digital technology solutions. The factor is added as a multiplier in the Student Based Formula that is used to determine the funding for each school ... Sponsor Statement »
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| HB 282 : Military Training Credit/Temp. License
Passed House!
Sponsored by Rep. Bill Thomas | An Act relating to applying military education, training, and service credit to occupational licensing and certain postsecondary education and employment training requirements; providing for a temporary occupational license for qualified military service members; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CSHB 282(FIN)
Status: (S) Sup Calendar 4/15 : 2012-04-15
According to the Department of Defense, the June 2011 jobless rate for post-9/11 veterans was 13.3%, with young male Veterans (ages 18 to 24) experiencing an unemployment rate of 21.9%. Last year, Alaska had over 1200 service members separate from the military from our posts and ... Sponsor Statement »
• Sectional Analysis
2012-02-01 : House Passes Bill Helping Military Transition Into AK Workforce
Thomas' HB 282 applies military training, education towards licensing or college
2012-01-20 : Session Priorities Set - Legislative Package Chosen
Co-chairs Say Trio of Bills are Built to Safeguard Alaska's Veterans
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| HB 289 : Liq. Nat. Gas Storage: Tax Credit/Lease
Passed House!
Sponsored by Rep. Steve Thompson | An Act relating to a liquefied natural gas storage facility; relating to the tax credit for an investment in a liquefied natural gas storage facility; relating to the regulation of liquefied natural gas storage as a utility; relating to the powers and duties of the director of the division of lands and to lease fees for a liquefied natural gas storage facility on state land; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CSHB 289(FIN)
Status: (S) FIN : 2012-04-04
The cost of energy is crippling a good portion of Interior Alaska's economy. The ever increasing expense of heating homes and operating businesses during the long, cold, dark winter hurts the ability of Interior Alaskans to put food on the table today and plan for the future. ... Sponsor Statement »
• Sectional Analysis
2012-04-03 : House Passes LNG Storage Facility Incentive Bill
HB 289 Applies to Above-Ground Facilities Able to Hold 25,000 Gallons
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| HB 293 : Rights Of Crime Victims/Continuances
Sponsored by Rep. Chris Tuck | An Act relating to the rights of crime victims; relating to the duties of prosecuting attorneys; and amending Rule 45, Alaska Rules of Criminal Procedure.
Status: (H) FIN : 2012-02-24
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| HB 312 : Homeowners Energy Conversion Loan Fund
Passed House!
Sponsored by Rep. Tammie Wilson | An Act creating a low-interest loan program for homeowners who convert their homes to natural gas-fired, propane-fired, biomass, or electric heating or district heat; and providing for an effective date.
Version: CSHB 312(FIN)
Status: (S) FIN : 2012-04-10
Committee Substitute for House Bill 312 (FIN) will create a low-interest loan program, providing Alaskans an affordable avenue for converting their oil, coal, or wood heating appliance to a natural gas-fired, propane-fired, biomass, electric heat or district heat heating appliance.
The ... Sponsor Statement »
2012-04-09 : House OK's Bill Creating Loan for Home Heating Conversion
HB 312 Creates a Low-Interest Loan Program Giving Alaskans Affordable Heating Options
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| HB 317 : Residential Real Property Foreclosures
Sponsored by Rep. Les Gara | An Act relating to residential real property foreclosures.
Status: (H) L&C : 2012-02-10
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| HCR 8 : TSA Screening Procedures
Signed Into Law! Legis Resolve 4
Sponsored by Rep. Chris Tuck | Urging the Transportation Security Administration to reconsider its use of pat-down search procedures adopted on October 28, 2010, and to conduct pat-down searches using less invasive but equally effective procedures; and urging the United States Congress to exercise greater oversight of the Transportation Security Administration.
Status: Legis Resolve 4 : 2011-07-19
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| HCR 24 : State Food Resource Development Group
Passed House!
Sponsored by Rep. Bill Stoltze | Relating to the establishment and operation of a state food resource development working group.
Version: CSHCR 24(FIN)
Status: (S) Sup Calendar 4/15 : 2012-04-15
The passage of House Concurrent Resolution 24 calls of the Governor to establish a state food resource development working group with the primary goal of producing more locally grown and harvested food items to be consumed in Alaska, by Alaskans.
In addition the resolution calls ... Sponsor Statement »
2012-03-29 : House Calls for More Local Food Supply & Development
HCR 24 Creates State Food Resource Development Working Group
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| HJR 20 : Roadless Rule & Chugach And Tongass Hydro
Signed Into Law! Legis Resolve 63
Sponsored by Rep. Kyle Johansen | Urging the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture not to implement protection of inventoried roadless areas under the roadless rule or otherwise restrict the development of necessary hydroelectric and other natural resource projects in the Tongass National Forest and the Chugach National Forest.
Version: SCS CSHJR 20(RES)
Status: Legis Resolve 63 : 2012-08-08
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| HJR 21 : Opposing Federal Wild Land Designation
Passed House!
Sponsored by Rep. Eric Feige | Urging the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior to withdraw a secretarial order that creates a wild land classification and to administer federal lands in the state in accordance with existing statutes and agency guidelines; and urging the United States Congress to prohibit the use of appropriated funds by the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to implement, administer, or enforce the secretarial order.
Status: (S) RES : 2011-04-04
House Joint Resolution 21 is a response and clear statement of opposition to an attempt by a Federal government department head to ignore Federal Statute and promote an agenda that is detrimental to and could essentially shut down Alaska's economy and unique culture.
On December ... Sponsor Statement »
• Secretarial Order number 3310 [PDF:799KB]
2011-04-01 : House to Interior Secretary Salazar: No Wild Land Designations
HJR 21 Points to Lack of Congressional Approval in S.O. 3310 process
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| HJR 26 : Sea Otter Management
Passed House!
Sponsored by Rep. Peggy Wilson | Urging federal agencies to work with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Southeast Alaska Native leaders, and other interested parties to establish strategies and plans for the sustainable management of the reintroduced sea otter population of Southeast Alaska.
Version: CSHJR 26(RES) AM
Status: (S) RLS : 2012-04-10
In 1965-69, sea otters were reintroduced in SE with no management plan for an eventual overabundance.
Since 1972, under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the federal government who has the sole responsibility for managing has focused on a general harvesting
moratorium, ... Sponsor Statement »
2012-03-19 : House Passes Southeast Sea Otter Management Resolution
HJR 26 Urges Federal Agencies to Plan Sustainable Management of Growing Populations
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| HJR 27 : Relocate Coastal Villages Region Fund
Signed Into Law! Legis Resolve 15
Sponsored by Rep. Paul Seaton | Supporting the relocation of the home port of the Coastal Villages Region Fund fishing fleet from Seattle to Alaska.
Status: Legis Resolve 15 : 2011-07-19
Coastal Villages Region Fund is one of six Community Development Quota (CDQ) groups created under re-authorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to provide economic development in villages located in Western Alaska from the fisheries resources of ... Sponsor Statement »
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| HJR 29 : BLM Legacy Oil Well Clean Up/Awareness
Signed Into Law! Legis Resolve 30
Sponsored by Rep. Charisse Millett | Urging the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, to plug legacy wells properly and to reclaim the legacy well sites as soon as possible in order to protect the environment in the Arctic region; and requesting the Office of the Governor to increase nationwide awareness about legacy wells and well sites.
Version: SCS HJR 29(RES) AM S
Status: Legis Resolve 30 : 2012-09-12
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| HR 5 : Urging Funding For Essential Air Service
Passed House! House Resolve 5
Sponsored by Rep. Peggy Wilson | Urging the United States Congress to fund fully the essential air service program.
Version: HR 5 AM
Status: (H) Resolve 5 : 2011-02-23
2011-02-09 : House Acts to Support Essential Air Service Program
Unanimous Passage of HR 5 Urges Congress to Continue Funding FAA Program - EAS Program is Critical Link for 44 Alaska Communities
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| SB 30 : Return Of Seized Property
Signed Into Law! Chapter 3 SLA 12
Sponsored by Sen. Fred Dyson | An Act providing for the release of certain property in the custody of a law enforcement agency to a crime victim under certain conditions and relating to requests for that release by the office of victims' rights.
Version: CSSB 30(2D JUD)
Status: Chapter 3 SLA 12 : 2012-03-21
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| SB 74 : Autism: Ins. Coverage, Task Force
Signed Into Law! Chapter 63 SLA 12
Sponsored by Sen. Johnny Ellis | An Act requiring insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders, describing the method for establishing a covered treatment plan for those disorders, and defining the covered treatment for those disorders; establishing the Comprehensive Autism Early Diagnosis and Treatment Task Force; and providing for an effective date.
Version: HCS SB 74(RLS) AM H
Status: Chapter 63 SLA 12 : 2012-06-27
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| SB 130 : Alaska Native Language Council
Signed Into Law! Chapter 48 SLA 12
Sponsored by Sen. Donny Olson | An Act establishing the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council and relating to the preservation, restoration, and revitalization of Alaska Native languages.
Version: HCS CSSB 130(FIN)
Status: Chapter 48 SLA 12 : 2012-05-28
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| SCR 7 : Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day
Signed Into Law! Legis Resolve 11
Sponsored by Sen. Kevin Meyer | Proclaiming September 9, 2011, as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day.
Status: Legis Resolve 11 : 2011-07-19
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