This newsletter includes updates on the recent East Anchorage Townhall meetings and a review of bills I am working on this year. One bill the Senate is working on fixes a tax loophole and an oil tax subsidy. Please consider sending the Senate Finance Committee a message of support for Senate Bill 114. You can […]
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JUNEAU – The Alaska Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 12, sponsored by Senator Jesse Kiehl (D-Juneau). Senate Bill 12 lets sexual assault and domestic violence survivors, along with peace and correctional officers, keep their address confidential from public records. Currently, forty-one states provide address protection for victims. Senate Bill 12 requires the State of Alaska
JUNEAU – Senator Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, introduced Senate Bill 135 today establishing the Alaska Work and Save Program to make it easier for small businesses in Alaska to provide Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to their employees. Senate Bill 135 would also allow all Alaskans to invest their permanent fund dividend in their retirement account during
My first piece of legislation to pass the Senate, celebrating Korean-Alaska Friendship, and SB 52 has its first hearing in the Senate Finance Committee.
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I appreciate the participation I got from all of you at our town hall meetings in Kenai and Nikiski over the weekend. Thanks for taking time out of your Saturday to come. Not able to make it? You can give me your thoughts on Alaska’s budget by taking my survey.
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Sen. Löki Gale Tobin and Mike Mason sit down with the Executive Director of the Association of Alaska School Boards to talk about public education in Alaska.
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This week, the Senate passed Senate Bill 58. This legislation will extend postpartum Medicaid coverage for new mothers from 60 days to 12 months.
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I’ve been squinting when I go outside these days. Luckily we’re in the Capitol longer and longer hours this time of session, so there’s no need to spring for sunglasses.
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Dear Friends and Neighbors, The Senate Finance committee has been working on budget issues with diligence. Now that the House has provided their version of the Operating Budget, that will be the focus. The Senate is completing the Capital Budget work and will send that to the House soon. Since there’s not spare money, it
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The House passed the operating budget to the Senate on Monday. Now, with only 27 days left in session things are starting to kick up, bills are moving in both bodies leading to some great opportunities for public testimony. To learn more about the Budget, Work Zone Awareness Week, Bills on the move and a
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