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NEWS: Legislature Passes Bill Removing a Barrier to Entry for Prospective Truck Drivers

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JUNEAU – Today, the House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 123 by the Senate Transportation Committee, which repeals the requirement that applicants for a commercial driver’s license (CDL) hold a regular driver’s license for one year. This requirement was enacted in 1985 before state and federal regulators modernized the training and licensing standards for CDLs. […]

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NEWS: ConocoPhillips Makes More Profit in Alaska Than Anywhere Else in the World in 1st Quarter of 2023 According to Non-Partisan Legislative Research Division

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JUNEAU – Today, Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, released the findings of a research report reviewing profit data recently released by ConocoPhillips. The legislature’s non-partisan research division found that in the first quarter of 2023, Alaska was the most profitable geographical area in the world for ConocoPhillips on a per barrel of oil equivalent (BOE). ConocoPhillips’

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NEWS: Alaska Senate Passes Increase to Public Education

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Juneau – Today, the Alaska State Senate passed Senate Bill 52 to increase education funding by $175 million for Alaska’s public schools and correspondence programs. This significant increase provides school districts with a $680 addition to the Base Student Allocation (BSA) calculation, which the Senate Education Committee determined is the simplest, fairest, and most effective

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NEWS: Alaska Senate Passes Legislation Establishing Juneteenth as an Observed State Holiday

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JUNEAU – Today, the Alaska Senate passed Senate Bill 22, sponsored by Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson, D-Anchorage, establishing Juneteenth, June 19, as an annually observed state holiday. In 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, proclaiming the civil war had ended and that any enslaved people were now free. This day became known as Juneteenth, a

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NEWS: Alaska Legislature Passes Legislation Allowing Sawmill Operators to Produce Dimensional Lumber for Residential Construction

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JUNEAU – Today, the Alaska House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 87, sponsored by Senator Jesse Bjorkman (R-Nikiski), with a vote of 38 to 1. The bill allows Alaska sawmill operators to become certified to grade and sell certain types of dimensional lumber they produce for residential construction.

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NEWS: Senate Finance Introduces Operating and Capital Budget Substitutes

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JUNEAU – The Senate Finance Committee introduced a committee substitute for the state’s operating budget this afternoon. The new committee substitute provides a permanent fund dividend consistent with a 75/25 percent of market value (POMV) split of the annual earnings, translating to an approximate $1,304 dividend. The committee substitute also increases the funds going to

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NEWS: Legislation Creating an Address Confidentiality Program to Protect Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Passes Senate

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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

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NEWS: Senator Wielechowski Introduces Alaska Work and Save Legislation to Streamline Retirement Savings Benefits for Individuals and Employers

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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

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NEWS: State Lawmakers Encourage Congressional Delegation to Continue Support for Bipartisan Permitting Reform

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(JUNEAU) – A bipartisan group of thirty members of the Alaska State Legislature sent a letter to Alaska’s Congressional Delegation on Friday encouraging their continued support of bipartisan federal permitting reform aimed at reducing burdensome regulations and streamlining the approval process to the benefit of Alaskans, the environment, and the development of meaningful infrastructure projects.

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NEWS: Senate Rules Committee Introduces Legislation to Fix Flaws in Alaska’s Oil Tax Structure

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JUNEAU – The Senate Rules Committee introduced legislation today to fix several flaws in Alaska’s oil tax structure. Senate Bill 114 would level the playing field by having all oil producers pay the same corporate income tax rate as corporations at 9.4%. This would only apply after the first $4 million in annual net income. 

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