
Representative · Alaska State House · District 37
50 articles · 11 transcripts
“If all 600,000 acres were treated, potential revenue from offsets over 20 years could exceed $3 billion”
“I think Ashley mentioned the young growth or second growth forests that are coming up. I understand that could be up to 400 or 500 million board feet a year of timber from these forests. That could attract a state-of-the-art new sawmill.”
“Between fiscal year 2019 and fiscal year 2024, federal agencies like the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service paid an estimated $24.8 million in Equal Access to Justice Act awards, with roughly 76% of that going to environmental nonprofits”
“This budget request reflects record investments— this budget, uh, requests record investments in the department”
“I have complete confidence that our legislature will come to the conclusion here shortly that that massive project will benefit this entire state and this country and this world.”
“And with this resolution would potentially endorse is one body or the other just sitting around showing up on the 29th day.”
“The proclamation does spell out one bill in particular, House Bill 381, but it also, if you read the proclamation closely, talks about other legislation germane to the subject that's on the proclamation. The other body was working on their version, Senate Bill 280.”
“When we open ourselves up to these interstate compacts, we open ourselves up to having healthcare providers who do not understand us.”
“17 Yeas, 3 nays. So by a vote of 17 yeas to 3 nays, the Conference Committee substitute for House Bill 263 has passed the Senate.”
“Aspect Holdings, the parent of Epic Oil and Gas LLC, was the successful bidder on 8 blocks covering 110,000 acres in the recent Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease offering in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.”
“34 Yeas, 6 nays. By a vote of 34 yeas to 6 nays, the House has concurred with the Senate changes to House Bill 302.”
“39 Yeas, 0 nays. By a vote of 39 yeas to 0 nays, the House has concurred with the title changes to House Bill 110.”
“39 Yeas, 0 nays. By a vote of 39 yeas to 0 nays, The House has concurred with the changes to House Bill 73.”
“30 Yeas, 9 nays. With a vote of 30 yeas to 9 nays, the House has concurred with the changes to House Bill 13.”
“25 Yeas, 14 nays. By a vote of 25 yeas to 14 nays, Senate Bill 164 has passed the body.”
“The Eielson reactor is a 60-megawatt thermal dual-purpose system roughly equivalent to about 15 megawatts electric, depending on how the energy is utilized. Under the current structure for Eielson, up to 5 megawatts of electricity will be supplied directly to the base, while the remaining thermal capacity will supply approximately 50,000 to 100,000 pounds per hour for steam and heating needs.”
“yesterday we signed an MOU with the state of Alaska”
“within just a few weeks of my swearing-in, I had to take a close look at plans for the Yukon to enact rolling blackouts in our capital city if we saw a continuance of that extreme cold. We didn't get there, we dodged that bullet, but it was an extremely harrowing experience”
“The Department of Energy has recently agreed to resume negotiations to release $430 million for upgrades at 300 facilities around the country. That includes 4 projects in communities around Alaska, including Chugach Electric with the Alaska Energy Authority, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Alaska Electric Light and Power in Juneau.”
“24 Yeas, 16 nays. By a vote of 24 yeas, 16 nays, Senate Bill 24 has passed the House.”
“The amount of misinformation and disinformation being sowed whether from China or Russia or any of our other national adversaries is extraordinary, extraordinarily hard to combat. But it's very important that we do that because this is absolutely a generational opportunity with tremendous benefits both for society as well as economic well-being for the country.”
“Time to get a mine permitted is 15 years, 18 years. That's crazy. No business can plan on an 18-year cycle, yet alone 18 months.”
“Local governments get to tax this project directly. Under this amendment, a borough or city collects its own share of the volumetric tax on project property inside its boundaries. They do not wait on Juno to have an appropriation to then send them their share.”
“13 Yeas, 7 nays. And so by a vote of 13 yeas and 7 nays, Senate CS for CS for House Bill 25, Labor and Commerce, has passed the Senate.”
“we've had 36 hearings on this bill in 2 months. I think that's got to be a record somewhere.”
“24 Yeas, 16 nays. By a vote of 24 yeas to 16 nays, the House has concurred with the changes to House Bill 93.”
“what we're doing here by increasing the age and creating a penalty is that we are providing an opportunity in law for there to be police interactions with younger people. Not, not talking about kids here. We're talking about young adults, increased interactions with young adults, pretextual stops”
“10 Yay, 1 nay. So on a vote of 10 yay to 1 nay, Amendment Number 1 to Senate Bill 24 has been adopted.”
“We did look at these and they made some very helpful comments. Not only approving of pieces of the bill but suggesting clarification”
“For specifically the west boundary, I do intend to support this variance as it is. The standards have been met, or the purpose of the standards— let me rephrase that— have been met per the staff report”
“It is my fervent hope that the next legislature will take extremely swift action on this, that it will go through both bodies, that it will go to the governor's desk, and that, like so many have said today, we can stop having the same argument over and over and over again about something that seems so common sense to so many people.”
“The projected employment for this pipe is 10,000 to 12,000, so roughly half of what TAPS construction was in terms of employment. And honestly, a lot of people, especially if we're talking about the remote camps out, a lot of them probably will do some sort of remote commute”
“Locally, the cost of a spay procedure for a female dog is around $900. When faced with the choice between buying food, buying gas for the car, or paying the vet clinic, the latter becomes a low priority and is often forgotten.”
“Amendment W.2 to SB 83, uh, actually deletes the repeal of the Medicaid telehealth statutes that was proposed in the bill. I believe they're in current statute, there's a 2030 repealer of the Medicaid telehealth statutes. And so rather than repealing the repealer, this amendment proposes pushing that repeal date out to 2040.”
“This bill truly is about helping make primary care a little bit easier and a little bit better. It's to help a mom who is a mom of a lot of different kids, and one kid might have strep throat, to be able to just go to the pharmacist and get what they need for their kid, or someone who might have a UTI and has been avoiding the doctor for days to not have that become an infection, but able to just get those antibiotics directly by walking over there to their community pharmacy.”
“do you feel like as a member of the council you would follow the bylaws' requirements to only nominate to the governor those that are among the most qualified?”
“the bill that was passed through the Senate had a $1,500 daily amount limit, which was in between the AARP had we requested a $1,000 limit, and the people who are the kiosk owners— there's 6 of those who do not reside here in Alaska— but we're looking at a $2,000 to $2,500 limit. So we had put a $1,500 to meet in that middle. The CS would go back to the $1,000.”
“a former resident of Anchorage, when she passed away, Janet, years ago donated several million dollars for the— to fund the operations of a downtown library. And I believe, Elizabeth, she said her bequest will fund the operations of the library for 12 years. And her request was not to name it after herself, but to name it Original Anchorage, Original Townsite Library.”
“19 Yeas, 20 nays. With a vote of 19 yeas and 20 nays, Amendment Number 2 has failed to pass.”
“we're estimating under the spring revenue forecast, holding all else equal, no changes to, to company behavior, a $71 million increase for fiscal year 2027. That represents a half year of impact, and then an average of $137 million of increase for fiscal years '28 through 2032”
“Senate Bill 178 is the identical companion bill to House Bill 376 on expanding the Infant Learning Program, which was considered and passed out of this committee earlier this session.”
“Today we will have Senate Bill 208 from Representative— Senator Bjorkman on agricultural land leases. This is a companion bill to House Bill 296 from Vice Chair Mears that we heard last week.”
“all the reviewing agencies had no objections, and the 3 community comments were all in support, and I will be supporting this.”
“if we look at his resume, his qualifications are stellar. He's been working in Alaska for the last 15 years. He's been working and spending time in this state longer than I've lived here.”
“In April was announced an exit of the project by Barrick, who is a 50% owner, and an entry into the ownership position by Paul Poulson Group, where they purchased 40% of the Donlin Project. NovaGold purchased the other 10 points that Barrick had held, resulting in a 60% NovaGold ownership and a 40% Poulson ownership of the Donlin Project.”
“if version T of the bill were passed, it would cause a delay of FID. When we look at FID right now, that's something we anticipate in the coming months, certainly this year.”
“in general, I support paid sick leave. And I didn't want to have a bill go forward that, um, that limited or repealed the ballot initiative. However, um, uh, Ms. Decker and the PSPA have made, I think, persuasive arguments about the end of fishing season and the unique challenges that they face when a bunch of sick leave is accrued and folks have to— and folks will take it at the end and effectively shut down or significantly limit some of these fish processing plants.”
“Seeing none, the fiscal note for House Bill 387, also known as 34-LS1664, has been adopted”
“we were asked to look at that in 1% increments up to a 17% gross tax and what would the fiscal impacts of that be”
“HB 217, which, as previously noted, would make Alaska the first and only state in the country to ban autonomous trucks”