Jesse Bjorkman
Senator · Alaska State Senate · District K
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Alaska Senate Passes Education Bill With 4% Property Tax Cap
“when the check arrived at our local school districts and our superintendents and principals and teachers went to cash that check, it was actually less money than we had funded K-12 education before”
Alaska News4d ago2 attributions
Alaska Senate Passes Statewide Styrofoam Ban for Restaurants
“This is an important issue, one that people might not think about as being extremely important as we consider other weighty issues. But I wanted to point out a provision in this bill that allows for a local option. If a community, municipality, local government wants to reverse the styrofoam ban, they can.”
Alaska News5d ago2 attributions
Alaska Senate committee hears nurse staffing bill amid safety concerns
“I know that having safe staffing levels in hospitals and having work environment where folks feel supported and, and, um, able to execute their job in a reasonable manner, especially when dealing with patients, is super important.”
Alaska News1w ago
Alaska Lawmakers Advance Electronic Pull-Tab Gaming Bill
“you have created some danger in allowing one manufacturer to completely control the market in Alaska by allowing that manufacturer a very significant level of price advantage for their product by owning a distributor”
Alaska News1w ago5 attributions
House panel rejects gaming price caps after industry debate
“Setting a cap at 30% would essentially risk creating deadweight loss in the economy, meaning that smaller manufacturers who do not have the assets and resources to compete in the market would essentially be priced out of the market because they could not compete.”
Alaska News1w ago2 attributions
Senate panel advances Native corporation reporting exemption despite concerns
“based on the research that my office have done, exempt— these three things together would exempt the vast majority of Alaska Native corporations from reporting. And so, it goes a long way to achieving the same thing as Section 2. But for some of the very largest corporations, they would still— the ones that sort of for which this reporting isn't really a burden or isn't as much of a burden, they would still have to do the reporting.”
Alaska News1w ago3 attributions
House panel hears electronic pull-tab bill with 35% manufacturer cap
“Currently, there is no cap on what a manufacturer can take as a cost of their contract to provide paper pull tabs. There's none at all. Zero. Unlimited.”
Alaska News1w ago7 attributions
Alaska House panel debates insurance gaps for gig delivery drivers
“What's happening is the Property and Casualty Insurance Trade Group and kind of their national standard is that when a courier is driving around and they have their app open, that they essentially are working and using their car for commercial purposes. At that point in time, then people's personal insurance, they don't cover the driver.”
Alaska News1w ago2 attributions
Alaska Senate Advances Right-to-Repair Bill for Consumer Electronics
“most simply, the bill was narrowed to— from a broad swath of electronic things to only consumer electronics.”
Alaska News1w ago3 attributions
Alaska bill would require human operators in autonomous freight trucks
“It seems to me that an autonomous vehicle that was not under kind of the structure plan and protection of a company that was specializing in autonomous vehicles would be more of a safety risk than one that was. So why is there a carve-out for autonomous vehicles for, for private use?”
Alaska News2w ago
Alaska Senate Panel Advances Social Media Ban for Minors Under 16
“We've had some significant incidents in my school district, and I know many school districts around the state, with students having some very, very negative interactions that have spilled over into school because of things that have started on social media. Sometimes violent altercations and interactions that have led to threats of pretty, pretty intense violence at school, and then sometimes violence gets carried out.”
Alaska News3w ago
Senate panel holds Alaska state seal redesign resolution
“in Utah, they came close to having a civil war in their legislature about changing the state flag. How are we going to avoid that here in Alaska when we have other pretty big problems we're trying to wade through.”
Alaska News3w ago
Senate panel advances property tax assessment cap bill
“It simply is a smoothing over time by which assessed values are allowed to rise so that they are consistent and expected by property owners and so that their property tax bill are something that is not a shock when it increases by thousands of dollars from year to year.”
Alaska News3w ago3 attributions