
Representative · Alaska State House · District 3
11 articles · 20 transcripts · 1 clips
“from a report that's called the Indirect Expenditure Report, Legislative Finance reviewed 136 programs and recommended 45 of them for cleanup. This bill includes 4 of them.”
“Nicotine and tobacco is a leading cause for preventable health diseases, for issues like cancer, heart disease, and stroke. Senate Bill 24 has two central policies. First, it raises the minimum age to purchase tobacco products and electronic smoking products from 19 to 21 to bring Alaska into alignment with the federal law that passed in December of 2019.”
“The Tanana Chiefs Conference letter actually says that we are one of only 12 states that do not have compensation statutes for people that have been wrongly convicted.”
“I just urge your support. It still keeps it an offense that requires some accountability, that being a $100 fine, up to a $100 fine, but isn't so substantial.”
“My concern primarily about this amendment is killing the underlying bill.”
“It is my understanding that at one point in the Resources Committee that Glen Farn discussed as 12 cents being where they were comfortable”
“I think there's sort of two or three streams of ways we should be addressing fire safety. And a grant program, I think, by its design and nature of this grant program, is for communities where you say you got to have a local buy-in to both the funding and then the ongoing maintenance.”
“I'm trying to figure out if every registrar at every school district is going to now have an additional task to say this student has mastered this and they get the Civic Seal.”
“I want to go to the legal memo that came back with the draft and to the potential of creating two separate classes of employees with our creation of the exemption for employers with fewer than 25 employees and seasonal employees as an exemption.”
“The Committee Substitute for House Bill 366 proposes to restrict the use of heavy petroleum fuel oil by large commercial passenger vessels sailing in Alaskan waters.”
“I want to make sure that when voters are talking and thinking about voting on a constitutional amendment, that it's not tied to another thing being the critical feature.”