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Cathy Giessel“One of the things that is said about this bill is it has not been modeled. Mr. President, then how the heck do you think we know that they will be making about $5 billion, Glenfarm, when this is at full production and we will be losing out on more than $400 million? Because it has been modeled by our own Department of Revenue, Mr. President.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - June 19, 2026 2:15pm · Jun 19, 2026
0:27
Mike Cronk“the language is incomplete, untested, and poorly drafted. This proposal is incomplete and leaves major questions unanswered regarding entry-level treatment, apportionment, deductions, depreciation, loss carryforward, or as an investor taxation. Tax professionals from impacted parties agree the language is unworkable and would have chilling effects on the project's economics and the ability to attract investors.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - June 19, 2026 2:15pm · Jun 19, 2026
0:17
Gary Stevens“14 Yeas, 6 nays. And so by a vote of 14 yeas to 6 nays, Amendment Number 12 has passed the Senate.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - June 19, 2026 2:15pm · Jun 19, 2026
0:13
Cathy Giessel“our Department of Revenue is down 30 positions in the auditing division.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - June 19, 2026 2:15pm · Jun 19, 2026
0:31
Jesse Kiehl“the other element that you will see in Amendment Number 5 that is added, Mr. President, is a requirement for at least 15% apprenticeship use on the project.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - June 19, 2026 2:15pm · Jun 19, 2026
0:35
Mike Dunleavy“the Glenn Farm was working with labor to negotiate an MOA. And the bill ends up going into law negotiating labor in, in the bill. And so, uh, I don't think that's something that is going to work. Um, and then there's a number of restrictions and triggers, uh, added to the bill.”
Source · Jun 19, 2026
0:39
Mike Dunleavy“the most, um, forward-leaning base in America protruding into the Arctic and the, and the Pacific with 200 trillion cubic feet of gas. They import gas from Canada to fuel their bases. I don't know, maybe it's just me, seems a little, little different, a little strange.”
Source · Jun 19, 2026
0:22
Mike Dunleavy“We are this close to getting this right. We're this close to a massive project. We are this close to getting Alaskans gas. We are this close to just getting this project going. And I would say it would be a travesty if tomorrow one body or the other gavels out because they're basically telling Alaskans we're done with this.”
Source · Jun 19, 2026
0:27
Mike Dunleavy“35 In the House. A number in the Senate, so the vast majority of legislators want to get stuff done, wanna get something done for the people of Alaska, not just something, but something good. We can do it tomorrow. If people are seriously interested in getting something done, it could be done tomorrow.”
Source · Jun 19, 2026
0:29
Mike Dunleavy“I've heard throughout the last couple months, we're rushing this thing, it's too big, let's slow it down, from many of the same people that just in the Senate were introducing amendment after amendment after amendment that nobody ever saw. So that kind of doesn't make much sense.”
Source · Jun 19, 2026
0:33
Mike Dunleavy“You get a gas line with cheap gas at $4 or $5 a unit, It's for the people to turn their lights on, for the people to heat their homes, for the people to have businesses, for the people to enjoy and be able to stay here in Alaska. Maximum benefit for the people, not maximum revenue at any cost for the government.”
Source · Jun 19, 2026
0:40
Mike Dunleavy“I want to thank the House of Representatives, a body of 40 people that voted on what industry considers, observers consider, others consider to be a pretty good bill. What you would refer to as a clean bill. There wasn't Christmas tree'd with S corp or wasn't Christmas tree'd with this issue or that issue. Not a perfect bill, but no perfect— no, there's no perfect bill here I've seen, and I've been a senator and a governor, but this was a bill that would have really worked that the House did.”
Source · Jun 19, 2026
0:42
Pete Ecklund“Replaces the previous component-weighted base tax, as I stated earlier, on throughput with a single tax rate on throughput of the project, applying to the entire project, escalating over time.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:54
Pete Ecklund“the tax abatement and the AVT do not apply to a natural gas project if by January 1st, 2028, a final investment decision has not been made on Phase 1 of a natural gas project, or number 2 there, on December 31st, right, or by December 31st, 2032, construction of a gas pipeline associated with Phase 1 of the natural gas project has not been completed. So you have to come into FID by January 1st, '28, and complete Phase 1 by December 31st, 2032.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:31
Alexi Painter“So the mill rate for the other body's version I think worked out to about 2.4 mills. And so the initial amount here for Phase 2 would be about that 2.4 mills.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:36
Alexi Painter“In 2060, the tax will double again, so going from 21.2 cents to 42.4 cents. And then the additional amount of revenue raised by that, that tax increase will go entirely to the general fund as UGF revenue.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
1:00
Lyman Hoffman“I believe that there is going to be further deliberation both by the full body of the Senate and anticipate additional amendments at that time. But the reason that we're proceeding today with passing the committee bill out is so that we have ample time for members to draft any amendments that that they may see fit to improve the legislation for consideration of the full body.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:26
Alexi Painter“So 6% goes off the top to North Slope Borough because that'll be the location of the mini gas treatment plant. And then the remaining revenue is split equally to municipalities by pipeline mileage. And then to community assistance.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:48
Bert Stedman“the concern this morning was to get this legislation adopted on the table here so members could write amendments as needed and we'll have them discussed on the floor. But for the public, you can't write an amendment to a bill that doesn't exist until it gets out of Finance. So we had to get this bill adopted.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:17
Jesse Kiehl“So if the project's components end up costing a whole lot more than that, retaining some of that value, the mill equivalent will be lower and that will just be lower, right?”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:33
Lyman Hoffman“Our intent is to get action on all of these points. And that is the dilemma that we're facing. We've had extensive dialogue with the administration to date. And at some point, we need to proceed down the path of getting a bill across the floor.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:26
Alexi Painter“The other body's version, rather than this, in 2060 had a sunset that returned to the mill rate formula. Instead, this keeps the AVT but at a higher rate. And so again, those earlier shares continue, but as the taxes increase, the increased amount goes to a different place.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:17
Alexi Painter“Starting in Phase 2, the tax rate is 10.6 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. This is the same as the effective tax rate as modeled by DOR under the House version.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:39
Pete Ecklund“During Phase 2, the committee substitute starts the tax rate at 10.6 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, which matches the effective rate for Phase 2 on slide 40 of Department of Revenue's presentation to this committee on Monday, the 15th. Thank you. The tax rate then doubles after 10 years and doubles again in 2060. The last tax increase is in place of the sunset provision in the other body's version of the bill.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:13
Alexi Painter“This just fixes that rather than have it vary if capital costs change from what are projected now. And then this, again, these rates will all grow with inflation based on those 1 to 3% sideboards.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:34
Bert Stedman“there has been a lot of dialogue with the administration, AGDC, and members here, and the other legislation that's been circulating around the building, trying to come up with something that focuses on getting to a gas line and not an obstacle to block construction of the gas line.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
1:03
Pete Ecklund“The most significant change is that the committee substitute in front of you does not use capital expenditures as a component of the tax rate or the collection of the tax. Instead, it returns to a single tax rate at each stage of the project. These rates were developed to match the effective tax rate under the House version of the bill based on the Department of Revenue's modeling of the bill. So during Phase 1, the committee substitute sets the tax rate at 6.2 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, which is a blend of the 6-cent tax on the pipeline and the other body's version, and the impact of the— we've been referring to a mini gas treatment plant, Mr. Chairman, that would be— have to be put in place in Phase 1.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
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Pete Ecklund“These changes are intended to make the tax easier to understand and much easier to administer.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
0:51
James Kaufman“Financing, because it leaves open the problem that one— one problem that pops up could possibly threaten that, and that is going to make it very hard for anyone that's going to finance this to consider that, because any force majeure— I don't know if that's covered here— a pandemic, something, an earthquake or whatever, could put them in jeopardy. And so I think And AGDC is right here in the room, but we are told that we have to take them at ease. We can't even bring them up to speak to potential concerns that might be in this piece of work”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026
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Lyman Hoffman“This morning we have only one item on today's agenda, that being HB 381, oil and gas property tax and municipal tax.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Finance - June 19, 2026 9:01am · Jun 19, 2026