Senator Loren Leman
District G - Republican
State Capitol, Room 115
Juneau, AK 99801-1182
Phone: (907) 465-2095
Fax: (907) 465-3810
Senator_Loren_Leman@Legis.state.ak.us
Interim:
716 W 4th, Suite 520
Anchorage, AK 99501-2133
Phone: (907) 258-8189
Fax: (907) 258-3768
Elected to the House 1988, 1990
Elected to the Senate 1992, 1996
Staff:
Annette Kreitzer, (907) 465-3844 or
Annette_Kreitzer@Legis.state.ak.us
Mike Pauley, (907) 465-3841 or
Mike_Pauley@Legis.state.ak.us
Date/Place of Birth: 12/2/50; Pomona, CA
Occupation: Consulting Engineer, Fisherman
Spouse: Carolyn
Children: Joseph, Rachel, Nicole
Residency in Alaska: Ninilchik, 1950-74;
Ketchikan, 1974-75; Anchorage, 1975-present.
Education: High School - Ninilchik, 1964-68;
College/University - Oregon State University, B.S. Civil
Engineering, 1972; Graduate - Stanford University, M.S.
Civil/Environmental Engineering, 1973; Post Graduate - University
of Alaska Anchorage, Arctic Engineering, 1976.
Political and Government Positions: State
Representative, 1989-93; State Senator, 1993-present; Anchorage
Hazardous Materials Commission; Anchorage Local Emergency
Planning Committee; Chairman, Pacific Fisheries Legislative Task
Force; Commissioner, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission;
Alaska Regional Marine Research Board; Joint Task Force on
Military Bases; Military Schools Task Force; House Liability
Insurance Task Force; Anchorage Breakthrough Committee; American
Legislative Exchange Council.
Business and Professional Positions: Consulting
Civil Engineer; Business Owner; Former Project Manager, CH2M
Hill; Commercial Fisherman.
Service Organization(s) Membership: Alaskans for
Drug-Free Youth; Anchorage Chamber of Commerce; Alaska Water
Management Association; American Society of Civil Engineers; The
Nature Conservancy; National Federation of Independent Business;
National Rifle Association.
Special Interests: My family, reading,
basketball, teaching and coaching youth, fishing, biking,
Anchorage Grace Brethren Church.
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Prime Sponsor of the following Legislation
SB
24: Relating to a requirement that a parent,
guardian, or custodian consent before certain minors receive an
abortion; establishing a judicial bypass procedure by which a
minor may petition a court for authorization to consent to an
abortion without consent of a parent, guardian, or custodian;
amending the definition of "abortion"; and amending
Rules 40 and 79, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure; Rules 204, 210,
212, 213, 508, and 512.5, Alaska Rules of Appellate Procedure;
and Rule 9, Alaska Administrative Rules.
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SB
39: An Act relating to hazardous chemicals,
hazardous materials, and hazardous waste.
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Analysis |
SB
41: An Act relating to environmental audits and
health and safety audits to determine compliance with certain
laws, permits, and regulations.
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SB 98: An
Act relating to the conveyance of certain isolated tracts of
state land to boroughs and unified municipalities; and providing
for an effective date.~
SB 134: An
Act relating to home schooling for elementary and secondary
students.
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SB
137: An Act exempting certain volunteer
emergency medical technicians and volunteer fire fighters from
state wage and hour laws; and providing for an effective date.
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SB
145: An Act revising the procedures and
authority of the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission,
the Board of Fisheries, and the Department of Fish and Game to
establish a moratorium on participants or vessels, or both,
participating in certain fisheries; and providing for an
effective date.
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SB
152: An Act relating to certified nurse aides;
and providing for an effective date. (sponsored by request)
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SB
205: An Act relating to occupational health and
safety audits to determine compliance with certain laws, permits,
and regulations.
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SB
241: An Act relating to a tax credit program for
postsecondary colleges or universities; and providing for an
effective date.
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SB
287: An Act relating to parole consideration.
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SB
299: An Act relating to the treatment of well
test flares, nonroad engines, and aggregated fuel burning
equipment associated with nonroad engines under the state's air
quality control program; defining 'stationary source' for
purposes of the state's air quality program.
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SB
300: An Act relating to the offense of failure
to stop a vehicle when directed by a peace officer.
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SB
301: An Act relating to sentences for
misdemeanors.
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SB
302: An Act relating to providing false
information or reports to a peace officer.
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SB
318: An Act relating to marriage; and amending
Rules 54 and 56, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure.
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SCR
7: Relating to te thirty-first annual Boys'
State.
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SCR
8: Relating to the twenty-ninth annual Girl's
State.
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SJR
16: Relating to reauthorization and reform of
the Endangered Species Act.
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SJR
20: Requesting the United States Congress to
accommodate Alaska's unique wetlands circumstances by amending
the Clean Water Act to modify the wetlands regulatory program and
to recognize Alaska's outstanding history of wetlands
conservation.
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SJR
27: Endorsing the Working Families Flexibility
Act and the Family Friendly Workplace Act.
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SJR
37: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution
of the State of Alaska relating to parental consent or
notification before an abortion is provided to a minor.
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SJR
40: Relating to the fisheries management fee
proposed by President Clinton.
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Co-Sponsored Legislation
HB
6: Amending laws relating to the disclosure of
information relating to certain minors.
HB
12: Relating to civil liability for injuries or
death resulting from equine activities.
HB
13: Relating to marine safety training and
education programs.
HB
16: Relating to delinquent minors, to the taking
of action based on the alleged criminal misconduct of ceratin
minors, to the services to be provided to the victims of criminal
misconduct of minors, and to agency records involving minors
alleged to be delinquent based on their criminal misconduct; and
amending Rule 19 and repealing Rules 6, 7, 11(a), 12(a), and
21(f), Alaska Delinquency Rules.
HB
45: Relating to runaway and missing minors, and
providing for an effective date.
HB
46: Relating to mining, and providing for an
effective date.
HB
65: An Act relating to partial-birth abortions.
HB
69: An Act relating to designating flunitrazepam
as a schedule IA controlled substance; and providing for an
effective date.
HB 158: An
Act relating to attendance at a public school on a part-time
basis.
HB 170: An
Act relating to interference with the rights of physically and
mentally challenged persons; and relating to service animals
during their pre-training and training period.
HB
198: An Act relating to regional dive fishery
development associations and to dive fishery management
assessments; and providing for an effective date.
HB
248: An Act naming East Egan Drive in Valdez.
HB
261: An Act relating to a surcharge imposed for
violations of state or municipal law and to the Alaska police
training fund.
HB
296: An Act extending the termination date of
the Alaska Minerals Commission.
HB 309: An
Act naming the Robert B. Atwood Building.
HB
334: An Act relating to wavier of tuition and
fees for certain family members of a police officer killed in the
line of duty; and providing for an effective date.
HB
356: An Act establishing the Joint Committee on
Military Bases in Alaska; and providing for an effective date.
HB
395: An Act relating to civil liability
resulting from the use of a defibrillator in providing emergency
aid.
HB
405: An Act relating to failing to stop a
vehicle when directed to do so by a peace officer.
HB
451: An Act relating to assistive technology
devices and mobility aids for physically disabled persons.
HCR
1: Relating to a new Alaska Liquefied natural
gas project.
HCR
6: Relating to Alcohol-Related Birth Defects
Awareness Week.
HCR
18: Declaring 1997 to be observed as the 80th
Anniversery of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and recognizing
the vital role played by the Univerisity of Alaska Fairbanks.
HCR 25: Relating
to Step Family Day.
HCR
26: Urging support of the 1998 International
People First Conference.
HJR
12: Urging the Secretary of the
interior to conduct competitive oil and gas lease sales within
the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
HJR
16: Relating to a federal balanced budget
amendment.
HJR
22: Relating to the maritime boundary between
Alaska and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
HJR
23: Relating to the seizure and sale of Alaska
commercial fishing entry permits by the United States Internal
Revenue Service.
HJR
49: Relating to opposition to a moratorium on
the building of roads in the roadless areas of national forests.
HJR
51: Relating to support for H.R.
2924, which allows certain Alaska Native Vietnam
veterans and the Elim Native Corporation to select land under the
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
HJR
52: Relating to opposition to the designation of
any rivers in Alaska as American Heritage Rivers under the
American Heritage Rivers initiative.
HJR
53: Relating to support for federal legislation
providing for the continuation of the University of Alaska by the
conveyance of federal land to the university.
HJR
56: Relating to yttrium mining and transfer of
the linear induction motor research vehicle to Alaska.
SB
1: Relating to living and working conditions of
prisoners in correctional facilities operated by the state, and
authorizing the commissioner of corrections to negotiate with
providers of detention and confinement services under contract to
apply those conditions and limitations on services to persons
held under authority of state law at facilities operated under
contract or agreement; relating to services provided to
prisoners; amending the definition of "severely medically
disabled" applicable to prisoners seeking special medical
parole; amending provisions of the correctional industries
program; and extending the termination date of the Correctional
Industries Commission and the program.
SB
12: Relating to partial-birth abortions.
SB
25: An Act relating to authorizing the
Department of Corrections to provide an automated victim
notification and prisoner information system.
SB
52: An Act establishing additional tax credits
against the fisheries business tax; and providing for an
effective date.
SB
63: An Act providing for automatic waiver of
juvenile jurisdiction and prosecution of minors as adults for
certain violations of laws by minors who use deadly weapons to
commit offenses that are crimes against a person, and relating to
the sealing of the records of those minors.
SB
67: An Act relating to the imposition of
criminal sentences; and amending Rule 32.2, Alaska Rules of
Criminal Procedure.
SB
70: An Act defining the offenses of unlawful
discharge of a firearm; and relating to the commission of those
offenses by minors.
SB
77: An Act relating to the Alaska Day of Prayer.
SB
94: An Act relating to designating flunitrazepam
as a schedule IVA controlled substance; and providing for an
effective date.
SB 164: An
Act relating to the authority of an emergency medical technician
at the scene of an accident or emergency.
SB
180: An Act relating to state rights-of-way.
SB
192: An Act relating to maintenance of state
marine vessels; and providing for an effective date.
SB
211: An Act renaming the Gravina Veterans'
Memorial Bridge as the Ralph M. Bartholomew Veterans' Memorial
Bridge.
SB
216: An Act providing for the civil commitment
of sexually violent predators.
SB
218: An Act relating to the crime of murder and
to murder of children.
SB
219: An Act relating to establishing an office
of crime victims' advocacy; and amending Rule 16, Alaska Rules of
Criminal Procedure, Rule 9, Alaska Delinquency Rules, and Rule
501, Alaska Rules of Evidence.
SB
251: An Act naming Herman Leirer Road near
Seward.
SB
261: An Act relating to the Special Olympics
World Winter Games to be held in Anchorage in the year 2001;
establishing a reserve fund for the games; providing certain
duties and authority for the Alaska Industrial Development and
Export Authority regarding financing for those games; and
providing for an effective date.
SB
265: An Act designating the moose as the state
land mammal.
SB
278: An Act making a special appropriation to
the principal of the permanent fund; and providing for an
effective date.
SB
307: An Act relating to conditions for filling
vacancies in the office of United States senator; and providing
for an effective date.
SB 309: An
Act relating to the use of force by peace officers and
correctional officers.
SCR 4:
Relating to declaring March 1997 as Sobriety Awarenss Month.
SCR 10: Supporting
continued use of Alaska's renewable furbearer resources.
SCR
21: Relating to declaring March 1998 as Sobriety
Awareness Month.
SCR
22: Relating to promotion of Kids Voting Alaska
programs.
SJR
3: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of
the State of Alaska limiting the rights of prisoners to those
required under the Constitution of the United States.
SJR
7: Supporting continued funding
of the Alaska National Guard Youth Corps Challenge Program.
SJR
9: Urging the United States Congress to pass
legislation to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, to oil and gas exploration, development,
and production.
SJR
13: Relating to RS 2477 rights-of-way.
SJR
14: Relating to support for federal legislation
permitting state concealed handgun permittees to carry concealed
handguns in other states.
SJR
18: Proposing amendments to the Constitution of
the State of Alaska to guarantee the permanent fund dividend, to
provide for inflation-proofing, and to require a vote of the
people before spending undistributed income from the earnings
reserve of the permanent fund; and relating to the permanent
fund.
SJR
19: Relating to naming Anchorage as the location
of the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games.
SJR
22: Inviting the United States Department of
Defense to select Alaska as the site to base and train military
troops.
SJR
24: Relating to the Tongass Land Management Plan
and to continued Congressional oversight of that plan.
SJR
28: Requesting the federal government to conduct
an audit of the Alaska Native regional corporations to determine
their compliance with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and
to review the accountability of the corporations to their
shareholders.
SJR
35: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution
of the State of Alaska relating to participation in an abortion.
SJR
38: Relating to the bombardment of the village
of Angoon.
SR
1: Relating to compensation of Holocaust victims
and survivors, their heirs, and Jewish communities by the
government of Switzerland and the Swiss banking industry.
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Labor and Commerce Committee Legislation
SB 119: An
Act relating to fraternal benefit societies; and providing for an
effective date.
SB 122: An
Act relating to unfair discrimination under a group health
insurance policy for services provided by marital and family
therapists; and providing for an effective date.
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SB 162: An
Act relating to payment of minimum wages to tipped employees; and
providing for an effective date.
SB 163: An
Act regulating chemical dependency counselors; and providing for
an effective date.
SB 169: An
Act relating to an exemption from the requirement for payment for
overtime under a voluntary work hour plan for work performed by
employees at certain mines; and providing for an effective date.
SB 198: An
Act relating to partnerships; amending Rules 25(c), 79, and 82,
Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure; and providing for an effective
date.
SB 233: An
Act extending the termination date of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board.
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SB 234: An
Act extending the termination date of the Board of Governors of
the Alaska Bar Association.
SB 235:
An Act extending the termination date of the Board
of Certified Real Estate Appraisers.
SB 236: An
Act extending the termination date of the Citizens' Advisory
Commission on Federal Areas in Alaska; and providing for an
effective date.
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SB 237:
An Act extending the termination date of the Council
on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.
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SB 238: An
Act extending the termination date of the Board of Certified
Direct-Entry Midwives.
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SB 254: An
Act relating to the exemption from levy, execution, garnishment,
attachment, or other remedy for the collection of debt as applied
to a permanent fund dividend.
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SB 268: An
Act relating to the assignment to the Department of Labor of
certain wage claims; and providing for an effective date.
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SB 269:
An Act relating to the state plumbing code; and
providing for an effective date.
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SB 283: An
Act relating to noneconomic damages resulting from an automobile
accident.
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SB 329: An
Act establishing an exemption for investment clubs from the
business license requirement.
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SB 330: An
Act relating to underground facilities.
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SB 335:
An Act relating to barbers, hairdressers, and cosmetologists.
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Statement |
SB 336: An
Act relating to excluding professional hockey team members from
worker's compensation coverage.
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Statement |
SB 345: An
Act relating to apportionment of business income.
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SB 346: An
Act relating to competition in the provision of local exchange
telephone service; and providing for an effective date.
Senate Health Education & Social Services Committee Legislation of Interest
SCR 25: Urging
an appeal of a case concerning marriage.
| Sponsor Statement |
SJR 42: Proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating
to marriage
| Sponsor
Statement |
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