Rep. Eldon Mulder State Capitol, Room 507 Juneau, AK 99801-1182 Phone: (907) 465-2647 Fax: (907) 465-3518

Rep. Bill Williams State Capitol, Room 511 Juneau, AK 99801-1182 Phone: (907) 465-3424 Fax: (907) 465-3793

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Mon, Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri
Capitol Room 519

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Press Releases

• State Budget Holds Line on New Spending - Plan Funds Alaskans' Priorities, Avoids Worsening Fiscal Gap., 05-15-02
  
• House Votes to Authorize G.O. Bond Package - HB 524, 525, 528 Fund Port, School, Deferred Maintenance Needs., 05-03-02
  
• House Passes Long-Range Fiscal Plan - Measures Share Burden Fairly, Address Budget Gap This Year., 05-02-02
  = Bill Hudson, 111K      = Bill Hudson, 773K
  = Joe Green, 75K      = Joe Green, 521K
  = Lisa Murkowski, 78K      = Lisa Murkowski, 544K
  = Jeannette James, 48K      = Jeannette James, 336K
  = Eldon Mulder, 57K      = Eldon Mulder, 397K
  
• House Lauds Alaska's Educational Innovators - Standards-Based Schooling Brings Success to Chugach District., 04-17-02
  
• House Finance Passes Fast-Track Supplemental - Bill Provides for Health Care, Rural Energy, Security, Tourism., 04-10-02
  
• House Finance Takes Up Revenue Measures - Alaska Public Invited to Share Views on How to Fill Fiscal Gap., 03-20-02
  
• House Budget Meets State Fiscal Challenge - Holds the Line, Lays Foundation for Long-Range Fiscal Plan., 03-19-02
  = Eldon Mulder, 95K      = Eldon Mulder, 660K
  = Eldon Mulder, 45K      = Eldon Mulder, 311K
  = Brian Porter, 83K      = Brian Porter, 579K
  = Brian Porter, 80K      = Brian Porter, 559K
  
• Finance Releases FY03 Budget Allocations - Holds Line on Spending; Supports Education, Services, Local Assistance., 02-28-02
  = Eldon Mulder, 86 K      = Eldon Mulder, 594 K
  = Eldon Mulder, 49 K      = Eldon Mulder, 341 K
  = Eldon Mulder, 57 K      = Eldon Mulder, 392 K
  
• House FY03 Budget Holds Line on Spending - Rejects Governor's Increases; Starts With Last Year's Plan., 02-11-02
  = Bill Williams, 38 K      = Bill Williams, 259 K
• House Votes $6 Million for Tourism Support - HB 359 Seeks to Mitigate 9/11 Damage to Visitor Industry., 02-04-02
  = Eldon Mulder, 98 K      = Eldon Mulder, 683 K
  
• House Passes $1.1 Million for ANWR Effort - Funds to Help Arctic Power in Keeping Pressure on U.S. Senate., 01-23-02
  = Eldon Mulder, 73 K = Eldon Mulder, 51 K
• Audio only: House Finance Committee Co-Chair, Representative Eldon Mulder, comments on the passage today of HB 334, authorizing a $1 million appropriation to support the non-profit organization Arctic Power in its efforts to win Senate support for oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge., 01-22-02
  = Eldon Mulder, 76 K
  
• Legislature Pans State of State Address - First Step in Escaping Fiscal Hole is to ''Stop Digging Deeper''., 01-16-02
  = Rick Halford, 40 K = Brian Porter, 48 K
  = Dave Donley, 39 K = Dave Donley, 27 K
  = Eldon Mulder, 23 K
• Outsourcing IT Could Mean Big Savings - Pennsylvania's Success Points Way for Potential Alaska Effort., 11-29-01
  
• Technology Review May Mean Big Benefits - Subcommittee Hears Promise of More Savings, Efficiency, Service., 10-25-01
  
• Subcommittee to Assess Information Technology - Panel Seeks Improved Benefits from State Computer Investments., 10-09-01
  
• Legislature Passes Operating Budget - Education, Public Safety and Public Health Top Priorities., 05-08-01
  
• House Passes Capital Budget for FY02 - Prioritizes Roads, Utilities, University, Airports, API., 05-08-01
  
• Cruise Ship Compromise Sails Through House - HB 260 Sets Discharge Limits, Independent Monitoring, Testing., 05-01-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 85 K = Eldon Mulder, 92 K
  = Eldon Mulder, 49 K = Eldon Mulder, 34 K
  = Brian Porter, 124 K
• Future Federal Money to Fund Road Work - HB 191 Authorizes $395 Million GARVEE Bond Package., 04-28-01
  
• House Authorizes Tobacco-Backed Bonds - HB 234 Finances Schools, Ports, Anti-Tobacco Program., 04-28-01
  
• House Bill Renews Missions and Measures - HB 250 Continues Benefits of Results-Based Budgeting to Alaska., 04-27-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 85 K = Eldon Mulder, 56 K
  
• House Concurs on Fast-Track Supplemental - Passage Speeds Funding to Time-Sensitive State Functions., 03-16-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 62 K
  
• House Budget Funds State's Top Needs - Minority Amendments Ignore Existing Investments in Services., 03-13-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 124 K = Eldon Mulder, 55 K
  = Eldon Mulder, 199 K = Con Bunde, 168 K
  = John Harris, 55 K
  
• House Finance Passes Operating Budget - Education, Public Health, University Top FY 02 Priorities., 03-12-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 180 K = Eldon Mulder, 156 K
  = Bill Williams, 44 K
• House Fixes School Debt Bill Error - HB 90 Makes Technical Correction for Bond Reimbursement., 02-28-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 65 K
  
• Legislative Gasline Investment 'Prudent' - $600,000 to Fund Time-Sensitive Planning - Not Speculation., 02-27-01
  
• House OKs Fast-Track Supplemental Budget - Funds ANWR, Gas Pipeline, Special Olympics, Pioneers Homes., 02-16-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 64 K
  
• Supplemental Budget Clears House Finance - HB 117 Provides Funds for ANWR, Gas Pipeline, Special Olympics., 02-15-01
  
• House Finance Committee Announces Allocations - FY 02 Spending Prioritizes Education, Transportation, Public Safety., 02-13-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 55 K = Eldon Mulder, 68 K
  = Eldon Mulder, 62 K = Bill Williams, 55 K
• Finance Committees Unveil Budget Bills - FY 02 Spending Plans Start From FY 01 Management Plan., 02-05-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 72 K
• Hamilton says Legislature 'Turned UA Around' - University President Thanks Finance Committee for Funding., 02-05-01
  = President Mark Hamilton, 73 K = Dave Donley, 31 K
• Rep. Mulder Warns of $30 Million Fishing Hit - Court's Logic Lets Non-Residents Have it Both Ways., 01-22-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 76 K
• House Finance Committee Names Subcommittees - Panels Play Essential Role in Results-Based Budgeting., 01-17-01
  
• Republican Majority Leaders Respond to Governor's State of the State Address., 01-10-01
  = Rick Halford, 77 K = Dave Donley, 52 K
  = Loren Leman, 60 K = Eldon Mulder, 53 K
  = Eldon Mulder, 47 K = Brian Porter, 39 K
  = Brian Porter, 32 K

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Legislation

HB 103 : Approp.: Operating Budget
Passed! Chapter 60 Session Law 2001
An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses of state government, for certain programs, and to capitalize funds; and providing for an effective date.

HB 104 : Approp.: Mental Health Budget
Passed! Chapter 62 Session Law 2001
An Act making appropriations for the operating and capital expenses of the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program; and providing for an effective date.

HB 191 : Financing for Transportation Projects
An Act authorizing financing for certain public transportation projects; giving notice of and approving the entry into, and the issuance of revenue obligations that provide participation in, lease-financing agreements for those transportation projects; and providing for an effective date.

HB 234 : Tobacco Settlement: Bonds & Smoking Program
Passed! Chapter 96 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to the tobacco use education and cessation fund and to smoking education and cessation programs; relating to funding the tobacco use education and cessation fund; relating to financing of construction and major maintenance of public school facilities, facilities for the University of Alaska, and facilities for ports and harbors; authorizing the commissioner of revenue to sell the right to receive a portion of the anticipated revenue from a tobacco litigation settlement to the Northern Tobacco Securitization Corporation; relating to the deposit of certain anticipated revenue from a tobacco litigation settlement; authorizing the issuance of bonds by the Northern Tobacco Securitization Corporation with proceeds to finance public school construction and major maintenance, facilities for the University of Alaska, and facilities for ports and harbors; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 236 : AIDEA Bonds for Gas Public Utilities
An Act relating to a study by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority of the feasibility of constructing and operating certain natural gas, propane air, or manufactured gas public utility facilities; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 250 : Operating Budget Missions and Measures
Passed! Chapter 90 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to missions and measures to be applied to certain expenditures by the executive branch of state government and the University of Alaska from the state operating budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 260 : Commercial Passenger Vessel Regulation & Fees
Passed! Chapter 1 First Special Session Law 2001
An Act relating to marine passenger vessels; and providing for an effective date.
| Sectional Analysis | - final version
| Legislation Comparison |
| Senate Transportation Committee Work Draft | - 06/06/01
| Sectional Analysis | - 06/07/01

HB 333 : Regulatory Com. Of Alaska: Sunset & Misc.
An Act setting timelines for issuance of final orders by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, amending the authority of the commission to enter compromise settlement orders, and extending the commission's termination date to June 30, 2006; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 334 : Grant To Arctic Power For Anwr
Passed! Chapter 5 Session Law 2002
An Act making appropriations for a grant to Arctic Power to promote the opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas exploration and development; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 359 : Supplemental Appropriations for Tourism Marketing
An Act making a supplemental appropriation for tourism marketing efforts; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 403 : Appropriations: Operating Budget/Loans/Funds
Passed! Chapter 94 Session Law 2002
Some Projects Were Line-Item Veteoed by Governor
Vetos can be found at http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/akomb.htm
An Act making appropriations for the operating and loan program expenses of state government, for certain programs, and to capitalize funds; and providing for an effective date.

HB 404 : Appropriations: Mental Health Budget
Passed! Chapter 95 Session Law 2002
Some Projects Were Line-Item Veteoed by Governor
Vetos can be found at http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/akomb.htm
An Act making appropriations for the operating and capital expenses of the state's integrated comprehensive mental health program; and providing for an effective date.

HB 498 : Correctional Facilities
An Act expressing legislative intent regarding privately operated correctional facility space and services; relating to the development and financing of privately operated correctional facility space and services; authorizing the Department of Corrections to enter into an agreement for the confinement and care of prisoners in privately operated correctional facility space in the City of Whittier; giving notice of and approving the entry into and the issuance of certificates of participation for the upgrade, expansion, and replacement of a certain correctional facility in the City of Bethel; giving notice of and approving the entry into lease-financing agreements for that project; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 511 : Special Medical Parole/Disabled Prisoner
An Act relating to special medical parole and prisoners who are severely medically or mentally disabled.

HB 512 : Unfair Cigarette Sales
An Act relating to cigarette sales; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 515 : Operating Budget Missions and Measures
Passed! Chapter 124 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to missions and measures to be applied to certain expenditures by the executive branch of state government and the University of Alaska and by the judicial branch of state government from the state operating budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 524 : G.O. Bonds: Schools/Museum/University
An Act relating to the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purpose of paying the cost of design, construction, and major maintenance of educational and museum facilities; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 525 : Bonds for State Transportation Projects
Passed! Chapter 114 Session Law 2002
An Act providing for and relating to the issuance of state guaranteed transportation revenue anticipation bonds in a principal amount of not more than $102,805,000 for the purpose of paying the cost of transportation projects that qualify for federal highway aid and the allocation of those bond proceeds; relating to the issuance of general obligation bonds in a principal amount of not more than $123,914,500 for the purpose of paying the cost of state transportation projects; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 528 : State Reimbursement Capital Project Debts
Passed! Chapter 115 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to programs of state reimbursement for debt payments for certain capital projects; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 532 : Powers/Duties of Department of Environmental Conservation
An Act relating to the powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Conservation, to barbers, hairdressers, estheticians, manicurists, tattooers, permanent cosmetic colorists, body piercers, and their establishments, to the licensure of child care facilities, to food establishments, to cosmetics, to tourist camps, trailer camps, motor courts, and motels, to restrooms, to smoking in public facilities, to public health nuisances, to sanitation and sanitary practices, to camps and canneries, to schools, to soft drink establishments, to beer and wine dispensaries, to other establishments, and to commercially compressed air; and providing for an effective date.

HB 2002 : G.O. Bonds: Schools/Museum/University
Passed! Chapter 2 Second Special Session Law 2002
An Act relating to the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purpose of paying the cost of design, construction, and major maintenance of educational and museum facilities; and providing for an effective date.

HB 2003 : School Construction Grants/Bond Reimbursement
Passed! Chapter 3 Second Special Session Law 2002
An Act relating to construction, rehabilitation, and improvement of schools and education-related facilities; relating to municipal bond reimbursement for school construction; and providing for an effective date.

HB 2007 : Appropriations: Constitution CBR
An Act making an appropriation to reverse the effect of art. IX, sec. 17(d), Constitution of the State of Alaska; making an appropriation to balance revenue and general fund appropriations; making an appropriation to the Department of Revenue for management of the constitutional budget reserve fund; making appropriations under art. IX, sec. 17(c), Constitution of the State of Alaska, from the constitutional budget reserve fund; and providing for an effective date.

HB 2008 : Appropriations: Capital Projects
An Act making and amending appropriations and reappropriations; and providing for an effective date.

HCR 201 : Suspend Uniform Rules For SB 2006
Passed! Legislative Resolve 79
Suspending Rules 24(c), 35, 41(b), and 42(e), Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature, concerning Senate Bill No. 2006, relating to making and amending appropriations and reappropriations.

HCR 202 : Suspend Uniform Rules For SB 2007
Suspending Rules 24(c), 35, 41(b), and 42(e), Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature, concerning Senate Bill No. 2007, a bill making appropriations.

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