Senator Bert Sharp
District P - Republican
State Capitol, Room 516
Juneau, AK 99801-1182
Phone: (907) 465-3004
Fax: (907) 465-2070
Interim:
119 N Cushman St, Suite 201
Fairbanks, AK 99701
Phone: (907) 452-7885
Fax: (907) 456-4221
Elected to the House 1988, 1990
Elected to the Senate 1992, 1994
Date/Place of Birth: 9/26/33; Iowa
Occupation: Finance, Businessman
Spouse: Betsy
Children: Stephen, Mark, Sheryl, Jeffrey
Residency in Alaska: Fairbanks, 1944-present.
Education: High School - Fairbanks High School,
1947-51; College - University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1951-56, B.S.
Business Administration.
Military Service: Alaska National Guard,
Sergeant First Class, 8 years service.
Political and Government Positions: State
Senator, 1993-present; State Representative, 1989-92; Chair,
Transportation, 1993-94, Vice Chair, Health, Education &
Social Services, 1993-94; Member, Finance, Labor & Commerce
and
Legislative Budget & Audit, 1993-94; Special Committee on Oil
& Gas, 1989-94; Member, Finance, 1991-92.
Business and Professional Positions: Chief
Financial Officer, Golden Valley Electric, 1956-86 (retired); Mt.
McKinley Bank Trustee, 1982-present.
Service Organization(s) Membership: Pioneers of
Alaska, Igloo #4; Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce; American
Association of Retired Persons; University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alumni.
Special Interests: Private pilot, family outings
for camping, fishing and hunting.
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Prime Sponsor of the following legislation
SB
5: Relating to municipal taxes and fees levied
on certain commercial vessels operationg in waterborne commerce
for the privilege of entering into the port or levied on
passengers who may disembark from a commercial vessel at a port
in the state; and levying and providing for the collection and
administration of fees on passengers for the privilege of
disembarking certain commercial vessels that carry passengers in
waterborne commerce at ports in the state; and providing for an
effective date.
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SB
13: Relating to taxes on cigarettes and tobacco
products, and to the use of the proceeds of those taxes; and
providing for an effective date.
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SB
19: Repealing the power and duty of the
commissioner of fish and game to assist in the enforcement of
federal laws relating to fish and game.
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SB
22: Relating to qualifications for appointment
to the Board of Game.
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SB
23: Levying and providing for the collection and
administration of excise taxes on the rental or furnishing of
transient lodging, and authorizing disposition of estimated
receipts from that tax; and providing for an effective date.
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SB
161: An Act relating to management of certain
municipal assets by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation.
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SB
175: An Act relating to revenue bonds issued by
the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority for
interties between Healy and Fairbanks and between Anchorage and
the Kenai Peninsula; and providing for an effective date.
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SB
250: An Act relating to management of game and
to the duties of the commissioner of fish and game.
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SB
313: An Act relating to sponsor certification of
initiative petitions; relating to sponsor identification during
petition circulation; relating to the voidability of an initiated
law; placing limitations on the compensation that may be paid to
sponsors of initiative petitions; prohibiting payments to persons
who sign or refrain from signing initiative petitions; and
repealing procedures for filing a supplementary initiative
petition.
SCR
11: Creating the Long-Term Care Task Force.
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Co-Sponsor of the following legislation
HB
6: Amending laws relating to the disclosure of
information relating to certain minors.
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
58: An Act relating to civil actions; amending
Rules 49 and 68, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure; amending Rule
702, Alaska Rules of Evidence, and providing fo ran effective
date.
HB
69: An Act relating to designating flunitrazepam
as a schedule IA controlled substance; and providing for an
effective date.
HB 189: An
Act relating to sale, gift, and possession of tobacco and tobacco
products; and providing for an effective date.
HB 203: An
Act relating to actions for unlawful trade practices.
HB
296: An Act extending the termination date of
the Alaska Minerals Commission.
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 380: An
Act relating to a temporary reduction of royalty on oil and gas
produced for sale from fields within the Cook Inlet sedimentary
basin where production is commenced in fields that have been
discovered and undeveloped or that have been shut in.
HB
387: An Act relating to dentists.
HB
395: An Act relating to civil liability
resulting from the use of a defibrillator in providing emergency
aid.
HCR
1: Relating to a new Alaska Liquefied natural
gas project.
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.
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
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.
SB
7: Reducing certain resident sport fishing,
hunting, and trapping license fees, increasing certain
nonresident sport fishing license and tag fees, and relating to
nonresident sport fishing, hunting, and trapping licenses; and
providing for an effective date.
SB
25: An Act relating to authorizing the
Department of Corrections to provide an automated victim
notification and prisoner information system.
SB
30: An Act relating to municipalities; the
incorporation of certain boroughs in the unorganized borough; the
formation of separate unorganized boroughs; and to taxation in
the unorganized boroughs.
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
77: An Act relating to the Alaska Day of Prayer.
SB 84: An
Act relating to fiscal management of endowment assets of the
University of Alaska; amending the definition of "university
receipts" to include distribution from university endowments
and the total return from the University of Alaska's endowment
trust fund for land obtained under the Act of Congress of January
21, 1929, as amended, and transferring responsibility for
management and investment of those assets; and making technical
amendments to provisions relating to federal grants and
appropriations from federal land grant college fund sources that
must be paid to the state.
SB 134: An
Act relating to home schooling for elementary and secondary
students.
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
218: An Act relating to the crime of murder and
to murder of children.
SB 242: An
Act providing for the forfeiture of good time sentence credits of
sex offenders who fail to successfully complete sex offender
treatment programs.
SB
251: An Act naming Herman Leirer Road near
Seward.
SB
263: An Act relating to secondary roads; and
providing for an effective date.
SB
264: An Act relating to aid for municipal road
maintenance; and providing for an effective date.
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
10: Proposing amendments to the Constitution of
the State of Alaska relating to the election and duties of the
attorney general.
SJR
14: Relating to support for federal legislation
permitting state concealed handgun permittees to carry concealed
handguns in other states.
SJR
16: Relating to reauthorization and reform of
the Endangered Species Act.
SJR 25: Supporting
enhancement of visitor access to Denali National Park and
Preserve through development of a northern railroad route
corridor access to the vicinity of Wonder Lake.
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.
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