Alaska Votes

Expands Alaska's education tax-credit system to cover certain employer payments and contributions for child care.

Makes major changes to the Public Employees' Retirement System and Teachers' Retirement System by reopening a defined-benefit pension option for certain public employees and teachers.

Recognizes and honors the relationship between Alaska and Canada.

Requires the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) to develop and maintain a statewide public and community transit plan.

increases the state's base student allocation for public schools by an inflation-based amount tied to the Alaska consumer price index, plus an additional $1,000.

Formally establishes March as Women's History Month in Alaska statute.

Creates disaster relief grants for Alaska unit owners to cover common disaster-related expenses.

Creates a regulatory framework for underground carbon storage under the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

Establishes Juneteenth Day as a legal holiday.

Requires that all school-sponsored athletic teams be designated as either male, female, or coeducational, with female teams restricted to participants identified as female at birth.

Designates specie as legal tender in Alaska and prohibits boroughs and cities from levying sales and use taxes on the sale or exchange of specie.

Requires insurance in Alaska to cover contraceptives and related services without cost-sharing. It mandates 12-month prescriptions and ensures coverage for switching methods. The state's medical assistance program will also cover these services.

Prohibits state agencies and local governments in Alaska from restricting the use or sale of motor vehicles based on their energy sources, such as gasoline, diesel, electricity, or hydrogen.

Mandates the legislative finance division to review and recommend the repeal of inactive state accounts and funds.

Expands Medicaid eligibility to include postpartum mothers for up to 12 months, up from 60 days.

Continues the renewable energy grant fund until 2033, costing $1.4 million per year.

Removes a segment of the bill that allows government to shut down gun stores if they equally shut down every other store at the same time.

This resolution states the Alaska State Legislature opposes the National Park Service's proposed rule limiting non-subsistence hunting methods.

Would amend SB136, which pertains to limitations on firearms restrictions during a disaster emergency, by removing the requirement that a person be "qualified under state law" to possess a firearm.

Would prohibit state or local government-imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates and protect individuals against unlawful discrimination by employers based on their vaccination status.

Recognizes the "importance of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement" in providing the "framework for much of [the] bilateral trade" between the "integrated economies" of Canada and Alaska, as well as "important updates to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)."

Would amend SB3006, which relates to telehealth, to exclude the prescribing of an abortion-inducing drug without an in-person physical examination.

Would amend HB69, Alaska's 2021-22 budget bill, by directing state agencies to identify means of reducing per capita state spending to not more than twice the national average by the end of FY 2023.

Would amend HB76, which extends the COVID-19 public health disaster emergency, to include the provision that the Governor may not declare a disaster emergency unless authorized by a majority vote of the Legislature.