Rep. Josephson’s Newsletter: Bringing Home Our Resources
Getting more oil in the pipeline is a priority for me…but making sure the benefits of our oil wealth reach you is of equal priority. This means ensuring that money from oil taxes makes it back to our local communities.
Companies Produce, We’ll Reduce-
Naturally, Alaska’s future depends on getting more oil in the pipeline. This week the House and Senate Democrats delivered an alternative (HB 111) to the Governor’s Oil Tax Bill (HB 72). Unlike the Governor’s bill, the Democratic alternative aims to: (1) encourage oil production in new fields, (2) help get new oil out of existing fields, and (3) advance non-tax ways to encourage more oil production.
Read More →
NEWS: Anti-Frankenfish Measure Advances in Alaska House
Effort to Protect Wild Alaska Salmon Moves Forward
JUNEAU - Today, the House Fisheries Committee approved House Joint Resolution 5, a resolution sponsored by Representatives Geran Tarr (D-Anchorage) and Scott Kawasaki opposing the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the sale of genetically modified (GM) salmon in the United States. This would be the first time the FDA approves a GM organism for human consumption.
Read More →
House Joint Resolution 8 “Resolution Relating to Limiting Campaign Expenditures”
Link to sponsor statement from the Office of Rep. Les Gara
Read More →
House Bill 96 Sponsor Statement “Chemicals in Children’s Products”
Link to House Bill 96 sponsor statement from the Office of Representative Geran Tarr
Read More →
NEWS: Democrats Introduce Oil Tax Alternative
Reduction for Production: Bill Targets New Oil in the Pipe and Protects Alaska
JUNEAU – House and Senate Democratic legislators introduced legislation today to grant tax concessions to oil producers who put new oil into the pipeline. The bill (SB50, HB 111) targets tax incentives to new fields and to new development in existing fields, and it offers other incentives outside the tax code to spark new development.
Read More →
