Donna Mears

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Bills this legislator primary-sponsored. Data from OpenStates.

• HB 104 An Act creating and relating to the address confidentiality program; and providing for an effective date. · May 14, 2026
• HB 296 An Act relating to leases of state land for agricultural purposes; and providing for an effective date. · May 8, 2026
• HB 189 An Act relating to a permanent fund dividend for an individual whose conviction has been vacated, reversed, or dismissed; and relating to the calculation of the value of the permanent fund dividend by including payment to individuals eligible for a permanent fund dividend because of a conviction that has been vacated, reversed, or dismissed. · Apr 10, 2026
• HB 208 An Act relating to the regulation of liquefied natural gas import facilities by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. · Mar 5, 2026
• HB 259 An Act relating to large energy use facilities; relating to electric and gas utilities; relating to community benefit agreements with municipalities; and relating to the duties of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. · Feb 3, 2026
• HB 206 An Act relating to disclosure of oil and gas production tax information. · May 15, 2025
• HCR 2 Proposing an amendment to the Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature relating to voting and abstention from voting. · Apr 30, 2025
• HCR 5 Proposing an amendment to the Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature relating to committee records; and providing for an effective date for the amendment. · Apr 25, 2025
• HB 154 An Act relating to the summer electronic benefits transfer program for children. · Apr 25, 2025
• HB 337 An Act establishing 4-H Day. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HCR 2 Proposing an amendment to the Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature relating to voting and abstention from voting. · May 8, 2023
• HB 172 An Act extending the termination date of the State Medical Board; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 24, 2023

Bills this legislator coauthored or cosponsored. Data from OpenStates.

• SB 249 An Act relating to virtual currency kiosks; relating to transactions involving virtual currency; relating to unfair trade or deceptive acts or practices; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Jul 16, 2026
• HB 16 An Act requiring a group supporting or opposing a candidate or ballot proposition in a state or local election to maintain an address in the state; amending campaign contribution limits for state and local office; directing the Alaska Public Offices Commission to adjust campaign contribution limits for state and local office once each decade beginning in 2031; relating to campaign contribution reporting requirements; relating to administrative complaints filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission; relating to state election expenditures and contributions made by a foreign-influenced corporation or foreign national. · Vetoed · Jul 16, 2026
• HB 133 An Act establishing deadlines for the payment of contracts under the State Procurement Code; establishing deadlines for the payment of grants, contracts, and reimbursement agreements to nonprofit organizations, municipalities, and Alaska Native organizations; relating to reports from state agencies to the legislature detailing late payments made during 2026; relating to the state financial transactions Internet website; and providing for an effective date. · Vetoed · Jul 3, 2026
• HB 36 An Act relating to treatment foster homes; relating to the placement of foster children in hospitals and residential psychiatric treatment centers for psychiatric care; relating to the duties of the Department of Family and Community Services; relating to the care of children in state custody placed in psychiatric residential treatment facilities outside the state; amending Rule 12.1(b), Alaska Child in Need of Aid Rules of Procedure; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Jul 3, 2026
• SB 174 An Act establishing the Alaska Invasive Species Council in the Department of Fish and Game; relating to management of invasive species; and providing for an effective date. · Vetoed · Jul 1, 2026
• SB 24 An Act relating to tobacco, tobacco products, electronic smoking products, nicotine, and products containing nicotine; raising the minimum age to purchase, exchange, or possess tobacco, a product containing nicotine, or an electronic smoking product; relating to the tobacco use education and cessation fund; relating to retail cigar stores; relating to the taxation of electronic smoking products and vapor products; and providing for an effective date. · Vetoed · Jun 19, 2026
• SB 21 An Act establishing the Alaska Work and Save Program in the Department of Revenue; relating to depositing permanent fund dividends into investment accounts; and providing for an effective date. · Vetoed · Jun 19, 2026
• HJR 39 Urging the federal government to waive the new H-1B Visa fees for teachers in the state. · To Executive · Jun 17, 2026
• HB 26 An Act relating to the duties of the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities; and relating to a statewide public and community transit plan. · Vetoed · May 21, 2026
• HB 301 An Act relating to and prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. · May 15, 2026
• HJR 38 Urging the United States Congress to recognize public safety telecommunicators as first responders; and urging the United States Congress to pass the Enhancing First Response Act. · To Executive · May 13, 2026
• HJR 15 Urging the Governor, the Department of Natural Resources, division of forestry and fire protection, the Department of Public Safety, municipalities of the state and relevant wildfire planning and response agencies, and the Alaska delegation in Congress to prepare for the 2025 wildfire season. · To Executive · Jul 30, 2025
• SJR 17 Recognizing and honoring the 50th anniversary of The Energy Council. · To Executive · Jul 30, 2025
• HJR 5 Urging the United States Congress and the President of the United States to reinstate the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 and make the funding mechanism in the Act permanent. · To Executive · Jul 30, 2025
• HB 69 An Act relating to the base student allocation; and providing for an effective date. · Vetoed · Apr 22, 2025
• HB 26 An Act relating to the official languages of the State of Alaska; renaming the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council as the Council for Alaska Native Languages; relating to the transfer of the Council for Alaska Native Languages from the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development to the Department of Education and Early Development; and relating to the Council for Alaska Native Languages. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2024
• SB 151 An Act relating to police officer training; establishing the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Review Commission; relating to missing and murdered indigenous persons; relating to the duties of the Department of Public Safety; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2024
• HB 202 An Act relating to the availability and administration of opioid overdose drugs in public schools; relating to correspondence study programs; and relating to allotments for correspondence study programs; and relating to an annual report relating to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grants and opioid overdose drug distribution; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2024
• HB 237 An Act relating to temporary permits for nurses with lapsed licenses. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 17 An Act relating to insurance coverage for contraceptives and related services; relating to medical assistance coverage for contraceptives and related services; and providing for an effective date. · Vetoed · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 251 An Act relating to the Board of Agriculture and Conservation; relating to loans and limitations under the Alaska Agricultural Loan Act; exempting certain foods and drinks prepared in an uninspected kitchen from state labeling, licensing, packaging, permitting, and inspection requirements; permitting a person to acquire meat from a producer by way of an ownership share in an animal if certain conditions are met; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 88 An Act relating to work quotas for employees at warehouse distribution centers; and providing for an effective date. · Vetoed · Oct 9, 2024
• SJR 13 Encouraging the United States Congress and the President of the United States to pass and sign legislation amending the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to release certain land held in trust back to affected Alaska Native village corporations. · To Executive · Oct 9, 2024
• HJR 17 Urging the United States Congress to pass the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act. · To Executive · Oct 9, 2024
• HJR 18 Urging the United States Congress to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset of the Social Security Act. · To Executive · Oct 9, 2024
• SB 152 An Act relating to community energy facilities. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 345 An Act relating to grants to unit owners for disaster relief; relating to safety ladders at municipal harbor facilities; relating to the harbor facility grant fund; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• SB 159 An Act establishing Alaska Veterans' Poppy Day; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 230 An Act relating to teacher certificates for retired teachers; repealing the limit on the number of years of out-of-state school experience that may be substituted for in-state experience in teacher salary scales; relating to teacher national board certification; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 9, 2024
• HB 116 An Act relating to grants and costs funded by the restorative justice account; relating to the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · May 12, 2024
• HB 145 An Act relating to loans in an amount of $25,000 or less; relating to the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System and Registry; relating to deferred deposit advances; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · May 11, 2024
• HB 28 An Act restricting the release of certain records of convictions; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · May 11, 2024
• HB 121 An Act relating to a renewable portfolio standard; relating to electrical energy transmission; relating to distributed energy systems; relating to power cost equalization; relating to the Alaska Energy Authority; and providing for an effective date. · May 10, 2024
• SB 88 An Act relating to the Public Employees' Retirement System of Alaska and the teachers' retirement system; providing certain employees an opportunity to choose between the defined benefit and defined contribution plans of the Public Employees' Retirement System of Alaska and the teachers' retirement system; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · May 7, 2024
• HB 163 An Act creating the FAFSA raffle fund; relating to the definition of 'gambling'; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 24, 2024
• HB 89 An Act relating to education tax credits for certain payments and contributions for child care and child care facilities; relating to the insurance tax education credit, the income tax education credit, the oil or gas producer education credit, the property tax education credit, the mining business education credit, the fisheries business education credit, and the fisheries resource landing tax education credit; renaming the day care assistance program the child care assistance program; relating to the child care assistance program and the child care grant program; providing for an effective date by amending the effective date of secs. 1, 2, and 21, ch. 61, SLA 2014; and providing for an effective date. · Passed Legislature · Apr 23, 2024
• HB 147 An Act relating to teacher certificates for retired teachers. · Mar 27, 2024
• HB 62 An Act relating to the renewable energy grant fund and recommendation program; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2023
• HJR 11 Urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to develop a woodstove certification program that addresses the threat to clean and healthy winter air in Fairbanks; and urging the state Department of Environmental Conservation to develop an economically and legally defensible state implementation plan for the Fairbanks North Star Borough nonattainment area. · To Executive · Oct 16, 2023
• HB 78 An Act establishing September 10 as Alaska Community Health Aide Appreciation Day. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2023
• SB 87 An Act relating to a lumber grading training program and lumber grading certificates; relating to use of lumber graded and certified by a person holding a lumber grading training program certificate; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2023
• HB 112 An Act relating to the Board of Pharmacy; relating to the practice of pharmacy; relating to pharmacies; relating to prescription drug manufacturers; relating to licensing and registration requirements for certain wholesale drug distributors; relating to prescriptions for epinephrine; relating to the administration of epinephrine; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2023
• HB 51 An Act relating to refrigerants designated as acceptable for use under federal law; relating to firefighting substances; and providing for an effective date. · Vetoed · Oct 16, 2023
• SB 10 An Act providing for trapping licenses for active members of the Alaska National Guard and military reserves without charge; making sport fishing, hunting, and trapping permanent identification cards available to certain disabled veterans without charge; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2023
• HB 23 An Act establishing the month of October as Filipino American History Month. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2023
• HJR 15 Urging the United States Congress and the President of the United States to reinstate an expanded child tax credit. · Oct 16, 2023
• HB 56 An Act relating to the certification of veterinarians; exempting veterinarians from the requirements of the controlled substance prescription database; and providing for an effective date. · Became Law · Oct 16, 2023
• HB 157 An Act establishing Juneteenth Day as a legal holiday. · Oct 16, 2023
• HB 99 An Act relating to and prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. · May 12, 2023
• HB 166 An Act relating to firefighting substances; and providing for an effective date. · May 8, 2023
• HB 53 An Act relating to state identifications and driver's licenses for persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections; relating to the duties of the commissioner of corrections; and providing for an effective date. · Apr 28, 2023
• HJR 4 Honoring the Alaska-Korea relationship; and celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea, the 70th anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement, and the 120th anniversary of the first Korean immigration to the United States. · To Executive · Apr 3, 2023
• HB 136 An Act disapproving recommendations of the State Officers Compensation Commission; and providing for an effective date. · Mar 27, 2023
• HJR 12 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to terms of legislators. · Mar 24, 2023
• HB 84 An Act relating to municipal property tax; and providing for an effective date. · Mar 22, 2023
• HCR 1 Establishing a joint task force on labor workforce, training, and retention. · Passed Legislature · Mar 20, 2023
• HB 43 An Act relating to professional and occupational licensing; and relating to treatment to change the sexual orientations or gender identities of children and vulnerable adults. · Mar 17, 2023