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                      • ADVOCACY ACTIONS

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                        Current Advocacy Actions

                        2025 Advocacy Priorities

                        PRESS RELEASE: Top Priorities Announcement

                         

                         

                      • Workforce Development & Education

                      • 2025 2025

                        • 2025 Support for SB 22, Financial Literacy Education Program

                        2024 2024

                        • 2024 Support for SB 196, adding saliva tests to employee drug-testing statute 
                        • 2024 Support for SB 183, Protecting the Workers' Compensation Benefits Guaranty Fund
                        • 2024 Support for HB 189, Permitting Restaurant Staff Aged 18 and Older to Serve Alcohol
                        • 2024 Support for HB 273, Enhancing Housing Finance Options
                        • 2024 Support for the Technical Vocational Education Program
                        • 2024 Letter of Support for HB 89, Childcare Subsidies and Tax Credits 
                        • 2024 Support for Universal Temporary Licensure SB 83 & HB 85

                        2023 2023

                        • 2023 Letter of Support for Preliminary Childcare Taskforce Recommendations
                        • 2023 Letter of Support for UAF Childcare Proposal
                        • 2023 Letter of Support for Licensure Compacts - Audiology and Physical Therapy
                        • 2023 Support for Alaska's Education Tax Credits SB 120 and HB 144
                        • 2023 Opposition of HB 63 & SB 60 Repeal of Workers' Compensation Appeals Commission
                        • 2023 Letter of Support of Universal Temporary Licensure SB 83 & HB 85
                      • Economic & Community Development

                      • 2025 2025

                        • 2025 Support for HB 131- Nursing Licensure
                        • 2025 Support for HB 75 and SB 77-PFD Eligibility and DOR Procedures Act
                        • 2025 Support for HB 13, Property Tax Exemptions
                        • 2025 Support for SB 133, HB 144- Reforming Prior Authorization in Alaska
                        • 2025 Support for SB 161, Paid Sick Leave 
                        • 2025 Support for SB 132, Omnibus Insurance Bill 
                        • 2025 Opposition to HB 25, Disposable Foodservice Ware

                        2024 2024

                        • 2024 Support for Fairbanks Children's Museum advancement 
                        • 2024 PRESS RELEASE: Fairbanks chamber board votes to support small business

                        2023 2023

                        • 2023 FNSB Ordinance 2023-57 Non Conforming Property
                        • Community Perspective on FNSB Health Social Services Power Proposition
                        • 2023 Support for Public Safety
                        • 2023 Support for the Full $10 Million Allocation in Senate Bill 41 Toward Unmanned Aircraft Research
                        • 2023 Support for Resolution 2023-23 Steese/Johansen Expressway Interchange
                        • 2023 Letter of Support for Changing Contractor-Controlled Insurance to Allow Added Insureds
                        • 2023 Exempting Veterinarians from Drug Monitoring
                      • Energy, Natural Resources & Environment

                      • 2025 2025

                        • 2025 Letter of Opposition to SB 92- S Corp Tax
                        • 2025 Letter of Opposition to SB 112- Oil and Gas Tax
                        • 2025 Letter- PM 2.5 SIP Revision
                        • 2025 Letter of Support for HB 119 & SB 114- Gas Pipeline Fairbanks Spur

                        2024 2024

                        • 2024 PRESS RELEASE: Fairbanks energy burden has doubled since 2018 
                        • 2024 Opposition to FNSB Resolution 2024-23, Climate Action & Adaptation Plan
                        • 2024 Op-Ed in Support of Ambler Road 
                        • 2024 PRESS RELEASE: Joint industry news release objecting to Ambler Road decision 
                        • 2024 Support for grant application for Railbelt grid improvements 
                        • 2024 Support for HB 227, clarifying electric utility liability 
                        • 2024 Support for Grid Modernization
                        • 2024 Support for Carbon Sequestration Research

                        2023 2023

                        • 2023 PRESS RELEASE: Chamber commends EPA for seeking practical solutions on pollution
                        • 2023 Opposition to FNSB Resolution Climate Action Plan
                        • 2023 Opposition to SB 114 Oil & Gas Production Tax
                        • 2023 Support for Timber Industry Bills HB 93 & 104 and SB 87
                        • 2023 Section 404 Clean Water Act SOA Primacy
                        • 2023 Support HJR 11 Address Air Pollution in Fairbanks
                      • Military Affairs

                      • 2025 2025

                        2024 2024

                        • 2024 Opposition to National Guard Bureau PEC Leveling 
                        • 2024 Support for HB 155, creating a state Military Affairs Commission 

                        2023 2023

                        • 2023 Support for SB 41 Veterans Cemetery
                      • Transportation & Infrastructure

                      • 2025 2025

                        • 2025 Comments on the Interior Alaska Transportation Plan 
                        • 2025 Concern for Alaska Long Trail
                        • 2025 Support for HJR 14 Port MacKenzie Rail
                        • 2025 Comments on 2024-27 STIP Amend #2 
                        • 2025 Opposition to HB 186, Apprentice Labor

                        2024 2024

                        • 2024 Opposition to FNSB legislative priority 
                        • 2024 Support for Fairbanks International Airport grant 
                        • 2024 Support for Port MacKenzie Rail Extension 
                        • 2024 Support for Tanana River Railroad Bridge Upgrade in Nenana
                        • 2024 Support for FAA Reauthorization, H.R. 3935
                        • 2024 Support for Northern Rail Extension 
                        • 2024 Support for replacing Noyes Slough rail bridge
                        • 2024 Support for FNSB roads plan
                        • 2024 Support for Phase 2 John Trigg Ester Library 
                        • 2024 Support for the Alaska Long Trail
                        • 2024 Opposition to HB 186, Volunteer Labor Compliance Officer Program

                        2023 2023

                        • 2023 Support for Ambler Access Project
                        • 2023 Support for Pike's Landing lease and Public Easement
                        • 2023 Comments on FNSB Downtown Fairbanks 2040 Plan
                        • 2023 Support FNSB Ordinance 2023-48 Off-Street Parking
                        • 2023 Support for UAF Flight Training
                        • 2023 Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce Comments on Draft STIP
                        • 2023 Alaska Railroad Critical Infrastructure Bridge Funding Support
                        • 2023 Interior Alaska Transportation Plan Comments
                        • 2023 FAA Reauthorization Bill Without DCA ACT
                        • 2023 Support Railbelt Electric Grid Improvement 
                      • ​Other

                      • 2023 2023

                        • 2023 Alaska Railroad Grant Letter of Support
                        • 2023 Support for Fairbanks Fire Station - Aurora Subdivision
                        • 2023 GVEA Letter of Support for DOE Grant
                        • 2023 Letter of Support for Troth Yeddha' Indigenous Studies Center
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