Senator Drue Pearce
District F - Republican
State Capitol, Room 518
Juneau, AK 99801-1182
Phone: (907) 465-4993
Fax: (907) 465-3872To send an e-mail message to Senator Pearce click on the address below:
Interim:
716 W 4th, Suite 500
Anchorage, AK 99501-2133
Phone: (907) 258-8185
Fax: (907) 258-0226
(see also Session address)
Elected to the House 1984, 1986
Elected to the Senate 1988, 1992, 1994
Staff
Llewellyn Lutchansky at (907) 465-3710 or Llewellyn_Lutchansky@Legis.state.ak.us
Stephanie Szymanski at (907) 465-3877 or Stephanie_Szymanski@Legis.state.ak.us
Krag Johnsen at (907) 465-6594 or Krag_Johnsen@Legis.state.ak.us
Kristy Tibbles at (907) 465-4747 or Kristy_Tibbles@Legis.state.ak.us
Kathryn Chaffins at (907) 465-4993 or Kathryn_Chaffins@Legis.state.ak.us
Date/Place of Birth: 4/2/51; Fairfield, IL
Occupation: Businesswoman; former banker and
teacher
Spouse: Michael F.G. Williams
Children: Tate Hanna Pearce-Williams.
Residency in Alaska: Since 1977; Fairbanks,
Kotzebue, and Anchorage
Education: College - Indiana University, B.A.
Biological Sciences, 1973;
Post Graduate - Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government,
M.P.A. 1984;
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, The Executive
Program, 1989
Political and Government Positions: State
Senator, 1989-present; State Representative, 1985-88; Chair, Oil
& Gas Committee, 1989-90, Chair, Labor & Commerce,
1991-92; Co-Chair, Finance, 1993-94; Senate President, 1995-1996,
Co-Chair Finance, 1997-1998; The Energy Council, Executive
Committee, 1989-94, Chair, 1993-94; SUMMERSCENE, Director, The
Louisville Zoo, Curator, 1974-77.
Business and Professional Positions: Partner:
Cloverland North and 4150 Company; Investor/Board Member: Wave
Energy; Resources Consultant: ASRC; Officer, Bank of the North;
Chemistry/Biology Teacher, Indiana.
Service Organization(s) Membership: Board
Service: Alaska Special Olympics, AWAIC, Anchorage Economic
Development Corporation, Kotzebue Chamber & PIC.
Member: Anchorage Chamber, Commonwealth North, AOPA, Resource
Development Council, RAP&BW, ARWC, AWPC, Exxon Valdez
Advisory Committee, Alaska Miners Association, Daughters of the
American Revolution, Arctic Power.
Special Interests: My family, our home and
friends, flying, community service, cooking, reading, United
Methodist Church.
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Prime Sponsor of the following legislation
SB
3: Authorizing prosecution and trial in the
district court of municipal curfew violations.
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SB
128: Alaska Aerospace Development Corp. Board.
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SB
154: Passed
An Act relating to paternity determination and child support;
relating to reporting of and access to financial or other
information for child support purposes; making changes to laws
relating to occupational, recreational, or other licenses,
permits, certificates, or other authorizations issued by the
state to facilitate administration of child support laws;
relating to the interest rate on judgments or decrees for child
support; relating to immunity from civil liability for good faith
compliance with reporting or other requirements for child support
purposes; relating to voiding fraudulent transfers and to
penalties for noncompliance with orders for child support
purposes; amending Rules 4, 5, 35, 52, 58, 60(b), 78, 90.1, and
90.3, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure; amending Rule 901, Alaska
Rules of Evidence; amending Rules 3 and 5, Alaska Bar Association
Rules; repealing the effective date of sec. 45, ch. 107, SLA
1996; and providing for an effective date. ~
SB
159: An Act relating to the new business
incentive program.
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SB
256: 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.
SB
323: An Act relating to sexual offenses, to
those who commit sexual offenses, and to registration of sex
offenders; Amending Rule 6(r)(2), Alaska Rules of Criminal
Procedure; and providing for an effective date.
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SCR
6: Relating to the Alaska Telemedicine Project.
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SCR
20: Relating to support of the State of Alaska's
areawide leasing program.
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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.
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Co-Sponsor of the following legislation
HB
7: Authorizing establishment of community
dispute resolution centers to foster the resolution of disputes
between juvenile offenders and their victims.
HB
16: Relating to delinquent minors, to the taking
of action based on the alleged criminal misconduct of ceratin
minors, to the services to be provided to the victims of criminal
misconduct of minors, and to agency records involving minors
alleged to be delinquent based on their criminal misconduct; and
amending Rule 19 and repealing Rules 6, 7, 11(a), 12(a), and
21(f), Alaska Delinquency Rules.
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
109: An Act relating to the management and
disposal of state land and resources; relating to certain remote
parcel and homestead entry land purchase contracts and patents;
and providing for an effective date.
HB 158: An
Act relating to attendance at a public school on a part-time
basis.
HB 170: An
Act relating to interference with the rights of physically and
mentally challenged persons; and relating to service animals
during their pre-training and training period.
HB 203: An
Act relating to actions for unlawful trade practices.
HB
261: An Act relating to a surcharge imposed for
violations of state or municipal law and to the Alaska police
training fund.
HB
303: An Act extending the termination date of
the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault; and
providing for an effective date.
HB 309: An
Act naming the Robert B. Atwood Building.
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
349: An Act prohibiting the use of the title
'social worker' without a license; relating to social workers,
licensure of social workers, and the Board of Clinical Social
Work Examiners; 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.
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
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.
HJR
62: Relating to bringing Balto back to Alaska.
SB
1: An Act relating to living
and working conditions of prisoners in correctional facilities
operated by the state, and authorizing the commissioner of
corrections to negotiate with providers of detention and
confinement services under contract to apply those conditions and
limitations on services to persons held under authority of state
law at facilities operated under contract or agreement; relating
to services provided to prisoners; amending the definition of
'severely medically disabled' applicable to prisoners seeking
special medical parole; amending provisions of the correctional
industries program; and extending the termination date of the
Correctional Industries Commission and the program.
SB
8: An Act relating to the noise levels of
airports and sport shooting facilities.
SB
14: An Act relating to
insurance covering an insured who is a victim of domestic
violence and requiring certain disclosures by an insurer.
SB
17: An Act creating the crime of criminal
transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
SB
21: An Act relating to ferries and ferry
terminals, establishing the Alaska Marine Highway Authority, and
relating to maintenance of state marine vessels; 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
35: An Act relating to management of state land,
water, and land and water as part of a state park, recreational
or special management area, or preserve; relating to reports to
the legislature concerning prohibitions or restrictions of
traditional means of access for traditional recreational uses
within a park, recreational or special management area, or
preserve; relating to Chilkat State Park.
SB
41: An Act relating to environmental audits and
health and safety audits to determine compliance with certain
laws, permits, and regulations.
SB
56: An Act relating to tourist oriented
directional signs that are 90 inches in width and 18 inches in
height, relating to penalties for violations related to outdoor
advertising, and annulling a regulation of the Department of
Transportation and Public Facilities.
SB
60: An Act providing for an advisory vote on the
issue of capital punishment.
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
70: An Act defining the offenses of unlawful
discharge of a firearm; and relating to the commission of those
offenses by minors.
SB 76:
An Act relating to long-term plans of certain state
agencies and recommendations regarding elimination of duplication
in state agency functions.
SB
77: An Act relating to the Alaska Day of Prayer.
SB
94: An Act relating to designating flunitrazepam
as a schedule IVA controlled substance; and providing for an
effective date.
SB
109: An Act relating to land used for
agricultural purposes and to state land classified for
agricultural purposes or subject to the restriction of use for
agricultural purposes only; and annulling certain program
regulations of the Department of Natural Resources that are
inconsistent with the amendments made by this Act.
SB
117: An Act relating to an infant care
curriculum in the public school system.
SB
137: An Act exempting certain volunteer
emergency medical technicians and volunteer fire fighters from
state wage and hour laws; and providing for an effective date.
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
261: An Act relating to the Special Olympics
World Winter Games to be held in Anchorage in the year 2001;
establishing a reserve fund for the games; providing certain
duties and authority for the Alaska Industrial Development and
Export Authority regarding financing for those games; and
providing for an effective date.
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.
SB
265: An Act designating the moose as the state
land mammal.
SB 274: An
Act relating to fees for probation and parole.
SB
275: An Act relating to contributions to the
governor, the lieutenant governor, and candidates for the offices
of governor and lieutenant governor; and providing for an
effective date.
SB 290: An
Act naming William Ransom Wood Boulevard in Fairbanks.
SB
304: An Act relating to regulation of highways
and motor vehicles; and providing for an effective date.
SB
307: An Act relating to conditions for filling
vacancies in the office of United States senator; and providing
for an effective date.
SB 309: An
Act relating to the use of force by peace officers and
correctional officers.
SB
314: An Act relating to the Alaska marine
highway system and to municipal feeder vessel authorities.
SCR 4:
Relating to declaring March 1997 as Sobriety Awarenss Month.
SCR
7: Relating to the thirty-first annual Boys'
State.
SCR
8: Relating to the twenty-ninth annual Girl's
State.
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
8: Urging the United States Congress to give an
affirmative expression of approval to a policy authorizing the
state to regulate, restrict, or prohibit the export of
unprocessed logs harvested from its land and from the land of its
political subdivisions and the University of Alaska.
SJR
16: Relating to reauthorization and reform of
the Endangered Species Act.
SJR
19: Relating to naming Anchorage as the location
of the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games.
SJR
20: Requesting the United States Congress to
accommodate Alaska's unique wetlands circumstances by amending
the Clean Water Act to modify the wetlands regulatory program and
to recognize Alaska's outstanding history of wetlands
conservation.
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.
SR
1: Relating to compensation of Holocaust victims
and survivors, their heirs, and Jewish communities by the
government of Switzerland and the Swiss banking industry.
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