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Elected to the House 1986, 1988, 1990
Elected to the Senate 1992, 1994, 1998

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Press Releases

• Alaska Lawmakers Go Back To School - Annual Program Brings Legislators and Students Together for Real Life Civics Lesson., 09-18-02
  
• HOPE Community Resources Honor Donley - Senator Only the Eighth Legislator in 35 Years to Receive Award., 08-29-02
  
• Governor's Veto Costs the State Savings., 07-10-02
  
• RCA to Get One More Year Plus Review - Republican Majority Staves Off Governor's Unreasonable Demands., 06-27-02
  
• Governor's Call on Vet Home Based on Politics - Not Attainable Policy., 06-27-02
  
• ‘Pioneers’ and Veterans’ Homes Bill Passes - Legislature OKs Beds, Federal Support for Vets in Pilot Program., 05-21-02
  
• State Budget Holds Line on New Spending - Plan Funds Alaskans' Priorities, Avoids Worsening Fiscal Gap., 05-15-02
  
• Minority Chooses Political Clout Over Education Funding., 05-02-02
  
• Senate Finance Passes Operating Budget - Budget Holds Line on Spending But Restores Most House Cuts., 04-25-02
  
• Minority Poll Shows Alaskans Still Say ''No'' to New Broad-Based Taxes This Year., 04-24-02
  
• Senate Majority Restores Food Safety Inspections., 04-18-02
  = Loren Leman, 147K      = Loren Leman, 1.0M
  
• Senate Says Criminals' PFDs Should Go to Victims., 04-10-02
  = Dave Donley, 33K      = Dave Donley, 230K
  = Dave Donley, 32K      = Dave Donley, 222K
  = Dave Donley, 20K      = Dave Donley, 135K
  
• Poll Shows Alaskans Want Fixes Before Taxes., 03-01-02
  = Rick Halford, 64 K      = Rick Halford, 446 K
  = Rick Halford, 23 K      = Rick Halford, 153 K
  
• Senate Passes Bill to Crack Down on Disabled Parking Abuse., 03-01-02
  
• Donley Wants Criminals' PFDs to Go to Victims., 02-27-02
  
• Donley Calls for Stiffer Criminal Fines., 02-27-02
  
• Donley Spending Cap Passes House Judiciary., 02-06-02
  
• Legislature Pans State of State Address - First Step in Escaping Fiscal Hole is to ''Stop Digging Deeper''., 01-16-02
  = Rick Halford, 40 K = Brian Porter, 48 K
  = Dave Donley, 39 K = Dave Donley, 27 K
  = Eldon Mulder, 23 K
• Legislature Overrides Governor's Vetoes - Majority Vote Makes Transportation, Disclosure, Ethics Bills Law., 01-16-02
• Donley Asks Governor To Institute Hiring Freeze and Provide Contingency Spending Plans., 01-10-02
• Governor's Budget Called "Irresponsible" - Meeting State Deficits with Spending Hikes Defies Fiscal Sense., 12-14-01
  
• Senator Donley Speaks out on SB 186 - The Municipal Bond Cap., 11-20-01
  
• Donley Responds to Incorrect Anchorage Daily News Story., 10-25-01
  
• Senator Dave Donley Looks to Truly Limit Government Spending., 10-22-01
  
• Former Governor Jay Hammond Joins Other Alaskans to Sound Off on Long Range Fiscal Planning Before the Senate Finance Committee., 10-22-01
  
• Progress Made on Long-Range Fiscal Issues - Committee Improves Spending Cap Plan; More Hearings Set for Saturday., 10-19-01
  
• Judiciary to Consider Fiscal Plan Measures - Balanced Budget, Spending Cap, Inflation-Proofing on Oct. 19 Agenda., 10-17-01
  
• Finance to Consider Long-Range Fiscal Plan - Public Testimony Welcome at Oct. 20 Statewide Teleconference., 10-15-01
  
• Senate Finance Committee 2001 Budget Report., 09-14-01
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• Legislature Passes Operating Budget - Education, Public Safety and Public Health Top Priorities., 05-08-01
  
• Senate Calls for Juveniles Who Commit "Hate Crimes" to be Tried As Adults., 05-06-01
  
• Senate Passes Cornerstone of Long-Range Plan - Resolutions Propose Change in CBR Vote and Constitutional Spending Limit., 05-05-01
  
• Women Should Get Equal Pay., 05-05-01
  
• Senate Increases Public School Funding., 05-04-01
  
• Waiting Period Required to Fill U.S. Senate Seat., 05-04-01
  
• Senate Passes FY 02 Capital Budget., 05-02-01
  = Pete kelly, 61 K = Pete kelly, 49 K
  = Pete kelly, 90 K
  
• Committee Passes FY 02 Capital Budget - Funding for Youth Corrections, Rural Power and Village Safe Water., 04-28-01
  = Pete kelly, 75 K
  
• Legislature Supports Right to Bear Arms., 04-28-01
  
• Study Would Determine PFD's Effects on Alaska., 04-28-01
  
• Senate Stops Excessive Lawyer Fees., 04-26-01
  = Dave Donley, 79 K
  
• Bill Combats Misuse of Disabled Parking Spaces., 04-25-01
  
• Senate Allows Public Opinion in Filling Vacancy., 04-19-01
  
• Senate Wants Annual Court Reports., 04-11-01
  
• Senate Passes Operating Budget., 04-09-01
  = Dave Donley, 126 K
  
• Fiscal Responsibility Bills First Step in Developing Long Range Fiscal Plan., 04-09-01
  = Dave Donley, 97 K = Dave Donley, 93 K
  
• Senate Passes Bill to Expand DNA Registry.
  04-09-01
  = Dave Donley, 76 K
  
• Senate Finance Passes Operating Budget - Increased Funding for Education, Public Safety and Public Health., 04-05-01
  
• Bill Would Create Equitable School Funding., 04-03-01
  
• Senate Finance Wants Annual Court Reports., 04-02-01
  
• Senate Supports Right to Bear Arms., 03-29-01
  = Dave Donley, 90 K = Dave Donley, 84 K
  
• Donley Bill Would Provide Opportunity for Public Opinion., 03-28-01
  
• Women Should Get Equal Pay., 03-23-01
  = Dave Donley, 100 K
  
• Legislature Wants State to Control Education Funds., 03-20-01
  = Con Bunde, 73 K
  
• Senate Passes Fast-Track Supplemental Budget., 03-14-01
  
• Finance Committee Passes Fast Track Budget - Funds Suicide Prevention, Gas Pipeline Studies, ANWR Education., 03-14-01
  = Dave Donley, 105 K = Dave Donley, 111 K
  = Dave Donley, 58 K
• Donley Resolution Supports Right to Bear Arms., 02-28-01
  = Dave Donley, 102 K
  
• Bill Would Fund ANWR Education., 02-16-01
  
• Women Should Get Equitable Pay., 02-06-01
  = Dave Donley, 65 K = Dave Donley, 56 K
• Finance Committees Unveil Budget Bills - FY 02 Spending Plans Start From FY 01 Management Plan., 02-05-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 72 K
• Hamilton says Legislature 'Turned UA Around' - University President Thanks Finance Committee for Funding., 02-05-01
  = President Mark Hamilton, 73 K = Dave Donley, 31 K
• Senate Wants State to Control Education Funds., 02-05-01
  = Dave Donley, 70 K = Dave Donley, 57 K
  
• Special Rural Housing Loan Program Not Equitable., 02-05-01
  
• Senate Finance Co-Chairs Name Subcommittees., 01-23-01
  
• Legislative Audit Recommends Changes to Special Rural Housing Loans., 01-22-01
  
• Republican Majority Leaders Respond to Governor's State of the State Address., 01-10-01
  = Rick Halford, 77 K = Dave Donley, 52 K
  = Loren Leman, 60 K = Eldon Mulder, 53 K
  = Eldon Mulder, 47 K = Brian Porter, 39 K
  = Brian Porter, 32 K

Past Press Release Archive

• 2000 Press Archive
  
• 1999 Press Archive
  
• 1998 Press Archive
  
• 1997 Press Archive
  

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Opinion-Editorial

• Fiscal Responsibility and Local Debt., 11-01-02
  
• Senior Issues., 09-11-02
  
• Slow Traffic - Response to Anchorage Daily News Op-Ed on July 7, 2002., 07-11-02
  
• 22nd Legislature Works hard for Seniors and Veterans., 07-03-02
  
• Senator Donley Strengthens Drunk Driving Legislation., 07-03-02
  
• The Birth of Alaska's Current Oil and Gas Property Taxes., 02-22-02
  
• The Senate Finance Committee Tackles Alaska's Fiscal Gap., Published in the Anchorage Daily News on 11-06-01 and in November 2001 Pulse Publications
  
• Letter to Editor in Response to Rural Education Funding Comments., 10-29-01
  
• Historic Year for Public Education in Alaska., 09-11-01
  
• Democratic Spending Threatens Alaska's Fiscal Future., 07-25-01
  
• Operating Budget Speech, 04-09-01
  
• How Anchorage and Urban Alaska Gets Shortchanged in the State Budget., 03-26-01
  
• Public Process Should - Not A Replacement For It., 02-28-01
  
• Should Bragaw Street be extended south to Abbott Loop Road?, 02-07-01
  
• How Anchorage and Urban Alaska Gets Shortchanged in the State Budget., 02-05-01
  
• Anchorage's Roads - What Went Wrong? What Do We Do Now?, 02-02-01
  
• Insurance Wars In Alaska Part I - The Origins of Mandatory Auto Insurance in Alaska., 10-27-00
  
• Insurance Wars In Alaska Part II - The First Mandatory Auto Insurance Law Sunsets And the Current Law is Born., 10-30-00
  
• Insurance Wars In Alaska Part III - Stacking and Increased Mandatory Offers of Uninsured and Underinsured Coverage., 10-30-00
  
• It's Time to Extend Abbott Loop North - Response to Daily News Editorial Dated Thursday, April 27, 2000, 05-04-00
  
• Why I Voted Against the Proposed Budget Plan, 09-10-99
  
• Is Light Rail Right for Anchorage?, 09-02-99
  
• State Budgets: Do We Get What We’re Paying For? - Published in the Anchorage Daily News, 11-17-98
  
• Increasing Public Involvement in Liquor Licensing Decisions, 09-28-98
  
• Want Better Roads in Anchorage Speak Up: Appeared in the Voice of the Times on December 9, 1997
  
• The Case for a U.S. Constitutional Amendment to Limit Campaign Spending
  

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Legislation

Prime Sponsor Legislation

SB 65 : Study of Pay Equity for State Employees
Passed! Chapter 48 Session Law 2001
An Act requiring a study regarding equal pay for equal work of certain state employees.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 166 : Appointment of US Senators
Passed into Law! Veto Overridden, Chapter 4 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to the time of filling by appointment a vacancy in the office of United States senator.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 169 : Hate Crimes: Automatic Waiver of Minors
An Act relating to the nonapplicability of the delinquency laws to certain minors accused of certain crimes against persons directed at certain victims.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 206 : Disabled Parking and Registration Plates
Passed! Chapter 56 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to registration plates and parking permits for persons with disabilities and to illegal use of parking spaces for persons with disabilities.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 222 : Require Slow Drivers to Pull Over
Passed! Chapter 70 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to certain motor vehicles that are required to yield to following traffic.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 223 : Prisoners: Parole/Good Time
An Act limiting the award of good time and restricting release on mandatory parole for prisoners serving certain sentences who fail to attain certain minimum educational standards; providing that prisoners having attained or attaining those educational standards receive good time awards and availability of release on mandatory parole of one-third of the term or terms of imprisonment rounded off to the nearest day; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 226 : Design of Highway Projects
Passed! Chapter 67 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to design of highway projects; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 327 : Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance
An Act relating to confidentiality of insurance records and hearings and to motor vehicle insurance; and providing for an effective date.

SJR 17 : Federal Gun Policies
Passed! Legislative Resolve 21
Relating to requesting that President Bush renounce and reverse Clinton Administration anti-gun-ownership policies and reorient the United States Department of Justice towards policies that accurately reflect the intent of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution to grant individual Americans the right to keep and bear arms.
| Sponsor Statement |

SJR 23 : Constitutional Spending Limit
Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to an appropriation limit and a spending limit.
| Sponsor Statement |

Co-Sponsor Legislation

HB 48 : No Social Security Number Required on Hunting/Fishing License
Passed! Chapter 39 Session Law 2001
An Act eliminating a requirement that a social security number be provided by an applicant for certain hunting or sport fishing licenses, tags, and permits; eliminating a requirement that applications for certain licenses and tags be sworn to by the applicants before an officer authorized to administer oaths; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 101 : Charter Schools
Passed! Chapter 70 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to charter schools; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 196 : Right of Action for Legal Separation
Passed! Chapter 80 Session Law 2002
An Act establishing a right of action for a legal separation; requiring a report about legal separations; and amending Rule 42(a), Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 281 : Civil Liability for Providing Alcohol
Passed! Chapter 88 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to civil liability for providing alcoholic beverages to a person under 21 years of age; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 349 : Agency Program And Financial Plans
Passed! Chapter 98 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to agency programs and financial plans.
| Sponsor Statement |

HJR 6 : Roadless Policy
Passed! Legislative Resolve 4
Relating to opposition to the inclusion of national forests in Alaska within former President Clinton's Roadless Area Conservation rule and supporting the overturning of this inclusion by litigation, by congressional action, or by action of President Bush.
| Sponsor Statement |

HJR 7 : Endorsing ANWR Leasing
Passed! Legislative Resolve 5
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.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 1 : Foundation Formula Increase
An Act relating to the base student allocation used in the formula for state funding of public education; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 48 : Municipalities: Incorp/Property Valuation
An Act relating to the determination of full and true value of taxable municipal property for purposes of calculating funding for education and certain other programs, to incorporation of third class boroughs, to incorporation of certain boroughs in the unorganized borough and annexation of portions of the unorganized borough to boroughs and unified municipalities, and to the formation of separate unorganized boroughs; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement | Sectional Analysis |

SB 72 : Take a Child Hunting Season
Passed! Chapter 68 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to 'take-a-child-hunting' seasons for big game.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 80 : Appropriation: Special Olympics
An Act making a special appropriation to the Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs for a grant to 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 86 : Teacher Employment & Subject Expertise
Passed! Chapter 69 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to employment of teachers who have subject-matter expertise; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 88 : Metropolitan Planning Organizations
Passed Legislature! Vetoed by Governor
An Act relating to metropolitan planning organizations and to establishment of a metropolitan planning organization for the Anchorage metropolitan area; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 99 : DNA Registration of Burglars
Passed! Chapter 49 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to the DNA identification registration system.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 105 : Victims' Rights/ Prisoner's PFD
Passed! Chapter 92 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to victims' rights; relating to establishing an office of victims' rights; relating to the crime victim's choice to appear or testify in a criminal case; relating to compensation of victims of violent crimes; relating to eligibility for a permanent fund dividend for persons convicted of and incarcerated for certain offenses; relating to notice of appropriations concerning victims' rights; relating to restitution for criminal and delinquency acts; authorizing the state to collect restitution on behalf of victims of crime and delinquent acts and the release of certain information related to that collection; relating to the forfeiture of certain cash and other security for payment of other restitution; relating to access by the Violent Crimes Compensation Board to certain records regarding delinquency acts to award compensation to victims; relating to immunity for damages related to certain collections of restitution; amending Rule 82, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 16, Alaska Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 9, Alaska Delinquency Rules, and Rules 402 and 501, Alaska Rules of Evidence; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 145 : Village Public Safety Officer Program
Passed! Chapter 97 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to the expansion of the village public safety officer program to include the provision of probation and parole supervision services, and to retirement benefits for village public safety officers.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 164 : No Gas Pipeline over Beaufort Sea
Passed! Chapter 29 Session Law 2001
An Act prohibiting leases under the Right-of-Way Leasing Act on state land in or adjacent to the Beaufort Sea; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

SCR 2 : Approp: Sobriety Awareness Month
Passed! Legislative Resolve 10
Relating to declaring March 2001 as Sobriety Awareness Month.
| Sponsor Statement |

SCR 28 : Joint Legis Salmon Industry Task Force
Passed! Legislative Resolve 53
Establishing the Joint Legislative Salmon Industry Task Force.
| Sponsor Statement |

SCR 29 : Hiring Freeze
Relating to urging the Governor to institute a hiring freeze on state government.
| Sponsor Statement |

SJR 9 : National Missile Defense System
Passed! Legislative Resolve 7
Relating to the development and deployment of the National Missile Defense System.
| Sponsor Statement |

SJR 12 : Eliminate Marriage Tax Penalty
Passed! Legislative Resolve 13
Urging the United States Congress to amend the tax code to reduce the marriage penalty.
| Sponsor Statement |

SJR 14 : Oppose Canadian Fee to Transport Firearms
Passed! Legislative Resolve 18
Urging President Bush, the United States Department of State, and the United States Congress to intervene and negotiate with the government of Canada to reconsider the imposition of a fee to transport firearms through Canada.
| Sponsor Statement |

SJR 31 : Tax Exempt Bond to Fund Veterans Loans
Passed! Legislative Resolve 52
Urging the United States Congress to permit the use of tax exempt bonds to fund loans for veterans who served after 1976.
| Sponsor Statement |

SJR 38 : Constitutional Amendment: Priority of Expenditures
Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to information regarding proposed expenditures.
| Sponsor Statement |

Past Legislation Archive

• 21st Legislature
• 20th Legislature
• 19th Legislature
• 18th Legislature

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District Information

Newsletters

• Wiillow Crest Area Report: Summer 2001
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Pulse Articles

• Fiscal Responsibility and Local Debt., 10-01-02
  
• The State of Alaska's Budget and the Three-Quarters Vote Requirement., 09-01-02
  
• Fish Creek (submitted for August edition)., 07-11-02
  
• Senator Donley Champions Anchorage Projects., 07-01-02
  

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