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Elected to the House 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000

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Committee Memberships

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Press Releases

• Joint Pipeline Committee Discusses Recommendations to 23rd Alaska Legislature., 08-20-02
  
• Torgerson Leads Group to Calgary - Alaska Natural Gas Line to Take Center Stage at Global Petroleum Show., 06-10-02
  
• House Passes Long-Range Fiscal Plan - Measures Share Burden Fairly, Address Budget Gap This Year., 05-02-02
  = Bill Hudson, 111K      = Bill Hudson, 773K
  = Joe Green, 75K      = Joe Green, 521K
  = Lisa Murkowski, 78K      = Lisa Murkowski, 544K
  = Jeannette James, 48K      = Jeannette James, 336K
  = Eldon Mulder, 57K      = Eldon Mulder, 397K
  
• Stolen Property Tracking Bill Passes in House - HB 472 Would Help Police Recover Goods from Secondhand Shops., 04-25-02
  = Joe Green, 48K      = Joe Green, 336K
  
• AIDEA Loan Adjustments Win House OK - HB 471 Benefits Rural Borrowers and Protects State Dividend., 04-24-02
  
• Committee Contracts with Tax Law Firm., 03-22-02
  
• Legislators Represent Alaska at Energy Council - National Energy Bill, Natural Gasline, ANWR on Agenda in D.C.., 03-06-02
  
• Senate Approves Electronic Balloting Bill - Rep. Green's HB 320 Allows Privacy for Vision-Impaired Voters., 02-27-02
  = Joe Green, 63 K      = Joe Green, 434 K
  = Joe Green, 38 K      = Joe Green, 262 K
  
• Legislature Hires Federal Pipeline Law Expert - FERC’s Influence on State Efforts Demands Experienced Counsel., 02-07-02
  
• Committee Contracts with Economics Firm - Fairbanks Consultants to Provide Research, Analysis Services., 01-14-02
• Alaska-Canada Committee Meets to Promote Alaska Highway Pipeline., 12-10-01
  
• Committee Explores Cook Inlet Natural Gas., 11-08-01
  
• Committee Holds Public Hearing In Kenai - Federal Activity, Pipeline Viability and Price Forecasts Discussed., 11-07-01
  
• Agenda for November 7th and 8th Kenai Meeting of Joint Pipelines Committee., 11-02-01
  
• Committee Urges Knik Arm Crossing Study - Link Would Improve Access, Open Land, Testimony Shows., 10-16-01
  
• Torgerson Traveling to Boost Gasline Prospects., 10-12-01
  
• Legislature Files Motion in Katie John Case., 10-04-01
  
• Torgerson to Testify Before Congress on Pipeline - Will Tell Senate Energy Committee 'ANGTA Best Law for Alaska'., 09-21-01
  
• Committee Rejects Producers' Proposed Bill - 1977 Federal Law is Preferred Vehicle for Alaska Pipeline., 09-19-01
  
• Committee to Review Proposed Legislation., 09-17-01
  
• Chairman Restates Pipeline Route Preference - Producer Threats Won't Sway Legislature From Southern Route., 09-12-01
  
• Legislative Delegation Advances Gas Dialogue - Torgerson Invites Canadians and Alaskans to Join Working Group., 08-27-01
  
• Hearings Cover Current Natural Gas Issues - Sen. Ted Stevens Speaks to Committee on Gas Pipeline and ANWR, 08-15-01
• Committee Hears of Progress on Pipeline - State and Federal Agencies Provide Updates on Pipeline Issues, 08-14-01
  
• Pipeline Committee Delegates Traveling To Canada., 08-13-01
  
• Pipeline Committee to Hold Hearing In Fairbanks., 08-08-01
  
• Committee Learns of Progress Toward Pipeline., 07-18-01
  
• Committee Hears Updates on Gas Pipeline Issues., 07-17-01
  
• Pipeline Committee to Hold Public Hearing In July., 07-05-01
  
• Appointees Made to Pipeline Committee., 06-10-01
  
• Appeals Court Delivers Katie John Decision - Legislative Council Reacts to Results of Subsistence Appeal., 05-07-01
  
• Loan Forgiveness Would Attract Teachers - House OKs HB 43 - Forgives Portion of Education Graduates' Loans., 04-30-01
  = Joe Green, 61 K
  
• Green's Health Insurance Bill Passes House - HB 113 Would Require Prompt Claim Payment, Or Interest., 04-12-01
  = Joe Green, 94 K
  
• Legislators Advise Russian Counterparts - Khabarovsk Officials Learning about Public-Private Relations., 03-20-01
  
• Operating Budget Passes House - Legislators Speak on Process, Product in Comments from Floor., 03-14-01
  = Eldon Mulder, 103 K = Bill Williams, 81 K
  = Con Bunde, 54 K = Bill Hudson, 29 K
  = Joe Green, 73 K = Joe Green, 26 K
  = Eldon Mulder, 79 K
• House Confirms Ethics Committee Members., 01-16-01
  = Joe Green, 44 K

Past Press Release Archive

• Representative Green's 2000 Press Release Archive
• Representative Green's 1999 Press Release Archive
• Representative Green's 1997 - 1998 Press Release Archive

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Legislation

Prime Sponsor Legislation

HB 1 : Move Legislature to Anchorage
An Act relating to the location of legislative sessions; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement | Sectional Analysis |

HB 9 : Stranded Gas Development Project
An Act amending the standards applicable to determining whether a proposed new investment constitutes a qualified project for purposes of the Alaska Stranded Gas Development Act; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 42 : Privilege To Purchase Alcohol/I.D. Cards
An Act relating to the consumption, purchase, furnishing, delivery, offer for sale, and sale of alcoholic beverages and to driver's licenses and identification cards used to purchase alcoholic beverages.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 43 : Student Loan Forgiveness
An Act relating to reimbursement of certain student loans; and providing for an effective date.

HB 113 : Health Care Insurance Payments
Passed! Chapter 52 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to health care insurance payments for hospital or medical services; and providing for an effective date."
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 122 : Electric Cooperatives: Expansion & Political Activity
An Act relating to electric and telephone cooperatives, including expansion activities and political activities of certain large electric and telephone cooperatives that are exempt from regulation; and providing for an effective date.

HB 268 : Limits on Right to Privacy
An Act relating to the constitutional right to privacy.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 320 : Electronic Balloting Equipment
Passed! Chapter 6 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to the use of electronic balloting equipment.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 427 : Third-Party Civil Action
An Act relating to civil claims against a third-party; amending Rule 14(c), Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 471 : AIDEA Loans and Dividend/AEA Loans
Passed! Chapter 121 Session Law 2002
An Act increasing the maximum amount of loans from the bulk fuel revolving loan fund operated by the Alaska Energy Authority; relating to the definitions of 'net income' and 'unrestricted net income' for purposes of determining the amount of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority's dividend to the state; relating to communities within which rural development loans may be made by the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement | Sectional Analysis |

HB 472 : Pawnbrokers/Secondhand Dealers
An Act relating to certain persons who buy and sell secondhand articles and to certain persons who lend money on secondhand articles.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 473 : State Transportation Plan
An Act relating to transportation.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 474 : Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge
Passed Legislature! Vetoed by Governor
An Act relating to public rights-of-way and easements for surface transportation affecting the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge.
| Sponsor Statement |

HCR 26 : House Arrest/Electronic Monitoring
Passed! Legislative Resolve 55
Supporting increased use of the house arrest program/electronic monitoring with sobriety monitoring as a means of preventing crime and reducing the high costs of imprisonment in Alaska.
| Sponsor Statement |

HJR 42 : Federal Share Of Medicaid Costs
Urging the Congress to enact legislation that would temporarily increase the federal share of Medicaid costs.

Co-Sponsor Legislation

HB 3 : Deposits to the Permanent Fund
An Act relating to deposits to the Alaska permanent fund from mineral lease rentals, royalties, royalty sale proceeds, net profit shares under AS 38.05.180(f) and (g), federal mineral revenue sharing payments received by the state from mineral leases, and bonuses received by the state from mineral leases, and limiting deposits from those sources to the 25 percent required under art. IX, sec. 15, Constitution of the State of Alaska; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 32 : Sex Crime and Pornography Forfeitures
An Act relating to the forfeiture of property used to possess or distribute child pornography, to commit indecent viewing or photography, to commit a sex offense, or to solicit the commission of, attempt to commit, or conspire to commit possession or distribution of child pornography, indecent viewing or photography, or a sexual offense.

HB 53 : Seismic Hazards Safety Commission
Passed! Chapter 109 Session Law 2002
An Act establishing the Alaska Seismic Hazards Safety Commission.

HB 82 : Farm Operations: Disclosure/Nuisances
An Act relating to agricultural facilities and operations as private nuisances; and to disclosures in transfers of real property located within one mile of an agricultural facility or an agricultural operation.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 99 : School Discipline and Safety
Passed! Chapter 50 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to school discipline and safety programs; 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 160 : Reporting of Abortions
Passed! Chapter 141 Session Law 2002
An Act requiring the reporting of induced terminations of pregnancies.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 164 : Grandparents' Rights Regarding CINA
Passed! Chapter 43 Session Law 2001
An Act prescribing the rights of grandparents related to child-in-need-of-aid hearings; and amending Rules 3, 7, 10, 15, 17, and 19, Alaska Child in Need of Aid Rules of Procedure.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 171 : Alaska History Curriculum
An Act relating to a curriculum for Alaska history; and providing for an effective date.

HB 175 : Appropriations: Power Projects
An Act making an appropriation to the Alaska Energy Authority to secure repayment of bonds for power and intertie projects; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 195 : Freedom of Religion
An Act requiring governmental entities to meet certain requirements before placing a substantial burden on a person's free exercise of religion.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 208 : Aquatic Farms for Shellfish
Passed! Chapter 81 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to aquatic farming of shellfish; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 241 : Rail and Utility Corridor to Canada
An Act relating to a railroad utility corridor for extension of the Alaska Railroad to Canada and to extension of the Alaska Railroad to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 272 : Tobacco Use Prevention Trust
An Act establishing an account in the general fund for smoking education and cessation funds; relating to the Alaska tobacco use education and cessation trust; repealing a provision of law relating to funds used for smoking education and cessation programs; and providing for an effective date.

HB 274 : Workers' Comp: Hearing/Medical Exam
Passed! Chapter 84 Session Law 2002
An Act relating to the qualification of a physician used for an employer's independent medical examination; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 285 : Alaska's State Song
An Act adding a second verse to the official Alaska state song.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 305 : Noncompliance With Selective Service
Passed! Chapter 89 Session Law 2002
An Act prohibiting certain state employment, a student loan, or a permanent fund dividend for a person who fails to register for the military selective service; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 307 : Oil/Gas Exploration Incentive Credit
Passed! Chapter 139 Session Law 2002
An Act delaying to June 30, 2007, the last date by which hydrocarbon exploration geophysical work must be performed or drilling of a stratigraphic test well or exploratory well must be completed in order for a person to qualify for an exploration incentive credit.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 308 : Oil/Gas Leases; Discovery Royalty Credit
An Act extending to discoveries of oil or gas in the Tanana River drainage basin the discovery royalty credits that are authorized for lessees of state land drilling exploratory wells and making the first discovery of oil or gas in an oil or gas pool and for licensees under oil and gas exploration licenses making the first discovery of oil or gas in an oil or gas pool that convert those licenses to oil and gas leases.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 376 : Fish & Game In Navigable Waters
An Act relating to management of fish and game in and on the navigable waters and submerged lands of Alaska.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 390 : ASMI Salmon Marketing & Marketing Tax
Passed! Chapter 136 Session Law 2002
An Act delaying the repeal of the salmon marketing tax; expanding the allowable use of that tax for the salmon marketing programs of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute; relating to the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute's salmon marketing committee; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement |

HB 448 : Telemarketers Phone Lists/Registration
An Act relating to establishing a data base of residential telephone customers who do not wish to receive telephonic solicitations, providing that the data base be compiled at no cost to the customers, requiring paid telephonic sellers to purchase the data base, requiring telephonic sellers to identify themselves, and requiring telephonic solicitors who are otherwise exempt from registration as telephone solicitors to file with the Department of Law and purchase the data base; and providing for an effective date.

HB 464 : Correspondence Study Programs
An Act relating to statewide school district correspondence study and to centralized correspondence study.
| Sponsor Statement | Sectional Analysis |

HCR 11 : Uniform Rules: Standing Committees
Proposing an amendment to the Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature relating to the Education Committee, a standing committee of the legislature.

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 |

HJR 16 : Oppose Canadian Fee to Transport Firearms
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.

HJR 27 : WWII Alaska-USSR Lend-Lease Monuments
Passed! Legislative Resolve 26
Supporting the erection of monuments in Alaska, Russia, and Canada to commemorate the World War II lend-lease program between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
| Sponsor Statement |

HJR 33 : Support War On Terrorism & Support Peace
Passed! Legislative Resolve 48
Expressing gratitude to President George W. Bush, to the President's cabinet, to the men and women of the United States armed forces, and to the United States Congress and declaring support for the war on terrorism and for the President's effort to support democracies and promote peace worldwide.
| Sponsor Statement |

HJR 45 : Salmon Labeling
Passed! Legislative Resolve 60
Relating to the labeling of salmon food products.

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 79 : Fred Zharoff Memorial Bridge
Passed! Chapter 11 Session Law 2001
An Act naming the Fred Zharoff Memorial Bridge.
| Sponsor Statement |

SB 149 : Teacher Retirement, Re-employment, Certificate
Passed! Chapter 58 Session Law 2001
An Act relating to reemployment of retired teachers, to eligibility for major medical insurance coverage for beneficiaries of the teachers' retirement system, and to teacher certificates; and providing for an effective date.
| Sponsor Statement | Sectional Analysis |

SJR 3 : F-22 Raptor Aircraft at Elmendorf AFB
Passed! Legislative Resolve 6
Relating to the deployment of F-22 Raptor aircraft at Elmendorf Air Force Base.
| Sponsor Statement |

SJR 10 : U.S. Coast Guard Funding
Passed! Legislative Resolve 19
Urging the United States Congress to fully fund the operational readiness and recapitalization requirements of the United States Coast Guard.
| 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 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 |

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