11-28-06 : Senate Majority Announces Committee Chairmanships

06-01-06 : Senator Bert Stedman Chosen for Prestigious Academy

04-28-06 : Bipartisan Senate Support for Stedman Harbor Facility Grant Program
Harbor Funding Mechanism Sails through Senate

04-27-06 : Senator Stedman Questions House Commitment to Retirement Reform
Pension Reform Advocate Dubious of House Delay Tactics

03-10-06 : Senator Stedman Renews Commitment to Solving Retirement System Shortfall
PERS Relief Included in Revenue Sharing Bills

02-22-06 : Legislature Forms Coastal Caucus

02-14-06 : Lawmakers Team Up to Maintain Safe Harbors
Companion Bills Create Harbor Grant Fund

02-06-06 : Legislature Extends Salmon Tax Credit Through 2008
Stedman Bill Encourages Capital Investment to Modernize Alaska’s Salmon Processing Industry

01-31-06 : Senator Stedman Applauds State's Work on Tongass Timber Access
Forest Service MOUs Will Support Southeast Alaskan Timber Jobs

01-19-06 : Senator Stedman Appointed Chairman of Senate Community and Regional Affairs Committee
Key Committee to Review State Revenue Sharing Proposals

01-09-06 : Senator Stedman Hires 2006 Session Staff
Former Aide to Senator Lyda Green Joins Stedman Staff

07-27-05 : Public Employee Pension Reform Signed into Law
First Step to Solving $5.7 Billion Dollar Deficit Taken

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04-15-05 : State Operating Budget Sails Through Alaska Senate
Bipartisan Effort Completes Spending Plan With 25 Days Remaining

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04-15-05 : Shellfish Farming Legislation Going to Governor

04-11-05 : Alaska Senate Passes Retirement Security Act
SB 141 Delivers Fiscal Certainty to Public Employee Retirement Systems

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04-04-05 : Legislation Promoting Shellfish Farming

03-14-05 : Retirement Security Act Introduced in State Senate
SB 141 Strengthens Retirement System for Existing and Future Public Employees

01-21-05 : Senator Stedman Named to Key Committee for Gas Pipeline Contract

11-05-04: Senator Ben Stevens Named New Senate President
Senate Majority picks new leadership for the 24th Alaska Legislature

04-11-05 : This bill (SB 141) is designed to protect the benefit structure of the existing employees and retired employees. There is absolutely no interest in the state not fulfilling their benefit obligation to pay for the benefits that are accrued. It comes out with a new retirement plan, a defined contribution plan, which will give workers greater control and autonomy over their own financial resources and retirement issues.

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07-27-05 : Sen. Bert Stedman talks about how the new pension plan is better for new employees, especially in their 20's and 30's.

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07-27-05 : Sen. Stedman talks about how the state, local governments and school districts were facing the possibility of paying an amount equal to 50 percent of their employees salary to the pers/trs system to make up for the unfunded liability of 5.7 billion dollars.

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11-14-06: Clear the Air, then Solve Pension Crisis

01-21-03: Summary of the World Trade Center of Alaska Trade Mission to Chile.