Below is the PowerPoint presentation from APF Senior Education Research Fellow Bob Griffin‘s testimony at the Senate Education Committee hearing on February 4, 2020.
Testimony on Alaska Reads Act
Membership of Judicial Council
Senate Joint Resolution 3, “Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the membership of the judicial council”. Link to the full bill: https://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/31/Bills/SJR003A.PDF Our testimony on Senate […]
Ballot Initiative Severability
Senate Bill 80 is “An Act relating to proposing and enacting laws by initiative.” Here is a link to the bill: https://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/31/Bills/SB0080A.PDF Our testimony on Senate Bill 80 Our state is indeed fortunate […]
Direct Health Care
House Bill 92, “An Act exempting direct health care agreements from regulation as insurance; establishing a direct care payment program for medical assistance recipients; and providing for an effective date.” Link to the […]
House Bill 123 Testimony
Price transparency in the health care market is an essential component of a competitive environment. And in most markets, competition reduces prices, and improves quality and access. But health care is not most […]
Property Rights: the Heart of Opportunity
We recently submitted a statement on House Joint Resolution 38: Private property is at the heart of opportunity in America, and it has been since before our formal founding. In response to actions […]
Senate Bill 193 Testimony
Government can give opportunity to people, but it will never be able to give people what they truly want and what they need: They need dignity, achievement and self-worth. Those things are not […]
House Bill 262 Testimony
This bill will enable military spouses to continue to participate in the Alaska economy, provide needed services to Alaskans, and more importantly provide harmony to those military families stationed in Alaska. I would […]
House Bill 264 Testimony
The Alaska Policy Forum believes in the value of less regulation, smaller government intervention in free markets and good public policy. This bill is more regulation, loss of free market decisions and bad […]