SB 135 Alaska Senate · 34th Legislature (2025-2026)

An Act relating to the sharing of tax revenue from the fisheries business tax and fishery resource landing tax with municipalities; relating to municipal reports on the shared tax revenue; and providing for an effective date.

SB 135 changes how Alaska distributes tax revenue from fisheries business and landing taxes to municipalities. It increases the share for unified municipalities/unorganized borough cities from 50% to 60% and for cities within boroughs from 25% to 35% of collected taxes. Boroughs receive 60% of revenue from outside cities and 35% from cities within their boundaries. Newly incorporated boroughs (post-1987) get phased-in percentages over three years, and the bill requires municipalities to use these funds for harbor facility maintenance and improvements.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Mar 18, 2025 Last action Apr 15, 2025
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SB 135 CSSB 135(RES) · 6 edits
MODERATE
This bill was amended to change its committee assignment from the Senate Rules Committee to the Senate Resources Committee and to add a conditional requirement that municipalities must operate harbor facilities to receive revenue distribution. The bill also updated the distribution percentages for tax revenue from the fisheries business tax, increasing allocations to unified municipalities and cities in unorganized boroughs from 50% to 60%, while decreasing allocations to cities within boroughs and boroughs themselves from 35% to 25% and 60% to 50% respectively. These changes affect how fishing industry tax revenue is shared among different types of municipalities in Alaska.
Scope change
The bill's scope was modified to make harbor facility revenue distribution conditional on municipalities actually operating harbor facilities, and the revenue sharing percentages were adjusted to favor unified municipalities and unorganized boroughs over cities within boroughs.
ELIGIBILITY

Added condition that municipalities must operate harbor facilities to receive revenue distribution

FISCAL

Increased tax revenue allocation to unified municipalities and cities in unorganized boroughs from 50% to 60%

Decreased tax revenue allocation to cities within boroughs from 35% to 25%

Decreased tax revenue allocation to boroughs from 60% to 50%

TECHNICAL

Changed bill committee assignment from Senate Rules Committee to Senate Resources Committee

Updated bill tracking number from SB 135 to CSSB 135(RES) and changed document identifier from A to N

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Apr 15, 2025
Committee
(S) REFERRED TO FINANCE
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Apr 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Moved CSSB 135(RES) Out of Committee
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