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The Daily Alaska Codex is the newsroom's reference of the organizations, people, places and projects that appear in The Daily Alaska's coverage of Alaska housing, energy, politics, the economy and everyday life. Each entry is maintained by The Daily Alaska newsroom and links to the stories that mention it.
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The Alaska cruise ship passenger tax is a $34.50 per-passenger levy on large cruise ships, established by a citizens initiative roughly two decades ago to fund
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A 2026 Alaska law expands pharmacists' authority to test for and treat common illnesses and monitor patients' chronic conditions, taking effect early next year
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An ordinance adopted by the Anchorage Assembly that restricts data centers to commercial and industrial zones and sets requirements for buffers, utility capacit
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A zoning policy change allowing duplex construction across much of the Anchorage Bowl to increase housing density within existing neighborhoods.
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- AO 2025-128Laws
AO 2025-128 is an Anchorage Assembly ordinance that extends how long emergency shelter units can remain on public land and removes the Planning and Zoning revie
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- AO 2026-85Laws
AO 2026-85 is an Anchorage ordinance proposing an opt-in zoning overlay to allow duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, cottage courts and townhomes along designated
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- Ballot Measure 1Laws
Ballot Measure 1 is the ballot initiative Alaska voters passed in November 2024 that set scheduled increases to the state minimum wage through 2027 and inflatio
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- House Bill 184Laws
House Bill 184 is Alaska legislation that authorizes the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority to finance workforce housing projects of three or mo
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- House Bill 78Laws
House Bill 78 is Alaska legislation that would restore a defined benefit pension option for public sector employees after the state ended its pension system in
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NAHASDA is the 1996 federal law that funds block grants to tribally designated housing entities for affordable housing construction and operation across Alaska
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- Proposition 2Laws
Proposition 2 is a Fairbanks North Star Borough ballot measure that would move borough elections from October to November to align with state and federal electi
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- Proposition 3Laws
Proposition 3 is a Fairbanks North Star Borough citizens' initiative that would require all borough ballots to be hand counted and ban optical scan machines fro
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- Proposition BLaws
A 2026 Juneau ballot measure asking voters whether to raise the city's property tax rate cap from 9 back to 12.
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S. 5354 is a Senate bill introduced by Sen. Lisa Murkowski to reauthorize NAHASDA appropriations through fiscal 2033 and let tribal housing entities set their o
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- SB 239Laws
SB 239 is an Alaska state law that allows Kei trucks and other K-class vehicles at least 25 years old to be registered and titled as fully road-legal vehicles.
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- SB 250Laws
SB 250 is an Alaska Senate bill sponsored by Senator Loki Tobin that would block data center power costs from being folded into utility rates and require commun
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The Southcentral Foundation Land Transfer Act of 2025 is federal legislation that passed the U.S. House and, as of the story, awaits a vote in the U.S. Senate.
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A ballot measure Alaska voters approved in 2024 that raises the state minimum wage in steps, from $13 to $14 in July 2026 and to $15 in July 2027, then indexes
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