Walker, Bill

Used executive authority as governor to expand Medicaid in Alaska after the Republican-controlled Legislature opposed the expansion.

July 16, 2015Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Issued Administrative Order No. 289 as governor, establishing the Alaska Climate Change Strategy and creating the Climate Action for Alaska Leadership Team to advise the governor on responses to climate change in the state.

October 31, 2017Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Issued Administrative Order No. 283 as governor, directing state departments to carry out a coordinated plan on prevention, treatment, and recovery to address the heroin and opioid epidemic and overdose deaths in Alaska.

February 16, 2017Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Issued Administrative Order No. 301 as governor, establishing the Governor's 2020 Census Alaska Complete Count Commission to address the state's distinctive census-enumeration challenges.

October 30, 2018Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Exercised the governor's line-item veto to cut $1.29 billion from the state budget, capping the 2016 Permanent Fund dividend at about $1,000 per Alaskan instead of the projected $2,052, cutting $58 million from schools and $10 million from the University of Alaska, and halting the Knik Arm bridge and Susitna-Watana dam projects.

June 29, 2016Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: alaskapublic.org · researched July 31, 2026

Issued Administrative Order No. 271 as governor, a fiscal restraint order directing all state agencies to halt discretionary expenditures on six projects, including the Ambler Road, Juneau Access, Susitna-Watana Dam, and Knik Arm Crossing projects, in response to the oil-price-driven state budget deficit.

December 26, 2014Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Signed Senate Bill 91 into law as governor, an omnibus rewrite of Alaska's criminal law and corrections statutes projected to cut the state prison population by 13 percent by 2024 and reinvest $98 million over six years into treatment and reentry services.

July 11, 2016Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: alaska-native-news.com · researched July 31, 2026

Issued Administrative Order No. 296 as governor, affirming the State of Alaska's commitment to protecting the privacy of executive branch employees and restricting release of their personal information.

August 2, 2018Supports Data Privacy

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Issued Administrative Order No. 300 as governor, declaring a response to Alaska's linguistic emergency and directing increased state collaboration with tribes on preserving the state's 20 official Alaska Native languages.

September 23, 2018Supports Civil Rights

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Issued Administrative Order No. 286 as governor, directing state procurement processes to weigh contractor compliance with state and federal workplace-safety and labor law when the State of Alaska awards construction and service contracts.

July 27, 2017Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Issued Administrative Order No. 278 as governor, revoking Administrative Order 226 and setting new apprenticeship-utilization requirements for construction projects financed by the State of Alaska in order to build the state's skilled construction workforce.

November 10, 2015Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Public service history recorded by the National Governors Association: elected to the Valdez City Council in 1977, became mayor of Valdez in 1979, later served as general counsel for the Alaska Gasline Port Authority, and served as Governor of Alaska from December 1, 2014 to December 3, 2018.

January 1, 2018

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Anchorage Superior Court Judge William Morse upheld his veto of $666 million of Permanent Fund dividend funding in a lawsuit brought by state Sen. Bill Wielechowski, finding that the governor retained line-item veto authority over dividend appropriations.

November 17, 2016

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The Alaska Legislative Council voted 5-9 against continuing its Medicaid lawsuit against him, ending the Legislature's court challenge to his expansion decision without an appeal to the Alaska Supreme Court.

June 29, 2016

Source: adn.com · researched July 31, 2026

Anchorage Superior Court Judge Frank Pfiffner dismissed the Alaska Legislature's lawsuit against him, ruling that as governor he did not violate the Alaska Constitution when he expanded Medicaid because existing state and federal law already required coverage of the expansion group.

March 2, 2016

Source: adn.com · researched July 31, 2026

As governor, expanded Medicaid on his own authority after the Legislature never voted on his bill, opening federally funded health coverage to about 40,000 low-income Alaskans starting September 1, 2015. Legislative Council members then voted to spend up to $450,000 to sue him over it, with one lawmaker opposed.

August 18, 2015

Source: alaskapublic.org · researched July 31, 2026

Appeared before the Alaska Senate Special Committee on Natural Gas Pipelines as General Counsel of the Alaska Gasline Port Authority and testified on the committee record about the proposed federal gas-pipeline legislation and the competing pipeline routes.

September 19, 2001

Source: akleg.gov · researched July 31, 2026