SCR 12: Extending the governor's October 9, 2025, declaration of a disaster emergency in response to the 2025 West Coast Storm; and approving an amended financing plan.
00 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 12 01 Extending the governor's October 9, 2025, declaration of a disaster emergency in 02 response to the 2025 West Coast Storm; and approving an amended financing plan. 03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 04 WHEREAS, on October 9, 2025, the governor declared a disaster emergency, 05 following the 2025 West Coast Storm; and 06 WHEREAS the condition of the disaster emergency was extended in November of 07 2025, December of 2025, and January of 2026, with the disaster emergency expiring on 08 February 6, 2026; and 09 WHEREAS the effects of the storm remains severe, and infrastructure systems from 10 the original storm, as well as ongoing emergency actions, are necessary to respond to those 11 effects; and 12 WHEREAS, under AS 26.23.020(c), "[a] proclamation of disaster emergency may 13 not remain in effect longer than 30 days unless extended by the legislature by a concurrent 14 resolution"; and 15 WHEREAS an additional extension will allow agencies to continue the agencies' 16 emergency response to meet the disaster; and
01 WHEREAS, under AS 26.23.020(k)(1), the governor may expend more than 02 $1,000,000 of state funds to cope with a disaster if, when the legislature is in session, the 03 legislature approves a financing plan to cope with the incident or disaster; and 04 WHEREAS, on January 28, 2026, the governor submitted a revised financing plan to 05 the legislature, totaling $39,250,000 and detailing the estimated shared costs for the 2025 06 West Coast Storm Disaster as $18,750,000 in federal authority and $20,500,000 in state 07 general funds; and 08 WHEREAS the revised financing plan reflects an increase of $5,500,000 in disaster 09 relief funds from the financing plan previously authorized for the 2025 West Coast Storm 10 Disaster; and 11 WHEREAS the current balance of the disaster relief fund established in AS 26.23.300 12 is sufficient to meet the increase in the governor's revised financing plan; 13 BE IT RESOLVED that, under AS 26.23.020(c), the Alaska State Legislature 14 extends the October 9, 2025, disaster emergency declared by the governor for the 2025 West 15 Coast Storm until March 8, 2026; and be it 16 FURTHER RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that the extension of the 17 October 9, 2025, disaster emergency declared by the governor for the 2025 West Coast Storm 18 be made retroactive to February 6, 2026; and be it 19 FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature approves the increase of 20 $5,500,000 in disaster relief funds in the amended financing plan submitted by the governor 21 for the 2025 West Coast Storm.