“Enact teacher recruitment and retention incentive payments through his education bill, House Bill 106.”
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Independently re-checked against the Alaska Legislature's own records (akleg.gov) and contemporaneous reporting; the prior rating's factual claims all hold. HB 106 (33rd Legislature) is titled 'An Act authorizing lump sum payments for certain teachers as retention and recruitment incentives; and providing for an effective date,' and its text sets exactly the $5,000/$10,000/$15,000 district tiers for FY2025-2027 that Dunleavy announced. It is a governor's bill: the 3/8/2023 introduction carries a GOVERNOR'S TRANSMITTAL LETTER, the day after his own press release announcing it. Dunleavy drove it well beyond a single supporting vote: he publicly conditioned his signature on the bipartisan education bill SB 140 on adding the bonuses ('It does absolutely nothing for recruitment and retention of teachers,' Feb. 27, 2024), then vetoed SB 140 (akleg: 'VETOED BY GOVERNOR 3/14/24'), and the override failed one vote short of the 40 needed ('GOVERNOR VETO SUSTAINED Y39 N20 E1,' 3/18/2024). He re-proposed the identical program in his 2025 omnibus SB 82 (34th Leg., governor's transmittal letter), whose title again reads 'authorizing lump sum payments for certain teachers as retention and recruitment incentives' with the same three tiers; it was heard and held in Senate Education and never advanced. Adversarial checks for a higher grade fail: HB 106 died in House Finance and never passed; HB 57, the 2025 education bill enacted over his veto, contains no lump-sum teacher retention or recruitment payments (verified against the chaptered text); and the 2026 package the Legislature approved substituted a teacher student-loan-forgiveness program (up to $15,000 over three years), not his incentive payments. So no portion of the promised payments was enacted, ruling out FULL and PARTIAL. Checks for a lower grade also fail: this is sustained personal sponsorship and public leadership across two legislatures, far beyond ATTEMPTED, and the SB 140 veto ran toward the promise's direction rather than against it, so not MISALIGNED. Applying the same standard to any party, a chief executive who authored the bill, campaigned for it, spent a veto trying to force it, and reintroduced it the next session without ever getting it enacted earns CHAMPIONED (+0.75).
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