Bill Wielechowski

In the 2015-2016 legislative session, Wielechowski serves as a member of the following standing committees; Judiciary, Resources and State Affairs. He also serves on the Special Committee on Federal Overreach, the Joint Committee on Armed Services

The opponents of SB 21 gained a victory by having it placed on the 2014 ballot. All the picketing and mass protesting seemed as it was for naught, for in November 2014, the voters chose to keep SB 21, and voted no on Ballot Measure 1.

In 2013, Senator Wielechowski led an assemblage to repeal SB 21.

In 2013 a movement to repeal SB21 was starting to build traction. SB21 was an Alaska Senate Bill, introduced January 16, 2013. The Bill was, according to the Alaska State Legislature website, "An Act relating to the interest rate applicable to certain amounts due for fees, taxes, and payments made and property delivered to the Department of Revenue; relating to appropriations from taxes paid under the Alaska Net Income Tax Act; providing a tax credit against the corporation income tax for qualified oil and gas service industry expenditures; relating to the oil and gas production tax rate; relating to gas used in the state; relating to monthly installment payments of the oil and gas production tax; relating to oil and gas production tax credits for certain losses and expenditures; relating to oil and gas production tax credit certificates; relating to nontransferable tax credits based on production; relating to the oil and gas tax credit fund; relating to annual statements by producers and explorers; establishing an Oil and Gas Competitiveness Review Board; relating to the determination of annual oil and gas production tax value including adjustments based on a percentage of gross value at the point of production from certain leases or properties; and making conforming amendments."

The bill was signed into law, June 24, 2013, after passing both the senate and house in the previous months.

He was a majority member of the Senate Bi-partisan Working Group from 2007 through 2012. He then joined the Minority Caucus.

In 2006, he was elected to the Alaska Senate to replace retiring Democratic incumbent Gretchen Guess in District J, which included the neighborhoods of Mt. View, Muldoon and Russian Jack in Anchorage. In the 2010 election, he defeated Ron Slepecki winning 58% of the vote to Slepecki's 42%.

In 2003, he served on the mayoral transition team for Mark Begich and went on to serve the city as a member of the 2003 Anchorage School District Budget Review Team and the Mayor's Task Force on Obesity and Health. In 2004, he stepped down as designated chair of the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board to become associate general counsel for IBEW Local 1547.

After moving to Anchorage, he became a volunteer with the Northeast Community Council, as a Commissioner on the Anchorage Planning & Zoning Commission and as chair of the Creekside Town Center. In 1999 he was the designated chair of the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board.

Bill P. Wielechowski (born December 7, 1967) is a Democratic member of the Alaska Senate representing District H. District H is located in Anchorage, Alaska and includes Spenard and the University of Alaska at Anchorage. Prior to the 2012 redistricting process, he represented District J from 2007-2013.

Wielechowski was born December 7, 1967, in Ridgewood, New Jersey to a Polish-American family (his grandfather immigrated from Kraków in 1910). He attended Seton Hall University earning a bachelor of science in business management and finance and graduating magna cum laude. He then attended Seton Hall University School of Law earning his juris doctor in 1992.