# Neal Foster

Neal Foster is a Democratic member of the Alaska House for district 39.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Alaska House, district 39
- Serving since: 2023-01-17
- Current term: AK 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/14f39e67-1604-4eb4-8000-99c699f196a0

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/14f39e67-1604-4eb4-8000-99c699f196a0 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Foster sits at −0.02 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 99% of State House Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.02 (standard error 0.07), from 41 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 99% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (AK 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 6 bills: 6 reached committee, 1 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 18. 16.7% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Alaska House 22.1%; rank 20 of 34).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 368: An Act relating to meetings of the Board of Fisheries; and providing for an effective date. (in committee, 2026-02-23) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/34/HB368/
- HB 226: An Act increasing the loan amount that is eligible for lower interest rates on certain Alaska Housing Finance Corporation loans. (in committee, 2026-05-19) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/34/HB226/
- HB 167: An Act renaming Ruby Airport as Harold Esmailka Airport; and providing for an effective date. (in committee, 2025-05-08) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/34/HB167/
- HB 155: An Act relating to alcohol; relating to local option elections; relating to the statewide database of alcohol purchases; relating to alcohol licenses,… (in committee, 2026-05-13) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/34/HB155/
- HB 127: An Act relating to the overtime pay exemption for certain newspaper employees. (in committee, 2025-03-05) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/34/HB127/
- HB 126: An Act relating to the reinstatement of Native village corporations; relating to proxy solicitations to shareholders of corporations organized under state law… (became law, 2026-07-03) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/34/HB126/
- HB 168: An Act relating to alcohol; relating to local option elections; relating to the statewide database of alcohol purchases; relating to alcohol licenses,… (in committee, 2024-03-28) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/33/HB168/
- HB 94: An Act prohibiting the use of certain restrictive provisions in leases of space for business use in certain federally established zones; and adding an… (in committee, 2022-02-08) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/32/HB94/
- HB 56: An Act relating to power cost equalization; relating to the power cost equalization endowment fund; and providing for an effective date. (in committee, 2021-02-18) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/32/HB56/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $15.4K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 96% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://akleg.gov/legislator.php?id=fon
- Campaign site: https://fosterforhouse.com/
- X: https://x.com/nealwfoster
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/repnealfoster/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neal-foster-78938b26

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/14f39e67-1604-4eb4-8000-99c699f196a0