# Donny Olson

Donny Olson is a Democratic member of the Alaska Senate for district T.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Alaska Senate, district T
- Serving since: 2015-01-26
- Current term: AK 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/cd3ca264-553d-4e21-a993-e3f5097b1b77

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/cd3ca264-553d-4e21-a993-e3f5097b1b77 (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

Olson sits at −0.05 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 99% of State Senate Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.05 (standard error 0.10), from 15 donors and 0 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 99% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (AK 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 1 bills: 1 reached committee, 1 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 18.

Recent sponsored bills:

- SCR 5: Suspending Rules 24(c), 35, 41(b), and 42(e), Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature, concerning House Bill No. 57, relating to wireless… (passed both chambers, 2025-07-30) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/34/SCR5/
- SB 213: An Act relating to alcohol; relating to local option elections; relating to the statewide database of alcohol purchases; relating to alcohol licenses,… (in committee, 2024-01-26) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/33/SB213/
- SB 151: An Act relating to police officer training; establishing the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Review Commission; relating to missing and murdered… (became law, 2024-10-16) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/33/SB151/
- SB 136: An Act relating to teacher certificates and teacher preparation programs; and providing for an effective date. (in committee, 2023-05-03) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/33/SB136/
- SB 130: An Act relating to the licensure of nursing professionals; relating to a multistate nurse licensure compact; and providing for an effective date. (in committee, 2023-05-03) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/33/SB130/
- SB 128: An Act temporarily closing the commercial salmon fishery in a portion of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands; and providing for an effective date. (in committee, 2023-05-12) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/33/SB128/
- SB 211: An Act relating to the Alaska Police Standards Council; relating to the Department of Public Safety; relating to the duties of the attorney general;… (in committee, 2022-03-15) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/32/SB211/
- SJR 23: Expressing the support of the Alaska State Legislature for naming the mountain between Cedar Ridge and Hope Peak south of Anchorage after Gail Phillips. (passed both chambers, 2022-10-05) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/32/SJR23/
- SB 113: An Act extending the fishery resource landing tax credit for certain taxpayers that harvest fishery resources under the provisions of a community development… (in committee, 2021-04-28) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/32/SB113/
- SB 109: An Act renaming the Alaska Native Language Preservation and Advisory Council as the Council for Alaska Native Languages; and relating to the Council for… (in committee, 2021-05-06) https://openstates.org/ak/bills/32/SB109/

## Campaign money (2024 cycle)

Itemized receipts $15.5K (State Senate Democrats median $16.2K). 80% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://akleg.gov/legislator.php?id=ols
- Campaign site: https://senatorolson.wordpress.com/about/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donny.olson.90

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/cd3ca264-553d-4e21-a993-e3f5097b1b77