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AK Stat § 23.40.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.160. Power to investigate and compel testimony.

(a) For the purpose of the investigations, proceedings, or hearings which the labor relations agency considers necessary to carry out the provisions of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260, the labor relations agency may issue subpoenas requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of relevant evidence. (b) The labor relations agency may administer oaths, examine witnesses, and receive evidence. (c) The attendance of witnesses and the production of evidence may be required from any place in the state at any designated place of hearing. (d) If a person refuses to obey a subpoena issued under AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260, the superior court in the district in which the person resides or is found may, upon application by the labor relations agency, issue an order requiring the person to comply with the subpoena.
AK Stat § 23.40.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.170. Regulations.

The labor relations agency may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to carry out the provisions of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260.
AK Stat § 23.40.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.180. Penalty for violation of order or decision.

A person who violates a provision of an order or decision of the labor relations agency is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not more than $500.
AK Stat § 23.40.190 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.190. Mediation.

If, after a reasonable period of negotiation over the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, a deadlock exists between a public employer and an organization, the labor relations agency may appoint a competent, impartial, disinterested person to act as mediator in any dispute either on its own initiative or on the request of one of the parties to the dispute. The parties may also select a mediator by agreement or mutual consent. It is the function of the mediator to bring the parties together voluntarily under such favorable auspices as will tend to effectuate settlement of the dispute, but neither the mediator nor the labor relations agency has any power of compulsion in mediation proceedings.
AK Stat § 23.40.205 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.205. Family leave.

Notwithstanding any provision of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 to the contrary, an agreement between the employer subject to AS 39.20.500 - 39.20.550 and an employee bargaining organization that does not contain benefit provisions at least as beneficial to the employee as those provided by AS 39.20.500 - 39.20.550 shall be considered to contain the benefit provisions of those statutes.
AK Stat § 23.40.210 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.210. Agreement; cost-of-living differential.

(a) Upon the completion of negotiations between an organization and a public employer, if a settlement is reached, the employer shall reduce it to writing in the form of an agreement. The agreement may include a term for which it will remain in effect, not to exceed three years. The agreement shall include a pay plan designed to provide for a cost-of-living differential between the salaries paid employees residing in the state and employees residing outside the state. The plan shall provide that the salaries paid, as of August 26, 1977, to employees residing outside the state shall remain unchanged until the difference between those salaries and the salaries paid employees residing in the state reflects the difference between the cost of living in Alaska and living in Seattle, Washington. The agreement shall include a grievance procedure which shall have binding arbitration as its final step. Either party to the agreement has a right of action to enforce the agreement by petition to the labor relations agency. (b) An employee is eligible for the cost-of-living differential under (a) of this section only if the individual is a state resident. The required presence of an employee at a work station where room and board are provided or reimbursed by the employer may not be considered to be physical presence in the state or physical absence from the state for purposes of determining eligibility for the cost-of-living differential. (c) The commissioner of administration may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to clarify and implement the criteria for establishing and maintaining eligibility for the cost-of-living differential. (d) An agreement entered into under AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 must require compliance with the eligibility criteria for receiving the cost-of-living differential contained in this section and the regulations adopted by the commissioner under (c) of this section. (e) In this section, “state resident” means an individual who is physically present in the state with the intent to remain permanently in the state under the requirements of AS 01.10.055 or, if the individual is not physically present in the state, intends to return to the state and remain permanently in the state under the requirements of AS 01.10.055 and is absent only temporarily for reasons allowed under AS 43.23.008 or a successor statute.
AK Stat § 23.40.212 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.212. Agreement with the Board of Regents.

(a) The Board of Regents of the University of Alaska may delegate to the Department of Administration its authority under AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 to negotiate with an organization for an agreement. (b) The Department of Administration shall participate in the negotiations between the Board of Regents and an organization. An agreement between the board and an organization requires the approval of the department.
AK Stat § 23.40.215 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.215. Monetary terms subject to legislative funding.

(a) The monetary terms of any agreement entered into under AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 are subject to funding through legislative appropriation. (b) The Department of Administration shall submit the monetary terms of an agreement to the legislature within 10 legislative days after the agreement of the parties, if the legislature is in session, or within 10 legislative days after the convening of the next regular session. The complete monetary and nonmonetary terms of a tentative agreement shall be submitted to the legislature no later than the 60th day of the legislative session to receive legislative consideration during that calendar year. However, if the department has submitted a tentative agreement in a timely manner and the parties to the agreement decide to renegotiate the terms, the renegotiated agreement shall be considered to have been submitted in a timely manner. In this subsection, “tentative agreement” means an agreement that has been reached by the negotiators for the employer and the bargaining unit but that may not yet have been ratified by the members of the bargaining unit. (c) Notwithstanding (b) of this section, the monetary terms of an agreement entered into between a school district or regional educational attendance area and its employees are not required to be submitted to the legislature.
AK Stat § 23.40.220 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.220. Labor or employee organization dues and employee benefits, deduction and authorization.

Upon written authorization of a public employee within a bargaining unit, the public employer shall deduct from the payroll of the public employee the monthly amount of dues, fees, and other employee benefits as certified by the secretary of the exclusive bargaining representative and shall deliver it to the chief fiscal officer of the exclusive bargaining representative.
AK Stat § 23.40.225 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.225. Exemption based on religious convictions.

Notwithstanding the provisions of AS 23.40.220, a collective bargaining settlement reached, or agreement entered into, under AS 23.40.210 that incorporates union security provisions, including a union shop or agency shop provision or agreement, shall safeguard the rights of nonassociation of employees having bona fide religious convictions based on tenets or teachings of a church or religious body of which an employee is a member. Upon submission of proper proof of religious conviction to the labor relations agency, the agency shall declare the employee exempt from becoming a member of a labor organization or employee association. The employee shall pay an amount of money equivalent to regular union or association dues, initiation fees, and assessments to the union or association. Nonpayment of this money subjects the employee to the same penalty as if it were nonpayment of dues. The receiving union or association shall contribute an equivalent amount of money to a charity of its choice not affiliated with a religious, labor, or employee organization. The union or association shall submit proof of contribution to the labor relations agency.
AK Stat § 23.40.235 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.235. Public involvement in school district negotiations.

Before beginning bargaining, the school board of a city or borough school district or a regional educational attendance area shall provide opportunities for public comment on the issues to be addressed in the collective bargaining process. Initial proposals, last-best-offer proposals, tentative agreements before ratification, and final agreements reached by the parties are public documents and are subject to inspection and copying under AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.140.
AK Stat § 23.40.240 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.240. Effect on certain units, representatives, and agreements.

Nothing in this chapter terminates or modifies a collective bargaining unit, recognition of exclusive bargaining representative, or collective bargaining agreement if the unit, recognition, or agreement is in effect on September 5, 1972.
AK Stat § 23.40.245 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.245. Postsecondary student involvement in collective bargaining.

(a) When a bargaining unit includes members of the faculty or other employees of a public institution of postsecondary education, the public employer and the representative of the bargaining unit shall permit student representatives of that institution to (1) attend and observe all meetings between the public employer and the representative of the bargaining unit which are involved with collective bargaining; (2) have access to all documents pertaining to collective bargaining exchanged by the employer and the representative of the bargaining unit, including copies of transcripts of the meetings. (b) Student representatives may not disclose information concerning the substance of collective bargaining obtained in the course of their activities under (a) of this section, unless that information is released by the employer or the representative of the bargaining unit. (c) For the purpose of this section, the students of the institution involved in negotiations shall select their representatives from the institution directly involved in negotiations. (d) When the institutions are negotiating with bargaining units representing more than one major geographic area of the state, the student representatives shall be from those areas. No more than three student representatives may attend meetings at any time.
AK Stat § 23.40.255 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.255. Applicability to political subdivisions, including school districts.

(a) AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 is applicable to organized boroughs and political subdivisions of the state, home rule or otherwise, unless the legislative body of the political subdivision, by ordinance or resolution, rejects having the provisions of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 apply. (b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, a municipal school district or regional educational attendance area may not reject application of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 to employment relations with public school employees.
AK Stat § 23.40.260 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 40. Labor Organizations|Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act.|Sec. 23.40.260. Short title.

AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 may be cited as the Public Employment Relations Act.
AK Stat § 24.05.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 1. Powers.|Sec. 24.05.010. Legislative power.

The legislative power of the state is vested in the legislature of the State of Alaska and extends to all rightful subjects of legislation not inconsistent with or reserved by the constitution of the State of Alaska and the constitution and laws of the United States.
AK Stat § 24.05.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 2. Composition and Members.|Sec. 24.05.020. Composition.

The legislature is composed of two houses: a senate consisting of 20 members and a house of representatives consisting of 40 members.
AK Stat § 24.05.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 2. Composition and Members.|Sec. 24.05.030. Qualifications of members.

A member of the legislature shall be a qualified voter who has been a resident of the state for at least three years and of the district from which elected for at least one year immediately preceding filing for office. A senator shall be at least 25 years of age and a representative at least 21 years of age at the time of taking the oath of office.
AK Stat § 24.05.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 2. Composition and Members.|Sec. 24.05.040. Dual office.

A member of the legislature may not hold any other office or position of profit under the United States or the state. During the term for which elected and for one year thereafter, a legislator may not be nominated, elected, or appointed to any other office or position of profit which has been created, or the salary or emoluments of which have been increased, while the legislator was a member. This section does not prevent any person from seeking or holding the office of governor, lieutenant governor, or member of Congress. This section does not apply to employment by or election to a constitutional convention. A member may serve on or at the behest of an interim committee of the legislature.
AK Stat § 24.05.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 2. Composition and Members.|Sec. 24.05.050. Membership on boards and commissions.

A member of the legislature may serve on a board or commission of the state government only if the membership of legislators on the board or commission is specifically authorized by law.
AK Stat § 24.05.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 2. Composition and Members.|Sec. 24.05.060. Disqualifications.

A person is not qualified for membership in the legislature who is disqualified to hold public office under the provisions of art. XII, § 4, Constitution of the State of Alaska, and as it may be implemented by law. Each member of the legislature, before entering upon the duties of the office, shall take the oath of office prescribed in art. XII, § 5, Constitution of the State of Alaska, and such further oath or affirmation prescribed by law for members of the legislature or other officers of the state.
AK Stat § 24.05.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 2. Composition and Members.|Sec. 24.05.070. Election and expulsion.

Each member of the legislature shall be elected from the district and in conformity with the procedures established by the state constitution and the laws of the state. Each house is the judge of the election and qualifications of its members and may expel a member with the concurrence of two-thirds of its members.
AK Stat § 24.05.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 2. Composition and Members.|Sec. 24.05.080. Terms.

The term of each member of the legislature begins on the third Tuesday in January. The term of representatives is two years, and the term of senators is four years. One-half of the senators shall be elected every two years.
AK Stat § 24.05.085 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 2. Composition and Members.|Sec. 24.05.085. Resignation.

A member resigns by submitting a resignation in writing to the presiding officer of the house to which the member was elected or appointed, with information copies to the governor, the director of elections, and the executive director of the Legislative Affairs Agency for appropriate administrative action. The resignation is effective on the date specified in the resignation or, if no date is specified, 10 days after the date of mailing the resignation. The resignation may be withdrawn, in the same manner as it was submitted, at any time before it becomes effective.
AK Stat § 24.05.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 3. Meeting and Organization.|Sec. 24.05.090. Duration of legislature; sessions.

The legislature shall convene at the capital each year on the third Tuesday in January at 1:00 p.m. Each legislature has a duration of two years and consists of a “First Regular Session” that meets in the odd-numbered years, and a “Second Regular Session” that meets in the even-numbered years, and any special session that the governor or legislature calls.
AK Stat § 24.05.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 3. Meeting and Organization.|Sec. 24.05.100. Special sessions.

(a) The legislature may hold a special session not exceeding 30 calendar days in length. The special session shall be called in either of the following ways: (1) The governor may call the legislature into special session by issuing a proclamation. At a special session called by the governor, legislation is limited to the subjects designated by the governor in the proclamation or to the subjects presented by the governor, and to reconsideration of legislation, if any, vetoed following a regular session of that legislature. To enable the legislators to make travel and other arrangements, a proclamation for a special session shall be issued at least 30 days in advance of the convening date stated in the proclamation unless (A) the proclamation is issued under AS 26.23.020(k); (B) the special session is called to address a disaster; in this subparagraph, “disaster” has the meaning given in AS 26.23.900; (C) the proclamation is issued while both houses are in regular or special session; or (D) the proclamation is issued within one hour after the second house has adjourned from a regular or special session. (2) The legislature may call itself into special session if two-thirds of the membership responds in the affirmative to a poll conducted by the presiding officer of each house. Each presiding officer may initiate a poll by their joint agreement, and each shall initiate a poll upon the request of 25 percent of the membership of each house, expressed in writing and signed by those members. When two-thirds of the membership to which the legislature is entitled responds in the affirmative, the president of the senate and speaker of the house shall jointly announce the result of the poll and a date for the convening of the special session. If one of the presiding officers is deceased, has resigned, or is incapacitated, the presiding officer of the other house may conduct the poll of the members of both houses. (b) A special session may be held at any location in the state. If a special session called under (a)(1) of this section is to be convened at a location other than at the capital, the governor shall designate the location in the proclamation. If a special session called under (a)(2) of this section is to be convened at a location other than at the capital, the presiding officers shall agree to and designate the location in the poll conducted of the members of both houses.
AK Stat § 24.05.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 3. Meeting and Organization.|Sec. 24.05.110. Joint sessions.

The houses of the legislature shall convene in joint session when required or authorized by the constitution and the rules of the legislature.
AK Stat § 24.05.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 3. Meeting and Organization.|Sec. 24.05.120. Rules.

At the beginning of the first regular session of each legislature, both houses shall adopt uniform rules of procedure for enacting bills into law and adopting resolutions. The rules in effect at the last regular session of the immediately preceding legislature serve as the temporary rules of the legislature until the adoption of permanent rules.
AK Stat § 24.05.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 3. Meeting and Organization.|Sec. 24.05.130. Journal.

Each house shall keep and publish a daily journal of its proceedings. The journal shall reflect the essential elements of the business transacted and the messages and communications received from the governor and the other house.
AK Stat § 24.05.135 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying|Chapter 05. Legislature In General|Article 3. Meeting and Organization.|Sec. 24.05.135. Record of proceedings.

(a) All floor sessions of each house shall be electronically recorded. However, each house may suspend this recording requirement by concurrence of two-thirds of its members when there is an equipment failure or when no recording equipment is available as a result of a natural disaster or other exigency. (b) The legislature shall provide by uniform joint rule for the recording or reporting of committee session proceedings. (c) As the tapes, spools, or other recording devices are filled, or as reports are completed, they shall be transferred to the state library for placement in the state archives. Reproductions shall be placed in a centrally located public library in Juneau, Anchorage, and Fairbanks, until one year after adjournment of the legislative session recorded. The division of the Department of Education and Early Development that has responsibility for state libraries, archives, and museums shall supply reproductions of electronic recordings at cost to any person requesting them.