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AK Stat § 23.15.820 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 15. Employment Services|Article 6. Alaska Technical and Vocational Education.|Sec. 23.15.820. Powers and duties of the Alaska Workforce Investment Board.

(a) The Alaska Workforce Investment Board shall (1) administer the Alaska technical and vocational education program established in AS 23.15.820 - 23.15.850; (2) facilitate the development of a statewide policy for a coordinated and effective technical and vocational education training system in this state and, to the extent authorized by federal and state law, plan and coordinate federal, state, and local efforts in technical and vocational education programs; (3) adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) to carry out the purposes of AS 23.15.820 - 23.15.850, including regulations that set standards for the percentage of a grant that may be used for administrative costs; the regulations must clearly identify and distinguish between expenses that may be included in administrative costs and those that may not be included in administrative costs; the percentage allowed for administrative costs may not exceed the lesser of five percent or the amount permitted under the requirements of a federal program, if applicable; (4) administer the grant program under AS 23.15.840 and establish grant administration requirements including accounting procedures that apply to qualified entities and their grantees; (5) facilitate the development and implementation of a statewide policy and procedure that provides for the acceptance of credit or hours toward a degree or technical program offered by a vocational or technical training center in the state for an applicant who provides satisfactory evidence of successful completion of relevant military education, training, or service as a member of the armed forces of the United States, the United States Reserves, the National Guard of any state, the Military Reserves of any state, or the Naval Militia of any state. (b) The board may (1) receive money designated for technical and vocational education programs and may disburse money, including grants, to technical and vocational education projects in accordance with AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act); (2) enter into partnership agreements through appropriate administrative agencies with private industry training entities within the state in order to facilitate the coordination of training opportunities; and (3) recommend to the legislature changes to enhance the effectiveness of the training programs it oversees under this section.
AK Stat § 23.15.830 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 15. Employment Services|Article 6. Alaska Technical and Vocational Education.|Sec. 23.15.830. Alaska technical and vocational education program account.

The Alaska technical and vocational education program account is established in the general fund. The commissioner of administration shall separately account for money collected under AS 23.15.835 that the department deposits in the general fund. The legislature may appropriate the annual estimated balance in the account to the board to implement AS 23.15.820 - 23.15.850. The legislature may appropriate the lapsing balance of the account to the unemployment compensation fund established in AS 23.20.130.
AK Stat § 23.15.850 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 15. Employment Services|Article 6. Alaska Technical and Vocational Education.|Sec. 23.15.850. Definitions.

In AS 23.15.820 - 23.15.850, (1) “articulation agreement” means a dual-credit partnership between a school district and an institution receiving funding under AS 23.15.835(d) that describes vocational education courses, student eligibility, course location, academic policies, student support services, credit on a student's transcript, funding, and other items required by the partnering institutions; (2) “board” means the Alaska Workforce Investment Board; (3) “dual credit” means simultaneous high school credit and credit toward a career or vocational certification. (4) “program” means the Alaska technical and vocational education program established in AS 23.15.820 - 23.15.850.
AK Stat § 23.20.005 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.005. Purpose.

(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes to promote employment security by increasing opportunities for placement through the maintenance of a system of public employment offices and to provide through the accumulation of reserves for the payment of compensation to individuals with respect to their unemployment. (b) The legislature declares its intention to provide for carrying out the purposes of this chapter in cooperation with the appropriate agencies of other states and the federal government, as part of a nationwide employment security program, and particularly to provide for meeting the requirements of Title III of the Federal Social Security Act, the requirements of 26 U.S.C. 3303 and 3304 (Federal Unemployment Tax Act, Internal Revenue Code), and the Act of Congress approved June 6, 1933, entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes” (cited in this chapter as the Wagner-Peyser Act), and Title IV of the Act of Congress approved June 22, 1944, each as amended, in order to obtain for this state and its citizens the grants and privileges available under the federal Act. Doubt as to the proper construction of a provision of this chapter shall be resolved in favor of conformity with the requirements of the federal Act.
AK Stat § 23.20.010 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.010. Policy.

As a guide to the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of the state is declared to be as follows: Economic insecurity due to involuntary unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the people of the state. Involuntary unemployment is, therefore, a subject of general interest and concern which requires appropriate action by the legislature to prevent its spread and to lighten its burden and to maintain purchasing power as a factor in stabilizing the economy of the state. This can be accomplished by encouraging employers to provide more stable employment and by the systematic accumulation of funds during periods of employment, from which benefits may be paid for periods of involuntary unemployment. The legislature, therefore, declares that, in its considered judgment, the public good and the general welfare of the citizens of the state require the enactment of this measure, under the police power of the state, for the operation of public employment service offices and for the establishment of an employment security program to be used for the benefit of eligible unemployed persons.
AK Stat § 23.20.020 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.020. Maintenance and protection of fund.

If possible, there shall be provided in the fund a reserve against the liability in future years to pay benefits. Whenever the department believes that a change in contribution or benefit rates is necessary to protect the solvency of the fund, it shall promptly inform the governor and the legislature, and make recommendations with respect to a change.
AK Stat § 23.20.021 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.021. Certain appropriations to the fund.

In accordance with AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act), the legislature may appropriate money to the fund.
AK Stat § 23.20.022 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.022. Actuarial studies.

On December 1, 1975, the commissioner shall submit to the governor an actuarial study of the unemployment tax and benefit structures established under this chapter. Thereafter, an actuarial study of the structures shall be submitted to the governor on December 1 of every second year.
AK Stat § 23.20.030 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.030. Director.

(a) Subject to AS 23.20.035, the department shall appoint a director. The director shall administer this chapter under the authority which the department delegates. The department may not delegate the power to adopt, amend, or rescind regulations. (b) The department shall prescribe the divisions, subdivisions, and units of the organization to be directed by the director to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The director may require a person handling money or signing checks to give bond. The director shall have an official seal which shall be judicially noticed. (c) [Repealed, § 59 ch 59 SLA 1982.]
AK Stat § 23.20.035 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.035. Duties and powers of director.

(a) The director, in accordance with AS 23.20.020 and 23.20.030, shall employ persons, including a deputy director, make expenditures, require reports, make investigations, and take other action that the director considers necessary to carry out the authority of the office. (b) The director may delegate powers and duties to a deputy director or to a responsible employee of the agency when the director is absent from the office. The deputy director shall assume the duties and powers of the director when that office is vacant.
AK Stat § 23.20.040 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.040. Qualifications of director.

A person may not be appointed director unless the person is a citizen of the United States and qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the office.
AK Stat § 23.20.045 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.045. Regulations.

The department may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) necessary to administer this chapter.
AK Stat § 23.20.050 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.050. Publications.

The department shall have printed for distribution to the public the text of this chapter, the department's regulations, the annual reports of the commissioner to the governor, and any other material the department considers relevant and suitable. The department shall furnish copies of these to any person upon application.
AK Stat § 23.20.055 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.055. Department records; admissibility.

(a) The department may make summaries, compilations, photographs, duplications, or reproductions of records, reports, or transcripts of them which it considers advisable for the effective and economical preservation of the information contained in them. (b) The summaries, compilations, photographs, duplications, or reproductions, duly authenticated, are admissible in a proceeding under this chapter, including a court action, if the original records would be admissible. (c) The department may provide by regulation for the destruction, after a reasonable period, of records, reports, transcripts, other papers in its custody, or reproductions of them, when their preservation is no longer necessary for a purpose necessary to the administration of this chapter.
AK Stat § 23.20.060 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.060. Oaths and witnesses.

In administering this chapter, the department may administer oaths and affirmations, take depositions, certify to official acts, and issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and production of books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records considered necessary as evidence in connection with a disputed claim or the administration of this chapter.
AK Stat § 23.20.065 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.065. Subpoenas.

In case of contumacy, or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, the superior court may, upon application by the department, issue an order requiring the person to appear before the department to produce evidence if ordered, or to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question. Failure to obey the order of the court is punishable as contempt.
AK Stat § 23.20.070 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.070. Self-incrimination.

A person may not be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records before the department, or in obedience to a subpoena of the department in a cause or proceeding before the department, or an appeal tribunal, on the ground that the testimony or evidence required of the person may tend to incriminate the person or subject the person to a penalty or forfeiture. An individual may not be prosecuted or subjected to a penalty or forfeiture for or on account of a transaction, matter, or thing concerning which the individual is compelled, after having claimed the privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence. However, the individual testifying is not exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in testifying.
AK Stat § 23.20.075 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.075. Acquisition of land and buildings.

(a) The department may acquire in the name of the state by term purchase agreements based on competitive bids in accordance with AS 36.30 (State Procurement Code) land and buildings upon terms and conditions that are approved by the Bureau of Employment Security of the United States, or its successor, for the purpose of providing office space for the department at a place which the department finds necessary and suitable. (b) An agreement made for the purchase of premises is subject to the approval of the attorney general and does not subject the state to liability for the payment of the purchase price, except from money which is allocated to the state by the United States Bureau of Employment Security or its successor for the administration of this chapter. (c) All money received from the United States for the payments authorized in this section for land and buildings shall be deposited in the employment security administration fund in the state treasury and is appropriated from that fund for purposes of this chapter. (d) It is the policy of this state that if premises are purchased under this chapter, the department shall be housed in the premises without further payment by the United States, except for general maintenance, utilities, and janitorial services, or if, in the future, it is desirable to move the offices, other suitable similar space will be furnished by the state without further payment for the space by the United States, except for general maintenance, utilities, and janitorial services.
AK Stat § 23.20.077 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.077. Application for demonstration programs.

(a) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall pursue application with appropriate agencies to qualify this state as a pilot state for demonstration programs related to helping unemployed Alaskans regain employment, if administrative money is available to operate the project. (b) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development may waive provisions of this chapter for individuals who participate in a demonstration project, to the extent required for the state to participate in the project.
AK Stat § 23.20.080 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.080. Federal-state cooperation.

(a) In the administration of this chapter, the department shall cooperate, to the extent consistent with this chapter, with the Secretary of Labor, and shall take action through the adoption of regulations, administration methods, and standards that is necessary to obtain for this state and its citizens all advantages available under 26 U.S.C. 3303 and 3304 (Internal Revenue Code) and the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended. The department shall comply with the regulations of the Secretary of Labor relating to the receipt or expenditure by this state of money granted under these federal laws and shall make reports in the form and containing the information which the Secretary of Labor requires. The department shall comply with the provisions which the Secretary of Labor may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of the reports. The department may cooperate with every agency of the United States charged with the administration of an unemployment insurance law. (b) Notwithstanding AS 23.20.330 - 23.20.409, after notifying the legislature and other interested parties of its intent, the department may implement an unemployment compensation program not otherwise provided for in this chapter in accordance with this subsection. A program implemented under this subsection is repealed on the date two years after the date on which it took effect unless its implementation is approved by law. The program may be implemented only if (1) the program is authorized by the United States Secretary of Labor; (2) the governor approves the implementation in writing; (3) the commissioner of labor and workforce development determines that the program will result in the receipt of additional federal money to carry out the purposes of this chapter and will produce a net monetary gain to the state and its people; and (4) the implementation will not require spending money from the general fund other than money received from the federal government for the program.
AK Stat § 23.20.085 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.085. Interstate benefit payments.

(a) The department shall enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the federal government, or both, so that potential rights to benefits under this chapter may constitute the basis for payment of claims by another state or by the federal government and potential rights to benefits accumulated under the law of another state or of the federal government may constitute the basis for the payment of claims by this state. These claims shall be paid under the provisions of this chapter or under the provisions of the law of the other state or of the federal government or under that combination of the provisions of both laws as is agreed upon as being fair and reasonable to all affected interests. An arrangement under this section may not be entered into unless it contains provision for reimbursement to the fund for those claims paid on the basis of wages and service subject to the law of another state or of the federal government, and provision for reimbursement from the fund for those claims paid by another state or by the federal government on the basis of wages and service subject to this chapter. Reimbursements paid from the fund under this section are considered to be benefits for the purposes of this chapter. (b) The department shall participate in any arrangements for the payment of benefits on the basis of combining an individual's wages and employment covered under this chapter with the individual's wages and employment covered under the unemployment insurance laws of other states which are approved by the United States Secretary of Labor in consultation with the state employment security agencies as reasonably calculated to assure the prompt and full payment of benefits in such situations and which arrangements shall include provisions for (1) applying the base period of a single state law to a claim involving the combining of an individual's wages and employment covered under two or more state unemployment insurance laws, and (2) avoiding the duplicate use of wages and employment by reason of the combining. (c) In this section, the terms “other state” and “another state” include any state or territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Canada, and where applicable include the federal government.
AK Stat § 23.20.090 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 20. Alaska Employment Security Act|Article 1. Administration.|Sec. 23.20.090. Reciprocal coverage and cooperation.

(a) The commissioner may enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and authorized agencies of other states or of the federal government, or both, whereby, notwithstanding AS 23.20.395, (1) service performed by an individual for a single employing unit for which service is customarily performed by the individual in more than one state is considered service performed entirely within any one of the states in which (A) a part of the individual's service is performed, (B) the individual resides, or (C) the employing unit maintains a place of business; provided, that there is in effect, as to the service, an approved election by an employing unit with the acquiescence of the individual, under which service performed by the individual for the employing unit is considered performed entirely within that state; and (2) service performed by not more than three individuals, on a portion of a day but not necessarily simultaneously, for a single employing unit which customarily operates in more than one state is considered service performed entirely within the state in which the employing unit maintains the headquarters of its business; provided, that there is in effect, as to the service, an approved election by an employing unit with the affirmative consent of each individual, under which service performed by the individual for the employing unit is considered performed entirely within that state. (b) To the extent permissible under the laws and constitution of the United States, the department may enter into an arrangement of the character provided in this section with the agency of a foreign government administering an employment security law.