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2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 40. Labor Organizations › Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act. › Sec. 23.40.090. Collective bargaining unit.

The labor relations agency shall decide in each case, in order to assure to employees the fullest freedom in exercising the rights guaranteed by AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260, the unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining, based on such factors as community of interest, wages, hours, and other working conditions of the employees involved, the history of collective bargaining, and the desires of the employees. Bargaining units shall be as large as is reasonable, and unnecessary fragmenting shall be avoided.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 40. Labor Organizations › Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act. › Sec. 23.40.100. Representatives and elections.

(a) The labor relations agency shall investigate a petition if it is submitted in a manner prescribed by the labor relations agency and is
(1) by an employee or group of employees or an organization acting in their behalf alleging that 30 percent of the employees of a proposed bargaining unit
(A) want to be represented for collective bargaining by a labor or employee organization as exclusive representative, or
(B) assert that the organization which has been certified or is currently being recognized by the public employer as bargaining representative is no longer the representative of the majority of employees in the bargaining unit; or
(2) by the public employer alleging that one or more organizations have presented to it a claim to be recognized as a representative of a majority of employees in an appropriate unit.
(b) If the labor relations agency has reasonable cause to believe that a question of representation exists, it shall provide for an appropriate hearing upon due notice. If the labor relations agency finds that there is a question of representation, it shall direct an election by secret ballot to determine whether or by which organization the employees desire to be represented and shall certify the results of the election. Nothing in this section prohibits the waiving of hearings by stipulation for the purpose of a consent election in conformity with the regulations of the labor relations agency or an election in a bargaining unit agreed upon by the parties. The labor relations agency shall determine who is eligible to vote in an election and shall establish rules governing the election. In an election in which none of the choices on the ballot receives a majority of the votes cast, a runoff election shall be conducted, the ballot providing for selection between the two choices receiving the largest and the second largest number of valid votes cast in the election. If an organization receives the majority of the votes cast in the election it shall be certified by the labor relations agency as exclusive representative of all the employees in the bargaining unit.
(c) An election may not be held in a bargaining unit or in a subdivision of a bargaining unit if a valid election has been held within the preceding 12 months.
(d) Nothing in this chapter prohibits recognition of an organization as the exclusive representative by a public agency by mutual consent.
(e) An election may not be directed by the labor relations agency in a bargaining unit in which there is in force a valid collective bargaining agreement, except during a 90-day period preceding the expiration date. However, a collective bargaining agreement may not bar an election upon petition of persons in the bargaining unit but not parties to the agreement if more than three years have elapsed since the execution of the agreement or the last timely renewal, whichever was later.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 40. Labor Organizations › Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act. › Sec. 23.40.110. Unfair labor practices.

(a) A public employer or an agent of a public employer may not
(1) interfere with, restrain, or coerce an employee in the exercise of the employee's rights guaranteed in AS 23.40.080;
(2) dominate or interfere with the formation, existence, or administration of an organization;
(3) discriminate in regard to hire or tenure of employment or a term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in an organization;
(4) discharge or discriminate against an employee because the employee has signed or filed an affidavit, petition, or complaint or given testimony under AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260;
(5) refuse to bargain collectively in good faith with an organization which is the exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit, including but not limited to the discussing of grievances with the exclusive representative.
(b) Nothing in this chapter prohibits a public employer from making an agreement with an organization to require as a condition of employment
(1) membership in the organization which represents the unit on or after the 30th day following the beginning of employment or on the effective date of the agreement, whichever is later; or
(2) payment by the employee to the exclusive bargaining agent of a service fee to reimburse the exclusive bargaining agent for the expense of representing the members of the bargaining unit.
(c) A labor or employee organization or its agents may not
(1) restrain or coerce
(A) an employee in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in AS 23.40.080, or
(B) a public employer in the selection of the employer's representative for the purposes of collective bargaining or the adjustment of grievances;
(2) refuse to bargain collectively in good faith with a public employer, if it has been designated in accordance with the provisions of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 as the exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 40. Labor Organizations › Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act. › Sec. 23.40.120. Investigation and conciliation of complaints.

If a verified written complaint by or for a person claiming to be aggrieved by a practice prohibited by AS 23.40.110, or a written accusation that a person subject to AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260 has engaged in a prohibited practice, is filed with the labor relations agency, it shall investigate the complaint or accusation. If it determines after the preliminary investigation that probable cause exists in support of the complaint or accusation, it shall try to eliminate the prohibited practice by informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion. Nothing said or done during this endeavor may be used as evidence in a subsequent proceeding.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 40. Labor Organizations › Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act. › Sec. 23.40.130. Complaint and accusation.

If the labor relations agency fails to eliminate the prohibited practice by conciliation and to obtain voluntary compliance with AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260, or, before it attempts conciliation, it may serve a copy of the complaint or accusation upon the respondent. The complaint or accusation and the subsequent procedures shall be handled in accordance with the administrative adjudication portion of AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 40. Labor Organizations › Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act. › Sec. 23.40.140. Orders and decisions.

If the labor relations agency finds that a person named in the written complaint or accusation has engaged in a prohibited practice, the labor relations agency shall issue and serve on the person an order or decision requiring the person to cease and desist from the prohibited practice and to take affirmative action which will carry out the provisions of AS 23.40.070 - 23.40.260. If the labor relations agency finds that a person named in the complaint or accusation has not engaged or is not engaging in a prohibited practice, the labor relations agency shall state its findings of fact and issue an order dismissing the complaint or accusation.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 40. Labor Organizations › Article 2. Public Employment Relations Act. › Sec. 23.40.150. Enforcement by injunction.

The labor relations agency may apply to the superior court in the judicial district in which the prohibited practice occurred for an order enjoining the prohibited acts specified in the order or decision of the labor relations agency. Upon a showing by the labor relations agency that the person has engaged or is about to engage in the practice, an injunction, restraining order, or other order which is appropriate may be granted by the court and shall be without bond.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 50. Collective Negotiation by Physicians › Sec. 23.50.010. Legislative findings.

(a) The legislature finds that permitting competing physicians to engage in collective negotiation of certain terms and conditions of contracts with a health benefit plan will benefit competition, so long as the physicians do not engage in an express or implied threat of retaliatory collective action, including boycotts or strikes.
(b) The legislature finds that permitting physicians to engage in collective negotiations over fee-related terms may, in some circumstances, yield anticompetitive effects. There are, however, instances in which a health benefit plan dominates the market to the degree that fair negotiations between physicians and the health benefit plan are not possible in the absence of joint action on behalf of the physicians. In those circumstances, the health benefit plan can virtually dictate the terms of the contracts that it offers to physicians.
(c) The legislature finds that it is appropriate and necessary to authorize collective negotiations between competing physicians and health benefit plans when the imbalances in bargaining capacity described in this section exist.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 50. Collective Negotiation by Physicians › Sec. 23.50.030. Fee for registration of authorized third parties.

(a) The attorney general shall adopt regulations that establish the amount and manner of payment of a registration fee for authorized third parties. The attorney general shall establish the fee level so that the total amount of fees collected from authorized third parties approximately equals the actual regulatory costs for the oversight of joint negotiations between physicians and health benefit plans. The attorney general shall annually review the fee level to determine whether the regulatory costs are approximately equal to fee collections. If the review indicates that the fee collections and regulatory costs are not approximately equal, the attorney general shall calculate fee adjustments and adopt regulations under this subsection to implement the adjustments. In January of each year, the attorney general shall report on the fee level and revisions for the previous year under this subsection to the office of management and budget.
(b) In this section, “regulatory costs” means costs of the Department of Law that are attributable to oversight of joint negotiations between physicians and health benefit plans.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 50. Collective Negotiation by Physicians › Sec. 23.50.099. Definitions.

In this chapter,
(1) “authorized third party” means a person authorized by the physicians to negotiate on their behalf with a health benefit plan under this chapter;
(2) “health benefit plan” means a health care insurer as defined in AS 21.54.500, but does not include a self-insured health benefit plan.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 88. Employment of Members of the National Guard and Veterans › Sec. 23.88.010. Active military, veteran, and family hiring preference allowed.

(a) When hiring an employee, a private employer may grant an employment preference to
(1) a person in active service, on furlough from active service, or discharged under honorable conditions from service in
(A) the armed forces of the United States;
(B) a reserve unit of the armed forces of the United States;
(C) the Alaska Territorial Guard;
(D) the Alaska Army National Guard;
(E) the Alaska Air National Guard; or
(F) the Alaska Naval Militia;
(2) the spouse or dependent child of a person described in (1) of this subsection; and
(3) the surviving spouse or a dependent child of a person who, at the time of death, was a person in active service or on furlough from active service as described in (1) of this subsection.
(b) In this section, “dependent child” means a natural child, stepchild, or adopted child who is
(1) permanently disabled; or
(2) under
(A) 19 years of age; or
(B) 23 years of age and registered at and attending on a full-time basis an accredited educational or technical institution recognized by the Department of Education and Early Development.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation › Chapter 90. General Provisions › Sec. 23.90.900. Definitions.

In this title,
(1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of labor and workforce development;
(2) “department” means the Department of Labor and Workforce Development;
(3) “wages” means, except for the purposes of construing AS 23.20 and AS 23.30
(A) the basic hourly rate of pay; and
(B) all other compensation to an employee for services performed, including revocable and irrevocable contributions made by an employer to a trustee or third party for the benefit of the employee and contributions which may be reasonably anticipated in providing benefits to employees under an enforceable agreement to provide medical care, compensation for death or injury, or other fringe benefits.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 05. Legislature In General › Article 3. Meeting and Organization. › Sec. 24.05.140. Quorum.

A majority of the membership of each house constitutes a quorum to do business. However, a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may compel the attendance of absent members in the manner, and under the penalties, provided by law or the rules of the legislature.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 05. Legislature In General › Article 3. Meeting and Organization. › Sec. 24.05.150. Adjournment.

(a) Neither house may recess or adjourn for longer than three days unless the other concurs. If the two houses cannot agree on the time for adjournment and either house certifies the disagreement to the governor, the governor may adjourn the legislature by issuing an executive order and transmitting a copy of it to the president or secretary of the senate and speaker or chief clerk of the house of representatives.
(b) The legislature shall adjourn from a regular session within 90 consecutive calendar days, including the day the legislature first convenes in that regular session.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 05. Legislature In General › Article 3. Meeting and Organization. › Sec. 24.05.160. Organization of a first regular session; new members.

On the day set for the assembling of the first regular session of a legislature, the lieutenant governor shall call each house to order and direct the calling of roll of its districts and the names of the new members who are certified as being elected from each district. The lieutenant governor shall then direct the administration of the oath of office of each new member. The lieutenant governor shall then call for the nomination of a temporary president or speaker, as appropriate. Upon the election of the temporary presiding officers, the lieutenant governor shall relinquish the chair, and each house shall proceed to its further organization. If the lieutenant governor is unable to perform the duties imposed by this section, the chief justice of the supreme court shall act in the lieutenant governor's place.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 05. Legislature In General › Article 3. Meeting and Organization. › Sec. 24.05.170. Organization of second and special sessions; new members.

On the day set for the assembly of the second regular session or a special session of the legislature, the presiding officer elected at the first regular session shall administer the oath of office to new members and proceed with the business of the house in accordance with the rules of the legislature.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 05. Legislature In General › Article 4. Committees. › Sec. 24.05.180. Committees.

(a) Each house shall have standing committees to facilitate the transaction of business in accordance with the rules of the legislature. The rules may provide for the appointment of special committees, as needed, by the presiding officer of each house. The legislature shall provide for the use of joint committees to facilitate and expedite business.
(b) [Repealed by § 7 ch 100 SLA 1963.]
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 05. Legislature In General › Article 4. Committees. › Sec. 24.05.182. Review of administrative regulations by standing committees of the legislature.

(a) A standing committee of the legislature may, consistent with the committee's jurisdiction as provided in the uniform rules of the legislature, review a proposed or adopted regulation, amendment of a regulation, or repeal of a regulation .
(b) [Repealed, § 23 ch. 7 SLA 2018.]
(c) [Repealed, § 23 ch. 7 SLA 2018.]
(d) [Repealed, § 23 ch. 7 SLA 2018.]
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 05. Legislature In General › Article 4. Committees. › Sec. 24.05.184. Termination of interim committee membership.

When a member of the legislature who serves on a committee created during a between-session interim by either house or its presiding officers, the legislative council or the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee, files a declaration of candidacy for an elective office other than that of member of either house of the legislature, and the member has not resigned from membership on the interim committee, the member's interim committee membership terminates on the date of filing.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 05. Legislature In General › Article 4. Committees. › Sec. 24.05.186. Legislative hearings on initiatives certified by the lieutenant governor.

(a) A standing committee of the legislature, selected jointly by the presiding officers of the house of representatives and senate, shall hold at least one hearing on an initiative that the lieutenant governor has determined was properly filed under AS 15.45.160.
(b) The standing committee selected jointly by the presiding officers of the house of representatives and senate under (a) of this section shall hold at least one hearing under this section within 30 days after the convening of the legislative session preceding the statewide election at which the initiative proposition must appear on the election ballot under AS 15.45.190.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 05. Legislature In General › Article 4. Committees. › Sec. 24.05.188. Federal statutes, regulations, presidential executive orders and actions, and secretarial orders and actions.

After receiving a report from the attorney general under AS 44.23.020(h) that a state law is in conflict with a federal statute, regulation, presidential executive order or action, or secretarial order or action that is unconstitutional or was not properly adopted in accordance with federal statutory authority, the house and senate committees having jurisdiction over judicial matters may each consider whether legislative action is necessary in response to the findings by the attorney general.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 05. Legislature In General › Article 5. Legislative Space. › Sec. 24.05.190. Control of legislative space.

(a) The state capitol, with the exception of the capitol space now occupied by the Office of the Governor, and space occupied in any other state building by the legislature or its agencies is under the control of and subject to assignment by the Legislative Affairs Agency as directed by the legislature. The Legislative Affairs Agency is responsible for the equitable allocation of parking spaces at the capitol according to the needs of the legislature and other agencies occupying capitol offices.
(b) Access to legislative space during sessions is generally governed by the uniform rules of the legislature and by (a) of this section. During a session of the legislature a person not a member or an authorized employee of the legislature or its agencies may not, without the invitation of the presiding officer or the house, enter upon the floor of either house while it is sitting, or enter upon the floor of either house during a recess or when adjourned for the day, without the invitation of a member of that house.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 08. Enactments › Article 1. Bills. › Sec. 24.08.020. Subject of bills.

The subject of each bill shall be expressed in its title and every bill shall be confined to one subject unless it is an appropriation bill or one codifying, revising, or rearranging existing laws. The limitation to one subject shall be liberally construed to permit the subject to include all matters that reasonably can be considered germane to the subject in accomplishing the legal objective of the bill.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 08. Enactments › Article 1. Bills. › Sec. 24.08.036. Fiscal notes on bills affecting state retirement systems.

Before a bill which would have an effect on the retirement systems of the state is reported to the rules committee, there shall be attached to the bill an analysis of the long-term and short-term costs to the state if the bill is adopted, as well as the impact of the bill on the actuarial soundness of the fund. The analysis is in addition to the fiscal note requirements of AS 24.08.035.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 08. Enactments › Article 1. Bills. › Sec. 24.08.037. General obligation bond bills.

A bill authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds creating a state debt for capital improvements shall contain a statement of the scope of each project included in the proposed bond issue. The statement shall include a brief description of each capital improvement project, its location, and, in dollars, that portion of the total bond issue to be allocated to the project.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 08. Enactments › Article 1. Bills. › Sec. 24.08.050. Prefiling of bills and resolutions.

Any member of the legislature whose term extends into a forthcoming session or legislature, or a member-elect may file a bill or resolution or a proposal for a bill or resolution with the Legislative Affairs Agency at any time before January 1. The agency shall place a prefiled bill or resolution, which is approved by the sponsor, in proper form and deliver it to the chief clerk of the appropriate house on the day on which the next session convenes or is organized for business. Prefiled bills or resolutions shall be considered as introduced on the day of their delivery to each house.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 08. Enactments › Article 1. Bills. › Sec. 24.08.060. Introduction of bills and resolutions.

(a) A member of the legislature or a committee chairman, with the concurrence of a majority of the active members of the committee and on behalf of the committee, may introduce a bill or resolution. Bills and resolutions shall be prepared and introduced in the manner and form prescribed in the uniform rules and the legislative style manual.
(b) Bills introduced by the legislative council shall be delivered with a letter of explanation to the rules committee of either house and bear the inscription “Rules Committee by Request of the Legislative Council”; bills introduced by the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee shall be delivered with a letter of explanation to the rules committee of either house and bear the inscription “Rules Committee by Request of the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee”; bills presented by the governor shall be delivered with a letter to the rules committee of either house and bear the inscription “Rules Committee by Request of the Governor”; bills so presented and inscribed shall be received as bills carrying the approval of the governor as to policy and budget impact. The governor may submit a statement of purpose and effect with each bill and appear personally or through a representative before any committee considering legislation.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 08. Enactments › Article 1. Bills. › Sec. 24.08.100. Action upon veto.

When the governor vetoes a bill or by veto strikes or reduces an item in an appropriation bill, during a regular session of the legislature, the legislature shall proceed to act in accordance with art. II, sec. 16, Constitution of the State of Alaska, as it is implemented by the rules of the legislature. A bill vetoed after adjournment of the first regular session shall be reconsidered by the legislature sitting as one body no later than the fifth day of the next regular or special session convened during that legislature. Bills vetoed after adjournment of the second regular session shall be reconsidered by the legislature sitting as one body no later than the fifth day of a special session of that legislature, if one is called.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 08. Enactments › Article 1. Bills. › Sec. 24.08.105. Record of votes.

The voting record for each legislator shall be made available to any person on request. The Legislative Affairs Agency shall keep voting records compiled annually under this section on the agency data system and shall distribute copies to all legislative information offices for a fee established under AS 40.25.115.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 08. Enactments › Article 2. Constitutional Amendments and Executive Orders. › Sec. 24.08.210. Executive orders.

An executive order proposing a change in the executive branch and requiring the force of law under art. III, sec. 23, Constitution of the State of Alaska shall be submitted to the presiding officer of each house on the day the house organizes. The legislature has 60 days of a regular session, or a full session if of shorter duration to disapprove the order. Unless disapproved by a special concurrent resolution introduced in either house, concurred in by a majority of the members in joint session, the order becomes effective at a date thereafter to be designated by the governor. An order submitted to but not disapproved by the legislature shall be published in the bound session laws and any codification of state law.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying › Chapter 08. Enactments › Article 3. Filing, Printing, and Distribution. › Sec. 24.08.300. Delivery by governor.

When the governor has signed a bill or allowed it to become law without the governor's signature, and when the governor has signed or noted resolutions, the governor's office is to deliver the original enrolled copy of each law or resolution to the executive director of the Legislative Affairs Agency. The director shall sign for each bill and resolution, and when it has been photographed for duplication it shall be returned on receipt to the office of the governor.