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2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.225. Use of personal leave.

(a) An officer or employee may take personal leave at any time business permits upon permission by the head of the department or agency for which the officer or employee works.
(b) An officer or employee may take personal leave for medical reasons, regardless of whether business permits, upon permission by the head of the department or agency for which the officer or employee works. A department or agency head shall grant personal leave for medical reasons if the department or agency head is satisfied that the officer or employee is absent for medical reasons. The taking of personal leave for medical reasons shall be reduced by the amount of wage continuation payments made under AS 23.30 (Alaska Workers' Compensation Act). The following constitute “medical reasons” and are subject to the conditions noted:
(1) medical disability of an officer or employee is a medical reason for taking personal leave. A department or agency head may require a doctor's certificate showing the disability if the absence exceeds three consecutive working days;
(2) medical disability of a member of an officer's or employee's immediate family is a medical reason for taking personal leave if the disability is such that the attendance of the officer or employee is required. A department or agency head may require a doctor's certificate showing the disability if the absence exceeds three consecutive working days;
(3) a medical condition of an officer or employee that makes presence at work a danger to the health of fellow employees is a medical reason for taking personal leave. A department or agency head may require a doctor's certificate showing the condition if the absence exceeds three consecutive working days;
(4) pregnancy and childbirth or the placement of a child, other than the employee's stepchild, with the employee for adoption is a medical reason for an officer or employee to take personal leave;
(5) death of a member of an officer's or employee's immediate family is a medical reason for taking personal leave. No more than five days of personal leave may be taken for this purpose.
(c) Except as otherwise provided in this section, each officer or employee shall, during each 12-month period, take at least 10 days of personal leave. If the officer or employee does not take at least 10 days of personal leave during a 12-month period, the difference between 10 days and the amount of personal leave taken shall be canceled without pay unless the department or agency head certifies in writing that the officer or employee was denied the opportunity to take 10 days of personal leave during the 12-month period.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.240. Accumulation of personal leave.

(a) Except as provided in AS 39.20.225(c) and this section, personal leave that is not taken by an officer or employee during a 12-month period accumulates for use in succeeding 12-month periods.
(b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, an officer or employee may not accumulate more than 1,000 hours of personal leave at the end of each 12-month period for use in succeeding 12-month periods.
(c) The personnel board may adopt regulations to allow an exemption from the requirements of (b) of this section if the department or agency head certifies in writing that the officer or employee accumulated more than 1,000 hours of leave at the end of a 12-month period because the officer or employee was denied the opportunity to use personal leave.
(d) Each officer or employee who has a balance of accumulated personal leave in excess of 400 hours on December 16, 2013, shall, until that balance becomes 400 hours or less,
(1) be exempt from the limitation under (b) of this section; and
(2) take at least 15 days of personal leave during each 12-month period.
(e) Unless the head of an agency or department certifies in writing that an officer or employee of the agency or department who is subject to the requirements of (d) of this section was denied the opportunity to take at least 15 days of personal leave during a 12-month period, 15 days of personal leave minus the number of days of personal leave that was taken by the officer or employee shall be subtracted from the accrued personal leave balance of the officer or employee. The leave subtracted from accrued personal leave shall be canceled without pay.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.245. Donation of leave.

(a) An officer or employee may donate one or more days of personal leave a year to the memorial education revolving loan fund, or to an education loan account in the fund, under AS 14.43.250 - 14.43.325. The commissioner of administration shall pay to the account of the memorial education revolving loan fund, or to an education loan account in the fund, an amount equal to the value of the day or days of personal leave contributed by the officer or employee.
(b) An officer or employee, with the approval of the person authorizing the employment, may donate accrued personal or annual leave to another officer or employee only for use as leave for medical reasons. The official responsible for employee accounts shall debit the donor's personal or annual leave account and credit the donee's personal leave account, or sick leave account, as appropriate, for medical reasons only, by converting the donated leave into cash value at the donor's rate of pay and reconverting the cash value to hours of leave at the donee's rate of pay. Leave donated under this subsection is not leave taken by the donor for purposes of AS 39.20.225(c). An employee who is covered by a collective bargaining agreement may donate leave to or receive donations of leave from an employee or officer who is not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, notwithstanding AS 39.20.310(7) and (8).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.250. Terminal leave.

(a) Terminal leave for unused personal leave shall be allowed upon separation from service. The payment equals the cash value of the officer's or employee's personal leave balance at the time of separation from state service.
(b) [Repealed, § 20 ch 4 FSSLA 1996.]
(c) The payment authorized by this section is not considered salary or compensation except for purposes of taxation.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.256. Transfer of accrued medical leave.

(a) An officer or employee who has accrued medical leave shall have 40 percent of that medical leave transferred to the officer's or employee's personal leave account and 60 percent of that medical leave transferred to a medical leave bank. Banked medical leave may be taken only in accordance with this section.
(b) An officer or employee may not take any banked medical leave unless the officer or employee
(1) has no accrued personal leave; and
(2) has a medical disability exceeding 10 consecutive working days in duration; or
(3) has a medical disability exceeding 30 consecutive working days in duration.
(c) Once the requirements of (b) and (d) of this section have been met, an officer or employee may take banked medical leave until the medical disability is terminated or the banked medical leave is exhausted. If an officer or employee qualifies for banked medical leave under (b)(3) of this section, the banked medical leave may be taken for all working days of the medical disability following the 10th working day of the disability.
(d) When leave is taken under (b)(1) and (2) of this section, a department or agency head may require a doctor's certificate showing the disability. When leave is taken under (b)(3) of this section, the officer or employee must submit a doctor's certificate showing the disability.
(e) The taking of leave under this section shall be reduced by the amount of wage continuation payments made under AS 23.30 (Alaska Workers' Compensation Act).
(f) Upon an officer's or employee's separation from state service, the officer's or employee's banked medical leave shall be canceled without pay.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.270. Court leave.

Notwithstanding AS 39.20.310(6), court leave shall be granted to an employee who is classified as full time, whether permanent, nonpermanent, or temporary. An officer or employee called to serve as a juror or subpoenaed as a witness is entitled to administrative leave with pay, but compensation received by the employee or to which the employee is entitled, whichever is greater, for service as a juror or witness shall be deducted from pay to which the employee is entitled as a state officer or employee.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.275. Leave for organ or bone marrow donation.

(a) Notwithstanding AS 39.20.310(1) - (3) and (6) - (8), paid administrative leave of not more than 80 hours and not less than 40 hours, unless the employee requests fewer hours, shall be granted under this section to an employee who requests leave to make a personal organ or bone marrow donation. Paid administrative leave may include time spent on a screening process to determine whether the employee is a compatible donor.
(b) The director of personnel in the Department of Administration shall adopt regulations to implement this section.
(c) Nothing in this section authorizes employees to request leave for contribution to or for withdrawal from a leave pool.
(d) In this section, “employee” means a paid employee of the executive, judicial, or legislative branch of state government, a state public corporation or council established by law, or the University of Alaska, whether the employee is a permanent, nonpermanent, or temporary employee, who is employed for an average of 30 or more scheduled hours each week.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.290. Definition of days of leave.

The days of leave provided for in AS 39.20.200 - 39.20.330 mean days upon which an officer or employee would otherwise work and receive pay, and are exclusive of holidays.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.295. Special regulations on leave period.

In accord with the procedures established in AS 39.20.320, the Department of Administration shall adopt regulations defining and establishing a uniform beginning and a uniform concluding date for the 12-month periods applicable to leave use and accumulation by officers and employees of state government.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.300. Personal and banked medical leave transfers with officer or employee.

When an officer or employee terminates employment with one department, office, institution, or agency of the state government and is employed by another department, office, institution, or agency of the state government without break in service, accumulated personal leave and banked medical leave also transfer and shall be credited to the officer or employee in the employing department, office, institution, or agency.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.305. Family and health leave.

(a) An officer or employee of the state who is otherwise qualified to take leave of absence may take family leave because of a serious health condition for a total of 18 workweeks during any 24-month period. An otherwise qualified officer or employee may take family leave because of pregnancy and childbirth or adoption for a total of 18 workweeks within a 12-month period; the right to take leave for this reason expires on the date one year after the birth or placement of the child. An officer or employee taking leave under this section shall use accrued paid leave until the officer or employee has only five days of paid leave remaining. The officer or employee may choose whether to retain a balance of five days of paid leave and take the remaining leave as unpaid leave or whether to exhaust the paid leave balance. After reducing accrued paid leave as required by this subsection, the officer or employee may take leave without pay for the balance of the family leave. If the employee is entitled to a longer period of time under AS 39.20.500, then the longer period applies. An eligible employee is entitled to take family leave
(1) because of pregnancy and the birth of a child of the employee or the placement of a child, other than the employee's stepchild, with the employee for adoption; the department or agency may require that an employee using family leave under this paragraph take the leave in a single block of time;
(2) in order to care for the employee's child, spouse, or parent who has a serious health condition; in this paragraph, “child” includes the employee's biological, adopted, or foster child, stepchild, or legal ward; and
(3) because of the employee's own serious health condition.
(b) If the necessity for family leave under (a) of this section is foreseeable based on an expected birth or adoption or on planned medical treatment or supervision, the employee shall provide the employee's department or agency head with prior notice of the expected need for leave in a manner that is reasonable and practicable. If the necessity for leave under this section is foreseeable based on planned medical treatment or supervision, the employee shall also make a reasonable effort to schedule the treatment or supervision so as not to disrupt unduly the operations of the state department or agency, subject to the approval of the health care provider of the employee or the employee's child, spouse, or parent.
(c) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, if a parent or child of two employees employed by the state has a serious health condition, the state is not required to grant family leave to both employees simultaneously.
(d) In this section, “child,” “health care provider,” “parent,” and “serious health condition” have the meanings given in AS 39.20.550.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.310. Exceptions.

Except as provided in AS 39.20.275, AS 39.20.200 - 39.20.330 do not apply to
(1) members of the state legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and justices and judges of the supreme and superior courts and of the court of appeals, but nothing in AS 39.20.200 - 39.20.330 may be construed to diminish the salaries fixed by law for these officers by reason of absence from duty on account of illness or otherwise;
(2) magistrates serving the state on less than a full-time basis;
(3) officers, members of the teaching staff, and employees of the University of Alaska;
(4) persons employed in a professional capacity to make a temporary and special inquiry, study, or examination as authorized by the governor, the legislature, or a legislative committee;
(5) members of boards, commissions, and authorities who are not otherwise employed by the state;
(6) temporary employees hired for periods of less than 12 consecutive months;
(7) persons employed by the division of marine transportation as masters and members of the crews operating the state ferry system who are covered by collective bargaining agreements as provided in AS 23.40.040, except as expressly provided by law;
(8) persons employed by the state who are covered by collective bargaining agreements as provided in AS 23.40.210, except as expressly provided by law.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.320. Adoption of regulations.

The director of the division of personnel in the Department of Administration shall prepare and submit regulations necessary to carry out the intent of AS 39.20.200 - 39.20.330. These regulations must include provisions for crediting and, if necessary, converting accrued leave when an officer or employee transfers, without break in service, between a department or agency of the state government where the officer or employee is subject to AS 39.20.200 - 39.20.330 and a department or agency of the state government where the officer or employee is not subject to AS 39.20.200 - 39.20.330. These regulations shall be submitted to the commissioner of administration. The commissioner of administration shall review the regulations and submit them to the personnel board. The regulations, or any part of the regulations, have the force and effect of law 30 days after they are submitted to the personnel board if not disapproved by the personnel board. Amendments to the regulations shall be prepared and submitted in the same manner, and have the force and effect of law 30 days after they are submitted to the personnel board, if not disapproved by the personnel board. The regulations adopted under AS 39.20.200 - 39.20.330 relate to the internal management of state agencies and their adoption is not subject to the provisions of AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.330. Departments to keep leave records.

Each department, office, institution, or agency of the state government shall keep for its files a complete leave record, covering each of its officers and employees, on forms prepared and supplied by the Department of Administration. These records are subject to annual audit and approval by the director of personnel of the Department of Administration.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.340. Leave of absence for reserve or auxiliary members of armed forces.

(a) An employee of the state, or a political subdivision, with the approval of the city council or borough assembly, who is a member of a reserve or auxiliary component of the United States Armed Forces is entitled to a leave of absence without loss of pay, time or efficiency rating on all days during which the employee is ordered to training duty, as distinguished from active duty, with troops or at field exercises, or for instruction, or when under direct military control in the performance of a search and rescue mission. The leave of absence may not exceed 16 1/2 working days in any 12-month period.
(b) If an employee is called to active duty by the governor, an employee otherwise qualified under (a) of this section is entitled to five days leave of absence without loss of pay, time, or efficiency rating.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.345. Continuation of pay and benefits for certain members of the reserve and auxiliary units of the armed forces.

(a) Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, the governor, through the issuance of an administrative order, may authorize state employees who are members of a reserve or auxiliary component of the armed forces of the United States, including the organized militia of Alaska, consisting of the Alaska National Guard, the Alaska Naval Militia, and the Alaska State Defense Force, and who are called to active duty by the appropriate state or federal authority to continue to receive the equivalent of their state compensation and some or all of their state benefits.
(b) The Department of Administration shall implement an order issued by the governor under this section. The Department of Administration may adopt emergency regulations to implement an order issued by the governor under this section, including regulations regarding the scope of compensation and benefits and any allocation between the state and the state employee of contributions relating to the benefits. Emergency regulations adopted under this section
(1) are not subject to AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act); and
(2) take effect immediately unless the Department of Administration specifies another date.
(c) In this section, “benefits” includes credited service in a state retirement system, membership in the supplemental employee benefits system under AS 39.30.150 - 39.30.180, and group life and health insurance provided under AS 39.30.090 - 39.30.095 or under a collective bargaining agreement.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 3. Leaves of Absence. › Sec. 39.20.350. Restoration of reserve members to former positions.

A member of a reserve component of the United States Armed Forces employed by the state, a political subdivision, or a municipal corporation with the approval of the city council, who is ordered to duty by proper authority, shall, when relieved from duty, be restored to the position the employee held when ordered to duty.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 4. Payments Due to Deceased State Employees. › Sec. 39.20.360. Order of payment.

All unpaid compensation due to a deceased employee of the state at the time of death shall be paid to the person or persons surviving at the date of death, in the following order of precedence, and the payment is a bar to recovery by any other person of amounts so paid:
(1) to the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated by the employee in writing to receive the compensation filed with Department of Administration at the time of death; if more than one beneficiary is designated, each shall share equally unless the employee specifies a different allocation or preference;
(2) if there is no beneficiary designated, to the surviving spouse;
(3) if there is no beneficiary or surviving spouse, to the employee's child or children and descendants of deceased children by representation;
(4) if none of the above, to the employee's parents, or the survivor of them;
(5) if none of the above, to the legal representative of the employee's estate, or if there is none, to the person determined to be entitled under the laws of the employee's domicile.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 4. Payments Due to Deceased State Employees. › Sec. 39.20.370. Inapplicability of provisions to certain benefits, funds, or interest.

AS 39.20.360 - 39.20.400 do not apply to any benefit, refund, or interest payable under the Public Employees' Retirement System applicable to the decedent's service or to an amount the disposition of which is otherwise expressly prescribed by state law.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 4. Payments Due to Deceased State Employees. › Sec. 39.20.380. Change or revocation of designation.

The employee may change or revoke a designation made under AS 39.20.360 - 39.20.400 at any time without notice to the beneficiary by written notice filed with the Department of Administration.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 4. Payments Due to Deceased State Employees. › Sec. 39.20.400. Definitions.

In AS 39.20.360 - 39.20.400,
(1) “employee” means a person entitled to receive unpaid compensation from the state;
(2) “unpaid compensation” means the pay, salary, or allowances, or other compensation due on account of the services of the decedent for the state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 5. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Family Leave for Public Employees. › Sec. 39.20.510. Employee notice.

If the necessity for leave under AS 39.20.500 is foreseeable based on an expected birth or adoption or on planned medical treatment or supervision, the employee shall provide the employer with prior notice of the expected need for leave in a manner that is reasonable and practicable. If the necessity for leave under that section is foreseeable based on planned medical treatment or supervision, the employee shall also make a reasonable effort to schedule the treatment or supervision so as not to disrupt unduly the operations of the employer, subject to the approval of the health care provider of the employee or the employee's child, spouse, or parent.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 5. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Family Leave for Public Employees. › Sec. 39.20.520. Employee transfer.

(a) A pregnant employee may request a transfer to a suitable position under this section. An employer may not fill the position with a person other than the requesting employee until the employer has offered the position to the employee and the employee has refused the offer. A position is suitable if
(1) it is an existing unfilled position in the same administrative division in which the employee is currently employed and is less strenuous or less hazardous than the employee's current position;
(2) transfer to the position is recommended by a licensed health care provider;
(3) the employee is qualified and immediately able to perform the duties of the position; and
(4) the transfer will not subject the employer to legal liability under a collective bargaining contract or employment contract.
(b) An employer shall compensate an employee who receives a transfer under this section at a rate at least equal to the lesser of the rate, as adjusted by changes to compensation that apply generally to the work force, at which
(1) the employee was compensated immediately before requesting the transfer; or
(2) the position into which the employee transfers is compensated.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 5. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Family Leave for Public Employees. › Sec. 39.20.530. Application to other laws.

(a) The provisions of AS 39.20.500 - 39.20.550 do not affect any other provision of law relating to sex discrimination, pregnancy, or parenthood.
(b) The provisions of AS 39.20.500 - 39.20.550 are subject to collective bargaining. However, except as provided in (c) of this section, a collective bargaining contract 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.
(c) The commissioner of education and early development may approve a collective bargaining agreement entered into between a school district or a regional educational attendance area and a bargaining organization representing certificated employees that does not meet the leave requirements of AS 39.20.500 - 39.20.550, if the district or attendance area establishes to the satisfaction of the commissioner that a variance from the requirements of AS 39.20.500 - 39.20.550 is necessary to avoid a hardship on the school district based on the lack of qualified, available substitute teachers to replace teachers on leave under AS 39.20.500 - 39.20.550 or the lack of available housing for replacement teachers who do not live in the community.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 5. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Family Leave for Public Employees. › Sec. 39.20.540. Investigation and conciliation of complaints.

(a) A person aggrieved by a denial of a right or privilege granted by AS 39.20.500 - 39.20.540 may file a complaint with the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
(b) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall informally, promptly, and impartially investigate the matters set out in a filed complaint. If the investigator determines that the allegations are supported by substantial evidence, the investigator shall immediately try to eliminate the denial of rights or privileges by conference, conciliation, and persuasion.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 20. Compensation, Allowances, and Leave › Article 5. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Family Leave for Public Employees. › Sec. 39.20.550. Definitions.

In AS 39.20.500 - 39.20.550,
(1) “child” means an individual who is
(A) under 18 years of age; or
(B) 18 years of age or older and incapable of self-care because of mental or physical disability;
(2) “employer” means the state and a political subdivision of the state that employed at least 21 employees in the state for each working day during any period of 20 consecutive workweeks in the preceding two calendar years; “employer” does not include a regional Native housing authority created under AS 18.55.995 - 18.55.998;
(3) “health care provider” means a dentist licensed under AS 08.36, a physician licensed under AS 08.64, or a psychologist licensed under AS 08.86;
(4) “parent” means a biological or adoptive parent, a parent-in-law, or a stepparent;
(5) “serious health condition” means an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves
(A) inpatient care in a hospital, hospice, or residential health care facility; or
(B) continuing treatment or continuing supervision by a health care provider;
(6) “small employment facility” means a facility of an employer that did not employ 21 or more employees during any period of 20 consecutive workweeks in the preceding two calendar years;
(7) “state” includes the University of Alaska, the Alaska Railroad, and the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government including public and quasi-public corporations and authorities established by law.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission › Sec. 39.23.500. Compensation commission established.

(a) The State Officers Compensation Commission is established. The commission is composed of five members who are state residents appointed by the governor. One member shall be appointed from a list of two or more candidates submitted by the president of the senate. One member shall be appointed from a list of two or more candidates submitted by the speaker of the house of representatives. Members serve for staggered terms of four years. Except as provided in AS 39.05.080(4), a vacancy shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term. A commission member may serve not more than two complete consecutive terms.
(b) The commission shall annually elect a member to chair its meetings. A majority of the commission members constitutes a quorum to transact business. The affirmative vote of three members is required to approve the commission's recommendations on compensation.
(c) The commission shall meet at the call of the chair. Notice of a meeting shall be mailed to each member at least 20 days before the date scheduled for the meeting.
(d) The commission shall meet to discuss its findings and recommendations at least twice before submitting its final report to the presiding officers of each house of the legislature and the governor.
(e) For budgetary purposes, the commission shall be established in the Department of Administration.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission › Sec. 39.23.510. Prohibitions against state or municipal service.

(a) During membership on the commission, a member of the commission may not
(1) be employed by the state, including the University of Alaska;
(2) serve as a member of another state board, commission, or authority; or
(3) hold elective state or municipal office.
(b) A member of the commission may not, in the four years preceding that member's appointment, have served in an office or position for which the commission shall submit a recommendation under AS 39.23.540.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission › Sec. 39.23.540. Duties of the commission.

(a) The commission shall review the salaries, benefits, and allowances of members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each principal executive department head and prepare a report on its findings at least once every two years, but not more frequently than every year. The commission shall notify the legislature that the report is available.
(b) The commission may request reports or studies from any state agency as to the rate and form of compensation, benefits, and allowances for legislators, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each executive department head. A state agency from which a report or a study is requested shall furnish it within a period of time prescribed by the commission.
(c) By November 15, the commission shall prepare its preliminary findings and recommendations for compensation of state officers that is reasonable and equitable. The commission shall give reasonable public notice of its preliminary findings and recommendations, solicit public comments, and give due regard to the public comments, before submitting a final report under (d) of this section.
(d) The commission shall make available to the governor and presiding officers of each house of the legislature a final report of its findings and recommendations as to the rate and form of compensation, benefits, and allowances for legislators, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each principal executive department head during the first 10 days of a legislative session. Subject to AS 24.10.130(b) and (g) of this section, and unless a bill disapproving all the recommendations for all officers listed in this section is enacted into law within 60 days after the recommendations are submitted to the governor and presiding officers of each house of the legislature, a recommendation as to the compensation, benefits, and allowances for
(1) a legislator has the force of law and becomes effective on the first day of the next regular legislative session; and
(2) the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each principal executive department head has the force of law and becomes effective on the first day of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which the recommendation is submitted.
(e) The commission may prepare amendments to the report submitted under (d) of this section and notify the legislature that the amendments are available.
(f) A commission member who does not concur in the proposed or final recommendations may attach written objections to the commission's report of its findings and recommendations.
(g) A recommendation under this section increasing the compensation, benefits, and allowances of a public officer is not effective unless all recommended increases included in the final report under (d) of this section are fully funded by appropriations.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission › Sec. 39.23.550. Recommendations relating to reduction in compensation.

(a) A recommendation of the commission may not have the effect of reducing the compensation or benefits of the governor and lieutenant governor who are in office or an executive department head who is appointed on or before the effective date of the commission's recommendation.
(b) The commission may recommend reduction in compensation for individuals who become governor, lieutenant governor, or an executive department head after the effective date of the commission's recommendation.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission › Sec. 39.23.560. Recommendations relating to benefits.

The recommendations of the commission relating to benefits may not include any recommendation relating to health, retirement, disability, or death benefits under AS 39.30 and AS 39.35 for members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each principal executive department head.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 23. State Officers Compensation Commission › Sec. 39.23.570. Filing with lieutenant governor and certification.

The commission shall, on transmitting its final recommendations for the compensation of legislators, the governor, the lieutenant governor, and each principal executive department head to the legislature, file the recommendations in the office of the lieutenant governor. When the recommendations become effective, the commission shall certify the copy of the recommendations on file in the office of the lieutenant governor.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 25. State Personnel Act › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 39.25.010. Purpose of chapter.

(a) It is the purpose of this chapter to establish a system of personnel administration based upon the merit principle and adapted to the requirements of the state to the end that persons best qualified to perform the functions of the state will be employed, and that an effective career service will be encouraged, developed, and maintained.
(b) The merit principle of employment includes the following:
(1) recruiting, selecting, and advancing employees on the basis of their relative ability, knowledge, and skills, including open consideration of qualified applicants for initial appointment;
(2) regular integrated salary programs based on the nature of the work performed;
(3) retention of employees with permanent status on the basis of the adequacy of their performance, reasonable efforts of temporary duration for correction in inadequate performance, and separation for cause;
(4) equal treatment of applicants and employees with regard only to consideration within the merit principles of employment; and
(5) selection and retention of an employee's position secure from political influences.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 25. State Personnel Act › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 39.25.020. Appointing authorities.

(a) The authority to appoint to positions in the state service is as follows:
(1) the legislature is the appointing authority for all officers and employees of the legislature and the legislative agencies, but the authority to make appointments may be delegated;
(2) the governor is the appointing authority for all officers and employees of the executive branch, but the authority to make appointments may be delegated;
(3) the chief justice of the supreme court is the appointing authority for all administrative and clerical personnel of the state judicial system, but the authority to make appointments may be delegated;
(4) the board of regents is the appointing authority for all employees of the University of Alaska, but the authority to make appointments may be delegated.
(b) Unless a waiver is granted by the commissioner of administration, an appointing authority may not appoint a person to state service if the person has been convicted under AS 11.56.845. Before granting a waiver under this subsection, the commissioner shall give notice in writing to the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee of the intent to grant a waiver.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 25. State Personnel Act › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 39.25.040. Director of personnel.

The head of the division of personnel is the director of personnel appointed by the commissioner of administration and responsible to the commissioner of administration for the execution of the duties and responsibilities imposed by this chapter and the rules adopted under this chapter. The director of personnel shall have at least three years of practical working experience in the field of personnel administration.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 25. State Personnel Act › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 39.25.050. Powers and duties of director.

(a) The director of personnel shall direct and supervise the administrative and technical activities of the division of personnel. In addition to the other duties imposed on the director, the director shall
(1) administer this chapter and the personnel rules;
(2) encourage and exercise leadership in the development of effective personnel administration in the state government;
(3) develop, in cooperation with appointing authorities and others, programs for the improvement of employee effectiveness and morale;
(4) attend meetings of the personnel board and serve as secretary for the board;
(5) establish and maintain a roster of employees subject to this chapter;
(6) prepare the rules, not inconsistent with this chapter, that are required to implement and administer this chapter;
(7) perform other lawful acts that the director considers necessary or desirable to carry out the purposes of this chapter;
(8) administer the equal employment opportunity program under AS 39.28.
(b) The director of personnel may contract with municipalities, private organizations, and other persons to provide personnel research or personnel training services for them and charge a fee for doing so.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 25. State Personnel Act › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 39.25.060. Personnel board.

(a) The personnel board is composed of three members appointed by the governor and confirmed by the legislature meeting in joint session. The term of office of a member is six years. A vacancy in an unexpired term shall be filled by appointment by the governor for the remainder of the term. The appointment is subject to confirmation in the same manner as a full-term appointment.
(b) Members of the board may not be employees of the state. Not more than two members of the board may be members of the same political party.
(c) A board member may be removed by the governor only for cause.
(d) A member of the board may receive a per diem allowance and transportation expenses incurred in carrying out the member's duties.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 25. State Personnel Act › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 39.25.070. Powers and duties of personnel board.

In addition to the other duties imposed by this chapter, the personnel board shall
(1) approve or disapprove amendments to the personnel rules in accordance with AS 39.25.140;
(2) consider and act upon recommendations for the extension of the partially exempt service and the classified service as provided in AS 39.25.130;
(3) hear and determine appeals by employees in the classified service as provided in AS 39.25.170;
(4) establish its own rules of procedure; two members constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and two affirmative votes are required for final action on matters acted upon by the board;
(5) elect a chair from its membership;
(6) have the power to administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, and compel the production of books and papers pertinent to a hearing authorized by this chapter;
(7) employ staff members, who shall be in the classified service;
(8) carry out its powers and duties under AS 39.52.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 25. State Personnel Act › Article 1. Administration. › Sec. 39.25.080. Personnel records confidential; exceptions.

(a) State personnel records, including employment applications and examination and other assessment materials, are confidential and are not open to public inspection except as provided in this section.
(b) The following information is available for public inspection, subject to reasonable regulations on the time and manner of inspection:
(1) the names and position titles of all state employees;
(2) the position held by a state employee;
(3) prior positions held by a state employee;
(4) whether a state employee is in the classified, partially exempt, or exempt service;
(5) the dates of appointment and separation of a state employee;
(6) the compensation authorized for a state employee; and
(7) whether a state employee has been dismissed or disciplined for a violation of AS 39.25.160(l) (interference or failure to cooperate with the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee).
(c) A state employee has the right to examine the employee's own personnel files and may authorize others to examine those files.
(d) An applicant for state employment who appeals an examination score may review written examination questions relating to the examination unless the questions are to be used in future examinations.
(e) In addition to any access to state personnel records authorized under (b) of this section, state personnel records shall promptly be made available to the child support services agency created in AS 25.27.010 or the child support enforcement agency of another state. If the record is prepared or maintained in an electronic data base, it may be supplied by providing the requesting agency with access to the data base or a copy of the information in the data base and a statement certifying its contents. The agency receiving information under this subsection may use the information only for child support purposes authorized under law.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 39. Public Officers and Employees › Chapter 25. State Personnel Act › Article 2. Coverage of Personnel. › Sec. 39.25.130. Extension of partially exempt and classified services.

(a) The personnel board, upon written recommendation of the commissioner of administration, may extend the partially exempt service to include any position in the classified service that, in the judgment of the board,
(1) involves principal responsibility for the determination of policy;
(2) involves principal responsibility for the way in which policies are carried out; or
(3) involves responsibilities and duties of a type not susceptible to the ordinary recruiting and assessment procedures.
(b) Positions may not be included in the partially exempt service under this section if the inclusion is inconsistent with federal requirements for state agencies supported in whole or in part by federal funds.
(c) The personnel board, upon written recommendation of the commissioner of administration, may extend the classified service to include any position in the partially exempt service.