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HB127

HB 127: Changing Overtime Rules for Newspaper Employees

Last scannedSep 10, 2026, 12:32 AM

In one sentence

This bill changes the law to allow employees of newspapers with a circulation under 4,000 copies to be exempt from overtime pay rules.

Amends Alaska Statute 23.10.060(d) regarding who must receive overtime pay.
Increases the newspaper circulation limit for an exemption from 1,000 to less than 4,000 copies.
Applies this change to weekly, semiweekly, and daily newspapers.

Employees working for publishers of weekly, semiweekly, or daily newspapers with a circulation of less than 4,000 copies.

The official text does not state when this law will officially take effect.
The bill only shows the change to paragraph (5) and does not detail how other exemptions might interact with this new limit.

Official record

Validated

OVERTIME ELIGIBILITY: NEWSPAPERS An Act relating to the overtime pay exemption for certain newspaper employees.

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