NEW LEGAL HOLIDAYS

Plain English Breakdown

Official source material does not provide specific details on current legal holidays, enforcement mechanisms, or direct impacts on individuals or entities.

New Legal Holidays Act

This act sets a limit on the number of new legal holidays that can be established each year.

What This Bill Does

• Limits the total number of legal holidays to no more than 12 per year.

Terms To Know

Legal Holidays

Official days recognized by law when people do not have to work, such as Christmas or New Year's Day.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify which holidays are currently in place.
• The bill does not provide details on how the limit will be enforced.

Official Summary Text

NEW LEGAL HOLIDAYS
An Act relating to legal holidays.

Current Bill Text

HB0008a -1- HB 8
New Text Underlined [DELETED TEXT BRACKETED]

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HOUSE BILL NO. 8

IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA

THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION

BY REPRESENTATIVES SADDLER, Johnson

Introduced: 1/22/25
Referred: Community and Regional Affairs, State Affairs

A BILL

FOR AN ACT ENTITLED

"An Act relating to legal holidays." 1
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 2
* Section 1. AS 44.12.010 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: 3
(c) Notwithstanding the legal holidays established in (a)(13) and (14) of this 4
section, the legislature may not establish more than 12 legal holidays to be observed in 5
a calendar year. 6