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CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 268(CRA)
IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA
THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE - SECOND SESSION
BY THE SENATE COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Offered: 5/11/26
Referred: Labor & Commerce
Sponsor(s): SENATOR STEVENS
A BILL
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED
"An Act relating to minimum paid sick leave requirements for individuals employed in 1
seafood processing; and providing for an effective date." 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 3
* Section 1. AS 23.10.066 is amended to read: 4
Sec. 23.10.066. Minimum paid sick leave benefit. Except as provided in (b) 5
of this section, employers [EMPLOYERS] in the state are required to provide their 6
employees paid sick leave as follows: 7
(1) employers with 15 or more employees shall allow employees to 8
accrue a minimum of one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, but 9
employees are not entitled to accrue or use more than 56 hours of paid sick leave per 10
year, unless their employer sets a higher limit; 11
(2) employers with fewer than 15 employees shall allow employees to 12
accrue a minimum of one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, but 13
employees are not entitled to accrue or use more than 40 hours of paid sick leave per 14
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year, unless their employer sets a higher limit; 1
(3) employees who are exempt from overtime requirements under 29 2
U.S.C. 213(a)(1) shall be assumed to work 40 hours in each work week for purposes 3
of paid sick leave accrual unless their normal work week is less than 40 hours, in 4
which case paid sick leave accrues based on [UPON] that normal work week; 5
(4) paid sick leave shall carry over to the following year, but an 6
employer is not required to allow an employee to use more than the applicable 7
amounts of paid sick leave described in (1) and (2) of this section per year; 8
(5) paid sick leave as provided in this section shall begin to accrue at 9
the commencement of employment or July 1, 2025, whichever is later; an employee 10
shall be entitled to use paid sick leave as it is accrued; 11
(6) any employer with a paid leave or paid time off policy, who makes 12
available an amount of paid leave sufficient to meet the requirements of this section 13
that may be used for the same purposes and under the same conditions as paid sick 14
leave under this section, is not required to provide additional paid sick leave; 15
(7) an employee who is transferred to a separate entity or location, but 16
remains employed by the same employer, is entitled to all paid sick leave accrued at 17
the prior entity or location; when there is a separation from employment, but the 18
employee is rehired within six months of separation by the same employer, previously 19
accrued and unused paid sick leave shall be immediately reinstated; when a different 20
employer succeeds or takes the place of an existing employer, all employees of the 21
original employer who remain employed by the successor employer are entitled to all 22
accrued and unused paid sick leave. 23
* Sec. 2. AS 23.10.066 is amended by adding new subsections to read: 24
(b) Employers of seafood processing workers shall allow seafood processing 25
workers to accrue a minimum of 12 hours of paid sick leave on the first day of each 26
calendar month, but seafood processing workers are not entitled to 27
(1) use paid sick leave for the first 30 days of employment; 28
(2) use more than 12 hours of paid sick leave each month; or 29
(3) use or accrue more than 48 hours of paid sick leave each year, 30
unless the seafood processing worker's employer sets a higher limit. 31
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(c) In this section, "seafood processing worker" means an employee who is 1
hired to perform work involving heading, gutting, separating, filleting, canning, or 2
other activities intended to prepare seafood for market. 3
* Sec. 3. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c). 4