SB 268

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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
1  "An Act relating to minimum paid sick leave requirements for individuals employed in
2  seafood processing; and providing for an effective date."
3  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:
4   * Section 1. AS 23.10.066 is amended to read:
5Sec. 23.10.066. Minimum paid sick leave benefit. Except as provided in (b)
6of this section, employers [EMPLOYERS] in the state are required to provide their
7employees paid sick leave as follows:
8(1) employers with 15 or more employees shall allow employees to
9accrue a minimum of one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, but
10employees are not entitled to accrue or use more than 56 hours of paid sick leave per
11year, unless their employer sets a higher limit;
12(2) employers with fewer than 15 employees shall allow employees to
13accrue a minimum of one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, but
14employees are not entitled to accrue or use more than 40 hours of paid sick leave per
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1year, unless their employer sets a higher limit;
2(3) employees who are exempt from overtime requirements under 29
3U.S.C. 213(a)(1) shall be assumed to work 40 hours in each work week for purposes
4of paid sick leave accrual unless their normal work week is less than 40 hours, in
5which case paid sick leave accrues based on [UPON] that normal work week;
6(4) paid sick leave shall carry over to the following year, but an
7employer is not required to allow an employee to use more than the applicable
8amounts of paid sick leave described in (1) and (2) of this section per year;
9(5) paid sick leave as provided in this section shall begin to accrue at
10the commencement of employment or July 1, 2025, whichever is later; an employee
11shall be entitled to use paid sick leave as it is accrued;
12(6) any employer with a paid leave or paid time off policy, who makes
13available an amount of paid leave sufficient to meet the requirements of this section
14that may be used for the same purposes and under the same conditions as paid sick
15leave under this section, is not required to provide additional paid sick leave;
16(7) an employee who is transferred to a separate entity or location, but
17remains employed by the same employer, is entitled to all paid sick leave accrued at
18the prior entity or location; when there is a separation from employment, but the
19employee is rehired within six months of separation by the same employer, previously
20accrued and unused paid sick leave shall be immediately reinstated; when a different
21employer succeeds or takes the place of an existing employer, all employees of the
22original employer who remain employed by the successor employer are entitled to all
23accrued and unused paid sick leave.
24  * Sec. 2. AS 23.10.066 is amended by adding new subsections to read:
25(b) Employers of seafood processing workers shall allow seafood processing
26workers to accrue a minimum of 12 hours of paid sick leave on the first day of each
27calendar month, but seafood processing workers are not entitled to
28(1) use paid sick leave for the first 30 days of employment;
29(2) use more than 12 hours of paid sick leave each month; or
30(3) use or accrue more than 48 hours of paid sick leave each year,
31unless the seafood processing worker's employer sets a higher limit.
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1(c) In this section, "seafood processing worker" means an employee who is
2hired to perform work involving heading, gutting, separating, filleting, canning, or
3other activities intended to prepare seafood for market.
4  * Sec. 3. This Act takes effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c).
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