Title 39, Public Officers and Employees

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the governor and lieutenant governor are not considered employees of the state for the purpose of state personnel laws relating to hours of employment, annual leave, sick leave, overtime, compensatory time, and travel allowances. T…

AS 39.20.050 and 39.20.060 are not superseded or modified by any subsequent legislation except to the extent that the legislation does so expressly.

(a) The monthly salary of the head of each principal executive department of the state shall be in accordance with AS 39.23. (b) The monthly salary of a deputy head of a principal executive department of the state is equal to a step in Range 28 of the salary schedule in AS 39.27.…

The salaries and expenses of officers, boards, commissions, and bureaus established by the laws of the state shall be paid from appropriations made for that purpose, as other expenses of the state are paid.

Article 2. Travel Regulations.

Officials and employees of the state agencies, while traveling on official business and away from their designated post of duty, shall be allowed, instead of their actual expenses for subsistence and all fees or tips, a per diem allowance to be prescribed by the commissioner of a…

Except as provided in AS 39.20.110 — 39.20.170, only actual and necessary traveling expenses shall be allowed to an official or employee.

Officials and employees of state agencies shall, under regulations adopted by the commissioner of administration, and whenever the mode of transportation is authorized or approved as more advantageous to the state, be paid an amount, instead of actual expenses of transportation, …

(a) The Department of Administration may not pay an official or employee for per diem or transportation costs unless the travel is clearly necessary to benefit the state. (b) The Department of Administration may not reimburse an official or employee or pay for more than the lowes…

(a) An agency may advance, through proper disbursing methods, to a person entitled to per diem or mileage allowance under AS 39.20.110 — 39.20.170 the sums considered advisable considering the character and probable duration of the travel to be performed. (b) Sums advanced and no…

The fixing and payment under AS 39.20.110 — 39.20.170 of travel and per diem allowances and of advances and recovery and reimbursement of travel expenses shall be in accordance with regulations adopted by the commissioner of administration. The regulations shall be uniform for al…

AS 39.20.110 — 39.20.170 may not be construed to modify or repeal a law providing for the travel expenses of the governor, or members of the legislature, or members of boards or commissions of the state government.

Except as otherwise provided by law, the provisions in this section relating to per diem and transportation govern exclusively with respect to a member of a state board, commission, committee, judicial council, or other similar body of persons of the state organized or establishe…

A state official or employee who is a member of the judicial council or a state official or employee appointed by the governor to a state board, commission, or committee established under the authority of law is not entitled to per diem when the meeting or other business takes pl…

Article 3. Leaves of Absence. In AS 39.20.110 — 39.20.190, (1) “employee” or “state employee” means a person employed by a state agency; (2) “official” or “state official” means the appointive head of a state agency; (3) “official travel” means travel inside or outside the state …

(a) Officers and employees of the state who are first employed before July 1, 2013, in a position for which leave may accrue are entitled to personal leave with pay that accrues as follows: (1) two days for each full monthly pay period in the case of officers and employees with l…

In determining years of service for the purpose of computing personal leave, all service with the Territory and State of Alaska is included. A change in the rate of accrual of personal leave by an officer or employee takes effect upon the beginning of the monthly pay period follo…

Notwithstanding AS 39.20.200, an officer or employee is entitled to personal leave only after having been employed currently for a continuous period of 30 days under one or more appointments without break in service. When an officer or employee completes a period of continuous em…

(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 …

[Repealed or reserved.]

(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 m…

(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 …

(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 …

An officer or employee who has accrued annual leave shall have that annual leave transferred to the officer's or employee's personal leave account.

(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 …

[Repealed or reserved.]

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, b…

(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 bon…

[Repealed or reserved.]

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.

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 employ…

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 ban…

(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…

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 — 39.20.33…

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 wh…

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…

(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 rat…

(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,…

Article 4. Payments Due to Deceased State Employees. 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, sha…

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 th…

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.

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.

Each department shall inform its employees of the provisions of AS 39.20.360 — 39.20.400.

Article 5. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Family Leave for Public Employees. 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…

(a) An employer shall grant an employee whose health is affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition the same employment benefits and privileges that the employer grants to other employees with similar ability to work who are not so affected, including allowi…