Alaska Minimum Wage Increase and Paid Sick Leave Initiative (2024)
| Alaska Minimum Wage Increase and Paid Sick Leave Initiative | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Minimum wage | |
| Status Cleared for signature gathering | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Alaska Minimum Wage Increase and Paid Sick Leave Initiative may appear on the ballot in Alaska as an initiated state statute on November 5, 2024.
This initiative would increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour by July 1, 2027; provide employees the ability to accrue up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per year if their employers have 15 employees or more; provide employees the ability to accrue up to 40 hours of paid sick leave if their employers have under 15 employees; and prohibit employers taking adverse action against employees who refuse to attend employer-sponsored meetings regarding religious or political matters.[1]
Text of measure
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The full text of the ballot measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Alaska
In Alaska, the number of signatures required for an indirect initiated state statute is equal to 10 percent of the votes cast in the preceding gubernatorial election. Alaska also has a signature distribution requirement, which requires that signatures equal to 7 percent of the vote in the last general election must be collected in each of three-fourths of the 40 Alaska House of Representatives districts. Petitions are allowed to circulate for 365 days from the date the lieutenant governor issues petition booklets to be distributed for signature gathering, meaning each initiative has a different signature deadline. Signatures must be submitted 365 days after the lieutenant governor issued petition booklets to be distributed for signature gathering or before the legislative session begins in mid-January 2020, whichever comes first.
The requirements to get an indirectly initiated state statute certified for the 2024 ballot:
- Signatures: 26,705 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was 365 days after the lieutenant governor issued petition booklets to be distributed for signature gathering or before the legislative session began on January 17, 2024, whichever comes first.
If the lieutenant governor certifies enough signatures as valid, the Alaska State Legislature can approve the indirect initiative or equivalent legislation, keeping the measure off the ballot. Otherwise, the initiative is certified to appear on the ballot for the first statewide election 120 days after the legislature's adjournment.
Stages of this ballot initiative
- The initiative, titled "An initiative to increase Alaska’s minimum wage, provide workers with paid sick leave, and protect workers from practices that violate their constitutional rights", was filed on July 5, 2023.[2]
- On September 1, 2023, the initiative was certified and cleared for signature gathering.[2]
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