Petition Status Find information about active and inactive petitions, including initiative, referendum, and recall petitions. An Act to increase Alaska’s minimum wage to $6.50 per hour effective January 2, 2001, $6.75 per hour effective January 1, 2002, and thereafter, adjusted annually for inflation. Initiative Id: 99WAGE — Sponsor’s Proposed Bill Language Back to your search resultBack to Petitions and Ballot Measures Bill Increasing Alaska’s Minimum Hourly Wage Impartial summary prepared by the Department of Law: This bill would increase Alaska’s minimum hourly wage to $6.50 per hour starting January 1, 2001. Then, on January 1, 2002, the minimum hourly wage would increase to $6.75 per hour. Each year thereafter, the minimum hourly wage would be adjusted by the State. The yearly adjustment would be based on inflation using the Consumer Price Index for Anchorage. Proposed Bill: Be it enacted by the People of the State of Alaska: Section 1. Findings and Declaration The people of the State of Alaska find and declare that: (a) An increase in Alaska’s minimum wage will help ensure a minimum standard of living for the health and well being of every Alaskan, (b) Alaskans working full-time at the current minimum wage earn far below the federal poverty level for a family of three, (c) The U.S. West Coast states of Washington, Oregon and California already have a higher minimum wage that the State of Alaska, (d) A fair minimum wage indexed to the cost of living will help low-income workers keep pace with inflation. Section 2. Purpose The purpose and intent of enacting this legislation is to raise Alaska’s minimum wage to $6.50 per hour effective January 1, 2001, $6.75 per hour effective January 1, 2002 and thereafter adjusted annually for inflation. Section 3. AS 23.10.065(a) is repealed and reenacted to read: (a) Except as otherwise provided for in law, an employer shall pay to each employee a minimum wage, as established herein, for hours worked in a pay period whether the work is measured by time, piece, commission or otherwise. An employer may not apply tips or gratuities bestowed upon employees as a credit toward payment of the minimum hourly wage required by this section. Tip credit as defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act as mended does not apply to the minimum wage established by this section. Beginning with the passage of this Act, the minimum wage shall be $6.50 per hour effective January 1, 2001, $6.75 per hour effective January 1, 2002 and thereafter adjusted annually for inflation. The adjustment shall be calculated each September 30, for the proceeding January — December calendar year, by the Alaska Department of Labor, using the CPI-Anchorage. Such adjustment shall take effect January 1 of the following year.