AlaskaPublic employees would receive disability payments at 75 percent of pay
Covered public employees would receive work-related disability payments equal to 75 percent of their gross monthly pay when disability ended their employment.
What it does
Covered public employees would receive monthly benefits for work-related disabilities equal to 75 percent of their gross monthly pay when disability ended their employment.
Covered firefighters' claims for certain disabling diseases would start with an assumption that they qualify for work injury benefits. Eligibility requires six years of Alaska service, disease-free medical checks, and linked workplace exposure for cancer.
Eligible disabled public employees could obtain retiree medical insurance. Eligible retirement system members or surviving spouses receiving specified disability benefits would pay no premium while they are not eligible for Medicare.
Argument forPayments at 75 percent of prior pay could help covered public employees meet household expenses when work-related disabilities end their employment.
Argument againstWaiving medical insurance premiums could leave the public retirement system covering costs that eligible disabled workers and surviving spouses would otherwise pay.
More detail
Alaska's public employees' retirement system would pay monthly benefits for work-related disabilities at 75 percent of the employee's gross monthly pay when disability ended employment. The rate would apply under both public employee retirement provisions addressed in Sections 2 and 6. The employee must qualify for a work-related disability benefit under one of the two retirement provisions addressed. If enacted, the bill would take effect immediately.
Covered firefighters' disability claims for certain diseases would start with an assumption that they qualify for workers' compensation, which pays benefits for work-related harm. The rule covers active and former firefighters covered by the cited law. Diseases include respiratory disease, cardiovascular events within 72 hours after smoke, fumes, or toxic exposure, and nine listed cancers. Medical exams at first employment and at least once every two years during the first six years must show no evidence of the disease. For a listed cancer, the firefighter must show workplace exposure to a recognized cancer-causing substance linked to that disabling cancer. The disease must develop or appear after at least six years of Alaska service. After service ends, the assumption would last six calendar months per year of required service, up to 120 calendar months after employment ends. These rules would take effect immediately if enacted.
Alaska's public employees' retirement system would offer retiree medical insurance to disabled employees eligible for disability benefits under AS 39.35.890. These provisions concern retiree medical insurance through Alaska's public employees' retirement system. The premium waiver would cover eligible retirement system members or surviving spouses receiving disability benefits under AS 39.35.890 or AS 39.35.891 who are not eligible for Medicare. If enacted, these medical coverage provisions would take effect immediately.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- May 7(S) CROSS SPONSOR(S): GIESSEL, GRAY-JACKSONLatest
- May 7(S) REFERRED TO FINANCEMinor
- May 7(S) FIN
- May 7(S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALSMinor
- May 6(H) VERSION: CSHB 210(FIN) AM
- Vote recorded (H) PASSED Y40 #2422. Result: pass.Lower
- May 6(H) TRANSMITTED TO (S)Passed Senate
- May 6(H) COSPONSOR(S): MCCABE, TOMASZEWSKI, STORY
- May 6(H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- May 6(H) PASSED Y40Passed House
- May 6(H) AUTOMATICALLY IN THIRD READINGMinor
- May 6(H) ...CHANGES TITLE OF LEGISLATION
- May 6(H) AM NO 1 ADOPTED UCMajor
- May 6(H) RESCINDED ACTION (FAILING) AM 1 UC
- May 6(H) RETURNED SECOND TO RESCIND ACTION ON AM 1 UC
- May 6(H) READ THE THIRD TIME CSHB 210(FIN)Minor
- May 4(H) COSPONSOR(S): FIELDS, JOSEPHSON, EISCHEID, SCHRAGE
- Vote recorded (H) AM NO 1 FAILED Y19 N21 # 2397. Result: fail.Lower
- May 4(H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/6 CALENDARMinor
- May 4(H) AM NO 1 FAILED Y19 N21Minor
- May 4(H) FIN CS ADOPTED UC
- May 4(H) READ THE SECOND TIMEMinor
- May 4(H) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/4/2026
- Apr 30(H) COSPONSOR(S): BYNUM
- Apr 30(H) FN1: INDETERMINATE(ADM)
- Apr 30(H) NR: TOMASZEWSKI, MOORE, BYNUM, ALLARD
- Apr 30(H) DP: JIMMIE, GALVIN, HANNAN, SCHRAGE, JOSEPHSON, FOSTER
- Apr 30(H) FIN RPT CS(FIN) NEW TITLE 6DP 4NR
- Apr 29(H) Moved CSHB 210(FIN) Out of Committee
- Apr 29(H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- Apr 16(H) Minutes (HFIN)
- Apr 16(H) Heard & Held
- Apr 16(H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- Apr 10(H) -- MEETING CANCELED --
- Apr 10(H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- Mar 30(H) COSPONSOR(S): GALVIN
- Mar 26(H) Heard & Held
- Mar 26(H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- Mar 19(H) Heard & Held
- Mar 19(H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- Feb 13(H) FN1: INDETERMINATE(ADM)
- Feb 13(H) DP: CARRICK, COULOMBE, SADDLER, FRIER, D.NELSON, HALL, FIELDS
- Feb 13(H) L&C RPT 7DP
- Feb 11(H) Minutes (HL&C)
- Feb 11(H) Moved HB 210 Out of Committee -- Delayed to 15 minutes Following Session --
- Feb 11(H) LABOR & COMMERCE at 03:15 PM BARNES 124
- Feb 9(H) Minutes (HL&C)
- Feb 9(H) <Bill Hearing Canceled>
- Feb 9(H) LABOR & COMMERCE at 03:15 PM BARNES 124
- Feb 2(H) Minutes (HL&C)
- Feb 2(H) Heard & Held
- Feb 2(H) LABOR & COMMERCE at 03:15 PM BARNES 124
- 2025
- May 16(H) Minutes (HL&C)
- May 16(H) <Bill Hearing Canceled> -- Delayed to 4:30 pm --
- May 16(H) LABOR & COMMERCE at 03:15 PM BARNES 124
- Apr 30(H) L&C, FIN
- Apr 30(H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALSIntroduced
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