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Ski Patrols and Nonprofits Exempted From Minimum Wage
For Immediate Release: March 24, 1999
Contact: Representative Norman Rokeberg at (907) 465-4968.
Juneau -- The Alaska House of Representatives Wednesday passed legislation which would exempt volunteer ski patrollers from minimum wage and overtime compensation requirements and clarify the law regarding exemptions for nonprofit organization volunteers.
The Committee Substitute for House Bill 123, sponsored by the House Labor and Commerce Committee, passed 38-0.
"This bill would exempt potentially thousands of volunteers for nonprofits and the approximately 400 volunteer ski patrol members in Alaska from minimum wage and overtime requirements," said Representative Norman Rokeberg (R-Anchorage), Chairman of the House Labor and Commerce Committee. "Without this exemption, it may be illegal to use volunteers, which means there is a real danger that the activities of nonprofit volunteers and volunteer ski patrols in Alaska could be jeopardized."
This Committee Substitute for HB 123 was fashioned in cooperation with the State Department of Labor, which suggested language to address nonprofit volunteers; this expanded language includes the volunteer ski patrollers, which the original HB 123 was designed to cover.
In addition to the Alaska Division of the National Ski Patrol, this bill is supported by the 2001 Special Olympics Winter Games Alaska.
House Bill 123 now moves to the Senate.
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