---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act relating to employer contributions to the Public Employees' Retirement System of Alaska; and providing for an effective date."
description: "An Act relating to employer contributions to the Public Employees' Retirement System of Alaska; and providing for an effective date."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ak"
legislature: "Alaska Legislature"
session: "32"
identifier: "SB 55"
citation: "Alaska SB 55 (32)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMPLOYMENT", "PUBLIC EMPLOYEES", "RETIREMENT", "SALARIES & ALLOWANCES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["SENATE RULES BY REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 69
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-25"
last_action: "2021-08-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39be0073-7882-4a5f-9330-5ef95504b450"
source_url: "https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/32?Root=SB55"
source_hash: "27d08adc0069dd9e6347c7aa9462133d71580295b3c0b909497a73195fcdca1d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ak"]
---

# Alaska SB 55 (32) — An Act relating to employer contributions to the Public Employees' Retirement System of Alaska; and providing for an effective date.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled SB 55** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/32?Hsid=SB0055Z)
2. **SB 55** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Text/32?Hsid=SB0055A)

## Votes

- (S) PASSED Y20 N- #1010 — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- (H) PASSED Y40 #1130 — **40–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- SENATE RULES BY REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-25** (S) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2021-01-25** (S) L&C, FIN
- **2021-01-25** (S) FN1: (GOV/RETIREMENT PAYMENTS)
- **2021-01-25** (S) FN2: (GOV/VARIOUS DEPTS)
- **2021-01-25** (S) GOVERNOR'S TRANSMITTAL LETTER
- **2021-02-22** (S) LABOR & COMMERCE at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2021-02-22** (S) Heard & Held
- **2021-02-22** (S) Minutes (SL&C)
- **2021-03-03** (S) LABOR & COMMERCE at 01:30 PM BELTZ 105 (TSBldg)
- **2021-03-03** (S) Moved SB 55 Out of Committee
- **2021-03-03** (S) Minutes (SL&C)
- **2021-03-05** (S) L&C RPT 3DP 1NR
- **2021-03-05** (S) NR: COSTELLO
- **2021-03-05** (S) DP: GRAY-JACKSON, STEVENS, HOLLAND
- **2021-03-05** (S) FN1: (GOV/RETIREMENT PAYMENTS)
- **2021-03-05** (S) FN2: (GOV/VARIOUS DEPTS)
- **2021-03-11** (S) FINANCE at 09:00 AM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2021-03-11** (S) Heard & Held
- **2021-03-11** (S) Minutes (SFIN)
- **2021-04-14** (S) FINANCE at 09:00 AM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2021-04-14** (S) Heard & Held
- **2021-04-14** (S) Minutes (SFIN)
- **2021-04-19** (S) FIN RPT 4DP 2NR
- **2021-04-19** (S) DP: STEDMAN, BISHOP, HOFFMAN, WIELECHOWSKI
- **2021-04-19** (S) NR: WILSON, OLSON
- **2021-04-19** (S) FN3: (GOV/RETIREMENT PAYMENTS)
- **2021-04-19** (S) FN4: (GOV/VARIOUS DEPTS)
- **2021-04-19** (S) FN5: (ADM)
- **2021-04-19** (S) FINANCE at 09:00 AM SENATE FINANCE 532
- **2021-04-19** (S) Moved SB 55 Out of Committee
- **2021-04-19** (S) Minutes (SFIN)
- **2021-05-07** (S) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/07/2021
- **2021-05-07** (S) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2021-05-07** (S) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 5/10 CALENDAR `reading-3`
- **2021-05-10** (S) READ THE THIRD TIME SB 55 `reading-3`
- **2021-05-10** (S) PASSED Y20 N- `passage`
- **2021-05-10** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2021-05-10** (S) TRANSMITTED TO (H) `passage`
- **2021-05-10** (S) VERSION: SB 55
- **2021-05-12** (H) READ THE FIRST TIME - REFERRALS `reading-1`
- **2021-05-12** (H) L&C, FIN
- **2021-05-13** (H) L&C REFERRAL REMOVED
- **2021-05-13** (H) FINANCE at 01:30 PM ADAMS 519
- **2021-05-13** (H) Moved SB 55 Out of Committee -- Delayed to 10 Minutes Following Session --
- **2021-05-13** (H) Minutes (HFIN)
- **2021-05-14** (H) FIN RPT 5DP 3NR
- **2021-05-14** (H) DP: RASMUSSEN, LEBON, CARPENTER, THOMPSON, MERRICK
- **2021-05-14** (H) NR: JOSEPHSON, EDGMON, WOOL
- **2021-05-14** (H) FN3: (GOV/RETIREMENT PAYMENTS)
- **2021-05-14** (H) FN4: (GOV/VARIOUS DEPTS)
- **2021-05-14** (H) FN5: (ADM)
- **2021-05-17** (H) RULES TO CALENDAR 5/17/2021
- **2021-05-17** (H) READ THE SECOND TIME `reading-2`
- **2021-05-17** (H) ADVANCED TO THIRD READING UC `reading-3`
- **2021-05-17** (H) READ THE THIRD TIME SB 55 `reading-3`
- **2021-05-17** (H) PASSED Y40 `passage`
- **2021-05-17** (H) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) SAME AS PASSAGE
- **2021-05-17** (H) RETURN TO (S), TRANSMIT TO GOV NEXT
- **2021-05-17** (H) VERSION: SB 55
- **2021-06-09** (S) 10:20 A.M. 6/8/21 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-11** (S) Signed into law 6/9 CHAPTER 9 SLA 21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-11** (S) EFFECTIVE DATE(S) OF LAW SEE CHAPTER `became-law`
- **2021-08-16** (S) LEG FINANCE APPROPRIATION MESSAGE 6/14/21
- **2021-06-28** (H) LEG FINANCE APPROPRIATION MESSAGE 6/14/21
- **2021-06-28** (H) FN(S) ATTACHED TO APPROP. BILL HB 69
- **2021-06-28** (H) FN3: (GOV/RETIREMENT PAYMENTS)
- **2021-06-28** (H) FN6: (CC:HB69&71/VARIOUS DEPTS)
- **2021-06-28** (H) FN(S) ATTACHED TO APPROP. BILL HB 71
- **2021-06-28** (H) FN6: (CC:HB69&71/VARIOUS DEPTS)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39be0073-7882-4a5f-9330-5ef95504b450`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alaska legislature records).