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Committee advances bill allowing payroll card payments when employees lack direct-deposit instructions
Summary
Senate Bill 79, which permits employers to credit wages to a payroll card account when employees authorize a card or fail to specify a deposit account, was reported out of the Senate Labor and Commerce Committee after a brief staff recap and no public testimony.
Senate Bill 79, which would allow employers to deposit employee wages onto payroll cards in specified circumstances, was reported out of the Alaska Senate Labor and Commerce Committee on Feb. 12.
Sevea Bieber, staff to the committee chair, summarized SB 79: "SB79 allows employers to credit employee wages to a payroll card account if an employee has authorized use of a payroll card or if they have failed to authorize deposit of wages to a specified account." Bieber said the bill aims to provide "employees without a bank account a solution to accept payment of their wages that avoids a check cashing fee from a bank." Amy Miller, senior director of government relations for Automatic Data Processing (ADP), was available by phone to answer technical questions.
The committee opened and closed public testimony with no speakers. A committee member moved to report SB 79 from committee with individual recommendations and an attached fiscal note; the chair then announced there was no objection and the bill was reported out of committee. The transcript does not show a recorded roll-call vote.
Committee discussion in the transcript was limited to the staff recap and questions about the bill's intent. The committee took a brief recess after reporting the bill and moved on to the next agenda item.
