00SENATE BILL NO. 120                                                                                                     
01 "An Act prohibiting employment discrimination based on weight."                                                         
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  AS 18.80.220(a) is amended to read:                                                                    
04  (a)  It is unlawful for                                                                                               
05   (1)  an employer to refuse employment to a person, or to bar a person                                                
06 from employment, or to discriminate against a person in compensation or in a term,                                      
07 condition, or privilege of employment because of the person's race, religion, color or                                  
08 national origin, or because of the person's age, physical or mental disability, sex,                                    
09 weight, marital status, changes in marital status, pregnancy or parenthood when the                                   
10 reasonable demands of the position do not require distinction on the basis of age,                                      
11 physical or mental disability, sex, weight, marital status, changes in marital status,                                
12 pregnancy or parenthood;                                                                                                
13   (2)  a labor organization, because of a person's sex, weight, marital                                              
14 status, changes in marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, age, race, religion, physical                                 

01 or mental disability, color or national origin, to exclude or to expel a person from its                                
02 membership, or to discriminate in any way against one of its members or an employer                                     
03 or an employee;                                                                                                         
04   (3)  an employer or employment agency to print or circulate or cause                                                 
05 to be printed or circulated a statement, advertisement, or publication, or to use a form                                
06 of application for employment or to make an inquiry in connection with prospective                                      
07 employment, which expresses, directly or indirectly, a limitation, specification, or                                    
08 discrimination as to sex, weight, physical or mental disability, marital status, changes                              
09 in marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, age, race, creed, color, or national origin, or                               
10 an intent to make the limitation, unless based upon a bona fide occupational                                            
11 qualification;                                                                                                          
12   (4)  an employer, labor organization, or employment agency to                                                        
13 discharge, expel, or otherwise discriminate against a person because the person has                                     
14 opposed any practices forbidden under AS 18.80.200 - 18.80.280 or because the person                                    
15 has filed a complaint, testified, or assisted in a proceeding under this chapter;                                       
16   (5)  an employer to discriminate in the payment of wages as between                                                  
17 the sexes, or to employ a female in an occupation in this state at a salary or wage rate                                
18 less than that paid to a male employee for work of comparable character or work in                                      
19 the same operation, business or type of work in the same locality; or                                                   
20   (6)  a person to print, publish, broadcast, or otherwise circulate a                                                 
21 statement, inquiry, or advertisement in connection with prospective employment that                                     
22 expresses directly, a limitation, specification, or discrimination as to sex, weight,                                 
23 physical or mental disability, marital status, changes in marital status, pregnancy,                                    
24 parenthood, age, race, religion, color, or national origin, unless based upon a bona fide                               
25 occupational qualification.