How much notice is required to raise the rent in Alaska?

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Pending legislation — not yet law. The rules on this page reflect current law only. The following bill would change it if enacted:

HB 115 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026) — Would add AS 34.03.020(f): a landlord could not raise rent more than once per calendar year and would have to give written notice at least 90 days before the increase takes effect; if a tenancy ends without that notice having been given, the unit could not be re-rented above the old rent until 90 days after termination (anti-evasion clause). Applies to rental agreements entered into on or after the effective date. Would convert Alaska from a derivation state (no express rent-increase notice statute) to an express 90-day state.Status: Introduced 2025 (Rep. Gray); referred to House State Affairs and Labor & Commerce 2025-02-26; no committee action since (current status (H) STA, status date unchanged as of check). Alive until the 34th Legislature adjourns sine die. (checked 2026-07-11).

Alaska has no statute requiring advance notice of a rent increase - the 30-day figure everyone quotes derives from AS 34.03.290(b), which lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy on at least 30 days' written notice given before the rental due date specified in the notice (14 days for week-to-week tenancies while rent is current), so a rent increase operates as a termination of the old deal plus an offer to re-rent at the new price, and the state's own guidance says a landlord 'should, therefore,' give at least 30 days' notice.

There is no limit on the size or frequency of increases and no rent control anywhere in the state, though the retaliation statute bars increases on the heels of tenant complaints or organizing unless the landlord shows a cost-justified basis. Alaska has no statute either preempting or authorizing local rent control, and no municipality - Anchorage included - has ever adopted any. A pending bill, HB 115, would require 90 days' notice and limit increases to once a year, but it has sat in its first committee since February 2025.

Alaska rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	No rent-increase statute — notice derives from tenancy-termination rules (see summary)
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Rent is fixed for the lease term as a matter of contract; no section of AS 34.03 permits or regulates mid-term increases, so a fixed-term rent can rise mid-lease only if the lease itself provides for it (official DOL guidance states this expressly). At expiry the landlord may propose any new rent for a renewal or subsequent tenancy.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	No
Rent control details	No rent control exists anywhere in Alaska - no statewide program and no municipal ordinance (Anchorage included). The only appearance of 'rent controls' in the landlord-tenant act is inside the retaliation statute's list of government programs a tenant might complain to (AS 34.03.310(a)(4)). Rent increases in HUD- or AHFC-assisted housing may be limited by federal/agency rules, a program overlay rather than state rent control.
Local rent control preempted	Not addressed by statute
Frequency limits	Not addressed by statute

Notes and caveats

notice_days_month_to_month null per the dataset's derivation convention (TX/NE/MS/WV/MT precedent): AS 34.03.290(b) addresses only TERMINATION and never mentions rent increases or term changes - verified by a full-chapter sweep plus two independent fetches of 34.03.020 (the only 'increase' language in ch. 34.03 is the retaliation statute). Render the derived rule in the statute's own anchor: notice runs to 'the rental due date specified in the notice' (due-date-anchored like Nebraska, not date-designated like Montana); week-to-week = 14 days, available only '[w]hile rent is current.' HIGH-TRAFFIC DEBUNK for page copy: secondary sources circulate a sentence claimed to be in AS 34.03.020 - 'The landlord may increase the rent required under a periodic tenancy by giving the tenant written notice of the increase at least 30 days before the rental due date specified in the notice' - NO such sentence exists in the official text (both fetches; FindLaw mirror current through 2025-01-01 agrees; no 2025-2026 enactment touched the section). It is the 34.03.290(b) termination formula rebadged as an express increase statute. Retaliation overlay (34.03.310): a rent increase after protected tenant conduct is prohibited retaliation, with (d) exceptions where the landlord became liable for substantially increased taxes/costs at least 4 months before demanding the increase (and the increase bears a reasonable relationship to the cost rise) or completed a substantial capital improvement. local_control_preempted null (NV/WV precedent): no express preemption or authorization anywhere - verified against a full official-text sweep of AS Title 29 chs. 29.10-29.71 (including 29.35 municipal powers and 29.40 planning; zero 'rent control' hits) and ch. 34.03 (no exclusivity clause); Alaska Const. art. X's liberal-construction rule means a home-rule municipality could arguably act, but the question is untested and no ordinance has ever existed. frequency_limits null: verified negative (chapter sweep); pending HB 115 would add a once-per-year limit if ever enacted.

Statute citations

AS 34.03.290 (a), (b) Official source
AS 34.03.020 (a)-(e) (verified negative: no rent-increase provision) Official source
AS 34.03.310 (a), (d) Official source
Alaska Dept. of Law, The Alaska Landlord & Tenant Act: what it means to you (2024) p. 21 ('Can the landlord raise the rent?') Official source
Alaska Court System, PUB-30 Alaska Landlord and Tenant Act handbook (10/18) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Alaska State Legislature site (www.akleg.gov, Alaska Statutes 2024 infobase; the statutes.asp host 403s automated fetchers but serves full section text to curl with a browser user agent via its media=print endpoint): AS 34.03.070, 34.03.140, and 34.03.290 each fetched twice through independent request paths (single-section fetch plus a different-range fetch) with byte-identical results, and AS 34.03.020 fetched twice to verify the negative (no rent-increase language). The complete chapter (all 44 sections, 34.03.010-34.03.380) was fetched in one pass and every section heading enumerated for the verified-negative sweeps (no late-fee, grace-period, interest, unconscionability, rent-control, or preemption provision). Every load-bearing figure additionally reconciled against three more sources: the enrolled text of HB 282 (28th Leg.), Ch. 27 SLA 2014, read in full on the official BASIS bill-text system (pins the pet-deposit subsection, the per-tenant trust-accounting rules, and the 30-day damages exception to the 14-day return track, all added 2014); the Alaska Department of Law's official 2024 pamphlet 'The Alaska Landlord & Tenant Act: what it means to you' (law.alaska.gov); and the Alaska Court System's PUB-30 handbook (public.courts.alaska.gov, 10/18 ed.). FindLaw's mirror (current through 2025-01-01) matched the official 34.03.070 text verbatim as a second-path check. Preemption negative run against a one-fetch official sweep of AS Title 29 (Municipal Government, chs. 29.10-29.71 including 29.35 powers and 29.40 planning): zero rent-control or landlord-tenant provisions. Legislative check 2026-07-11 on official BASIS: all 97 bills passed by the 34th Legislature (2025-2026, status dates through 2026-07-09) enumerated - none on-topic (SB 50, Ch. 19 SLA 25, is municipal comprehensive planning only); full introduced-bill sweep found one pending on-topic bill, HB 115 (90-day rent-increase notice), idle in House State Affairs since 2025-02-26 - flagged, not incorporated.