00 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 16                                                                                          
01 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to                                           
02 the duration of a regular session.                                                                                      
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1.  Article II, sec. 8, Constitution of the State of Alaska is amended to read:                            
05  SECTION 8.  REGULAR SESSIONS.  The legislature shall convene in regular                                               
06 session each year on the first [FOURTH] Monday in February [JANUARY, BUT                                          
07 THE MONTH AND DAY MAY BE CHANGED BY LAW].  Each regular session                                                        
08 is limited to [THE LEGISLATURE SHALL ADJOURN FROM REGULAR SESSION                                                      
09 NO LATER THAN] one hundred [TWENTY] consecutive calendar days [FROM THE                                                 
10 DATE IT CONVENES] except that a regular session may be extended once for up to                                          
11 ten consecutive calendar days.  An extension of the regular session requires the                                        
12 affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the membership of each house of the                                          
13 legislature.  The legislature shall adopt as part of the uniform rules of procedure                                     
14 deadlines for scheduling session work not inconsistent with provisions controlling the                                  
01 length of the session.                                                                                                  
02    * Sec. 2.  The amendment proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                            
03 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
04 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.