00                       HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 21                                                                     
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to terms of                                    
02 legislators.                                                                                                            
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1. Article II, sec. 3, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                          
05            Section 3. Election and Terms. Legislators shall be elected at general                                     
06       elections. Their terms begin on the fourth Monday of the January following election                               
07       unless otherwise provided by law. The term of representatives shall be two years, and                             
08       the term of senators, four years. One-half of the senators shall be elected every two                             
09       years. No person who has served as a representative for four full or partial                                  
10       successive terms shall again be eligible to hold that office until one full term has                          
11       intervened. No person who has served as a senator for two full or partial                                     
12       successive terms shall again be eligible to hold that office until one full term has                          
13       intervened.                                                                                                   
14    * Sec. 2. Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                              
15 section to read:                                                                                                        
16            Section 30. Application of 2016 Tenure Amendment. The 2016 amendments                                      
01       limiting legislators' terms of office do not                                                                      
02                 (1)  prohibit a legislator from serving the term of office that the                                     
03       legislator was reelected to in the 2016 general election; or                                                      
04                 (2)  prematurely end the term of a legislator who is serving on the                                     
05       effective date of the amendment.                                                                                  
06    * Sec. 3. The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of the                      
07 state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the State of                   
08 Alaska, and the election laws of the state.