00HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 6                                                                                            
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska limiting the                                            
02 number of terms a person may serve in the legislature.                                                                  
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                                                      
06 general elections. Their terms begin on  the  fourth  Monday  of the  January                                           
07 following  election  unless otherwise provided by  law. The term of representatives                                     
08 shall be two years, and the term of senators, four years. One-half of the senators shall                                
09 be elected every two years.  However, no person may serve more than four full                                          
10 terms as a representative and two full terms as a senator.  This limitation does                                        
11 not apply to partial terms.                                                                                            
12    * Sec. 2.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                               
13 section to read:                                                                                                        
14  SECTION 29.  TENURE OF LEGISLATORS.  The 1994 amendment limiting                                                      

01 the number of years a person may serve as a legislator (Section 3 of Article II) applies                                
02 only to terms beginning after the effective date of the amendment.                                                      
03    * Sec. 3.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                           
04 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
05 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.