00SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 26                                                                    
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the                                         
02 individual right to keep and bear arms and to the misuse of arms.                                                       
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1.  Article I, sec. 19, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                           
05  SECTION 19.  RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS.  (a)  A well-regulated                                              
06 militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep                              
07 and bear arms shall not be infringed.  Except as provided by (b) of this section, the                                  
08 individual right to keep and bear arms shall not be denied or infringed by the                                          
09 State or a political subdivision of the State.                                                                         
10    * Sec. 2.  Article I, sec. 19, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a                           
11 new subsection to read:                                                                                                 
12  (b)  The legislature may define and punish by law the misuse of arms.                                                 
13   * Sec. 3.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                                
14 section to read:                                                                                                        

01  SECTION 29.  EFFECT OF 1994 AMENDMENT OF SECTION 19 OF                                                                
02 ARTICLE I.  The 1994 amendment of Section 19 of Article I does not affect or                                            
03 change any law relating to misuse of arms that is in effect on the date of ratification                                 
04 of the 1994 amendment of that section.  These laws shall continue in force until they                                   
05 are amended or repealed by law and, while the laws remain in effect, any interpretation                                 
06 of them that was made by a court before the effective date of ratification of the 1994                                  
07 amendment remains in effect until revised by a court.                                                                   
08    * Sec. 4.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                           
09 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
10 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.