00HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 5                                                                                            
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to terms                                       
02 of 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 may serve consecutively more than eight full calendar years as a                                     
10 representative.  No person may serve consecutively more than eight full calendar                                        
11 years as a senator.  In addition, no person may serve consecutively more than                                           
12 twelve  full calendar years in the legislature.                                                                        
13    * Sec. 2.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                               
14 section to read:                                                                                                        

01     SECTION 29.  APPLICATION OF 1994 TENURE AMENDMENT.  Years                                                          
02 served in the legislature before the convening of the First Regular Session of the                                      
03 Twentieth Alaska State Legislature shall not be considered for purposes of applying the                                 
04 tenure limit added by the 1996 amendment to Section 3 of Article II.                                                    
05    * Sec. 3.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                           
06 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the State                  
07 of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.