00SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 11                                                                                          
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                                                   
06 general elections. Their terms begin on the fourth Monday of the January following                                      
07 election unless otherwise provided by law. The term of representatives shall be two                                     
08 years, and the term of senators shall be [,] four years. One-half of the senators shall                               
09 be elected every two years.  In addition to any partial terms or terms shortened as                                    
10 a result of reapportionment, a person may serve up to four full two-year terms                                          
11 as a representative and two full four-year terms as a senator, but after that, the                                      
12 person may not again serve as a member of the legislature until at least twenty-                                        
13 three months after the member leaves office.                                                                           
14    * Sec. 2.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                               

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