00HOUSE CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 60(JUD)                                                                                    
01 "An Act providing for an advisory vote on the issue of capital punishment."                                             
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1.  The lieutenant governor shall place before the qualified voters of the state at                        
04 the next general election the question advisory to the legislature of whether the legislature                           
05 should enact a law providing for capital punishment for murder in the first degree.  The                                
06 question shall appear on the ballot in substantially the following form:                                                
07 Q U E S T I O N                                                                                                         
08  If the Alaska State Legislature enacts a law providing for capital                                                    
09 punishment for murder, the following annual fiscal costs to the following state                                         
10 agencies are estimated to result:                                                                                       
11 (INSERT FISCAL COSTS)                                                                                                   
12  These estimates assume 10 capital punishment cases annually.                                                           
13  It is also estimated that the total fiscal cost for the trial and subsequent                                          
14 legal proceedings, incarceration pending execution, and execution for one                                               

01 capital punishment case would be:                                                                                       
02 (INSERT FISCAL COST)                                                                                                    
03 For the purpose of comparison, the estimated total fiscal cost of the trial and                                        
04 subsequent legal proceedings and incarceration of a person sentenced to a                                               
05 mandatory 99-year term of imprisonment without parole as provided under                                                 
06 current law is:                                                                                                         
07 (INSERT FISCAL COST)                                                                                                    
08  Considering this, shall the Alaska State Legislature enact a law                                                      
09 providing for capital punishment for murder in the first degree and establishing                                        
10 procedures for the imposition of capital punishment that are consistent with the                                        
11 United States Constitution as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court?                                           
12      Yes [ ]                  No [ ]                                                                                    
13    * Sec. 2.  Each department that expects to be affected by the enactment of a law providing                           
14 for capital punishment for murder in the first degree shall estimate, in consultation with the                          
15 Legislative Budget and Audit Committee, and submit the fiscal costs to that department to the                           
16 lieutenant governor not less than 180 days before the time the question in sec. 1 of this Act                           
17 will appear on the ballot.  The lieutenant governor shall insert those estimates into the                               
18 question at the appropriate places shown in sec. 1 of this Act.                                                         
19    * Sec. 3.  The lieutenant governor shall add the following language to the ballot before the                         
20 paragraph beginning "Considering this" if, after having conducted a survey of states with the                           
21 death penalty, the lieutenant governor determines the ratio between the cost of imposition of                           
22 the death penalty and the cost of imposition of life imprisonment without parole, estimated                             
23 in sec. 2 of this Act, is consistent with the experience of other states:                                               
24  This ratio (INSERT RATIO) between the cost of imposition of the                                                       
25 death penalty and the cost of life imprisonment is confirmed by the experience                                          
26 of other states.