00SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 27 am                                                                                     
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to                                             
02 revisions of the state constitution and providing that a court may not change                                           
03 language of a proposed constitutional amendment or revision.                                                            
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                              
05    * Section 1.  Article XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                       
06  Section 1.  Amendments  and Revisions .  Amendments to  or revisions of  this                                     
07 constitution may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of each house of the legislature.                                     
08 The lieutenant governor shall prepare a ballot title and proposition summarizing each                                   
09 proposed amendment  or revision , and shall place them on the ballot for the next                                     
10 general election.  If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition favor the                                         
11 amendment  or revision , it shall be adopted.  Unless otherwise provided in the                                       
12 amendment  or revision , it becomes effective thirty days after the certification of the                              
13 election returns by the lieutenant governor.                                                                            
14    * Sec. 2.  Article XIII, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                           

01 section to read:                                                                                                        
02  Section 5.  Changing Constitutional Proposal Prohibited.  A court may not                                           
03 alter or change the language of an amendment or revision to this constitution proposed                                  
04 by the legislature or by a constitutional convention.                                                                   
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                        
07 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.