00HOUSE CS FOR SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 27(FIN) am H                                                                 
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to                                             
02 amendments to 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.  Amendments to this constitution may be proposed                                            
07 by a two-thirds vote of each house of the legislature.  The lieutenant governor shall                                   
08 prepare a ballot title and proposition summarizing each proposed amendment, and shall                                   
09 place them on the ballot for the next general election.  If a majority of the votes cast                                
10 on the proposition favor the amendment, it shall be adopted.  Unless otherwise                                          
11 provided in the amendment, it becomes effective thirty days after the certification of                                  
12 the election returns by the lieutenant governor.  An amendment is a change that is                                     
13 limited to one subject and may affect more than one constitutional provision.                                          
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 to this constitution proposed by the                                       
04 legislature, or of an amendment or revision to this constitution proposed by a                                          
05 constitutional convention.                                                                                              
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.