00                       HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2                                                                     
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the                                         
02 duration of regular sessions of the legislature and to a biennial state budget.                                         
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1.  Article II, sec. 8, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                         
05            Section 8.  Regular Sessions.  The legislature shall convene in regular session                            
06       each year on the fourth Monday in January, but the month and day may be changed by                                
07       law.  The legislature shall adjourn from regular session no later than one hundred                                
08       twenty consecutive calendar days from the date it convenes during each odd-                                   
09       numbered year, and, during each even-numbered year, a regular session may last                                
10       no longer than sixty consecutive calendar days, except that any [A] regular session                       
11       may be extended once for up to ten consecutive calendar days.  An extension of the                                
12       regular session requires the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the membership                            
13       of each house of the legislature.  The legislature shall adopt as part of the uniform                             
14       rules of procedure deadlines for scheduling session work not inconsistent with                                    
15       provisions controlling the length of the session.                                                                 
16    * Sec. 2.  Article IX, sec. 12, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                           

01            Section 12.  Budget.  (a)  During each odd-numbered fiscal year, the                                     
02       [THE] governor shall submit to the legislature, at a time fixed by law, a budget for the                          
03       next two fiscal years [YEAR] setting forth all proposed expenditures and anticipated                      
04       income of all departments, offices, and agencies of the State.  The governor, at the                              
05       same time, shall submit a general appropriation bill to authorize the proposed                                    
06       expenditures in the biennial State budget, and a bill or bills covering                                       
07       recommendations in the budget for new or additional revenues.                                                     
08    * Sec. 3.  Article IX, sec. 12, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a                        
09 new section to read:                                                                                                    
10            (b)  The legislature shall pass a general appropriation bill to implement the                                
11       State budget for a two-year period that begins with each even-numbered fiscal year.                               
12       The legislature may pass an appropriation bill that amends or supplements the biennial                            
13       State budget at any time.                                                                                         
14    * Sec. 4.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                             
15 section to read:                                                                                                        
16            Section 30.  Application of Biennial State Budget Amendments.  The 2002                                    
17       amendments relating to a biennial State budget (art. IX, sec. 12) apply to the State                              
18       budget for fiscal years 2004 and 2005 and thereafter.  Section 12 of Article IX, as it                            
19       read before the 2004 amendments, applies to the State budget for fiscal years up to and                           
20       including fiscal year 2003.                                                                                       
21    * Sec. 5.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                         
22 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
23 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.