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CSSB 237(JUD): "An Act increasing the number of superior court judges designated for the third and fourth judicial districts to provide additional superior court judges at Anchorage, Palmer, Kenai, and Fairbanks; and providing for an effective date." 

00                      CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 237(JUD)                                                                   
01 "An Act increasing the number of superior court judges designated for the third and                                     
02 fourth judicial districts to provide additional superior court judges at Anchorage,                                     
03 Palmer, Kenai, and Fairbanks; and providing for an effective date."                                                     
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1. AS 22.10.120 is amended to read:                                                                      
06            Sec. 22.10.120. Number of judges. The superior court consists of 40 [34]                               
07       judges, five of whom shall be judges in the first judicial district, three of whom shall                          
08       be judges in the second judicial district, 24 [19] of whom shall be judges in the third                       
09       judicial district, and eight [SEVEN] of whom shall be judges in the fourth judicial                           
10       district. At the time of submitting the names of nominees to the governor to fill a                               
11       vacancy on the superior court bench, the judicial council shall also designate the                                
12       district in which the appointee is to reside and serve.                                                           
13    * Sec. 2. This Act takes effect July 1, 2006.