00Enrolled SJR 21                                                                                                         
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to and increasing                              
02 the number of members of the house of representatives to forty-four and the number of                                   
03 members of the senate to twenty-two.                                                                                    
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05 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                             
06    * Section 1. Article II, sec. 1, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                          
07           Section 1. Legislative Power; Membership. The legislative power of the                                      
08      State is vested in a legislature consisting of a senate with a membership of twenty-two                        
09      [TWENTY] and a house of representatives with a membership of forty-four                                        
10      [FORTY].                                                                                                           
11    * Sec. 2. Article VI, sec. 4, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                             
12           Section 4. Method of Redistricting. The Redistricting Board shall establish                                 
13      forty-four [FORTY] house districts, with each house district to elect one member of                            
14      the house of representatives. The board shall establish twenty-two [TWENTY] senate                             
15      districts, each composed of two house districts, with each senate district to elect one                            
16      senator.                                                                                                           

01    * Sec. 3. Article VI, sec. 6, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                             
02           Section 6. District Boundaries. The Redistricting Board shall establish the                                 
03      size and area of house districts, subject to the limitations of this article. Each house                           
04      district shall be formed of contiguous and compact territory containing as nearly as                               
05      practicable a relatively integrated socio-economic area. Each shall contain a                                      
06      population as near as practicable to the quotient obtained by dividing the population of                           
07      the state by forty-four [FORTY]. Each senate district shall be composed as near as                             
08      practicable of two contiguous house districts. Consideration may be given to local                                 
09      government boundaries. Drainage and other geographic features shall be used in                                     
10      describing boundaries wherever possible.                                                                           
11    * Sec. 4. Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                              
12 section to read:                                                                                                        
13           Section 30. Applicability of Amendments Increasing the Number of                                            
14      Members in the Legislature. The 2010 amendments increasing the number of                                         
15      members in the legislature (art. II, sec. 1, and art. VI, secs. 4 and 6) apply only to plans                       
16      for redistricting and proclamations of redistricting adopted on or after January 1, 2011,                          
17      and to the membership of legislatures subject to those redistricting plans and                                     
18      proclamations.                                                                                                     
19    * Sec. 5. The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                          
20 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
21 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.