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CSSJR 10(STA): Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to deposits to the constitutional budget reserve fund from surplus oil revenue.

00 CS FOR SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 10(STA) 01 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to deposits 02 to the constitutional budget reserve fund from surplus oil revenue. 03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 04 * Section 1. Article IX, sec. 17(a), Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read: 05 (a) There is established as a separate fund in the State treasury the budget 06 reserve fund. Except for money deposited into the permanent fund under Section 15 of 07 this article, the following shall be deposited in the budget reserve fund: all money 08 received by the State after July 1, 1990, as a result of the termination, through 09 settlement or otherwise, of an administrative proceeding or of litigation in a State or 10 federal court involving mineral lease bonuses, rentals, royalties, royalty sale proceeds, 11 federal mineral revenue sharing payments or bonuses, or involving taxes imposed on 12 mineral income, production, or property, and two-thirds of the difference between 13 $6,000,000,000 adjusted by the cumulative change, derived from federal indices 14 as prescribed by law, in inflation since July 1, 2013, and the actual annual 15 unrestricted oil revenue as determined each year for the previous fiscal year 16 [SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN THE BUDGET RESERVE FUND]. Money in the

01 budget reserve fund shall be invested so as to yield competitive market rates to the 02 fund. Income of the fund shall be retained in the fund. Section 7 of this article does not 03 apply to deposits made to the fund under this subsection. Money may be appropriated 04 from the fund only as authorized under (b) or (c) of this section. In this subsection, 05 "unrestricted oil revenue" means the amount received from oil lease bonuses, 06 rentals, royalties, royalty sale proceeds, federal oil revenue sharing payments or 07 bonuses, and taxes imposed on oil income, production, or property that is not 08 deposited into the permanent fund created under Section 15 of this article. 09 * Sec. 2. The amendment proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of the 10 state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the State 11 of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.