00                      SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 21                                                                    
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska to increase the number                                  
02 of members on the judicial council and relating to the initial terms of new members                                     
03 appointed to the judicial council.                                                                                      
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05    * Section 1. Article IV, sec. 8, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                          
06            Section 8. Judicial Council. The judicial council shall consist of sixteen                             
07       [SEVEN] members. Five [THREE] attorney members shall be appointed for six-year                                
08       terms by the governing body of the organized state bar. Ten [THREE] non-attorney                              
09       members shall be appointed for six-year terms by the governor subject to confirmation                             
10       by a majority of the members of the legislature in joint session. Vacancies shall be                              
11       filled for the unexpired term in like manner. Appointments shall be made with due                                 
12       consideration to area representation and without regard to political affiliation. The                             
13       chief justice of the supreme court shall be ex-officio the sixteenth [SEVENTH]                                
14       member and chairman of the judicial council. No member of the judicial council,                                   
15       except the chief justice, may hold any other office or position of profit under the                               

01       United States or the State. The judicial council shall act by concurrence of a majority                       
02       of its members who are participating in a vote [FOUR OR MORE MEMBERS]                                         
03       and according to rules which it adopts.                                                                           
04    * Sec. 2. Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                            
05 section to read:                                                                                                        
06            Section 30. Judicial Council Additional Members. If the 2014 amendment                                   
07       increasing the membership of the judicial council (art. IV, sec. 8) is adopted, the first                         
08       term for the new members of the judicial council shall be as follows: two attorney                                
09       members for three and five years respectively, two non-attorney members for one                                   
10       year, one non-attorney member for two years, one non-attorney member for three                                    
11       years, one non-attorney member for four years, one non-attorney member for five                                   
12       years, and one non-attorney member for six years.                                                                 
13    * Sec. 3. The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                          
14 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
15 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.