00                      SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 20                                                                    
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to a biennial                                  
02 state budget, regular and budget sessions, and the duration of sessions.                                                
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 and Budget Sessions. The legislature shall convene in a                                      
06 regular and budget session [EACH YEAR] on the fourth Monday in January in odd-                                  
07 numbered years, and the legislature may convene in a budget session on the                                          
08 fourth Monday in January in even-numbered years. The [, BUT THE] month and                                          
09 day for convening a session may be changed by law. The legislature shall meet for                               
10 not more [ADJOURN FROM REGULAR SESSION NO LATER] than sixty                                                     
11 legislative working [ONE HUNDRED TWENTY CONSECUTIVE CALENDAR]                                                       
12 days, excluding Sundays, during a term for which members of the house of                                            
13 representatives are elected, except when called into special session, and shall meet                                
14 for not more than forty legislative working days, excluding Sundays, in any one                                     
15 calendar year, except when called into special session. During a budget session, a                                  
16 bill that is not a biennial appropriation bill may not be introduced unless the                                     

01 introduction is approved by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the membership                                     
02 of the house in which the bill is to be introduced [FROM THE DATE IT                                                
03 CONVENES EXCEPT THAT A REGULAR SESSION MAY BE EXTENDED                                                                  
04 ONCE FOR UP TO TEN CONSECUTIVE CALENDAR DAYS. AN EXTENSION                                                              
05 OF THE REGULAR SESSION REQUIRES THE AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF AT                                                              
06 LEAST TWO-THIRDS OF THE MEMBERSHIP OF EACH HOUSE OF THE                                                                 
07 LEGISLATURE]. The legislature shall adopt as part of the uniform rules of procedure                                     
08 deadlines for determining the number of legislative working days to be devoted to                                   
09 the regular and budget sessions, respectively, and for scheduling session work not                                  
10       inconsistent with provisions controlling the length of the session.                                               
11    * Sec. 2. Article IX, sec. 12, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                            
12 Section 12. Budget. During each odd-numbered fiscal year, the [THE]                                               
13 governor shall submit to the legislature, at a time fixed by law, a budget for the next                                 
14 two fiscal years [YEAR] setting forth all proposed expenditures and anticipated                                 
15 income of all departments, offices, and agencies of the State. The governor, at the                                     
16 same time, shall submit a general appropriation bill to authorize the proposed                                          
17 expenditures in the biennial State budget. The governor shall submit [AND] a bill                                   
18 or bills covering recommendations in the budget for new or additional revenues in                                   
19       even-numbered fiscal years, at a time fixed by law.                                                         
20    * Sec. 3. The amendment proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of the                       
21 state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the State                      
22 of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.