00                      HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 17                                                                     
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska amending the                                            
02 disclaimer and agreement provision and repealing the consent to act of admission                                        
03 provision.                                                                                                              
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05    * Section 1. Article XII, sec. 12, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                        
06 Section 12. Disclaimer and Agreement. The State of Alaska and its people                                              
07 recognize that the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States                                         
08 expressly prohibits the United States from engaging in unauthorized activity,                                       
09 such as the ownership of land, natural resources, subsurface rights, waterways or                                   
10 the management thereof, except as provided in art. I, sec. VIII, clause 17, of the                                  
11 Constitution of the United States [FOREVER DISCLAIM ALL RIGHT AND                                                   
12 TITLE IN OR TO ANY PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE UNITED STATES OR                                                           
13 SUBJECT TO ITS DISPOSITION, AND NOT GRANTED OR CONFIRMED TO                                                             
14 THE STATE OR ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS, BY OR UNDER THE ACT                                                            
15 ADMITTING ALASKA TO THE UNION]. The State and its people [FURTHER]                                                      

01 disclaim all right or title in or to any property, including fishing rights, the right or title                         
02 to which may be held by or for any Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut, or community thereof, as                                   
03 that right or title is defined in the act of admission. The State of Alaska and its                                 
04 people dispute, do not recognize, and otherwise reject federal ownership to any                                     
05 right or title or to any property, natural resources, subsurface rights or waterway                                 
06 in Alaska currently under the control of the United States or subject to its                                        
07 disposition or any authority or management thereof, except as provided in art. I,                                   
08 sec. VIII, clause 17, of the Constitution of the United States. [THE STATE AND                                      
09 ITS PEOPLE AGREE THAT, UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY                                                                     
10 CONGRESS, THE PROPERTY, AS DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION, SHALL                                                             
11 REMAIN SUBJECT TO THE ABSOLUTE DISPOSITION OF THE UNITED                                                                
12 STATES. THEY FURTHER AGREE THAT NO TAXES WILL BE IMPOSED                                                                
13 UPON ANY SUCH PROPERTY, UNTIL OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY THE                                                                 
14 CONGRESS. THIS TAX EXEMPTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO PROPERTY                                                                
15 HELD BY INDIVIDUALS IN FEE WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS ON                                                                      
16       ALIENATION.]                                                                                                    
17    * Sec. 2. Article XII, sec. 13, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is repealed.                                  
18    * Sec. 3. The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                          
19 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
20 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.