00 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 44                                                                                           
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the                                         
02 duration of a term in office for a legislator.                                                                          
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1.  Article II, sec. 3, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                           
05  SECTION 03.  ELECTION AND TERMS.  Legislators shall be elected at                                                     
06 general elections. Their terms begin on  the  fourth  Monday  of the  January                                           
07 following  election  unless otherwise provided by  law. The term of representatives                                     
08 shall be four [TWO] years, and the term of senators, six [FOUR] years. One-half of                                  
09 the representatives [SENATORS] shall be elected every two years.  Every two years                                    
10 on a rotational basis the following number of senators shall be elected:  six, seven,                                   
11 and seven.                                                                                                             
12    * Sec. 2.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                               
13 section to read:                                                                                                        
14  SECTION 29.  TRANSITION IN DURATION OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS OF                                                           
01 OFFICE.  Notwithstanding Section 3 of Article II, as amended in 1994, the terms of                                      
02 all legislators expire at the end of the Nineteenth Legislative Session.  Not later than                                
03 March 15, 1995, for purposes of the 1996 general election, the governor shall designate                                 
04 terms for legislative office by district as follows:                                                                    
05   (1)  one-half of the members of the house of representatives shall be                                                
06 elected to serve two-year terms and one-half shall be elected to serve four-year terms;                                 
07   (2)  six members of the senate shall be elected to serve two-year terms,                                             
08 seven members shall be elected to serve four-year terms, and seven members shall be                                     
09 elected to serve six-year terms.                                                                                        
10   * Sec. 3.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the                                      
11 voters of the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution                     
12 of the State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.