00 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 28 01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the 02 membership of the Redistricting Board. 03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 04  * Section 1. Article VI, sec. 8, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read: 05 Section 8. Redistricting Board. (a) There shall be a redistricting board. It 06 shall consist of seven [FIVE] members, all of whom shall be registered voters in the  07 State [RESIDENTS OF THE STATE FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR AND NONE OF 08 WHOM MAY BE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES OR OFFICIALS AT THE TIME OF OR 09 DURING THE TENURE OF APPOINTMENT. APPOINTMENTS SHALL BE 10 MADE WITHOUT REGARD TO POLITICAL AFFILIATION]. Board members 11 shall be compensated. The board shall consist of  12 (1) three members affiliated with the political party with the  13 largest number of affiliated voters registered in the State selected in a manner  14 prescribed by that party's bylaws;  15 (2) three members affiliated with the political party with the  16 second largest number of affiliated voters registered in the State selected in a  01 manner prescribed by that party's bylaws; and  02 (3) one member who is not affiliated with a political party and who  03 has not been affiliated with a political party within the preceding ten years.  04 (b) Members of the Redistricting Board serving under (a) of this section 05 shall be selected as provided in (e) of this section [APPOINTED IN THE YEAR IN 06 WHICH AN OFFICIAL DECENNIAL CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES IS 07 TAKEN AND BY SEPTEMBER 1 OF THAT YEAR. THE GOVERNOR SHALL 08 APPOINT TWO MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. THE PRESIDING OFFICER OF 09 THE SENATE, THE PRESIDING OFFICER OF THE HOUSE OF 10 REPRESENTATIVES, AND THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT 11 SHALL EACH APPOINT ONE MEMBER OF THE BOARD. THE 12 APPOINTMENTS TO THE BOARD SHALL BE MADE IN THE ORDER LISTED 13 IN THIS SUBSECTION. AT LEAST ONE BOARD MEMBER SHALL BE A 14 RESIDENT OF EACH JUDICIAL DISTRICT THAT EXISTED ON JANUARY 1, 15 1999]. 16 (c) Board members serve until a final plan for redistricting and proclamation 17 of redistricting has been adopted and all challenges to it brought under Section 11 of 18 this article have been resolved after final remand or affirmation. 19 (d) [(c)] A person who was a member of the Redistricting Board at any time 20 during the process leading to final adoption of a redistricting plan under Section 10 of 21 this article may not be a candidate for the legislature until after the next decennial  22 census of the United States and another Redistricting Board has adopted a [IN 23 THE GENERAL ELECTION FOLLOWING THE ADOPTION OF THE] final 24 redistricting plan. 25  * Sec. 2. Article VI, sec. 8, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new 26 subsection to read: 27 (e) The six members of the Redistricting Board selected under (a)(1) and (2) 28 of this section shall, by majority vote, not later than December 1 of the year in which a 29 decennial census of the United States is taken, select the seventh member of the board. 30 If the seventh member has not been selected by December 1 or if the six members of 31 the board notify the Supreme Court before December 1 that they are unable to agree 01 on a seventh member, the authority of the six members to select the seventh member is 02 withdrawn, and the seventh member shall be selected by the chief justice of the 03 supreme court unless, under a code of judicial conduct adopted by the supreme court, 04 the supreme court determines that selecting the seventh member creates a conflict of 05 interest for the chief justice, in which case the court shall choose another justice to 06 select the seventh member. The chief justice, or the alternate justice selected by the 07 court, shall select an individual that the justice determines is nonpartisan and not more 08 likely to philosophically side with members appointed by either of the largest two 09 political parties. The justice shall make the appointment as soon as practicable, but not 10 later than December 15. 11  * Sec. 3. Article VI, sec. 9, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read: 12 Section 9. Board Actions. The board shall elect one of its members chairman 13 and may employ temporary assistants. Concurrence of five [THREE] members of the 14 Redistricting Board is required for actions of the Board, but a lesser number may 15 conduct hearings. The board shall employ or contract for services of independent legal 16 counsel. 17  * Sec. 4. Article VI, sec. 10(b), Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read: 18 (b) Adoption of a final redistricting plan shall require the affirmative votes of 19 five [THREE] members of the Redistricting Board. 20  * Sec. 5. The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of 21 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the 22 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.