00                             SENATE BILL NO. 130                                                                         
01 "An Act relating to a vote of the people before a broad-based individual income tax or                                  
02 statewide sales tax takes effect."                                                                                      
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1. AS 15.13.065(c) is amended to read:                                                                   
05 (c)  Except for reports required by AS 15.13.040 and 15.13.110 and except for                                           
06 the requirements of AS 15.13.050, 15.13.060, and 15.13.112 - 15.13.114, the                                             
07 provisions of AS 15.13.010 - 15.13.116 do not apply to limit the authority of a person                                  
08 to make contributions to influence the outcome of a ballot proposition. In this                                         
09       subsection, in addition to its meaning in AS 15.80.010, "proposition" includes                                    
10                 (1)  an issue placed on a ballot to determine whether                                                   
11                      (A)  a constitutional convention shall be called;                                                  
12                      (B)  a debt shall be contracted;                                                                   
13                      (C)  an advisory question shall be approved or rejected; or                                        
14                      (D)  a municipality shall be incorporated;                                                         
01                      (E) a tax shall be levied under AS 43.98.020;                                                  
02                 (2)  an initiative proposal application filed with the lieutenant governor                              
03       under AS 15.45.020.                                                                                               
04    * Sec. 2. AS 15.15.030 is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                               
05 (14)  When the legislature by law authorizes the levy of a tax described                                                
06 in AS 43.95.020, the director shall place the question of whether the levy shall be                                     
07 ratified by placing the ballot title and question on the election ballot specified in the                               
08 Act. The question shall, by the use of a few sentences in a succinct manner, give a true                                
09 and impartial summary of the Act levying the tax. The question of whether the tax                                       
10 shall be levied shall be assigned a letter of the alphabet on the ballot. Provision shall                               
11       be made for marking the question "Yes" or "No."                                                                   
12    * Sec. 3. AS 15.80.010(33) is amended to read:                                                                     
13 (33)  "question" means an issue placed on the ballot to determine                                                       
14 whether a judge or justice shall be accepted or rejected, whether a constitutional                                      
15 convention shall be called, whether a state debt shall be contracted, whether a tax                                 
16 described in AS 43.98.020 shall be levied, or whether a state official shall be                                     
17       recalled;                                                                                                         
18    * Sec. 4. AS 43.98 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                     
19                     Article 1A. Voter Approval of Tax.                                                                
20 Sec. 43.98.020. Limitation on the levy of individual income and sales tax.                                            
21 The legislature may not pass a bill levying a broad-based individual income tax or                                      
22       statewide general sales tax, or both, unless the                                                                  
23 (1)  provisions of the bill levying the broad-based individual income tax                                               
24 or statewide general sales tax, or both, are contingent on and do not take effect until                                 
25       after ratification by a majority of votes cast in a statewide election; and                                       
26 (2)  bill levying the broad-based individual income tax or statewide                                                    
27 general sales tax, or both, specifies the statewide election ballot on which the question                               
28       described in (1) of this section must appear.