00HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 3                                                                                            
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska limiting tenure                                         
02 in the legislature.                                                                                                     
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 3.  ELECTION AND TERMS.  Legislators shall be elected at                                                      
06 general elections.  Their terms begin on the fourth Monday of the January following                                     
07 election unless otherwise provided by law.  The term of representatives shall be two                                    
08 years, and the term of senators, four years.  One-half of the senators shall be elected                                 
09 every two years.  No person may serve consecutively more than four full or partial                                     
10 terms as a representative.  No person may serve consecutively more than two full                                        
11 or partial terms as a senator.  In addition, no person may serve consecutively                                          
12 during more than eleven full or partial calendar years in the legislature.                                             
13    * Sec. 2.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                               
14 section to read:                                                                                                        

01  SECTION 29.  TENURE OF LEGISLATORS.  The 1994 amendment limiting                                                      
02 tenure in the legislature (Section 3 of Article II) applies only to periods served in                                   
03 office after 1992.                                                                                                      
04    * Sec. 3.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                           
05 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
06 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.