00HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 15                                                                                           
01 Proposing an amending to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the                                        
02 duration of a regular session.                                                                                          
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1.  Article II, sec. 8, Constitution of the State of Alaska is amended to read:                            
05  SECTION 8.  REGULAR SESSIONS.  The legislature shall convene in regular                                               
06 session each year on the fourth Monday in January, but the month and day may be                                       
07 changed by law.  Each regular session is limited to [THE LEGISLATURE SHALL                                            
08 ADJOURN FROM REGULAR SESSION NO LATER THAN] one hundred                                                                 
09 [TWENTY] consecutive calendar days [FROM THE DATE IT CONVENES] except                                                   
10 that a regular session may be extended once for up to ten consecutive calendar days.                                    
11 An extension of the regular session requires the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds                                
12 of the membership of each house of the legislature.  The legislature shall adopt as part                                
13 of the uniform rules of procedure deadlines for scheduling session work not                                             
14 inconsistent with provisions controlling the length of the session.                                                     

01    * Sec. 2.  The amendment proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                            
02 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
03 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.