00SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 3                                                                                           
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to                                             
02 terms of legislators.                                                                                                   
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.  (a)  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 shall be [,] four years. One-half of the senators shall                               
09 be elected every two years.  A person may serve no more than eight consecutive                                         
10 full calendar years as a member of the legislature.  After that period, the person                                      
11 may not again serve as a member of the legislature until at least twenty-three                                          
12 months after the member leaves office.                                                                                 
13    * Sec. 2.  Article II, sec. 3, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a                           
14 new subsection to read:                                                                                                 

01  (b)  Notwithstanding (a) of this section, if a person has served less than seven                                      
02 consecutive full calendar years in the legislature on the day the person assumes office                                 
03 in the legislature, that person may complete the term of office assumed.                                                
04    * Sec. 3.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                               
05 section to read:                                                                                                        
06  SECTION 29.  APPLICATION OF 1994 TENURE AMENDMENT.  Years                                                             
07 served in the legislature before the convening of the First Regular Session of the                                      
08 Nineteenth Alaska State Legislature shall not be considered for purposes of applying                                    
09 the tenure limit added by the 1994 amendment to Section 3 of Article II.                                                
10    * Sec. 4.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                           
11 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
12 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.