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HCS SJR 39(JUD): Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska to guarantee, in addition to the right of the people to keep and bear arms as approved by the voters at the time of ratification of the state Constitution, that the individual right to keep and bear arms shall not be unreasonably denied or infringed by the state or a political subdivision of the state, and establishing that the expanded right to keep and bear arms does not change the level of judicial scrutiny applicable to the review of laws relating to weapons. 

00HOUSE CS FOR SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 39(JUD)                                                                        
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska to guarantee,                                           
02 in addition to the right of the people to keep and bear arms as approved by                                             
03 the voters at the time of ratification of the state Constitution, that the individual                                   
04 right to keep and bear arms shall not be unreasonably denied or infringed by                                            
05 the state or a political subdivision of the state, and establishing that the                                            
06 expanded right to keep and bear arms does not change the level of judicial                                              
07 scrutiny applicable to the review of laws relating to weapons.                                                          
08 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
09    * Section 1.  Article I, sec. 19, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                           
10  SECTION 19.  RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS.  A well-regulated                                                     
11 militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep                              
12 and bear arms shall not be infringed.  The individual right to keep and bear arms                                      
13 shall not be unreasonably denied or infringed by the State or a political                                               
14 subdivision of the State.                                                                                              



01    * Sec. 2.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                               
02 section to read:                                                                                                        
03  SECTION 29.  APPLICATION OF AMENDMENT OF SECTION 19 OF                                                                
04 ARTICLE I.  The 1994 amendment of Section 19 of Article I does not change the                                           
05 level of judicial scrutiny applicable to the review of laws relating to weapons.                                        
06   * Sec. 3.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                            
07 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
08 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.