00SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 47                                                                                          
01 Proposing amendments to the constitution of the State of Alaska changing the                                            
02 membership of the Judicial Council.                                                                                     
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1.  Article IV, sec. 8, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                           
05  SECTION 8.  JUDICIAL COUNCIL.  The judicial council  shall consist of                                                 
06 seven  members.  One [THREE] attorney member [MEMBERS] shall be  appointed                                          
07 for a six-year term [TERMS] by the governing body of the organized state bar.  Five                               
08 [THREE] non-attorney members shall be appointed for six-year terms by the governor                                      
09 subject to confirmation by a majority of the members of the legislature in joint session.                               
10 Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term in like manner.  Appointments shall                                    
11 be made  with due  consideration to  area representation and without regard to political                                
12 affiliation.  The chief justice of the supreme court shall be ex-officio the seventh                                    
13 member and chair [CHAIRMAN] of the judicial council.  No member of the judicial                                       
14 council, except the chief justice, may hold any other office or position of profit under                                

01 the United States or the State.  The judicial council shall act by concurrence of four                                  
02 or more members and according to rules which it adopts.                                                                 
03    * Sec. 2.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                               
04 section to read:                                                                                                        
05  SECTION 29.  MEMBERSHIP OF JUDICIAL COUNCIL.  If the 1994                                                             
06 amendment changing the composition of the Judicial Council is adopted,                                                  
07 notwithstanding Section 8 of Article IV, as amended, the two attorney members                                           
08 serving on the effective date of the amendment whose terms first expire may continue                                    
09 to serve on the council for the remainder of their terms.  Upon the expiration of a                                     
10 term, the vacancy shall be filled under Section 8, Article IV, as amended.                                              
11    * Sec. 3.  The amendment proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                            
12 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
13 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.