00CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 2(JUD)                                                                              
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to the                                         
02 duration of regular sessions of the legislature and to a biennial state budget.                                         
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 session                                     
06 each year on the fourth Monday in January, but the month and day may be changed                                         
07 by law.  The legislature shall adjourn from regular session no later than one hundred                                   
08 twenty consecutive calendar days from the date it convenes  during each odd-                                           
09 numbered year, and, during each even-numbered year, a regular session may last no                                       
10 longer than sixty consecutive calendar days,  except that  any  [A] regular session may be                           
11 extended once for up to ten consecutive calendar days.  An extension of the regular session                             
12 requires the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the membership of each house of the                             
13 legislature.  The legislature shall adopt as part of the uniform rules of procedure deadlines for                       
14 scheduling session work not inconsistent with provisions controlling the length of the session.                         

01    * Sec. 2.  Article IX, sec. 12, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                           
02  Section 12.  Budget.   (a)  During each odd-numbered fiscal year, the  [THE]                                      
03 governor shall submit to the legislature, at a time fixed by law, a budget for the next                                 
04  two  fiscal  years  [YEAR] setting forth all proposed expenditures and anticipated                                 
05 income of all departments, offices, and agencies of the State.  The governor, at the                                    
06 same time, shall submit a general appropriation bill to authorize the proposed                                          
07 expenditures  in the biennial State budget , and a bill or bills covering                                             
08 recommendations in the budget for new or additional revenues.                                                           
09    * Sec. 3.  Article IX, sec. 12, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a                        
10 new subsection to read:                                                                                                 
11  (b)  The legislature shall pass a general appropriation bill to implement the                                         
12 State budget for a two-year period that begins with each even-numbered fiscal year.                                     
13 The legislature may pass an appropriation bill that amends or supplements the biennial                                  
14 State budget at any time.                                                                                               
15    * Sec. 4.  Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                             
16 section to read:                                                                                                        
17  Section 30.  Application of Biennial State Budget Amendments.  The 2000                                             
18 amendments relating to a biennial State budget (art. IX, sec. 12) apply to the State                                    
19 budget for fiscal years 2002 and 2003 and thereafter.  Section 12 of Article IX, as it                                  
20 read before the 2000 amendments, applies to the State budget for fiscal years up to and                                 
21 including fiscal year 2001.                                                                                             
22    * Sec. 5.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                         
23 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
24 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.