00SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 10                                                                                        
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska requiring that                                          
02 the provisions of a bill that levy new state taxes or increase the rate of a state                                      
03 tax require the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the membership of each                                       
04 house of the legislature.                                                                                               
05 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                              
06    * Section 1.  Article II, sec. 14, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                        
07  Section 14.  Passage of Bills.  The legislature shall establish the procedure for                                   
08 enactment of bills into law.  No bill may become law unless it has passed three                                         
09 readings in each house on three separate days, except that any bill may be advanced                                     
10 from second to third reading on the same day by concurrence of three-fourths of the                                     
11 house considering it.  Subject to other provisions of this constitution, no  [NO] bill                                
12 may become law without an affirmative vote of a majority of the membership of each                                      
13 house.  The yeas and nays on final passage shall be entered in the journal.                                             
14    * Sec. 2.  Article IX, sec. 1, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                            

01     Section 1.  Taxing Power.  The power of taxation shall never be surrendered.                                     
02 This power shall not be suspended or contracted away, except as provided in this                                        
03 article.   The provisions of a bill that levy a new State tax or increase the rate of                                  
04 a  State tax may not become law without an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds                                      
05 of the membership of each house of the legislature.                                                                    
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.