00CS FOR SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 29(JUD)                                                                            
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to terms                                       
02 of legislators and to the time of convening and length of regular sessions of the                                       
03 legislature.                                                                                                            
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                              
05    * Section 1.  Article II, sec. 3, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                         
06  Section 3.  Election and Terms.  Legislators shall be elected at general                                            
07 elections. Their terms begin on the fourth Monday of the  February  [JANUARY]                                         
08 following election unless otherwise provided by law.  The term of representatives shall                                 
09 be two years, and the term of senators, four years.  One-half of the senators shall be                                  
10 elected every two years.                                                                                                
11    * Sec. 2.  Article II, sec. 8, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                            
12  Section 8.  Regular Sessions.  The legislature shall convene in regular session                                     
13 each year on the fourth Monday in  February  [JANUARY], but the month and day                                         
14 may be changed by law.   A  [THE LEGISLATURE SHALL ADJOURN FROM]                                                      

01 regular session  may last no longer than seventy-five  [NO LATER THAN ONE                                             
02 HUNDRED TWENTY] consecutive calendar days [FROM THE DATE IT                                                             
03 CONVENES] except that a regular session may be extended once for up to ten                                              
04 consecutive calendar days.  An extension of the regular session requires the affirmative                                
05 vote of at least two-thirds of the membership of each house of the legislature.  The                                    
06 legislature shall adopt as part of the uniform rules of procedure deadlines for                                         
07 scheduling session work not inconsistent with provisions controlling the length of the                                  
08 session.                                                                                                                
09    * Sec. 3.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                         
10 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
11 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.