00                             HOUSE BILL NO. 31                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to initiative and referendum petitions; and providing for an effective                                 
02 date."                                                                                                                  
03 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
04    * Section 1.  AS 15.45.140 is amended to read:                                                                     
05            Sec. 15.45.140.  Filing of petition.  (a)  The sponsors must file the initiative                         
06       petition within one year from the time the sponsors received notice from the lieutenant                           
07       governor that the petitions were ready for delivery to them.  The [, AND THE]                                 
08       petition may be filed with the lieutenant governor only if it meets all of the                                
09       following requirements:  it is [MUST BE] signed by qualified voters                                           
10                 (1)  equal in number to 10 percent of those who voted in the preceding                              
11       general election;                                                                                             
12                 (2)  [AND] resident in at least three-fourths [TWO-THIRDS] of the                               
13       house districts of the state; and                                                                             
14                 (3)  who, in each of the house districts described in (2) of this                                   

01       subsection, are equal in number to at least seven percent of those who voted in                               
02       the preceding general election in the house district.                                                         
03            (b)  If the petition is not filed within the one-year period provided for in (a) of                  
04       this section, the petition has no force or effect.                                                                
05    * Sec. 2.  AS 15.45.370 is amended to read:                                                                        
06            Sec. 15.45.370.  Filing of petition.  The sponsors may file the petition                                   
07                 (1)  only within 90 days after the adjournment of the legislative session                           
08       at which the act was passed; and                                                                              
09                 (2)  only if it is signed by qualified voters                                                   
10                      (A)  equal in number to 10 percent of those who voted in the                                   
11            preceding general election;                                                                              
12                      (B)  [AND] resident in at least three-fourths [TWO-THIRDS]                                 
13            of the house districts of the state; and                                                                 
14                      (C)  who, in each of the house districts described in (B) of                                   
15            this paragraph, are equal in number to at least seven percent of those who                               
16            voted in the preceding general election in the house district.                                           
17    * Sec. 3.  The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section to                         
18 read:                                                                                                                   
19       CONDITIONAL EFFECT OF ACT.  This Act takes effect only if a constitutional                                        
20 amendment requiring signatures from seven percent of the qualified voters who voted in the                              
21 district in the preceding general election in each of three-fourths of the house districts of the                       
22 state is passed by the legislature and approved by the voters at the 2004 general election.                             
23    * Sec. 4.  If this Act takes effect under sec. 3 of this Act, it takes effect on the effective date                
24 of the amendment described in sec. 3 of this Act.