00                      HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 38                                                                     
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to and                                         
02 increasing the number of members of the house of representatives to forty-eight and the                                 
03 number of members of the senate to twenty-four.                                                                         
04 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
05    * Section 1. Article II, sec. 1, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                          
06            Section 1. Legislative Power; Membership. The legislative power of the                                     
07       State is vested in a legislature consisting of a senate with a membership of twenty-                          
08       four [TWENTY] and a house of representatives with a membership of forty-eight                             
09       [FORTY].                                                                                                          
10    * Sec. 2. Article VI, sec. 4, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                             
11            Section 4. Method of Redistricting. The Redistricting Board shall establish                                
12       forty-eight [FORTY] house districts, with each house district to elect one member of                          
13       the house of representatives. The board shall establish twenty-four [TWENTY] senate                           
14       districts, each composed of two house districts, with each senate district to elect one                           
15       senator.                                                                                                          

01    * Sec. 3. Article VI, sec. 6, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                             
02            Section 6. District Boundaries. The Redistricting Board shall establish the                                
03       size and area of house districts, subject to the limitations of this article. Each house                          
04       district shall be formed of contiguous and compact territory containing as nearly as                              
05       practicable a relatively integrated socio-economic area. Each shall contain a                                     
06       population as near as practicable to the quotient obtained by dividing the population of                          
07       the state by forty-eight [FORTY]. Each senate district shall be composed as near as                           
08       practicable of two contiguous house districts. Consideration may be given to local                                
09       government boundaries. Drainage and other geographic features shall be used in                                    
10       describing boundaries wherever possible.                                                                          
11    * Sec. 4. Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                              
12 section to read:                                                                                                        
13            Section 30. Applicability of the 2010 Amendments Increasing the Number                                     
14       of Members in the Legislature. The 2010 amendments increasing the number of                                     
15       members in the legislature (art. II, sec. 1, and art. VI, secs. 4 and 6) apply only to plans                      
16       for redistricting and proclamations of redistricting adopted on or after January 1, 2011,                         
17       and to the membership of legislatures subject to those redistricting plans and                                    
18       proclamations.                                                                                                    
19    * Sec. 5. The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of                          
20 the state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the                        
21 State of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.