00                      SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1                                                                     
01 Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to terms of                                    
02 legislators.                                                                                                            
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04    * Section 1. Article II, sec. 3, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read:                          
05            Section 3. Election and Terms. Legislators shall be elected at general                                     
06       elections. Their terms begin on the fourth Monday of the January following election                               
07       unless otherwise provided by law. The term of representatives shall be two years, and                             
08       the term of senators, four years. One-half of the senators shall be elected every two                             
09       years. No person who has served as a representative for four full or partial                                  
10       successive terms shall again be eligible to hold that office until one full term has                          
11       intervened. No person who has served as a senator for two full or partial                                     
12       successive terms shall again be eligible to hold that office until one full term has                          
13       intervened.                                                                                                   
14    * Sec. 2. Article XV, Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended by adding a new                              
15 section to read:                                                                                                        
16            Section 30. Application of 2010 Tenure Amendment. Years served in the                                      

01       legislature before the convening of the First Regular Session of the Twenty-Seventh                               
02       Alaska State Legislature shall not be considered for purposes of applying the tenure limit                        
03       added by the 2010 amendment to Section 3 of Article II.                                                           
04    * Sec. 3.  The amendments proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of the                     
05 state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the State of                   
06 Alaska, and the election laws of the state.