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SJR 10: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to deposits to the constitutional budget reserve fund from surplus oil revenue.

00 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 10 01 Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Alaska relating to deposits 02 to the constitutional budget reserve fund from surplus oil revenue. 03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 04 * Section 1. Article IX, sec. 17(a), Constitution of the State of Alaska, is amended to read: 05 (a) There is established as a separate fund in the State treasury the budget 06 reserve fund. Except for money deposited into the permanent fund under Section 15 of 07 this article, the following shall be deposited in the budget reserve fund: all money 08 received by the State after July 1, 1990, as a result of the termination, through 09 settlement or otherwise, of an administrative proceeding or of litigation in a State or 10 federal court involving mineral lease bonuses, rentals, royalties, royalty sale proceeds, 11 federal mineral revenue sharing payments or bonuses, or involving taxes imposed on 12 mineral income, production, or property, and two-thirds of the difference between 13 $6,000,000,000 adjusted by the cumulative change, derived from federal indices 14 as prescribed by law, in population and inflation since July 1, 2013, and the 15 actual annual unrestricted oil revenue as determined each year on July 1 for the 16 previous fiscal year [SHALL BE DEPOSITED IN THE BUDGET RESERVE

01 FUND]. Money in the budget reserve fund shall be invested so as to yield competitive 02 market rates to the fund. Income of the fund shall be retained in the fund. Section 7 of 03 this article does not apply to deposits made to the fund under this subsection. Money 04 may be appropriated from the fund only as authorized under (b) or (c) of this section. 05 In this subsection, "unrestricted oil revenue" means oil lease bonuses, rentals, 06 royalties, royalty sale proceeds, federal oil revenue sharing payments or bonuses, 07 or taxes imposed on oil income, production, or property. 08 * Sec. 2. The amendment proposed by this resolution shall be placed before the voters of the 09 state at the next general election in conformity with art. XIII, sec. 1, Constitution of the State 10 of Alaska, and the election laws of the state.