1997-04-29                     Senate Journal                      Page 1547
SB 60                                                                        
                                                                               
SB 60                                                                          
Second Reading                                                                 
Amendment No. 1                                                                
                                                                               
YEAS:  6   NAYS:  11   EXCUSED:  3   ABSENT:  0                              
                                                                               
Yeas:  Adams, Duncan, Ellis, Hoffman, Mackie, Wilken                           
                                                                               
Nays:  Donley, Halford, Leman, Miller, Parnell, Pearce, Phillips,              
Sharp, Taylor, Torgerson, Ward                                                 
                                                                               
Excused:  Green, Kelly, Lincoln                                                
                                                                               
and so, Amendment No. 1 failed.                                                
                                                                               
Senator Duncan offered Amendment No. 2 :                                        
                                                                               
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	Delete all material.                                                          
	Insert:  An Act directing an advisory vote on whether the                     
Alaska State Legislature should provide by law for life imprisonment           
without the possibility of parole for the crime of murder in the first         
degree or provide by law for the death penalty for the crime of                
murder in the first degree or retain the existing penalty for the crime        
of murder in the first degree.                                                 
                                                                               
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF                               
ALASKA:                                                                        
                                                                               
Section 1.  ADVISORY VOTE AUTHORIZED.  The lieutenant                          
governor shall place before the qualified voters of the state at the           
next statewide general election the question advisory to the                   
legislature of whether the legislature should provide by law for life          
imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the crime of                
murder in the first degree, whether the legislature should provide by          
law for the death penalty for the crime of murder in the first degree,         
or whether the legislature should retain the existing penalty for the          
crime of murder in the first degree.  The question shall appear on             
the ballot in substantially the following form: