HJR 13 - CONST AM: SEC. OF STATE REFERENCES 2:41:17 PM CHAIR RAMRAS announced that the next order of business would be HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 13, Proposing amendments to the Constitution of the State of Alaska to correct obsolete references to the office of secretary of state by substituting references to the office of lieutenant governor. 2:42:11 PM DENEEN TUCK, Staff, Representative Max Gruenberg, Alaska State Legislature, on behalf of the sponsor, the House State Affairs Standing Committee, of which Representative Gruenberg is a member, explained that HJR 13 proposes amendments to the Alaska State Constitution such that if approved by the voters, the references to "secretary of state" would be replaced with references to the "lieutenant governor". In 1970, voters approved amendments to the Alaska State Constitution changing the name of "secretary of state" to "lieutenant governor", but a couple of references to "secretary of state" were missed, and HJR 13 would correct this. REPRESENTATIVE GRUENBERG, in response to a question, offered his belief that there have been conversations with the lieutenant governor on this matter. MS. TUCK concurred. REPRESENTATIVE COGHILL indicated that he is proposing other legislation that would "empower a secretary of state." REPRESENTATIVE DAHLSTROM pointed out that the outdated references would still need to be corrected regardless, since any new position of secretary of state would not have the same duties as the lieutenant governor. REPRESENTATIVE COGHILL mentioned that he's voted for legislation similar to HJR 13 before. 2:44:29 PM REPRESENTATIVE DAHLSTROM moved to report HJR 13 out of committee with individual recommendations and the accompanying fiscal notes. There being no objection, HJR 13 was reported from the House Judiciary Standing Committee.