A.C.R. 10


Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 10--Committee on 
    Elections
                  and Procedures

                 February 22, 1995
                 _____________

Referred to Committee on Elections and Procedures


SUMMARY--Amends Joint Rules of Senate and Assembly to 
          require introduction of certain legislative 
          measures within specified time. (BDR R-441)




EXPLANATION--Matter in italics is new; matter in bra
ckets [ ] is material to be omitted.

ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION--Amending the Joint Rules of the Senate 
        and Assembly for the 68th legislative session to require the 
        introduction of legislative measures within a specified time.


  RESOLVED BY THE ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, THE  
SENATE CONCURRING, That Rule 14 of the Joint Rules of 
the Senate and Assembly as adopted for the 68th session of 
the Legislature is hereby amended to read as follows:

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       LIMITATION ON \REQUESTS FOR AND\\ 
             INTRODUCTION [AND REQUESTS FOR
            DRAFTING] OF LEGISLATIVE MEASURES

  1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, any 
request submitted, after a regular legislative session has 
convened, to the Legislative Counsel for the drafting of a 
bill or resolution will not be honored by the Legislative 
Counsel unless the request is approved by:
  (a) A two-thirds vote of the members present in the House 
where it is to be introduced; or
  (b) A standing committee of that House if the request was 
approved by two-thirds of all of the members of the 
committee before the request was submitted to the 
Legislative Counsel. A standing committee may only request 
the drafting of a bill or resolution or introduce a bill or 
resolution that is within the jurisdiction of the standing 
committee.
  2.  After a regular legislative session has convened, the 
Legislative Counsel shall honor not more than 5 requests 
from each Assemblyman and not more than 10 requests from 
each Senator for the drafting of a bill or resolution which 
has not received the approval required by subsection 1.
  3.  \A legislator may not change the subject matter 
of a request for a legislative measure after it has been 
submitted for drafting.
  4.  Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a 
bill or joint resolution must be introduced within 10 
legislative days after delivery by the Legislative Counsel. 
If the bill or joint resolution is not introduced within 
that period, approval of two-thirds of all of the members of 
the appropriate standing committee of the Senate or Assembly 
is required for its introduction.
  5.  \\After the first 10 calendar days of a regular 
legislative session, bills and joint resolutions may be 
introduced [by:] \in the name of:\\
  (a) Standing committees without consent. A measure 
introduced by a standing committee must indicate the person 
or organization at whose request the measure was drafted.
  (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection [4,] 
\6,\\ a member who had requested the drafting of 
the bill or resolution by the Legislative Counsel before the 
11th calendar day of the legislative session.
  [4.] \6.\\  The following measures must be 
introduced by a standing committee:
  (a) Measures drafted at the request of agencies and 
officers of the executive branch of state government, local 
governments, the courts and other authorized nonlegislative 
requesters.
  (b) Measures requested by interim legislative studies.
  (c) Bills and joint resolutions requested by a standing 
committee, or by persons designated to request measures on 
behalf of a standing committee during the interim. Bills and 
joint resolutions requested by or on behalf of a standing 
committee must be introduced by that committee.
  [5.] \7.\\  Simple and concurrent resolutions 
requested by or on behalf of a standing committee may be 
introduced by an individual member.
  [6.] \8.\\  If two or more measures are being 
considered in the same house which are [subtantively] 
\substantively\\ duplicative, only the measure 
which has been assigned the lowest number for the purpose of 
establishing its priority in drafting may be considered, 
unless the measure with the lowest number is not introduced 
within 5 days after introduction of a measure with a higher 
number.
  [7.  A legislator may not change the subject matter of a 
request for a legislative measure after it has been 
submitted for drafting.
  8.] \9.\\  Consent to suspend this rule may be 
given only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the 
members elected to the House where it is to be introduced, 
which must be entered in its Journal for that day, and the 
consent may apply to no more than one bill or resolution or 
request for drafting.

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