Referred to Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics
SUMMARY--Revises provisions relating to appointment of legislative auditor, legislative counsel and research director of legislative counsel bureau. (BDR 17-976)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to the legislature; revising the provisions relating to the appointment of the legislative auditor, legislative counsel and research director of the legislative counsel bureau; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 NRS 218.620 is hereby amended to read as follows:
218.620 1. There is hereby created the legislative counsel bureau, which consists of a legislative commission, an interim finance committee, a director, an audit division, a fiscal analysis division, a legal division, a research division, and an administrative division.
2. The legislative auditor is chief of the audit division. The legislative counsel is chief of the legal division. The research director is chief of the research division. The director shall designate from time to time one of the fiscal analysts to be responsible for the administration of the fiscal analysis division.
3. The legislative commission shall:
(a) Appoint the director.
(b) Fix the compensation of the director, each of the other division chiefs, and each fiscal analyst.
4. The director shall appoint the legislative auditor, legislative counsel, fiscal analysts and [the chiefs of the other divisions] research director with the approval of the legislative commission, and may serve as the chief of any division.
5. The director may, with the consent of the legislative commission, designate one of the other division chiefs or an employee of the legislative counsel bureau as deputy director, who shall serve as deputy director without additional compensation.