ASSEMBLY DAILY JOURNAL

NEVADA LEGISLATURE
Sixty-ninth Session, 1997
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ASSEMBLY DAILY JOURNAL

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THE EIGHTEENTH DAY

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Carson City (Thursday), February 6, 1997

Assembly called to order at 11:02 a.m.
Mr. Speaker presiding.
Roll called.
All present.
Prayer by the Chaplain, The Reverend Elaine Ludlum Morgan.
Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, send down upon those who hold office in this State Assembly the spirit of wisdom, charity, and justice that with steadfast purpose they may faithfully serve in their offices to promote the well-being of all people; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Pledge of allegiance to the Flag.

Assemblyman Perkins moved that further reading of the Journal be dispensed with, and the Speaker and Chief Clerk be authorized to make the necessary corrections and additions.
Motion carried.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Government Affairs, to which were referred Assembly Bills Nos. 23, 40, has had the same under consideration, and begs leave to report the same back with the recommendation: Do pass.

Douglas A. Bache,

Chairman

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Government Affairs, to which was referred Assembly Bill No. 66, has had the same under consideration, and begs leave to report the same back with the recommendation: Amend and do pass as amended.

Douglas A. Bache,

Chairman

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which were referred Assembly Bills Nos. 7, 19; Assembly Joint Resolution No. 17 of the 68^th Session has had the same under consideration, and begs leave to report the same back with the recommendation: Do pass.

Bernie Anderson,

Chairman

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred Assembly Bill No. 35, has had the same under consideration, and begs leave to report the same back with the recommendation: Do pass, and re-refer to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Bernie Anderson,

Chairman

MESSAGES FROM THE SENATE

Senate Chamber, Carson City, February 5, 1997

To the Honorable the Assembly:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate on this day adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 6.
Mary Jo Mongelli
Assistant Secretary of the Senate

MOTIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND NOTICES

Assemblyman Anderson moved that Assembly Bill No. 35 be re-referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Motion carried.

By Assemblywoman de Braga, Segerblom, Krenzer, Ohrenschall, Collins, Neighbors, Giunchigliani, Buckley, Freeman, Bache, Anderson, Nolan, Goldwater, Evans, Herrera, Williams, Parks, Lee, Perkins, Carpenter, Chowning, Dini, Manendo, Price and Koivisto:
Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 3--Amending the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the 69th legislative session to require the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and the Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means to ensure that the salaries of the officers of the Nevada Highway Patrol are set at a rate which is based on the salaries of officers of equivalent rank of certain law enforcement agencies within this state.

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of Nevada, the Senate Concurring, That the Joint Rules of the Assembly and Senate as adopted by the 69th session of the Legislature are amended by the following addition:

CALCULATION OF SALARIES OF OFFICERS OF THE NEVADA HIGHWAY PATROL
In considering the proposed budget for the executive department of state government for the ensuing biennium, the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and the Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means shall ensure that the respective salaries of the officers of the Nevada Highway Patrol of the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety are set at amounts which:
1. For the first year of the biennium, are equal to or greater than the average salary of police officers of equivalent rank employed by:
(a) Law enforcement agencies of cities whose population is 50,000 or more;
(b) Law enforcement agencies of counties whose population is 100,000 or more; and
(c) Metropolitan police departments formed pursuant to chapter 280 of NRS in counties whose population is 100,000 or more; and
2. For the second year of the biennium, are equal to the respective amounts established pursuant to subsection 1, plus an adjustment for inflation, if any. The amount of the adjustments must be determined by multiplying the respective amounts established pursuant to subsection 1 by the percentage of inflation, if any. The Consumer Price Index published by the United States Department of Labor for July preceding the biennium must be used in determining the percentage of inflation.

Assemblywoman de Braga moved that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.
Motion carried.

Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 6.
Assemblyman Williams moved the adoption of the resolution.
Remarks by Assemblymen Williams and Collins.
Resolution adopted.

INTRODUCTION, FIRST READING AND REFERENCE

By the Committee on Labor and Management:
Assembly Bill No. 143--An Act relating to industrial insurance; requiring the legislative committee on workers' compensation to contract with a private party to conduct a study of the system in this state for providing to injured employees compensation for permanent partial disabilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblywoman Krenzer moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Labor and Management.
Motion carried.

By the Committee on Carpenter:
Assembly Bill No. 144--An Act relating to taxation; requiring certain cities and towns to transmit the proceeds of certain license taxes to the districts to which the proceeds are assigned; allowing certain districts to pledge irrevocably the proceeds of certain license taxes for the repayment of certain bonds or other obligations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblyman Carpenter moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Government Affairs.
Motion carried.

By Assemblymen de Braga, Segerblom, Krenzer, Ohrenschall, Collins, Neighbors, Giunchigliani, Buckley, Freeman, Bache, Anderson, Nolan, Goldwater, Evans, Herrera, Williams, Parks, Lee, Perkins, Carpenter, Chowning, Dini, Manendo, Price and Koivisto:
Assembly Bill No. 145--An Act relating to the Nevada highway patrol; requiring the department of personnel to calculate the average salaries of certain law enforcement personnel; requiring that the proposed budget of the department of motor vehicles and public safety include salaries for officers of the Nevada highway patrol which are based on those calculations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblyman de Braga moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Motion carried.

By Assemblymen Manendo, Williams, Segerblom, Freeman, Chowning, Collins, Herrera, Nolan, Neighbors, Lambert, Goldwater, Mortenson, Amodei, Hickey, Braunlin, Koivisto, Krenzer, Parks, Ernaut, Hettrick and Close:
Assembly Bill No. 146--An Act relating to school districts; providing that a school district may authorize the use of buses of the district for certain types of commercial advertising; specifying the permissible content of such advertising; specifying the permissible uses of money derived from such advertising; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblyman Williams moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Education.
Motion carried.

By Assemblymen Goldwater, Herrera, Giunchigliani, Krenzer, Braunlin and Buckley:
Assembly Bill No. 147--An Act relating to industrial insurance; limiting the circumstances under which certain persons may communicate with the physician or chiropractor of an injured employee; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblyman Goldwater moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Labor and Management.
Motion carried.

By the Committee on Commerce:
Assembly Bill No. 148--An Act relating to mobile homes; requiring a landlord of a mobile home park to notify the manufactured housing division of the department of business and industry of a rent increase that affects a tenant who receives assistance from the trust fund for low-income owners of mobile homes; requiring a tenant to be the registered owner of a mobile home to be eligible for assistance from the trust fund; expanding eligibility for assistance from the trust fund to include persons who are registered owners of travel trailers that are located on mobile home lots in mobile home parks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblyman Perkins moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Motion carried.

By the Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining:
Assembly Bill No. 149--An Act relating to public lands; providing a civil remedy and a criminal penalty for performing certain acts without the authorization of the state land registrar; abolishing the board of review; requiring counties to adopt certain regulations concerning public lands within their boundaries; requiring the state land registrar to convey certain public lands to counties; authorizing district attorneys to enforce certain provisions relating to the management of public lands; revising the designation, membership, compensation and duties of the land use planning advisory council; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblywoman de Braga moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.
Motion carried.

By Assemblymen Bache, Goldwater, Giunchigliani, de Braga, Amodei, Segerblom, Lee, Buckley, Freeman, Ernaut, Neighbors, Parks, Perkins, Williams, Herrera, Collins, Mortenson, Close, Manendo, Braunlin, Koivisto, Anderson, Krenzer, Arberry, Ohrenschall, Hickey, Lambert, Humke, Evans, Price, Sandoval, Hettrick, Carpenter, Chowning, Tiffany, Berman and Dini:
Assembly Bill No.150--An Act relating to government; authorizing state and local governmental entities to contract with a financial institution or an issuer of credit cards to provide for the acceptance of credit cards for the payment of money due the governmental entity; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblyman Bache moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Government Affairs.
Motion carried.

By the Committee on Judiciary:
Assembly Bill No. 151--An Act relating to records of criminal history; revising the provisions governing the fees for such records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblyman Anderson moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Motion carried.

By the Committee on Judiciary:
Assembly Bill No. 152--An Act relating to state parks; revising the provisions governing the issuance of citations in state parks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblyman Anderson moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Motion carried.

By the Committee on Government Affairs:
Assembly Bill No. 153--An Act relating to municipal obligations; authorizing a special election to approve a proposal to issue or incur general obligations upon a finding by the governing body of a municipality that a significant public need exists; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblyman Bache moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Government Affairs.
Motion carried.

By the Committee on Government Affairs:
Assembly Bill No. 154--An Act relating to the public employees' deferred compensation program; revising the provisions governing the frequency of the solicitation of proposals for the public employees' deferred compensation program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblyman Bache moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Government Affairs.
Motion carried.

second reading and amendment

Assembly Bill No. 63.
Bill read second time and ordered to third reading.

Assembly Bill No. 72.
Bill read second time and ordered to third reading.

GENERAL FILE AND THIRD READING

Assembly Joint Resolution No. 13 of the 68^th Session.
Resolution read third time.
Remarks by Assemblyman Price.
Roll call on Assembly Joint Resolution No. 13 of the 68^th Session:
Yeas--42.
Nays--None.
Assembly Joint Resolution No. 13 of the 68^th session having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Resolution ordered transmitted to the Senate.

MOTIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND NOTICES

Assemblyman Price moved that the vote whereby Assembly Bill No. 144 was referred to the Committee on Government Affairs be rescinded.
Motion carried.

Assemblyman Price moved that Assembly Bill No. 144 be referred to the Committee on Taxation.
Motion carried.

REMARKS FROM THE FLOOR

Assemblyman Manendo requested that his remarks be entered in the Journal.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
I rise today with much sadness in my heart. My neighbor, my friend, Danielle "Dani" Jasinski, passed away yesterday at the age of 30, of a very rare cancer. She was a single mother of one. She was very involved in our community, in Neighborhood Watch, and in organizations in her manufactured housing community. She was diagnosed with cancer just five or six months ago, went to California and had some treatments, but the outcome was not successful.
I was wondering if this body could rise for a moment of silence in honor of my friend, Dani Jasinski?

Assemblyman Ernaut requested that his remarks be entered in the Journal.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
As a function of my heritage, I generally start my day off by consulting the Basque American Almanac, or "BAA." Well, I noticed today in my Basque American Almanac there was a very important date, February 6. It marks the birthday of someone very important to us here in this body who is a fellow Basque American, and most important to you, she is our journal clerk. Least important to you, she is also my cousin. I would like to lead this body in wishing and singing happy birthday to our Journal Clerk, Bonnie Borda. And it's not Ba Ba Black Sheep, we are singing Happy Birthday.

GUESTS EXTENDED PRIVILEGE OF ASSEMBLY FLOOR

On request of Assemblyman Anderson, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to John Gomes.

On request of Assemblyman Bache, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Darlene Magee.

On request of Assemblywoman Freeman, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Nicholas Cimino.

On request of Assemblyman Humke, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Jeff Kintop and Robert Johns.

On request of Assemblywoman Lambert, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Nicola Neilon.

On request of Assemblyman Marvel, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Ann Towne and Judy Williams.

On request of Assemblyman Neighbors, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Sandy Harmon and Sandra Dulgar.

On request of Assemblywoman Ohrenschall, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Mark Carlson.

On request of Assemblyman Perkins, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Dorothy Vondenbrink.

On request of Assemblywoman Von Tobel, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Margaret Lowther.

On request of Assemblyman Williams, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Jeanette Allen.

On request of Speaker Dini, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Kay Elliott, Frank Elliott, Dan Ledcard, Dan Piel and Joe Verant.

Assemblyman Perkins moved that the Assembly adjourn until Monday, February 10, 1997 at 11 a.m., and that it do so in memory of Danielle Jasinski.
Motion carried.

Assembly adjourned at 11:42 a.m.

Approved: Joseph E. Dini, Jr.
Speaker of the Assembly
Attest: Linda B. Alden
Chief Clerk of the Assembly