Assembly Bill No. 472–Assemblymen Arberry, Buckley, Goldwater, Mortenson, Parks, Anderson, Dini, Claborn, de Braga, Chowning, Parnell, Koivisto, McClain, Williams, Neighbors, Lee, Thomas, Segerblom and Perkins

March 10, 1999

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Referred to Committee on Ways and Means

 

SUMMARY—Increases additional salary for longevity paid to certain justices and judges. (BDR 1-1468)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

 

AN ACT relating to the judicial system; increasing the additional salary for longevity paid to certain justices and judges; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. NRS 3.030 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2 3.030 1. Until the first Monday in January 1997, the annual base

1-3 salary of each district judge is $79,000. From and after the first Monday in

1-4 January 1997, the annual base salary of each district judge is $100,000.

1-5 2. If a district judge has served in his office for at least [5] 4 years, he

1-6 is entitled to an additional salary of [1] 2 percent of his base salary for each

1-7 year of service. The additional salary must not exceed 22 percent of his

1-8 base salary.

1-9 3. The base salaries and the additional salary for longevity must be

1-10 paid in biweekly installments out of the district judges’ salary account of

1-11 the supreme court.

1-12 4. No salary of any district judge may be paid in advance.

1-13 Sec. 2. NRS 213.015 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-14 213.015 1. A member of the board who has served as a district judge

1-15 or as a justice of the supreme court, or any combination thereof, for at least

1-16 [6] 4 years, is entitled to compensation as a member of the board in the

2-1 amount of [1] 2 percent of his annual salary as a justice of the supreme

2-2 court for each year of service as a district judge or as a justice of the

2-3 supreme court, or any combination thereof. The compensation received by

2-4 a justice for his service on the board must not exceed 22 percent of his

2-5 annual salary as a justice of the supreme court.

2-6 2. The salaries provided for in this section must be paid out of money

2-7 provided by direct legislative appropriation from the state general fund.

2-8 Sec. 3. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to

2-9 the Supreme Court for carrying out the amendatory provisions of this act:

2-10 For the fiscal year 1999-2000 $182,612

2-11 For the fiscal year 2000-2001 $205,367

2-12 2. Any balance of the sums appropriated by subsection 1 remaining at

2-13 the end of the respective fiscal years must not be committed for expenditure

2-14 after June 30 of the respective fiscal years and reverts to the state general

2-15 fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been made.

2-16 Sec. 4. This act becomes effective on July 1, 1999.

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