Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 1–Committee on

Elections, Procedures, and Ethics

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Resolved by the Assembly of the State of Nevada, the Senate

Concurring, That the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly as amended

by the 69th session are adopted, with the following changes, as the Joint

Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the 70th session of the Legislature:

1. agreed to in one House, dissented from in the other, and not receded from

1. by the one making the amendment, each House shall appoint a committee to

1. confer with a like committee to be appointed by the other; and the

1. committee so appointed shall meet publicly at a convenient hour to be

1. agreed upon by their respective chairmen and announced publicly, and shall

1. confer upon the differences between the two Houses as indicated by the

1. amendments made in one and rejected in the other and report as early as

1. convenient the result of their conference to their respective Houses. The

1. report shall be made available to all members of both Houses. The whole

1. subject matter embraced in the bill or resolution shall be considered by the

1. committee, and it may recommend recession by either House, new

1. amendments, new bills or resolutions, or other changes as it sees fit. New

1. bills or resolutions so reported shall be treated as amendments unless the

1. bills or resolutions are composed entirely of original matter, in which case

1. they shall receive the treatment required in the respective Houses for

1. original bills, or resolutions, as the case may be.

1. The report of a conference committee may be adopted by acclamation,

1. and such action may be considered equivalent to the adoption of

1. amendments embodied therein. The report is not subject to amendment. If

1. either House refuses to adopt the report, or if the first conference committee

1. has so recommended, a second conference committee may be appointed. No

1. member who served on the first committee may be appointed to the second.

1. the bill or resolution.

1. Rule No. 2. Procedure Concerning.

1. Proclamations by the Governor convening the Legislature in extra session

1. shall, by direction of the presiding officer of each House, be read

1. immediately after the convening thereof, filed and entered in full upon the

1. Journal of proceedings.

1. Whenever a message from the Governor is received, the Sergeant at Arms

1. will announce: "Mr. President, or Mr. Speaker, the Secretary of the

1. Governor is at the bar." The secretary will, upon being recognized by the

1. presiding officer, announce: "Mr. President, or Mr. Speaker, a message

1. from His Excellency, the Governor of Nevada, to the Honorable, the Senate

1. or Assembly," and hand same to the Sergeant at Arms for delivery to the

1. Secretary of the Senate or Chief Clerk of the Assembly. The presiding

1. officer will direct the biennial message of the Governor to be received and

1. read, and all special messages to be received, read and entered in full upon

1. the Journal of proceedings.

1. Messages from the Senate to the Assembly shall be delivered by the

1. Secretary or Assistant Secretary, and messages from the Assembly to the

1. Each House shall communicate its final action on any bill or resolution,

1. Rule No. 4. Signature.

1. Each enrolled bill or joint resolution shall be presented to the presiding

1. Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the Assembly.

1. Rule No. 6. Ordering and Distribution.

1. Each House may order the printing of bills introduced, reports of its own

1. committees, and other matter pertaining to that House only; but no other

1. printing may be ordered except by a concurrent resolution passed by both

1. Houses. Each Senator is entitled to the free distribution of four copies of

1. each bill introduced in each House, and each Assemblyman to such a

1. distribution of two copies. Additional copies of such bills may be

1. distributed at a charge to the person to whom they are addressed. The

1. amount charged for distribution of the additional copies must be determined

1. by the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau to approximate the cost

1. of handling and postage for the entire session.

1. Rule No. 7. Types, Usage and Approval.

1. 1. A joint resolution must be used to:

1. (a) Propose an amendment to the Nevada constitution.

1. (b) Ratify a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution.

1. (c) Address the President of the United States, Congress, either House or

1. any committee or member of Congress, any department or agency of the

1. Federal Government, or any other state of the Union.

1. 2. A concurrent resolution must be used to:

1. (a) Amend these joint rules.

1. (b) Request the return from the Governor of an enrolled bill for further

1. consideration.

1. (c) Resolve that the return of a bill from one House to the other House is

1. necessary and appropriate.

1. (d) Express facts, principles, opinion and purposes of the Senate and

1. Assembly.

1. (e) Establish a joint committee of the two Houses.

1. (f) Direct the Legislative Commission to conduct an interim study.

1. 3. A concurrent resolution or a resolution of one House may be used to:

1. (a) Memorialize a former member of the Legislature or other notable or

1. distinguished person upon his death.

1. (b) Congratulate or commend any person or organization for a significant

1. and meritorious accomplishment, but any request for drafting the resolution
2. must be approved by the Senate Committee on Legislative Affairs and

1. Rule No. 8. Special Order.

1. Bills which have passed a previous Legislature, and which are transmitted

1. to the Legislature next sitting, accompanied by a message or statement of

1. the Governor’s disapproval, or veto of the same, shall become the subject of

1. a special order; and when the special order for their consideration is reached

1. and called, the said message or statement shall be read, together with the bill

1. the other, and not upon separate occasions; and no such bill or message

1. shall be referred to any committee, or otherwise acted upon, save as

1. provided by law and custom; that is to say, that immediately following such

1. reading the only question (except as hereinafter stated) which shall be put

1. by the Chair is, "Shall the bill pass, notwithstanding the objections of the

1. Governor?" It shall not be in order, at any time, to vote upon such vetoed

1. bill without the same shall have first been read, from the first word of its

1. title to and including the last word of its final section; and no motion shall

1. be entertained after the Chair has stated the question save a motion for "The

1. previous question," but the merits of the bill itself may be debated.

1. Rule No. 9. Limitations and Calculation of Duration.

1. 1. In calculating the permissible duration of an adjournment for 3 days

1. or less, the day of adjournment must not be counted but the day of the next

1. meeting must be counted, and Sunday must not be counted.

1. 2. The Legislature may adjourn for more than 3 days by concurrent

1. resolution. One or more such adjournments, for a total of not more than 20

1. days during any regular session, may be taken to permit standing

1. committees, select committees or the Legislative Counsel Bureau to prepare

1. the matters respectively entrusted to them for the consideration of the

1. Legislature as a whole.

1. Rule No. 10. Routine Expenses or Concurrent Resolution.

1. Except for routine salary, travel, equipment and operating expenses, no

1. expenditures shall be made from the Legislative Fund without the authority

1. of a Concurrent Resolution regularly adopted by the Senate and Assembly.

1. Rule No. 11. Membership and Organization.

1. 1. When members of the minority party in the Senate or in the

1. Assembly comprise less than 34 percent of the total number elected to that

1. House, minority party membership for that House on the Legislative

1. Commission must be:

1. (a) One, if such membership is less than 21 percent.

1. (b) Two, if such membership is between 21 percent and 33 percent. If the

1. members of the minority party in the Senate or in the Assembly comprise

1. more than 33 percent of the total number elected to that House, minority

1. party membership for that House on the Commission must be three, being

1. equal to the membership of the majority party.

1. 2. Each House shall select one or more alternate members for each

1. member from that House, designating them according to party or according

1. to the individual member whom the alternate would replace.

1. 3. A vacancy in the regular Senate or Assembly membership created by

1. death or by resignation or by the Legislator’s ceasing to be a member of the

1. Legislature shall be filled by the proper alternate member as designated by

1. that House. If there is no proper alternate member, the Legislative

1. Commission shall fill the vacancy by appointing a Senator or Assemblyman

1. of the same party.

1. 4. If for any reason a member is or will be absent from a meeting and

1. there are no alternates available, the chairman of the commission may

1. appoint a member of the same House and political party to attend the

1. meeting as an alternate.

1. 5. The members shall serve until their successors are appointed by

1. resolution as provided in NRS 218.660, notwithstanding that their terms of

1. office may have expired, except that the membership of any member who

1. does not become a candidate for reelection or who is defeated for reelection

1. shall terminate on the day next after the election and the vacancy shall be

1. filled as provided in this rule.

1. 6. The chairman shall be selected at the first meeting of the newly

1. formed Legislative Commission and shall serve until his successor is

1. appointed following the formation of the next Legislative Commission.

1. Rule No. 12. Duties of Secretary of Committee and Director.

1. 2. The secretary of a standing committee shall:

1. adjournment of any regular or special session of the Legislature with the

1. Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau.

1. 3. The Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau shall:

1. person during office hours under such reasonable conditions as he may

1. deem necessary;

1. (c) Maintain a log as a public record containing the date, time, name and

1. Rule No. 13. Responsibility for Measures and Approval of Research

1. The Committee on Government Affairs of the Senate and the Committee

1. respectively responsible for measures which primarily affect the designation

1. of the districts from which members are elected to the Legislature. Any

1. request for research concerning the population of proposed districts must be

1. submitted to the Research Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau

1. through one of these committees.

1. legislator or organization must indicate the legislator or organization at

1. whose request the measure was drafted.

1. committee:
2. (a) Measures drafted at the request of agencies and officers of the

1. executive branch of state government, local governments, the courts and

1. other authorized nonlegislative requesters.

1. (b) Measures requested by interim legislative studies.

1. (c) Bills and joint resolutions requested by a standing committee, or by

1. persons designated to request measures on behalf of a standing committee

1. during the interim. Bills and joint resolutions requested by or on behalf of a

1. standing committee must be introduced by that committee.

1. standing committee may be introduced by an individual member.

1. which are substantively duplicative, only the measure which has been

1. assigned the lowest number for the purpose of establishing its priority in

1. drafting may be considered, unless the measure with the lowest number is

1. not introduced within 5 days after introduction of a measure with a higher

1. number.

1. legislative measure after it has been submitted for drafting.

1. Rule No. 15. Tenure and Performance of Statutory Duties.

1. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, the tenure of

1. the President pro Tem, Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the Senate

1. and the Speaker, Speaker pro Tem, Majority Leader and Minority Leader of

1. the Assembly extends during the interim between regular sessions of the

1. Legislature.

1. 2. The Senators designated to be the President pro Tem, Majority

1. Leader and Minority Leader for the next succeeding regular session shall

1. perform any statutory duty required in the period between the time of their

1. designation after the general election and the organization of the next

1. succeeding regular session of the Legislature if the Senator formerly holding

1. the respective position is no longer a Legislator.

1. 3. The Assemblymen designated to be the Speaker, Speaker pro Tem,

1. Majority Leader and Minority Leader for the next succeeding regular

1. session shall perform any statutory duty required in the period between the

1. time of their designation after the general election and the organization of

1. the next succeeding regular session.

1. Rule No. 16. Delivery of Bill Drafts Requested by State Agencies and

1. day, the Legislative Counsel shall randomly deliver, in equal amounts, all

1. legislative measures drafted at the request of any state agency or department

1. or any local government to the Majority Leader of the Senate and the

1. 218.241 and 218.245 by any state agency or department or any local

1. government which has not been drafted before the first legislative day must,

1. upon completion, be immediately and randomly delivered, in equal

1. amounts, by the Legislative Counsel to the Majority Leader of the Senate

1. Rule No. 17. Requirement.

1. The first joint meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and

1. the Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means to consider the

1. Rule No. 18. Topics of Consideration.

1. Any standing committee of the Senate or Assembly to which a bill is

1. referred requiring a policy of health insurance delivered or issued for

1. delivery in this state to provide coverage for any treatment or service shall

1. review the bill giving consideration to:

1. 1. The level of public demand for the treatment or service for which

1. coverage is required and the extent to which such coverage is needed in this

1. state;

1. 2. The extent to which coverage for the treatment or service is currently

1. available;

1. 3. The extent to which the required coverage may increase or decrease

1. the cost of the treatment or service;

1. 4. The effect the required coverage will have on the cost of obtaining

1. policies of health insurance in this state;

1. 5. The effect the required coverage will have on the cost of health care

1. provided in this state; and

1. 6. Such other considerations as are necessary to determine the fiscal and

1. social impact of requiring coverage for the treatment or service.

1. Rule No. 19. Date for Reporting.

1. Each legislative committee that adopted any findings or recommendations

1. during the interim since the last regular session of the Legislature shall, no

1. later than the 14th calendar day of the regular session, inform interested

1. members of the Senate and Assembly of those findings and

1. recommendations.

1. Rule No. 20. Maintenance of Working Environment; Procedure for

1. 1. The Legislature hereby declares its intention to maintain a working

1. environment which is free from sexual harassment. This policy applies to all

1. responsible to conduct himself or herself in a manner which will ensure that

1. others are able to work in such an environment.

1. purposes of this rule, "sexual harassment" means unwelcome sexual

1. advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of

1. unwanted sexual advances, invitations or comments;

1. (b) Visual conduct such as derogatory posters, photography, cartoons,

1. drawings or gestures;

1. (c) Physical conduct such as unwanted touching, blocking normal

1. movement or interfering with the work directed at a person because of his

1. sex;

1. (d) Threats and demands to submit to sexual requests to keep a person’s

1. job or avoid some other loss, and offers of employment benefits in return

1. for sexual favors; and

1. (e) Retaliation for opposing, reporting or threatening to report sexual

1. harassment, or for participating in an investigation, proceeding or hearing

1. the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,

1. when submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a

1. term or condition of a person’s employment or submission to or rejection of

1. such conduct by a person is used as the basis for employment decisions

1. affecting the person or such conduct has the purpose or effect of
2. unreasonably interfering with a person’s work performance or creating an

1. intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.

1. not lost a job or some other economic benefit. Conduct that impairs a

1. person’s ability to work or his emotional well-being at work constitutes

1. sexual harassment.

1. may file a written complaint with:

1. (c) The Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau, if the complaint

1. involves the conduct of the Speaker of the Assembly or the Majority Leader

1. of the Senate.

1. The complaint must include the details of the incident or incidents, the

1. names of the persons involved and the names of any witnesses.

1. the Assembly or the Majority Leader of the Senate, as appropriate, shall

1. of legislators of the same House. A complaint against a lobbyist may be

1. referred to a committee in either House.

1. Assembly or the Majority Leader of the Senate, the Director of the

1. Legislative Counsel Bureau shall refer the complaint to the Committee on

1. on Legislative Affairs and Operations of the Senate, as appropriate. If the

1. Speaker of the Assembly or the Majority Leader of the Senate is a member

1. of one of these committees, the Speaker or the Majority Leader, as the case

1. may be, shall not participate in the investigation and resolution of the

1. complaint.

1. immediately conduct a confidential and discreet investigation of the

1. complaint. As a part of the investigation, the committee shall notify the

1. accused of the allegations. The committee shall facilitate a meeting between

1. the complainant and the accused to allow a discussion of the matter, if both

1. agree. If the parties do not agree to such a meeting, the committee shall

1. request statements regarding the complaint from each of the parties. Either

1. party may request a hearing before the committee. The committee shall

1. make its determination and inform the complainant and the accused of its

1. action necessary to deter any future harassment.

1. complaint and will not knowingly permit any retaliation by the person’s

1. supervisors or coworkers.

1. sexual harassment immediately so that the complaint can be quickly and

1. fairly resolved.

1. prohibit the complainant from also filing a complaint of sexual harassment

1. with the Nevada Equal Rights Commission or the federal Equal

1. Employment Opportunity Commission.

1. Rule No. 21. Waiting Period Between Introduction and Final

1. A period of at least 24 hours must elapse between the introduction of the

1. general appropriation bill and a vote on its final passage by its house of

1. origin.

1. Rule No. 22. Duties of Senate Standing Committee on Finance and

1. To expedite the deposit of state revenue, the Senate Standing Committee

1. on Finance and the Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means

1. shall, when reviewing the proposed budget of a state agency which collects

1. state revenue, require if practicable, the agency to deposit revenue that it has

1. received within 24 hours after receipt. The committees shall allow such

1. agencies to deposit the revenue directly or contract with a service to deposit

1. the revenue within the specified period.

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