Assembly Joint Resolution No. 16–Assemblymen Price, Ohrenschall, Manendo, Collins, Parks, Claborn, Mortenson, de Braga, Chowning, Neighbors, Carpenter, Segerblom, Leslie, Tiffany, Nolan, Gibbons and Berman

March 12, 1999

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Referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments

 

SUMMARY—Proposes to amend Nevada Constitution to authorize Legislature to establish fee to be collected from each person who is convicted of crime in this state and to establish formula for distribution of money collected from fee among community colleges in this state. (BDR C-1515)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

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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).

 

ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION—Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of

Nevada to authorize the Legislature to establish a fee to be collected from each person who is

convicted of a crime in this state and to authorize the Legislature to establish a

formula for the distribution of the money collected from the fee among the

community colleges in this state.

1-1 Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of Nevada,

1-2 Jointly, That section 3 of article 11 of the Constitution of the State of

1-3 Nevada be amended to read as follows:

1-4 Sec. 3. 1. All lands granted by Congress to this state for educational

1-5 purposes, all estates that escheat to the state, all property given or

1-6 bequeathed to the state for educational purposes, and the proceeds derived

1-7 from these sources, together with that percentage of the proceeds from the

1-8 sale of federal lands which has been granted by Congress to this state

1-9 without restriction or for educational purposes and all fines collected under

1-10 the penal laws of the state are hereby pledged for educational purposes and

1-11 the money therefrom must not be transferred to other funds for other uses.

1-12 [The]

2-1 2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the interest only

2-2 earned on the money derived from these sources must be apportioned by

2-3 the legislature among the several counties for educational purposes, and, if

2-4 necessary, a portion of that interest may be appropriated for the support of

2-5 the state university, but any of that interest which is unexpended at the end

2-6 of any year must be added to the principal sum pledged for educational

2-7 purposes.

2-8 3. The legislature may impose a fee upon each person who is

2-9 convicted of a crime in this state for the benefit of the community

2-10 colleges of this state. If the legislature imposes such a fee, it must

2-11 establish a formula for the distribution of the money collected from the

2-12 fee among the community colleges of this state in the proportion that the

2-13 amount of money collected from the fee imposed in the area served by a

2-14 community college bears to the total amount of money collected from the

2-15 fee in this state.

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