Amendment No. 440

Senate Amendment to Senate Bill No. 259 (BDR 32-1099)

Proposed by: Committee on Taxation

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Resolves Conflicts with: N/A

Amends: Summary: Title: Preamble: Joint Sponsorship:

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Amend the bill as a whole by deleting sec. 5, renumbering sec. 6 as sec. 5 and adding a new section designated sec. 6, following sec. 6, to read as follows:

"Sec. 6. NRS 231.170 is hereby amended to read as follows:

231.170 1. The commission on tourism is composed of the lieutenant governor, who is its chairman, and [six] eight members who are appointed by the governor.

2. The governor shall appoint as members of the commission persons who are informed on and have experience in travel and tourism, including the business of gaming.

3. The chief administrative officers of the county fair and recreation boards [of counties whose population is 100,000 or more] or, if there is no county fair and recreation board in the county, the chairman of the board of county commissioners, of the three counties that paid the largest amount of the proceeds from the taxes imposed on the revenue from the rental of transient lodging to the department of taxation for deposit with the state treasurer for credit to the fund for the promotion of tourism created by NRS 231.250 for the previous fiscal year are ex officio but nonvoting members of the commission. A change in any member of the commission who serves pursuant to the provisions of this subsection that is required because of a change in the amount of the proceeds paid to the department of taxation by each county must be effective on January 1 of the calendar year immediately following the fiscal year in which the proceeds were paid to the department of taxation.

4. The governor shall appoint : [at least one member who is a resident of:]

(a) At least one member who is a resident of Clark County.

(b) At least one member who is a resident of Washoe County.

(c) [A county] Two members who are residents of counties whose population is [35,000] 50,000 or less.

(d) One member who is a resident of any county in this state.".

Amend sec. 7, page 9, by deleting lines 5 through 19 and inserting:

"1. "Artist" means an actor, musician, dancer or athlete.

2. "Production" means:

(a) A stage production [; or

(b) A] or a motion picture, as that term is defined in NRS 231.020, that uses artists [.] ; or

(b) A television production, concert, trade show, exhibition, convention or sporting event.

The term includes the technical personnel used to create and produce the production.

3. "Producer-promoter-employer" means a natural person who, or a firm, association or corporation which, supervises or finances a production or attempts to organize a production. The term also includes a company that, in connection with the production of a motion picture within this state:

(a) Is hired or established to organize or manage the payroll of the production and is the employer of record of any or all of the persons engaged in the production; or

(b) Is responsible for all of the debts and obligations incurred by a motion picture company in the production.".

Amend the title of the bill by deleting the fourth and fifth lines and inserting:

"privilege of conducting business in this state; increasing the membership of the commission on tourism; revising the".