1. Senate Bill No. 401–Committee on Judiciary

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AN ACT relating to courts; increasing the number of district judges in the eighth judicial

district; increasing the number of those district judges who must be judges of the

family court; 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:

Section 1. NRS 3.018 is hereby amended to read as follows:

  1. 3.018 For the eighth judicial district there must be [27] 30 district
  1. judges, [8] 11 of whom must be judges of the family court.

Sec. 2. The additional district judges required for the eighth judicial

district pursuant to section 1 of this act must be selected at the general

election held on November 7, 2000, and take office on January 1, 2001.

The terms of these judges expire on January 6, 2003.

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

the district judges’ salary account the sum of $199,500 for the salaries of

the additional district judges required pursuant to section 1 of this act.

2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by subsection 1

must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 2001, and reverts to

the state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have

been made.

Sec. 4. The provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 354.599 do not apply to

any additional expenses of a local government that are related to the

provisions of this act.

Sec. 5. 1. This section and sections 2 and 4 of this act become

effective on October 1, 1999.

2. Sections 1 and 3 of this act become effective on January 1, 2001.

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