Senate Joint Resolution No. 17–Senator Schneider

March 15, 1999

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Referred to Committee on Legislative Affairs and Operations

 

SUMMARY—Proposes to amend Nevada Constitution to extend terms of office for members of Assembly and Senate. (BDR C-1145)

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).

 

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

Nevada to extend the terms of office for the members of the Assembly and Senate.

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

1-2 Jointly, That sections 3 and 4 of article 4 of the Constitution of the State

1-3 of Nevada be amended to read as follows:

1-4 Sec. 3. 1. [The members] Members of the Assembly shall be chosen

1-5 biennially by the qualified electors of their respective districts, on the

1-6 Tuesday next after the first Monday in November and their term of office

1-7 shall be [two] 4 years from the day next after their election.

1-8 2. No person may be elected or appointed as a member of the

1-9 Assembly who has served in that office, or at the expiration of his current

1-10 term if he is so serving will have served, 12 years or more, from any

1-11 district of this state.

1-12 Sec. 4. 1. Senators shall be chosen at the same time and places as

1-13 members of the Assembly by the qualified electors of their respective

1-14 districts, and their term of Office shall be [four] 6 Years from the day next

1-15 after their election.

1-16 2. No person may be elected or appointed as a Senator who has served

1-17 in that office, or at the expiration of his current term if he is so serving will

1-18 have served, 12 years or more, from any district of this state.

1-19 And be it further

2-1 Resolved, That section 10 of article 17 of the Constitution of the State

2-2 of Nevada be amended to read as follows:

2-3 Sec . [:] 10. At the general election in A.D. Eighteen hundred and

2-4 Sixty Six; [and thereafter,] the term of Senators shall be for Four Years

2-5 from the day succeeding such general election, and members of Assembly

2-6 for Two Years from the day succeeding such general election, and the

2-7 terms of Senators shall be allotted by the Legislature in long and short

2-8 terms as hereinbefore provided; so that one half the number as nearly as

2-9 may be, shall be elected every Two Years.

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