Assembly Bill No. 148–Assemblyman Brower

 

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AN ACT relating to the judicial department; revising provisions to allow stays of court proceedings if a legislator was hired as an attorney before the start of a legislative session regardless of whether the legislator was hired before the action was commenced; 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 1.310 is hereby amended to read as follows:

   1.310  1.  If a party to any action or proceeding in any court or before

 any administrative body is a member of the legislature of the State of

 Nevada, or is president of the senate, [such fact shall be] that fact is

 sufficient cause for the adjournment or continuance of [such] the action or

 proceeding , including, without limitation, any discovery or other pretrial

 or posttrial matter involved in the action or proceeding, for the duration

 of any legislative session.

   2.  If an attorney for a party to any action or proceeding in any court or

 before any administrative body, who was actually employed [prior to]

 before the commencement of [such action or proceeding,] any legislative

 session, is a member of the legislature of the State of Nevada, or is

 president of the senate, [such fact shall be] that fact is sufficient cause for

 the adjournment or continuance of [such] the action or proceeding ,

 including, without limitation, any discovery or other pretrial or posttrial

 matter involved in the action or proceeding, for the duration of any

 legislative session.

   3.  The adjournment or continuance provided for in subsections 1 and 2

 [shall] must be granted without the imposition of terms.

 

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