(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Assembly Joint Resolution No. 3–Committee on
Constitutional Amendments

 

February 15, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments

 

SUMMARY—Proposes to amend Nevada Constitution to revise provisions governing right to vote and to repeal certain obsolete provisions. (BDR C‑1009)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                     Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

Assembly Joint RESOLUTION—Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of Nevada to revise provisions governing the right to vote and to repeal an obsolete provision relating to the election of United States Senators.

 

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

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

1-3  Nevada be amended to read as follows:

1-4    Section 1. All citizens of the United States (not laboring under the

1-5  disabilities named in this constitution) of the age of eighteen years and

1-6  upwards, who shall have actually, and not constructively, resided in the

1-7  state six months, and in the district or county thirty days next preceding

1-8  any election, shall be entitled to vote for all officers that now or hereafter

1-9  may be elected by the people, and upon all questions submitted to the

1-10  electors at such election; provided, that no person who has been or may be

1-11  convicted of treason or felony in any state or territory of the United States,

1-12  unless restored to civil rights, and no [idiot or insane] person who has been

1-13  adjudicated mentally incompetent, unless restored to legal capacity, shall

1-14  be entitled to the privilege of an elector. There shall be no denial of the

1-15  elective franchise at any election on account of sex. The legislature may

1-16  provide by law the conditions under which a citizen of the United States

1-17  who does not have the status of an elector in another state and who does

1-18  not meet the residence requirements of this section may vote in this state

1-19  for President and Vice President of the United States.

1-20  And be it further

1-21      Resolved, That section 34 of article 4 of the Constitution of the State

1-22  of Nevada is hereby repealed.

 

2-1  TEXT OF REPEALED SECTION

 

2-2    Sec. 34.  Election of United States Senators.  In all elections for

2-3   United States Senators, such elections shall be held in joint convention of

2-4   both Houses of the Legislature. It shall be the duty of the Legislature

2-5   which convenes next preceding the expiration of the term of such Senator,

2-6   to elect his successor. If a vacancy in such Senatorial representation from

2-7   any cause occur, it shall be the duty of the Legislature then in Session or at

2-8   the succeeding Session thereof, to supply such vacancy [.] If the

2-9   Legislature shall at any time as herein provided, fail to unite in a joint

2-10   convention within twenty days after the commencement of the Session of

2-11   the Legislature for the election [of] such Senator it shall be the duty of the

2-12   Governor, by proclamation to convene the two Houses of the Legislature

2-13   in joint convention, within not less than five days nor exceeding ten days

2-14   from the publication of his proclamation, and the joint convention when so

2-15   assembled shall proceed to elect the Senator as herein provided.

 

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