2001 REGULAR SESSION (71st) A AB326 819
ASSEMBLY ACTION Initial and Date |SENATE ACTION Initial and Date
Adopted Lost | Adopted Lost
Concurred In Not |Concurred In Not
Receded Not | Receded Not
Amend section 1, page 1, by deleting line 13 and inserting:
“(2) The salary paid to its officers and employees who attend more than 40 days of a legislative session; and”.
Amend the bill as a whole by adding new sections designated sections 3 and 4, following sec. 2, to read as follows:
“Sec. 3. NRS 218.912 is hereby amended to read as follows:
218.912 1. “Lobbyist” means, except as limited by subsection 2, a person who:
(a) Appears in person in the legislative building or any other building in which the legislature or any of its standing committees hold meetings; and
(b) Communicates directly with a member of the legislative branch on behalf of someone other than himself to influence legislative action whether or not any compensation is received for the communication.
2. “Lobbyist” does not include:
(a) Persons who confine their activities to formal appearances before legislative committees and who clearly identify themselves and the interest or interests for whom they are testifying.
(b) Employees of a bona fide news medium who meet the definition of “lobbyist” only in the course of their professional duties and who contact members of the legislature for the sole purpose of carrying out their news gathering function.
(c) Employees of departments, divisions or agencies of the state government who appear before legislative committees only to explain the effect of legislation related to their departments, divisions or agencies [.] , except employees of the University and Community College System of Nevada.
(d) Employees of the legislature, legislators, legislative agencies or legislative commissions.
(e) Elected officers of this state and its political subdivisions who confine their lobbying activities to issues directly related to the scope of the office to which they were elected.
(f) Persons who contact the members of the legislature who are elected from the district in which they reside.
Sec. 4. NRS 396.340 is hereby amended to read as follows:
396.340 1. The University and Community College System of Nevada was, and now is, established in accordance with the provisions of the constitution of the State of Nevada, and also in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act donating Public Lands to the several States and Territories which may provide Colleges for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts,” approved July 2, 1862 (c. 130, 12 Stat. 503), and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
2. The board of regents are the proper trustees of the system to receive and disburse all appropriations made to this state under the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled “An act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,” approved August 30, 1890 (c. 841, 26 Stat. 419), and all appropriations hereafter to be made under the act.
3. The board of regents shall make a report at the end of each fiscal year, in connection with its annual report to the governor, of other matters concerning the system, including the amounts received and disbursed under the provisions of this section. The governor shall transmit all annual reports to the legislature.
4. In each year in which the legislature convenes, if the board of regents expends more than $6,000 on activities designed to influence the passage or defeat of any legislation, the board shall file with the governor within 30 days after the close of the legislative session a report supplemental to its annual report made pursuant to subsection 3 which includes separate items for expenses relating to that activity, including, without limitation:
(a) Transportation.
(b) The amount of money spent on:
(1) The lodging and meals of its officers, lobbyists and employees;
(2) The salary paid to its officers and employees who attend more than 40 days of a legislative session; and
(3) Compensation paid to any lobbyists, to the extent that such information does not duplicate the information required pursuant to subparagraphs (1) and (2).
(c) The amount of money spent on entertainment, gifts or other expenses which are required to be reported pursuant to NRS 218.900 to 218.944, inclusive.
(d) The amount of money spent in Carson City on supplies, equipment and facilities and other personnel and services needed to support the activity.
(e) An identification of the fund, account or other source against which the expenses were charged.
5. The board of regents shall make a copy of the supplemental report available for inspection within 30 days after the close of the legislative session.
6. The board of regents shall include in its annual report to the governor made pursuant to subsection 3 a separate statement of the anticipated expenses relating to activities designed to influence the passage or defeat of any legislation, setting forth each separate category of expenditure that is required to be included in a supplemental report pursuant to subsection 4.
7. The legislature of Nevada hereby gratefully assents to the purposes of all grants of money made heretofore and all which may hereafter be made to the State of Nevada by Congress, under the Act of Congress, the title of which is recited in subsection 2, and agrees that the grants must be used only for the purposes named in the Act of Congress, or acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.”.
Amend the title of the bill to read as follows:
“AN ACT relating to lobbying; modifying the list of separate items that a local government is required to include in a supplemental budgetary report of expenses relating to activities designed to influence the passage or defeat of legislation; providing that the budget of a local government must include a separate statement detailing such anticipated expenses; requiring the board of regents of the University and Community College System of Nevada to include a list of expenses relating to activities designed to influence the passage of defeat or legislation in its annual report to the governor; requiring the board of regents to include a separate statement detailing such anticipated expense in its annual report to the governor; specifying that employees of the University and Community College System of Nevada are not excluded from the definition of “lobbyist” for purposes of the Nevada Lobbying Disclosure Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.”.
Amend the summary of the bill to read as follows:
“SUMMARY—Makes various changes concerning disclosures relating to lobbying. (BDR 31‑496)”.