2001 REGULAR SESSION (71st)                                                                          A AB482 1036

Amendment No. 1036

 

Senate Amendment to Assembly Bill No. 482                                                                   (BDR 42‑1024)

Proposed by: Committee on Human Resources and Facilities

Amendment Box: Replaces Amendment No. 947. Resolves conflict with A.B. No. 135. Makes substantive changes.

Resolves Conflicts with: AB135

Amends:         Summary:              Title:              Preamble:               Joint Sponsorship:

 

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 the bill as a whole by deleting sections 1 through 11 and adding new sections designated sections 1 and 2, following the enacting clause, to read as follows:

     “Section 1.  Chapter 41 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:

     Except as otherwise provided in this section, there is a rebuttable presumption that a person who causes personal injury, death or damage to real or personal property through the use of fireworks acted negligently in causing such injury or damage. This presumption does not apply to a person who causes such injury, death or damage through a commercial display of fireworks.

     Sec. 2.  The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to an action filed or a proceeding commenced before October 1, 2001.”.

     Amend the title of the bill to read as follows:

“AN ACT relating to fireworks; establishing a rebuttable presumption that a person who causes personal injury, death or damage to property through the use of fireworks acted negligently; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.”.

     Amend the summary of the bill to read as follows:

“SUMMARY—Establishes rebuttable presumption that person who causes personal injury, death or damage to property through use of fireworks acted negligently. (BDR 3‑1024)”.