2001 REGULAR SESSION (71st)                                                                            A AB500 348

Amendment No. 348

 

Assembly Amendment to Assembly Bill No. 500                                                                  (BDR S‑386)

Proposed by: Committee on Judiciary

Amendment Box:

Resolves Conflicts with: N/A

Amends:         Summary:              Title:              Preamble:               Joint Sponsorship:

 

Adoption of this amendment will MAINTAIN an unfunded mandate not requested by the affected local government to AB500 (§ 2).

 

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 renumbering sections 1 and 2 as sections 2 and 3 and adding a new section designated section 1, following the enacting clause, to read as follows:

   “Section 1. Chapter 289 of NRS is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto to read as follows:

     1.  A peace officer shall not engage in racial profiling.

     2.  No retaliatory or punitive action may be taken against a peace officer who discloses information concerning racial profiling.

     3.  For purposes of this section, “racial profiling” means reliance by a peace officer upon the race, ethnicity or national origin of a person as a factor in initiating action when the race, ethnicity or national origin of the person is not part of an identifying description of a specific suspect for a specific crime.”.

     Amend section 1, page 1, by deleting lines 2 through 4 and inserting:

“stops by the Nevada Highway Patrol and in counties whose population is 100,000 or more by metropolitan police departments, sheriffs and their deputies, and city police chiefs and their deputies. Each such law”.

   Amend section 1, page 1, by deleting lines 6 through 8 and inserting:

     “2.  To carry out this study, the Attorney General shall, based upon the recommendations of the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety and the heads of the affected local law enforcement agencies, prescribe the form and manner of collecting and transmitting information regarding each traffic stop. The information required to be collected and transmitted to the Attorney General must include,”.

     Amend sec. 2, page 2, by deleting line 33 and inserting:

     “Sec. 3.  1.  This section and section 2 of this act become effective upon”.

     Amend sec. 2, page 2, line 35, by deleting “section 1” and inserting “section 2”.

     Amend sec. 2, page 2, after line 35, by inserting:

     “2.  Section 1 of this act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.”.

     Amend the title of the bill, second line, after “by” by inserting:

“the Nevada Highway Patrol and by”.

     Amend the summary of the bill to read as follows:

“SUMMARY—Directs Attorney General to conduct study of traffic stops by Nevada Highway Patrol and by law enforcement officers in certain counties. (BDR 23‑386)”.