Senate Bill No. 137–Committee on Finance

 

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AN ACT relating to courts; increasing the number of district judges in the second and eighth judicial districts; increasing the number of district judges in the second and eighth judicial districts who must be judges of the family court; making appropriations; 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 3.012 is hereby amended to read as follows:

   3.012  For the second judicial district there must be [11] 12 district

 judges, [3] 4 of whom must be judges of the family court.

   Sec. 2.  NRS 3.018 is hereby amended to read as follows:

   3.018  For the eighth judicial district there must be [30] 33 district

 judges, [11] 12 of whom must be judges of the family court.

   Sec. 3.  The additional district judge required for the second judicial

 district pursuant to section 1 of this act and the additional district judges

 required for the eighth judicial district pursuant to section 2 of this act

 must be selected at the general election held on November 5, 2002, and

 take office on January 6, 2003. The terms of these judges expire on

 January 5, 2009.

   Sec. 4.  1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund

 to the district judges’ salary account the sum of $81,588 for the salary of

 the additional district judge required pursuant to section 1 of this act.

   2.  There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to the

 district judges’ salary account the sum of $244,764 for the salaries of the

 additional district judges required pursuant to section 2 of this act.

   3.  Any remaining balance of the appropriations made by subsections 1

 and 2 must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 2003, and

 reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money

 committed have been made.

   Sec. 5.  The provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 354.599 do not apply

 to any additional expenses of a local government that are related to the

 provisions of this act.

   Sec. 6.  1.  This section and sections 3 and 5 of this act become

 effective on October 1, 2001.

   2.  Section 4 of this act becomes effective on January 1, 2003.

   3.  Sections 1 and 2 of this act become effective at 12:01 a.m. on

 January 6, 2003.

 

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