Senate Bill No. 57–Senator Carlton

 

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AN ACT relating to legislators; prohibiting a private contract of employment that provides for a loss of job seniority for a legislator because of the legislator’s attendance at certain meetings during the legislative interim; requiring public and certain private employers to grant leave for employees who are legislators to attend certain meetings during the legislative interim; 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 218.044 is hereby amended to read as follows:

   218.044  1.  [On and after April 8, 1967, no] No contract of

 employment wherein a private individual, corporation, association or

 partnership is the employer is lawful or enforceable in this state which

 works a loss of job seniority of any person by reason of his absence from

 his regular duties or place of employment while attending a regular or

 special session of the legislature of this state as a member thereof[.] or

 while attending a meeting for which leave is required pursuant to

 subsection 3.

   2.  The presence in a general contract between employer and employees

 or their representative of any provision which violates subsection 1 does

 not affect the validity of any other and separable provision.

   3.  Any private employer who has more than 50 employees or any

 public employer who employs a person who is a member of the

 legislature shall grant leave to the employee, with or without pay at the

 discretion of the employer, for the employee’s attendance during the

 legislative interim at a:

   (a) Meeting of the legislative commission of which the employee is a

 member or a subcommittee of the legislative commission of which the

 employee is a member;

   (b) Meeting of the interim finance committee of which the employee is

 a member or other legislative committee or subcommittee created by

 statute of which the employee is a member;

   (c) Meeting of an interim committee which conducts a study or

 investigation pursuant to subsection 5 of NRS 218.682 of which the

 employee is a member or any other committee established by the

 legislature which conducts an interim legislative study of which the

 employee is a member; or

   (d) Meeting of a committee, other than a legislative committee, if the

 employee is a member of the committee in his official capacity as a

 legislator.

   Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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