(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Senate Bill No. 57–Senator Carlton

 

Prefiled January 29, 2001

 

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Referred to Committee on Legislative Affairs and Operations

 

SUMMARY—Requires employers to grant leave for legislators to attend certain meetings during legislative interim. (BDR 17‑157)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

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:

 

1-1    Section 1. NRS 218.044 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2    218.044  1.  [On and after April 8, 1967, no] No contract of

1-3  employment wherein a private individual, corporation, association or

1-4  partnership is the employer is lawful or enforceable in this state which

1-5  works a loss of job seniority of any person by reason of his absence from

1-6  his regular duties or place of employment while attending a regular or

1-7  special session of the legislature of this state as a member thereof[.] or

1-8  while attending a meeting for which leave is required pursuant to

1-9  subsection 3.

1-10    2.  The presence in a general contract between employer and employees

1-11  or their representative of any provision which violates subsection 1 does

1-12  not affect the validity of any other and separable provision.

1-13    3.  Any private employer who has more than 50 employees or any

1-14  public employer who employs a person who is a member of the

1-15  legislature shall grant leave to the employee, with or without pay at the

1-16  discretion of the employer, for the employee’s attendance during the

1-17  legislative interim at a:

2-1    (a) Meeting of the legislative commission of which the employee is a

2-2  member or a subcommittee of the legislative commission of which the

2-3  employee is a member;

2-4    (b) Meeting of the interim finance committee of which the employee is

2-5  a member or other legislative committee or subcommittee created by

2-6  statute of which the employee is a member;

2-7    (c) Meeting of an interim committee which conducts a study or

2-8  investigation pursuant to subsection 5 of NRS 218.682 of which the

2-9  employee is a member or any other committee established by the

2-10  legislature which conducts an interim legislative study of which the

2-11  employee is a member; or

2-12    (d) Meeting of a committee, other than a legislative committee, if the

2-13  employee is a member of the committee in his official capacity as a

2-14  legislator.

2-15    Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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