MINUTES OF THE meeting

of the

ASSEMBLY Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics

 

Seventy-Second Session

May 29, 2003

 

 

The Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethicswas called to order at 3:13 p.m., on Thursday, May 29, 2003.  Chairwoman Chris Giunchigliani presided in Room 3138 of the Legislative Building, Carson City, Nevada.  Exhibit A is the Agenda.  Exhibit B is the Guest List.  All exhibits are available and on file at the Research Library of the Legislative Counsel Bureau.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT:

 

Ms. Chris Giunchigliani, Chairwoman

Mr. Marcus Conklin, Vice Chairman

Mr. Bernie Anderson

Mr. Chad Christensen

Mr. Tom Grady

Ms. Kathy McClain

Mr. Bob McCleary

Ms. Peggy Pierce

Ms. Valerie Weber

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS ABSENT:

 

Mr. Bob Beers

 

GUEST LEGISLATORS PRESENT:

 

None

 

STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT:

 

Michelle Van Geel, Committee Policy Analyst

Kelly Fisher, Committee Secretary

 

OTHERS PRESENT:

 

None

 

Senate Concurrent Resolution 13 (1st Reprint):  Directs Legislative Committee on Health Care to conduct interim study concerning medical and societal costs and impacts of obesity in Nevada. (BDR R-25)

 

Chairwoman Giunchigliani:

[Roll called]  The only business is that I was going to ask the Committee if you would consider rescinding what we did with the letter for S.C.R. 13 for Senator Wiener.  She would like to have the statutory Health Care Committee deal with the obesity issue.  I asked her if we could amend her bill to reduce the number of charges that are contained. 

 

I worked with Yvonne Silva from the Division of Health, and I talked with Mrs. Koivisto, who was Chair of Health.  There will be four members only.  If you would look at your book, I’ll tell you which sections they are suggesting to eliminate.  If you go to page 3 where the “resolves” are, Ms. Silva and Senator Wiener are suggesting that we delete item 1, keep point 2 but renumber it as one of the evaluation components that would come, that they would keep items 5 and 8 as assessments that needed to be done, and that recommendations would come from points 7 and 9.  Basically, we would delete 1, 3, 4, 6, and we would keep 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 11. 

 

Assemblyman Christensen:

So 9 goes away?

 

Chairwoman Giunchigliani:

Nine goes away as well.  We are deleting 1, 3, 4, 6, and 9; 5 and 8 are assessments; evaluations 2, 7, and 10 are recommendations.

 

Assemblyman Conklin:

What’s 11?

 

Chairwoman Giunchigliani:

Eleven would be the proposals.  That’s just standard language.

Assemblyman Christensen:

I know you started out with why these are being removed.  Who had the concern?

 

Chairwoman Giunchigliani:

I thought maybe by doing just a letter might have sufficed rather than processing it.  It did not.  I’ve been asked to reconsider what we did with sending a letter out and still allow this to go to the statutory Health Care Committee for a short-term study.  I talked with the Chair of the committee, Mrs. Koivisto, and Senator Wiener, and Senator Wiener discussed this with Yvonne Sylva from the Health Division, who is actually the one overseeing that.  I said, “Can we cut down the volume since it’s a narrower focus?”

 

I guess I would ask for a motion first to rescind our action whereby we were going to send a letter to the Board of Health.

 

ASSEMBLYMAN CONKLIN MOVED TO RESCIND THE COMMITTEE’S ACTION ON S.C.R. 13.

 

ASSEMBLYMAN CHRISTENSEN SECONDED THE MOTION.

 

THE MOTION CARRIED.  (Mr. Anderson and Mr. Beers were not present for the vote.)

 

Chairwoman Giunchigliani:

Then we would amend and do pass, deleting items 1, 3, 4, 6, and 9 and then renumber accordingly.

 

ASSEMBLYWOMAN McCLAIN MOVED TO AMEND AND DO PASS S.C.R. 13 WITH THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS: Delete 1, 3, 4, 6, AND 9 AND RENUMBER ACCORDINGLY.

 

ASSEMBLYMAN McCLEARY SECONDED THE MOTION.

 

THE MOTION CARRIED.  (Mr. Beers was not present for the vote.)

 

[Chairwoman Giunchigliani recessed the meeting at 3:19 p.m.]

 

 

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED:

 

 

 

                                                           

Kelly Fisher

Committee Secretary

 

 

APPROVED BY:

 

 

 

                                                                                         

Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani, Chairman

 

 

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