MINUTES OF THE Floor meeting

of the

ASSEMBLY Committee on Judiciary

 

Seventy-Second Session

June 1, 2003

 

 

The Committee on Judiciarywas called to order at 10:30 a.m., on Sunday, June 1, 2003, behind the Bar of the Assembly by Chairman Bernie Anderson.  Exhibit A is the Agenda.  All exhibits are available and on file at the Research Library of the Legislative Counsel Bureau.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT:

 

Mr. Bernie Anderson, Chairman

Mr. John Oceguera, Vice Chairman

Mrs. Sharron Angle

Mr. David Brown

Mr. John C. Carpenter

Mr. Jerry D. Claborn

Mr. Marcus Conklin

Mr. Jason Geddes

Mr. Don Gustavson

Mr. Harry Mortenson

Ms. Genie Ohrenschall

Mr. Rod Sherer

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS ABSENT:

 

Ms. Barbara Buckley

Mr. William Horne

Mr. Garn Mabey

 

STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT:

 

Allison Combs, Committee Policy Analyst

Risa B. Lang, Committee Counsel

Deborah Rengler, Committee Secretary

Chairman Anderson declared a quorum was present and noted that each Committee member had received a copy of the bill explanation (Exhibit B) prepared by the bill drafters for Assembly Bill 552.

 

Assembly Bill 552:  Making technical corrections to certain measures previously approved by 72nd Session of Nevada Legislature. (BDR S-1367)

 

He then asked Risa Lang, Committee Counsel, to explain Assembly Bill 552.

 

Risa Lang, Committee Counsel, explained that almost every session the Legal Division was tasked with cleaning up errors identified from the previous session.  Assembly Bill 552 made corrections to a number of Assembly and Senate bills passed this session wherein errors have already been identified, rather than waiting until codification.

 

Assemblywoman Ohrenschall asked why this might be the last bill of this type.

 

Ms. Lang responded that Assembly Bill 38, which ratified technical corrections made to the Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) and the Statutes of Nevada, also gave the Legal Division the ability to make all such technical changes without further legislative action.  Consequently, only substantive changes requiring legislative review would need to be brought before the Legislature at the beginning of each session.

 

Assemblyman Sherer asked which counties had a population of 40,000 or more.

 

Assemblywoman Ohrenschall asked whether a better question was which counties had a population of less than 40,000.

 

Discussion ensued among the Committee members regarding which counties might be affected.

 

Ms. Lang noted that while the 40,000 figure did reflect a population count, it had been set as a statutory limit, similar to those of 100,000 and 400,000.  Also, the 40,000 was a statutory limit already existing within the NRS.

 

Allison Combs, Committee Policy Analyst, commented that she could provide members with a list of the various county populations (Exhibit C).

 

Chairman Anderson commented that as a member of the Assembly Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics, he was familiar with Assembly Bill 293, which was the subject of the correction in Section 1 of Assembly Bill 552. 

 

Chairman Anderson entertained a motion on Assembly Bill 552.

 

ASSEMBLYMAN CARPENTER MOVED TO DO PASS A.B. 552.

 

ASSEMBLYWOMAN OHRENSCHALL SECONDED THE MOTION.

 

THE MOTION CARRIED.  (Ms. Buckley, Mr. Horne, and Mr. Mabey were absent for the vote.)

 

Chairman Anderson recessed the meeting at 10:45 a.m. to the call of the Chair.

 

There being no further business for consideration, Chairman Anderson adjourned the meeting at 5 p.m.

 

 

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED:

 

 

 

                                                           

Deborah Rengler

Committee Secretary

 

 

APPROVED BY:

 

 

 

                                                                                         

Assemblyman Bernie Anderson, Chairman

 

 

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