Amendment No. 827

 

Senate Amendment to Assembly Bill No. 528  First Reprint                                                (BDR 24‑559)

Proposed by: Committee on Government Affairs

Amendment Box: Replaces Amendments Nos. 682 and 771. Resolves conflict in section 15 with section 3 of A.B. No. 233.

Resolves Conflicts with: AB233

Amends:         Summary:               Title:              Preamble:               Joint Sponsorship:

 

ASSEMBLY ACTION              Initial and Date              |SENATE ACTION                        Initial and Date

       Adopted       Lost                                               |          Adopted       Lost                                           

Concurred In                     Not                                                        |Concurred In  Not                                       

       Receded        Not                                               |         Receded        Not                                           

 

     Amend sec. 20, page 16, by deleting lines 35 through 37 and inserting:

“for his office or a candidate for such an office must not exceed a total of $100 if the public officer or candidate received no contributions and made no expenditures during the relevant reporting periods.”.

     Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sec. 22 as sec. 23 and adding a new section designated sec. 22, following sec. 21, to read as follows:

     “Sec. 22.  Section 11 of Assembly Bill No. 233 of this session is hereby amended to read as follows:

     Sec. 11.  NRS 293C.370 is hereby amended to read as follows:

     293C.370  Except as otherwise provided in section 3 of this act:

     1.  Whenever a candidate whose name appears upon the ballot at a primary city election dies after 5 p.m. of the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March, his name must remain on the ballot and the votes cast for the deceased candidate must be counted in determining the nomination for the office for which the decedent was a candidate.

     2.  If the deceased candidate on the ballot at the primary city election receives the number of votes required to receive the nomination to the office for which he was a candidate, the nomination is filled as provided in subsection 2 of NRS 293C.190.

     3.  Whenever a candidate whose name appears upon the ballot at a general city election dies after 5p.m. of the second Tuesday after the second Monday in April, the votes cast for the deceased candidate must be counted in determining the results of the election for the office for which the decedent was a candidate.

     4.  If the deceased candidate on the ballot at the general electionreceives the majority of the votes cast for the office, he shall be deemed elected and the office to which he was elected shall be deemed vacant at the beginning of the term for which he was elected. The vacancy created must be filled in the same manner as if the candidate had died after taking office for that term.”.

     Amend the title of the bill, pages 1 and 2, by deleting the twenty-third line on page 1 and the first and second lines on page 2, and inserting:

“filing late campaign reports against certain public officers or candidates for public office; and providing other matters properly”.