Amendment No. 221

 

Senate Amendment to Senate Bill No. 143                                                                         (BDR 20‑419)

Proposed by: Committee on Government Affairs

Amendment Box: Replaces Amendment No. 91.

Resolves Conflicts with: N/A

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 section 1, page 1, by deleting lines 7 and 8 and inserting:

     “2.  The money and property entrusted to the care of, and the fees or compensation received by the public administrators of the”.

     Amend the bill as a whole by deleting sections 2 through 19, renumbering sec. 20 as sec. 4 and adding new sections designated sections 2 and 3, following section 1, to read as follows:

     “Sec. 2.  NRS 253.010 is hereby amended to read as follows:

     253.010 1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection [3,] 4, public administrators must be elected by the qualified electors of their respective counties.

     2.  Public administrators must be chosen by the electors of their respective counties at the general election in 1922 and at the general election every 4 years thereafter, and shall enter upon the duties of their office on the 1st Monday of January [subsequent to] after their election.

     3.  In a county whose population is 100,000 or more, the public administrator must:

     (a) Be a qualified elector of the county;

     (b) Be at least 21 years of age on the date he will take office;

     (c) Not have been convicted of a felony for which his civil rights have not been restored by a court of competent jurisdiction;

     (d) Not have been found liable in a civil action involving a finding of fraud, misrepresentation, material omission, misappropriation, theft or conversion; and

     (e) Possess:

          (1) A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business or public administration from a college or university that is accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education;

          (2) A juris doctor from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association;

          (3) A juris doctor from a law school other than a law school accredited by the American Bar Association if he has also been admitted to practice law by examination in any jurisdiction of the United States; or

          (4) At least 3 years of full-time work experience in a professional capacity in a field related to wills, trusts, estates, probate law or creditors’ claims.

     4.  The district attorneys of Lander, Lincoln and White Pine Counties are ex officio public administrators of Lander County, Lincoln County and White Pine County, respectively. The Clerk of Carson City shall serve as Public Administrator of Carson City.

     Sec. 3.  The amendatory provisions of section 2 of this act apply to public administrators appointed or elected after July 1, 2003.”.

     Amend the title of the bill to read as follows:

“AN ACT relating to public administrators; revising the qualifications for public administrators in certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.”.

     Amend the summary of the bill to read as follows:

“SUMMARY—Revises qualifications for public administrators in certain counties. (BDR 20-419)”.