Senate Bill No. 148–Committee on Government Affairs

 

February 18, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Legislative Affairs and Operations

 

SUMMARY—Provides for joint requesters on list of requests for preparation of legislative measures. (BDR 17‑286)

 

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 the Legislature; providing for joint legislative requesters on the list of requests for the preparation of legislative measures published by the Legislative Counsel; 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 218.2475 is hereby amended to read as

1-2  follows:

1-3  218.2475  1.  On July 1 preceding each regular session of the

1-4  Legislature, and each week thereafter until the adjournment of the

1-5  Legislature sine die, the Legislative Counsel shall prepare a list of

1-6  all requests received by him, for the preparation of measures to be

1-7  submitted to the Legislature. The requests must be listed

1-8  numerically by a unique serial number which must be assigned to

1-9  the measures by the Legislative Counsel for the purposes of

1-10  identification in the order that he received the requests. Except as

1-11  otherwise provided in [subsection 3,] subsections 3 and 4, the list

1-12  must only contain the name of each requester, the date and a brief

1-13  summary of the request.

1-14      2.  The Legislative Counsel Bureau shall make copies of the list

1-15  available to the public for a reasonable sum fixed by the Legislative

1-16  Commission upon the recommendation of the Director of the

1-17  Legislative Counsel Bureau.

2-1  3.  In preparing the list, the Legislative Counsel shall:

2-2  (a) Not include the name of the Legislator who has requested the

2-3  preparation of a measure until:

2-4       (1) The particular measure is introduced in the Legislature;

2-5  or

2-6       (2) The Legislator requests that his name be disclosed as the

2-7  requester of the measure,

2-8  whichever occurs first.

2-9  (b) If a standing or special committee of the Legislature requests

2-10  a measure on behalf of a Legislator or organization, include the

2-11  name of the standing or special committee and the name of the

2-12  Legislator or organization on whose behalf the measure was

2-13  originally requested.

2-14      4.  Upon the request of a Legislator who has requested the

2-15  preparation of a measure and requested that his name be disclosed

2-16  pursuant to subsection 3, the Legislative Counsel shall add the

2-17  name of one or more Legislators from either or both houses of the

2-18  Legislature as joint requesters. The Legislative Counsel shall not

2-19  add the name of a joint requester to the list until he has received

2-20  confirmation of the joint request from the primary requester of the

2-21  measure and from the Legislator to be added as a joint requester.

2-22  The Legislative Counsel shall remove the name of a joint

2-23  requester upon receipt of a request to do so made by the primary

2-24  requester or the joint requester. The names must appear on the list

2-25  in the order in which the names were received by the Legislative

2-26  Counsel beginning with the primary requester. The Legislative

2-27  Counsel shall not act upon the direction of a joint requester to

2-28  withdraw the requested measure or modify its substance until the

2-29  Legislative Counsel has received confirmation of the withdrawal

2-30  or modification from the primary requester. For the purposes of

2-31  all limitations on the number of legislative measures that may be

2-32  requested by a Legislator, a legislative measure with joint

2-33  requesters must only be counted as a request of the primary

2-34  requester.

 

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