Statutes of the State of Nevada - Seventy-First Session, 2001

 

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1AN ACT making an appropriation to the legislative fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 1—Senators Raggio and Titus. Approved February 8, 20011

 

2AN ACT relating to health care; revising the definitions of “practice of practical nursing” and “practice of professional nursing” to specify that a nurse may accept direction from a physician’s assistant; authorizing a registered nurse to possess and administer certain drugs and medicines at the direction of a physician’s assistant; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 78—Assemblymen Dini, Anderson, Price, Bache, Buckley, Chowning, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Humke, Koivisto, Marvel and Perkins. Approved March 9, 20011

 

3AN ACT relating to real estate; clarifying that an appraiser who completes a statement of visual condition that is required for a federally insured home loan is acting within the scope of his practice as an appraiser and is not subject to the provisions governing inspectors of structures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 153—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved March 22, 20014

 

4AN ACT relating to chiropractic; revising provisions governing the issuance of a license to practice chiropractic and a temporary license to practice chiropractic; increasing the number of chiropractic assistants that a chiropractor may supervise; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 32—Assemblywoman Gibbons. Approved March 22, 20015

 

5AN ACT relating to property taxes; authorizing the payment of taxes assessed upon personal property in installments under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 64—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 27, 20017

 

6AN ACT relating to judges; amending the charter of the City of Las Vegas to extend the terms of municipal judges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 22—Assemblyman Lee. Approved March 27, 200110

 

7AN ACT relating to crimes; clarifying that a person convicted of a battery that constitutes domestic violence within 7 years before or after the principal offense has committed a prior offense for the purposes of determining a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 107—Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 27, 200111

 

8AN ACT relating to children; authorizing a director of juvenile services to create and administer a fund to finance a program of restitution through work; limiting the amount that may be deducted from the wages of a child in a program of restitution through work; authorizing a director of juvenile services to create and administer a fund to finance a program of cognitive training and human development; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 7—Senator Wiener. Approved April 2, 200113

 

9AN ACT relating to real property; requiring the seller of a home or improved lot that is adjacent to open range to disclose to the purchaser information regarding grazing on open range; providing that compliance with the requirement of disclosure constitutes an affirmative defense in certain actions brought against the seller; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 16—Senator Rhoads. Approved April 2, 200117

 

10AN ACT relating to statutes; ratifying technical corrections made to sections of NRS and to multiple amendments of sections of NRS; correcting the effective date of, correcting certain provisions in and repealing certain provisions in Statutes of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 29—Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 2, 200118

 

11AN ACT relating to children; revising the provision requiring the filing of an annual report regarding children placed under informal supervision; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 37—Senator Wiener. Approved April 2, 2001286

 

12AN ACT relating to conservation districts; revising the period for filling a vacancy in the office of supervisor of a district; revising the powers of a district and the supervisors thereof; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 84—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved April 2, 2001288

 

13AN ACT relating to taxes on motor vehicles; changing the designation of privilege taxes to governmental services taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 59—Senator Coffin. Approved April 9, 2001289

 

14AN ACT making appropriations for the purchase and light renovation by the Legislative Counsel Bureau of the Capitol Apartments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 199—Committee on Finance.  Approved April 10, 2001339

 

15AN ACT relating to banks; repealing the provisions establishing criminal penalties for certain acts in derogation of a bank; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 53—Senator Care. Approved April 10, 2001339

 

16AN ACT relating to utilities; revising and repealing various provisions governing the regulation of public utilities; preventing certain electric utilities from disposing of certain generation assets for a certain period; placing restrictions on the disposal of such assets after that period; requiring certain electric utilities to use deferred accounting under certain circumstances; repealing provisions pertaining to the competitive provision of retail electric service; requiring the public utilities commission of Nevada to take certain actions to carry out the provisions of this act; establishing certain requirements and making various changes relating to the rates charged by certain electric utilities; requiring certain entities to obtain approval from the commission before carrying out certain transactions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 369—Select Committee on Energy. Approved April 18, 2001340

 

17AN ACT relating to vital statistics; revising provisions governing the issuance of supplementary certificates of birth by the state registrar of vital statistics; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 12—Assemblyman Hettrick. Approved April 23, 2001360

 

18AN ACT relating to trade practices; requiring the attorney general to provide opinions for the consumer affairs division of the department of business and industry concerning certain questions relating to solicitation by telephone; requiring the commissioner of consumer affairs to make certain determinations concerning such solicitation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 151—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved April 23, 2001361

 

19AN ACT relating to fire protection; authorizing the accounts, bills and demands against certain county fire protection districts to be paid by the treasurer of the district if approved by the board of county commissioners and the board of directors of the district; revising the provisions governing the issuance of bonds by those districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 252—Assemblyman Brower. Joint Sponsor: Senator Jacobsen. Approved April 23, 2001361

 

20AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; establishing a deemed wage for certain trainees for the purpose of industrial insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 150—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved April 23, 2001363

 

21AN ACT relating to county hospitals; increasing the compensation of members of certain boards of hospital trustees for rural county hospitals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 14—Assemblyman Hettrick. Approved April 23, 2001364

 

22AN ACT relating to educational personnel; authorizing the commission on professional standards in education to adopt regulations that provide an exemption from the examinations required for initial licensure for certain teachers and other educational personnel with previous experience; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 223—Committee on Education.  Approved April 27, 2001365

 

23AN ACT making an appropriation to restore and increase the balance in the stale claims account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 587—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved April 27, 2001366

 

24AN ACT relating to attorneys; authorizing city attorneys to defend a person in a criminal proceeding under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 41—Assemblyman Dini. Joint Sponsor: Senator Amodei. Approved April 27, 2001366

 

25AN ACT relating to public lands; revising provisions relating to the authority of the state land registrar to make grants and enter into certain agreements to carry out certain programs in the Lake Tahoe Basin; authorizing local governments to enter into certain agreements for the use of grant money received from such programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 176—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved May 2, 2001367

 

26AN ACT relating to libraries; authorizing the board of county commissioners and governing body of city that initially formed consolidated library district to adopt resolutions which support or oppose in whole or in part a proposal for the issuance of general obligation bonds for the consolidated library district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 293—Assemblymen Williams, Arberry, Bache, Berman, Cegavske, Chowning, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Gustavson, Hettrick, Humke, Lee, Manendo, Nolan, Oceguera, Parnell, Price, Smith and Von Tobel. Approved May 2, 2001370

 

27AN ACT relating to libraries; establishing a procedure for the alteration of the boundaries of certain library districts; ratifying certain previously made alterations of the boundaries of certain library districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 441—Assemblyman Perkins. Approved May 2, 2001371

 

28AN ACT relating to physicians; providing for the issuance of a special volunteer medical license to a retired physician to treat indigent persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 271—Senators Carlton, Rawson, Care, Neal, O’Connell, Amodei, Coffin, McGinness, Schneider and Shaffer. Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Parks, Anderson, Dini, Goldwater, Hettrick, Neighbors and Von Tobel. Approved May 2, 2001373

 

29AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for the funding of shortfalls resulting from the 1998 reclassification of personnel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 236—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 8, 2001375

 

30AN ACT relating to administrative assessments; revising provisions governing the eligibility of certain agencies to receive a distribution of proceeds from administrative assessments to include the advisory council for prosecuting attorneys; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 548—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 8, 2001375

 

31AN ACT relating to the department of prisons; eliminating the provisions pertaining to contracts concerning the sale or donation of blood or blood plasma by offenders; providing for the transfer of money between certain accounts within the prisoners’ personal property fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 580—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 8, 2001378

 

32AN ACT relating to the motor vehicle revolving account; requiring the state board of examiners to determine the amount of money to be deposited in the account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 190—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 8, 2001380

 

33AN ACT relating to crimes; providing an enhanced penalty for the assault or battery of an employee of the state or a political subdivision of the state whose official duties require home visits; providing enhanced penalties for the assault or battery of certain persons by a probationer, prisoner or parolee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 31—Senator Carlton. Approved May 8, 2001380

 

34AN ACT relating to gaming; authorizing the gaming control board to order the removal of a gaming device from an establishment under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 100—Senator Neal. Approved May 8, 2001383

 

35AN ACT relating to public welfare; repealing certain provisions relating to assistance to homeless persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 110—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 8, 2001384

 

36AN ACT relating to victims of crime; removing certain limitations on the amount of compensation that may be provided for the loss of earnings and support and for the funeral expenses of certain victims of crime; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 282—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 8, 2001384

 

37AN ACT relating to local governments; restricting the amount a local government may place in an enterprise fund for building permit fees; authorizing a local government to maintain an amount of working capital in such an enterprise fund for certain purposes; requiring a local government to reduce the building permit fees it charges if an excess amount exists in such an enterprise fund at certain times; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 60—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 8, 2001385

 

38AN ACT relating to fuel taxes; requiring the allocation and remittance of money collected from certain taxes to be made directly to incorporated cities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 124—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 8, 2001387

 

39AN ACT relating to state emblems; designating the soil known as Orovada series soil as the official soil of this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 152—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 8, 2001392

 

40AN ACT relating to public securities; contingently authorizing the purchase of municipal and revenue securities by the state for the improvement, acquisition and construction of facilities for certain public schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 164—Senator O’Connell. Approved May 8, 2001392

 

41AN ACT relating to the City of Sparks; prospectively changing the time for the election of the officers of the City of Sparks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 312—Senator Washington. Approved May 8, 2001394

 

42AN ACT relating to the Tricounty Railway Commission; expanding the commission to include additional counties; changing the name of the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 334—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 8, 2001400

 

43AN ACT relating to state emblems; designating a state tartan; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 347—Senators Titus, James and O’Donnell. Approved May 8, 2001403

 

44AN ACT relating to cities; providing for the disincorporation of the City of Gabbs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 472—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 8, 2001404

 

45AN ACT relating to marks; providing remedies to the owner of a mark for the dilution of the mark; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 45—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 10, 2001405

 

46AN ACT relating to trade secrets; providing that a trade secret which is misappropriated and posted on the Internet remains a trade secret under certain circumstances; authorizing a court to issue an order or injunction requiring the immediate removal of a misappropriated trade secret from the Internet; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 50—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 10, 2001406

 

47AN ACT relating to advanced practitioners of nursing; authorizing an advanced practitioner of nursing to prescribe controlled substances under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 52—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 10, 2001407

 

48AN ACT relating to professions; expanding the subject matter of the examinations given by the state board of funeral directors, embalmers and operators of cemeteries and crematories to applicants for certain licenses; clarifying that an applicant for a license as an embalmer is exempt from taking certain portions of the examination given by the board under certain circumstances; exempting an applicant for a license as a funeral director from taking certain portions of the examination given by the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 281—Senator Shaffer. Approved May 10, 2001413

 

49AN ACT relating to public health; abolishing the bureau of alcohol and drug abuse of the department of human resources; transferring the powers and duties of the bureau to the health division of the department of human resources; requiring the state board of health to adopt regulations governing halfway houses for alcohol and drug abusers, facilities, programs and personnel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 300—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 10, 2001415

 

50AN ACT relating to local governments; revising the time for payment of interest on assessment bonds issued by local governments for local improvements; removing certain obsolete references; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 470—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 14, 2001444

 

51AN ACT relating to the charter of the City of Elko; renaming the board of supervisors as the city council; revising the duties of the city council; clarifying the regulatory authority of the city council; revising the requirements relating to notice for special and emergency meetings; renaming the vice president chosen by the city council as the mayor pro tempore; repealing certain provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 11—Assemblyman Carpenter. Approved May 14, 2001447

 

52AN ACT relating to hospitals; authorizing the appointment of a physician to serve on the board of trustees of a public hospital or a county hospital district under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 13—Assemblywoman Parnell. Approved May 14, 2001467

 

53AN ACT relating to the application of pesticides; revising the amount of insurance coverage required for a license to apply pesticides; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 30—Assemblyman de Braga. Approved May 14, 2001469

 

54AN ACT relating to common-interest communities; authorizing the notice of meetings of units’ owners and executive boards of associations of common-interest communities to be sent by electronic mail upon request; and providing other matters properly relating thereto Assembly Bill No. 38—Assemblyman Gustavson. Approved May 14, 2001470

 

55AN ACT relating to county jails; eliminating the requirement that a county jail be located at the county seat; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 55—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 14, 2001473

 

56AN ACT relating to garnishment; requiring a garnishee to submit his answers to garnishee interrogatories to the sheriff; limiting the amount of a judgment by default that may be rendered against certain garnishees who fail to answer such interrogatories; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 62—Assemblyman Anderson. Approved May 14, 2001474

 

57AN ACT relating to county government; requiring a board of county commissioners to fix the terms of office of the chairman and vice chairman of the board of county commissioners; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 98—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 14, 2001477

 

58AN ACT relating to county government; authorizing a board of county commissioners to provide by ordinance for payment of the travel expenses of members of an advisory board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 100—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 14, 2001477

 

59AN ACT relating to county recorders; making various changes concerning the information needed to record a document that includes a legal description of real property that is provided in metes and bounds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 126—Assemblymen Anderson, Bache, Gibbons, Beers, Berman, Buckley, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Dini, Giunchigliani, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, McClain, Neighbors, Nolan, Smith and Von Tobel. Approved May 14, 2001478

 

60AN ACT relating to insurance; revising the calculation of the assessment that is imposed by the commissioner of insurance upon insurers to pay for the program to investigate certain violations and fraudulent acts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 134—Assemblymen Dini and Perkins. Approved May 14, 2001479

 

61AN ACT relating to the judicial department; revising provisions to allow stays of court proceedings if a legislator was hired as an attorney before the start of a legislative session regardless of whether the legislator was hired before the action was commenced; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 148—Assemblyman Brower. Approved May 14, 2001481

 

62AN ACT relating to apprenticeships; requiring the state apprenticeship council to deny an application for approval or to suspend, terminate, cancel, place conditions upon or place on probation an approved program of apprenticeship based upon certain violations specified by regulations adopted by the council; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 149—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 14, 2001481

 

63AN ACT relating to trade practices; authorizing a court to award reasonable attorney’s fees and costs in certain actions relating to deceptive trade practices; providing that certain monopolies and other trade practices are unlawful if they monopolize trade or commerce in this state; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 152—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 14, 2001482

 

64AN ACT relating to local government; revising the membership of the county fair and recreation board in certain less populous counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 181—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 14, 2001484

 

65AN ACT relating to manufactured housing; requiring a responsible managing employee or salesman to complete certain requirements for continuing education as a condition for the renewal of his license; limiting the claims for which payments must be made from the account for education and recovery relating to manufactured housing; requiring certain signatures that are written upon a certificate of ownership of a manufactured home, mobile home or commercial coach to be notarized; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 203—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 14, 2001486

 

66AN ACT relating to trade practices; providing that the knowing falsification of an application for credit relating to a retail installment transaction is a deceptive trade practice; requiring the award of court costs and attorney’s fees to certain victims of consumer fraud; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 204—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 14, 2001489

 

67AN ACT relating to osteopathic medicine; revising the provisions governing the requirements for licensure as an osteopathic physician; revising the provisions governing the filing of a complaint against a practitioner of osteopathic medicine with the state board of osteopathic medicine; requiring a member of the board to review and investigate such a complaint; revising the fees that may be charged and collected by the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 290—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 14, 2001491

 

68AN ACT relating to woolen products; repealing provisions that require a manufacturer or seller of products containing or purporting to contain wool to label those products; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 301—Assemblyman Lee. Approved May 14, 2001496

 

69AN ACT relating to landscape architecture; designating the board of landscape architecture as the state board of landscape architecture; requiring the board to maintain a record of each certificate of registration issued or renewed by the board; revising the requirements for the issuance or renewal of a certificate of registration; providing for the issuance of a certificate to practice as a landscape architect intern; providing immunity from a civil action for a person who furnishes information to the board under certain circumstances; authorizing the board to adopt regulations requiring each holder of a certificate of registration to complete a course of continuing education as a condition for the renewal of his certificate of registration; revising the qualifications of the members of the board; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 310—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 14, 2001497

 

70AN ACT relating to the Elko Convention and Visitors Authority; repealing the requirement that the board of governors of the authority reimburse the county clerk of Elko County for all costs of a general authority election; redefining the boundaries of the authority; repealing the procedure for adding land to or excluding land from those boundaries; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 406—Assemblymen Carpenter and Marvel. Joint Sponsor: Senator Rhoads. Approved May 14, 2001515

 

71AN ACT relating to collection agencies; requiring the commissioner of financial institutions to conduct investigations, issue orders to cease and desist, impose administrative fines and bring suit against unlicensed persons who engage in activities relating to the collection of debts for which a license is required; increasing the penalty for certain violations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 335—Assemblyman Hettrick. Approved May 14, 2001519

 

72AN ACT relating to the charter of Carson City; establishing a residency requirement for members of advisory boards; prohibiting certain officers from serving on certain boards after their terms of office expire; revising the requirements for the office of purchasing and contracts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 570—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 14, 2001520

 

73AN ACT relating to real estate; clarifying the authority of the real estate commission, real estate administrator and real estate division of the department of business and industry to impose a fine or penalty or to initiate or continue an investigation, action or disciplinary proceeding against a person whose license or permit is surrendered, suspended or expired and against certain other persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 621—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 14, 2001521

 

74AN ACT relating to the business tax; authorizing the annual payment of the tax under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 656—Committee on Taxation. Approved May 14, 2001533

 

75AN ACT relating to transportation; repealing a duplicative provision that prohibits an unlicensed driver from operating a vehicle for transporting children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 17—Senator Wiener. Approved May 14, 2001534

 

76AN ACT relating to passenger cars; increasing the fee a short-term lessor of a passenger car may charge for a waiver of damages; authorizing a short-term lessor of a passenger car to charge a short-term lessee an additional fee for certain additional authorized drivers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 118—Senator Shaffer. Approved May 14, 2001535

 

77AN ACT relating to taxation; authorizing the boards of county commissioners of at least two counties to levy an ad valorem tax to pay the costs of operating a regional facility; exempting ad valorem taxes levied to pay the operating costs of certain regional facilities from the limitation upon revenue from ad valorem taxes; requiring an administrative entity created to operate a regional facility that receives revenue from ad valorem taxes levied to pay the costs of operating the regional facility to establish a fund for such revenue; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 203—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 14, 2001536

 

78AN ACT relating to schools; requiring that nursing services in all school districts must be provided under the direction and supervision of a chief nurse; prescribing the qualifications of a chief nurse; revision provisions relating to nursing services provided to certain pupils; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 1—Assemblywoman Parnell. Approved May 17, 2001540

 

79AN ACT relating to civil actions; enacting provisions regarding the payment of fees to arbitrators; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 15—Senator Schneider. Approved May 17, 2001542

 

80AN ACT relating to proceedings; allowing a witness to testify at a preliminary examination or before the grand jury through the use of audiovisual technology under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 32—Senator Care. Approved May 17, 2001543

 

81AN ACT relating to residential facilities for groups; clarifying the provisions regarding regulation of such facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 74—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 17, 2001546

 

82AN ACT relating to postsecondary education; authorizing the commission on postsecondary education to establish the amount of the bond required for certain postsecondary educational institutions; expanding the conditions under which a bond is required; revising other provisions governing the bonding requirements of postsecondary educational institutions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 114—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 17, 2001546

 

83AN ACT relating to cities; authorizing a change in the boundaries of certain cities to become effective in certain circumstances within a specified period before certain elections; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 155—Senator Washington. Approved May 17, 2001548

 

84AN ACT relating to water controls; requiring an applicant for a permit to operate certain privately owned public water systems to provide documentation that the applicant possesses water rights that are sufficient to operate the system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 161—Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 17, 2001549

 

85AN ACT relating to water; extending to all counties the recognition of the importance of domestic wells as appurtenances to private homes and the creation of a protectible interest in such wells; extending to all counties the requirement for a copy of the notice of application for certain proposed wells to be mailed to certain owners of real property containing domestic wells; requiring the state engineer to reject certain applications to apply water to a beneficial use if the proposed use or change conflicts with protectible interests in existing domestic wells; revising certain provisions governing permits for wells and temporary permits to appropriate ground water; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 159—Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 17, 2001551

 

86AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Museums, Library and Arts for unanticipated additional utility costs, personnel costs and purchasing assessments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 248—Committee on Finance. Approved May 17, 2001556

 

87AN ACT relating to the City of Reno; amending the city charter by increasing the term of office of municipal judges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 304—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 17, 2001557

 

88AN ACT relating to railroads; authorizing the California-Nevada Super Speed Ground Transportation Commission to issue bonds, notes, obligations or evidences of borrowing to finance the construction of a super speed ground transportation system; making various changes to the definition of a super speed ground transportation system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 323—Senator Titus. Approved May 17, 2001558

 

89AN ACT relating to counties; increasing the membership of the county fair and recreation board in certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 350—Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 17, 2001561

 

90AN ACT relating to labor; expanding the authority of the labor commissioner to adopt regulations; reducing the period within which certain unclaimed money collected by the labor commissioner is presumed abandoned; authorizing a person designated by the labor commissioner to conduct certain hearings and issue certain decisions concerning the labor laws of this state; requiring the attorney general to prosecute certain criminal violations that are reported to him by the labor commissioner; authorizing the labor commissioner to prescribe by regulation the minimum wage paid to employees in private employment in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 373—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 17, 2001562

 

91AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising provisions concerning the duty to erect and maintain signs to designate parking spaces for use by handicapped persons;  providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 374—Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 17, 2001566

 

92AN ACT relating to commission on ethics; repealing the prospective expiration by limitation of the provisions relating to the appointment of a commission counsel by the commission on ethics; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 501—Committee on Finance. Approved May 17, 2001568

 

93AN ACT relating to accountants; requiring the Nevada state board of accountancy to charge a fee for administering an examination in this state to a person who is a candidate for a certificate as a certified public accountant in another state or jurisdiction of the United States; requiring certain persons who wish to engage in the practice of public accounting under a fictitious name to register the fictitious name with the board; requiring the board to adopt regulations prescribing the procedure and fee for registering a fictitious name with the board; authorizing the board to take certain actions against persons who make false or fraudulent statements on certain applications submitted to the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 512—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 17, 2001568

 

94AN ACT relating to public works; revising the provisions governing the substitution of a subcontractor who is named in a bid for a public work or improvement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 155—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 17, 2001573

 

95AN ACT relating to correctional officers; providing that any person employed by the department of prisons who has certain responsibilities must be a correctional officer who has the powers of a peace officer; clarifying that correctional officers employed by the department are exempt from certain provisions pertaining to weapons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 233—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 17, 2001574

 

96AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for the limited issuance of special license plates to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the City of Las Vegas; imposing a fee for the issuance or renewal of such license plates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 414—Senators Coffin, O’Donnell, Amodei, Shaffer, Wiener, Carlton, Porter, Rawson and Schneider. Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Tiffany, Cegavske, Gustavson, Hettrick, Manendo and McClain.  Approved May 17, 2001577

 

97AN ACT relating to cancer; creating the task force on prostate cancer; prescribing its powers and duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 318—Senators Raggio, Rawson, O’Donnell, Neal, Washington, Jacobsen, Care, Coffin, James, Mathews, McGinness, Porter, Rhoads, Shaffer, Titus, Wiener, Carlton, Schneider and Townsend. Approved May 17, 2001580

 

98AN ACT relating to the secretary of state; increasing the maximum fee the secretary of state may charge for providing certain special services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 46—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 22, 2001582

 

99AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for the issuance of special license plates for the support of the reconstruction, maintenance, improvement and promotion of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad; providing for the issuance of souvenir license plates that indicate support for the reconstruction, maintenance, improvement and promotion of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad; imposing a fee for the issuance or renewal of special license plates to finance the reconstruction, maintenance, improvement and promotion of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 77—Senator Amodei. Joint Sponsor: Assemblyman Dini. Approved May 22, 2001583

 

100AN ACT relating to school property; providing a procedure for the sale of a house or other structure built by pupils enrolled in a program of instruction offered by a public school; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 28—Assemblyman de Braga. Approved May 22, 2001587

 

101AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing counties to transfer or sell real property obtained from the Federal Government to certain persons without offering the property to the public under certain circumstances; establishing a price for the sale of such property under certain circumstances; requiring a county to collect certain amounts from a person before selling or transferring the property to that person; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 56—Assemblyman Neighbors. Approved May 22, 2001591

 

102AN ACT relating to the charter of the City of Las Vegas; providing that the office of an additional councilman created as the result of an increase in the number of wards must be filled initially by election; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 59—Assemblyman Collins. Approved May 22, 2001595

 

103AN ACT relating to property; prohibiting a governing body from taking certain actions that preclude amateur service communications; providing certain requirements relating to the regulation of the placement, screening or height of a station antenna structure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 61—Assemblyman Beers. Approved May 22, 2001596

 

104AN ACT relating to the financial administration of local governments; authorizing additional types of investments by certain local governments; revising the authority of county treasurers to deposit county money in time accounts; revising the requirements for annual accountings by tax receivers to county auditors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 96—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 22, 2001597

 

105AN ACT relating to local governments; revising the dates on which certain special elections may be held; clarifying the period in which a copy, explanation of and arguments for and against certain ballot questions must be submitted to the county or city clerk before an election; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 99—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 22, 2001602

 

106AN ACT relating to cities; requiring the inclusion of certain portions of county roads, state highways and railroads in territory annexed by cities in larger counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 101—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 22, 2001605

 

107AN ACT relating to educational personnel; requiring the boards of trustees of school districts to offer certain contracts of employment to probationary administrators and principals who are not reemployed in those capacities as postprobationary employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 130—Assemblymen Cegavske, Anderson, Berman, Brown, Claborn, Goldwater, Hettrick, Humke, Smith and Von Tobel. Joint Sponsor: Senator Shaffer. Approved May 22, 2001606

 

108AN ACT relating to insurance; providing that certain owners of corporations and companies may elect to reject coverage for themselves for industrial insurance and occupational diseases under certain circumstances; clarifying that a sole proprietor is not required to obtain industrial insurance or coverage for occupational diseases before performing work under a contract with the state or a political subdivision of the state or a metropolitan police department under certain circumstances; clarifying that the state or a political subdivision of the state or a metropolitan police department is not an employer of and is not liable to a sole proprietor or his employees under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 160—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 22, 2001608

 

109AN ACT relating to firearms; allowing a person who is not a resident of this state to obtain a permit to carry a concealed firearm in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 20—Senator Washington. Approved May 22, 2001612

 

110AN ACT relating to state printing; clarifying the employment classification of the employees of the state printing division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 75—Senator Amodei. Approved May 22, 2001615

 

111AN ACT relating to weapons; removing the limitation on the number of firearms for which a permit to carry concealed firearms may be issued; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 172—Senator Rawson. Approved May 22, 2001618

 

112AN ACT relating to telephone services; repealing the prospective expiration of certain provisions concerning surcharges on telephone services in certain counties for the enhancement of telephone systems for reporting emergencies in those counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 225—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 22, 2001621

 

113AN ACT relating to nursing; prohibiting the state board of nursing or an employer of a nurse from requiring the inclusion of the surname of the nurse on the badge or other form of identification worn by the nurse while on duty; requiring the employers of licensees and nursing assistants to prepare and maintain records of the work assignments of those licensees and nursing assistants for a certain period; revising the provisions governing the filing of complaints with the state board of nursing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 394—Senator Raggio. Approved May 22, 2001623

 

114AN ACT making an appropriation to restore and increase the balance in the reserve for statutory contingency account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 517—Committee on Finance. Approved May 22, 2001624

 

115AN ACT relating to cities; changing the classification thereof; altering the powers and size of certain city councils; changing the method by which a mayor pro tem is appointed; changing certain references to city councils; modifying the rules regarding city council meetings; revising the terms and compensation of appointed city council members; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 555—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 22, 2001624

 

116AN ACT relating to public water systems; revising the provisions governing the imposition of civil penalties and administrative fines to enforce certain provisions governing public water systems; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 200—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved May 22, 2001635

 

117AN ACT relating to highways; providing an exception to the requirements relating to the retention of a portion of the contract price or the furnishing of a bond with respect to certain contracts awarded to railroad companies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 86—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 22, 2001636

 

118AN ACT making an appropriation to the legislative fund for the reproduction of older volumes of Nevada Reports and Statutes of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 183—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 22, 2001640

 

119AN ACT relating to elections; revising the period within which county and municipal initiative and referendum petitions must be filed; providing for the appointment of two committees to prepare arguments for and against county and municipal ballot questions in certain counties and cities; revising the provisions relating to the appointment and duties of such committees; authorizing the county clerk and city clerk to consult with certain persons before determining whether to reject certain statements in arguments and rebuttals prepared by such committees; providing that signatures must be removed from certain petitions, upon request, only if the removal of such signatures could affect the sufficiency of the petitions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 299—Assemblyman Mortenson. Approved May 22, 2001641

 

120AN ACT relating to notaries public; prescribing a certificate sufficient for administering an oath or affirmation of office; authorizing the secretary of state to provide and charge a reasonable fee for courses of study for the voluntary training of notaries public; establishing the notary public training fund; prescribing the date of the commencement of an appointment as a notary public; prohibiting a notary public from committing certain acts; requiring a notary public to enter in his journal the type of certificate used to evidence a notarial act; authorizing the secretary of state to refuse to issue an apostille in certain circumstances; repealing the provisions relating to commissioners of deeds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 266—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 22, 2001651

 

121AN ACT relating to deceptive trade practices; expanding the definition of “deceptive trade practice” to include a person who engages in certain acts during a solicitation by telephone or sales presentation; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 337—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 22, 2001659

 

122AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the provisions governing the reporting requirements, payment schedules and collection procedures for the tax on the net proceeds of minerals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 361—Assemblyman Marvel. Approved May 22, 2001661

 

123AN ACT relating to crimes; revising the crime of aggravated stalking; revising provisions concerning where crimes of harassment, stalking and aggravated stalking are deemed to have been committed; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 400—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 22, 2001664

 

124AN ACT relating to state purchasing; revising the requirements for a request for proposals for a contract for state purchasing; revising the manner in which such a contract is awarded; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 427—Assemblyman Hettrick. Approved May 22, 2001666

 

125AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing the department of motor vehicles and public safety to reinstate the registration of a motor vehicle that was suspended for lack of insurance under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 476—Assemblyman Dini (by request). Approved May 22, 2001668

 

126AN ACT relating to candidates for office; allowing an elector to challenge the legal qualifications of certain candidates for office; providing that a candidate for office is deemed to have designated the filing officer for his office as his agent for service of process for such challenges; revising the form for declaration or acceptance of candidacy; providing that a candidate who files certain false documents is removed from the ballot and disqualified from his office; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 487—Assemblymen Chowning, de Braga, Ohrenschall, Anderson, Beers, Berman, Brown, Carpenter, Cegavske, Claborn, Dini, Freeman, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Gustavson, Hettrick, Humke, Koivisto, Leslie, Manendo, Marvel, McClain, Mortenson, Nolan, Parks, Parnell, Perkins, Price, Smith and Tiffany. Approved May 22, 2001671

 

127AN ACT relating to anatomical gifts; requiring the bureau of consumer protection in the office of the attorney general to establish certain programs relating to anatomical gifts; creating the anatomical gift account; requiring the department of motor vehicles and public safety to provide certain information to a holder of a driver’s license or an identification card issued by the department who wishes to make an anatomical gift; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 497—Assemblymen Gibbons, Leslie, Giunchigliani, Buckley, McClain, Anderson, Brown, Cegavske, de Braga, Freeman, Hettrick, Humke, Smith and Tiffany. Joint Sponsors: Senators Rawson and O’Donnell. Approved May 22, 2001680

 

128AN ACT relating to civil practice; reducing the court filing fees for a petition to adopt a child with special needs; requiring a court to waive court costs when a petition is filed for the adoption of a child with special needs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 535—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 22, 2001684

 

129AN ACT relating to metropolitan police departments; authorizing a sheriff to adopt certain policies, procedures, rules and regulations for the administration of a metropolitan police department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 538—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 22, 2001688

 

130AN ACT relating to state purchasing; requiring the state board of examiners to establish, by regulation, the original cost of certain personal property of the state; creating the surplus property administration account in the state purchasing fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 542—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 22, 2001689

 

131AN ACT relating to water systems; increasing the amount of general obligation bonds that the state board of finance may issue to provide grants to publicly owned water systems for capital improvements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 549—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 22, 2001692

 

132AN ACT relating to victims of crime; authorizing a victim of a sexual assault to obtain a fictitious address from the secretary of state; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 586—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 22, 2001692

 

133AN ACT relating to agriculture; expanding the purposes for which the state quarantine officer may proclaim a quarantine of agricultural commodities; expanding the circumstances under which the state department of agriculture may require certain owners or occupants to control, treat or eradicate certain diseases, insects, plants, weeds or other pests; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 631—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved May 22, 2001696

 

134AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising the provisions authorizing certain inspection stations and authorized inspection stations to renew certificates of registration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 646—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 22, 2001700

 

135AN ACT relating to cities; clarifying the authority of the first elected city council and mayor to enact and sign ordinances, respectively, to fix their own salaries and those of other officers before the incorporation of the city becomes effective; providing for the continued existence of the North Lyon County Fire Protection District following the incorporation of the City of Fernley; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 663—Assemblyman Dini. Joint Sponsor: Senator Amodei. Approved May 22, 2001701

 

136AN ACT relating to evidence; providing that the statement of a child regarding physical abuse is admissible in a criminal proceeding under certain circumstances; identifying certain factors to be considered by the court in determining the trustworthiness of certain statements made by a child; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 179—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 22, 2001702

 

137AN ACT relating to crimes; revising the provisions governing sexual conduct between pupils and persons who are in positions of authority at schools; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 183—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 22, 2001703

 

138AN ACT relating to visually impaired persons; requiring that toilet facilities in public buildings, certain leased areas and places of public accommodation be identified with signs which must be placed in certain locations, contain certain information and conform to certain standards; requiring the attorney general to enforce such requirements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 324—Senators Titus, Wiener, Care, Schneider, Neal, Coffin and Carlton. Approved May 22, 2001704

 

139AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles and public safety; expanding the methods of payment for which a service charge is assessed by the department if payment for certain fees is dishonored; increasing that service charge; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 503—Committee on Finance. Approved May 22, 2001708

 

140AN ACT relating to commercial transactions; revising the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code governing secured transactions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 474—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 22, 2001708

 

141AN ACT relating to taxes on retail sales; providing for the submission to the voters of the question whether the Sales and Use Tax Act of 1955 should be amended to provide an exemption from the tax for engines, chassis and certain parts and components of professional racing vehicles and for motor vehicles used by professional racing teams or sanctioning bodies to transport certain items; providing the same exemption from the Local School Support Tax Law and certain analogous taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 657—Committee on Taxation. Approved May 24, 2001737

 

142AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; making optional the use of a siren by an emergency vehicle; specifically authorizing an emergency vehicle to operate warning lamps without sounding the siren; providing that a driver of an emergency vehicle who operates the vehicle’s warning lamps without sounding the siren shall be deemed to have adequately warned pedestrians and other drivers of his approach; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 521—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 24, 2001740

 

143AN ACT relating to vehicles; requiring the department of motor vehicles and public safety to adopt regulations governing the driving of certain combinations of vehicles by persons who hold certain noncommercial driver’s licenses; temporarily authorizing the driving of such combinations of vehicles by such persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 6—Assemblyman Hettrick. Approved May 24, 2001741

 

144AN ACT relating to real property; revising the provisions governing the maintenance of certain improvements in subdivisions and planned unit developments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 63—Assemblyman Perkins. Approved May 24, 2001742

 

145AN ACT relating to vehicles; providing for the issuance under certain circumstances of a permit authorizing the operation or movement of certain heavier vehicles used to provide public mass transportation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 83—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 24, 2001747

 

146AN ACT relating to the City of North Las Vegas; authorizing the city council to enter into a contract with one or more attorneys employed by or associated with certain professional corporations, partnerships or limited-liability companies to perform all or a portion of the duties of the city attorney; and providing other matters properly relating thereto Assembly Bill No. 93—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 24, 2001748

 

147AN ACT relating to state personnel; revising the provision regarding the filing of an annual report on the performance of a permanent employee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 95—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 24, 2001749

 

148AN ACT relating to county clerks; making various changes concerning the duties of county clerks with respect to grand juries; making various other changes concerning the duties of county clerks with respect to making certain reports; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 108—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 24, 2001750

 

149AN ACT relating to juries; revising the provisions governing the summoning of jurors by a justice’s court in certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 110—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 24, 2001753

 

150AN ACT relating to administrative procedure affecting businesses; authorizing the Nevada tax commission to adopt regulations interpreting the provisions regarding rules adopted by local governments that affect businesses; requiring the Nevada tax commission to advise officers of local governments regarding such provisions; revising the definition of “rule”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 117—Assemblymen Goldwater, Beers, Buckley, Carpenter, Collins, Hettrick, Manendo, Marvel and Parks. Approved May 24, 2001755

 

151AN ACT relating to regional planning; authorizing a governing board for regional planning to enter certain cooperative and interlocal agreements; authorizing a governing board for regional planning and a regional planning commission jointly or separately to appoint subcommittees and advisory committees for certain purposes; removing the restriction on the number of members of the governing board that may serve on certain advisory committees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 163—Assemblymen Freeman, Anderson, Gibbons, Humke, Leslie and Smith. Approved May 24, 2001756

 

152AN ACT relating to medicine; changing the designation of physician’s assistant; revising the scope of authority and duties of the board of medical examiners; providing for the issuance of special purpose licenses; requiring the board of medical examiners to regulate the practice of respiratory care; requiring practitioners of respiratory care to be licensed by the board of medical examiners; revising the qualifications and requirements relating to licensure of physicians and physicians’ assistants; revising the duties and scope of authority of persons licensed by the board of medical examiners; making certain actions subject to disciplinary action by the board of medical examiners; revising provisions governing the imposition of disciplinary action against licensees; establishing and revising certain fees; increasing certain penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 91—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 24, 2001758

 

153AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring an employer to ensure that a copy of its policy of industrial insurance is available for inspection by certain state officials; requiring self-insured employers and associations of self-insured public or private employers to ensure that their certificates of qualification are available for inspection by certain state officials; revising the provisions governing notification by employers and private carriers of cancellations, issuances and other actions concerning policies of industrial insurance; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 47—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 28, 2001800

 

154AN ACT relating to crimes; prohibiting possession of components for constructing an explosive or incendiary device with the intent to manufacture such a device; prohibiting possession of any explosive or incendiary device or material, substance or component that may be converted to such a device in certain places; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 105—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 28, 2001804

 

155AN ACT relating to public agencies; providing that an interlocal contract must be approved by the attorney general if an agency of this state is a party to the contract; providing that certain leases of offices for state officers and employees must be approved by the attorney general; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 128—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 28, 2001808

 

156AN ACT relating to business practices; requiring the certificate that a person who conducts business in this state under an assumed or fictitious name is required to file with the county clerk to be notarized; providing for the renewal of such a certificate; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 154—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 28, 2001810

 

157AN ACT relating to emergency medical services; expanding the circumstances under which treatment may be withheld from a patient in a terminal condition who wishes not to be resuscitated in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest; authorizing the parent or legal guardian of a minor to obtain a do-not-resuscitate identification on behalf of the minor under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 173—Assemblymen Nolan, Chowning, de Braga, Freeman, Dini, Anderson, Angle, Arberry, Bache, Berman, Brower, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Cegavske, Claborn, Giunchigliani, Hettrick, Koivisto, Leslie, Manendo, Marvel, Oceguera, Parks, Price, Smith, Tiffany, Von Tobel and Williams. Approved May 28, 2001814

 

158AN ACT relating to airports; increasing the authorized term for the lease of county property for use as an airport, airport facility or airport service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 210—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 28, 2001821

 

159AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for the submission to the voters of the question whether the Sales and Use Tax Act of 1955 should be amended to provide an exemption from the tax for farm machinery and equipment; providing such an exemption from certain analogous taxes; clarifying the provisions governing the administration of the existing exemption from the Sales and Use Tax Act of 1955 and certain analogous taxes for property shipped out of state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 243—Assemblymen Dini, de Braga, Marvel, Carpenter, Neighbors, Goldwater and Hettrick. Approved May 28, 2001822

 

160AN ACT relating to public records; providing that an agreement to settle a tort claim or action against a governmental entity or an officer or employee thereof is not confidential; providing that such an agreement must include the amount of any attorney’s fees and costs to be paid pursuant to the agreement; providing that if the labor commissioner enters into, effects or approves any compromise or settlement concerning an alleged violation of labor laws, the terms and conditions of the compromise or settlement are not confidential; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 277—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 28, 2001826

 

161AN ACT relating to occupational disease; providing for the availability of industrial insurance benefits to employees for exposure to certain contagious diseases; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 279—Assemblymen Leslie, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Parks, Anderson, Buckley, Carpenter, Chowning, Freeman, Humke, Koivisto, Manendo, McClain, Neighbors, Oceguera, Parnell, Price, Smith and Williams. Approved May 28, 2001827

 

162AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring an insurer to submit a written report concerning certain claims for compensation to the administrator of the division of industrial relations of the department of business and industry; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 345—Assemblymen Goldwater, Parks, Oceguera, Buckley, Manendo, Gibbons, Giunchigliani and Leslie. Approved May 28, 2001828

 

163AN ACT relating to health care records; allowing a patient to obtain his health care records without charge under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 363—Assemblywomen Giunchigliani and Leslie. Approved May 28, 2001829

 

164AN ACT relating to education; requiring regional subdistricts created in certain school districts to prepare annual reports; prescribing the information required to be reported; requiring the board of trustees of such school districts to prepare a compilation of the reports that includes an evaluation of the equity among the regional subdistricts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 364—Assemblymen Tiffany, Angle, Berman, Brown, Cegavske, Giunchigliani, Koivisto, McClain, Mortenson, Nolan and Price. Approved May 28, 2001831

 

165AN ACT relating to crimes; enacting provisions governing the possession, use, manufacture or distribution of certain items employed to commit theft; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 375—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 28, 2001833

 

166AN ACT relating to pharmacy; requiring the state board of pharmacy to adopt regulations relating to the electronic transmission or transmission by a facsimile machine of certain prescriptions from a practitioner to a pharmacist for the dispensing of a drug; requiring an applicant for registration as an intern pharmacist to be enrolled in a college of pharmacy or department of pharmacy of a university approved by the board; prohibiting the board from issuing a private reprimand to the holder of a certificate, license or permit issued by the board; providing for the issuance of uniform identification cards and devices to process claims for prescription drugs or devices; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 415—Assemblyman Lee. Approved May 28, 2001834

 

167AN ACT relating to taxation; providing guidelines for determining the amount of time a person leases or uses certain property for the purpose of determining the amount of tax to be levied on such lease or use; clarifying the exemption from taxation of certain property used for housing and related facilities by persons with low incomes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 433—Assemblyman Neighbors (by request). Approved May 28, 2001839

 

168AN ACT relating to impact fees; including a fire station project, park project and police station project as capital improvements which a local government may finance by imposing impact fees on new developments; providing a credit against an impact fee for a park project in certain circumstances; revising the definition of “street projects” to include traffic signals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 458—Assemblyman Parks. Approved May 28, 2001843

 

169AN ACT relating to local governments; authorizing the construction and maintenance of benches and shelters for passengers of public mass transportation on an exclusive basis by the governing body or by franchise within an unincorporated town; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 537—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 28, 2001845

 

170AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing a board of county commissioners to provide by ordinance for the covering or removal of certain graffiti on certain types of property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 571—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 28, 2001849

 

171AN ACT relating to petroleum products; clarifying the standards for regulating petroleum products used in internal combustion engines; revising the definition of “petroleum products”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 629—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved May 28, 2001851

 

172AN ACT relating to taxes; exempting from the tax on special fuel sales of special fuel for use in operating special mobile equipment; limiting the circumstances under which special fuel must be dyed before it is removed for distribution from a rack; authorizing a person to operate or maintain on certain highways special mobile equipment or farm equipment using dyed special fuel under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 639—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 28, 2001853

 

173AN ACT relating to state financial administration; clarifying the provisions governing the transfer of money to the fund to stabilize the operation of the state government; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 492—Committee on Finance. Approved May 28, 2001855

 

174AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring a provider of coverage for prescription drugs to disclose certain information regarding the use of a formulary; prohibiting such a provider from limiting or excluding coverage for a prescribed drug under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 2—Senator Amodei. Approved May 28, 2001856

 

175AN ACT relating to civil practice; revising the provisions relating to the appointment of temporary guardians; expanding the methods of investing the proceeds of a compromise from a legal dispute for a minor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 34—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 28, 2001867

 

176AN ACT relating to forfeitures; changing the standard of proof in a proceeding for the forfeiture of property; enacting provisions pertaining to the seizure of currency; revising the provisions governing the distribution of proceeds of forfeited property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 36—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 28, 2001874

 

177AN ACT relating to municipal obligations; requiring a municipality to notify certain entities before incurring general obligation debt or levying a special elective tax under certain circumstances; requiring a debt management commission to resolve conflicts between certain municipalities over the use of any remaining allowable increase of property taxes and authorizing the establishment of certain methods relating thereto; authorizing a debt management commission to establish a procedure for allowing a municipality to reserve a percentage of the remaining allowable increase of property taxes within a certain geographical area; revising the duties of the debt management commission relating to consideration of a proposal to incur general obligation debt or levy a special elective tax, and amending the conditions pursuant to which the debt management commission is authorized to grant approval of such a proposal; revising the duties of a municipality with regard to filing and amending statements of current and contemplated general obligation debt and special elective taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 123—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 28, 2001878

 

178AN ACT relating to local governmental financial administration; expanding the purposes for which a city may pledge and use the proceeds of the tax imposed on the revenues from the rental of transient lodging; clarifying the manner in which the City of Reno may invest money realized from the sale of bonds and use the interest received from such investments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 200—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 28, 2001885

 

179AN ACT relating to substances; revising the definition of the “manufacture” of a substance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 204—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 28, 2001888

 

180AN ACT relating to juvenile justice; revising provisions relating to detention homes for the temporary detention of children; permitting such homes, under certain circumstances, to adjoin, be located on the same grounds as, or share common grounds or common facilities with an adult jail or adult lockup; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 231—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 28, 2001888

 

181AN ACT relating to sentencing; revising the provisions governing the statements of victims of crimes at sentencing hearings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 234—Senators Porter, James and Titus. Approved May 28, 2001889

 

182AN ACT relating to the control of floods; authorizing the board of directors of a district for the control of floods to expend or provide money to protect public and private property from flooding; authorizing such a board to expend or provide money for the acquisition of certain local projects and improvements for the control of drainage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 267—Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 28, 2001891

 

183AN ACT relating to the charter of the City of Wells; repealing the provisions that prohibit the mayor and the members of the board of councilmen from holding certain offices; authorizing the board to appoint a city manager and establish the departments of the city; authorizing the board to provide by resolution for additional regular meetings of the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 272—Senator Rhoads. Approved May 28, 2001894

 

184AN ACT relating to gaming; providing for the licensing of an international gaming salon in a resort hotel that holds a nonrestricted license; revising provisions governing limited-liability companies that hold state gaming licenses; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 283—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 28, 2001896

 

185AN ACT relating to certain hazardous materials; revising provisions governing the disposal of certain hazardous materials; revising provisions governing motor carriers who transport certain hazardous materials; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 327—Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 28, 2001899

 

186AN ACT relating to state lands; authorizing the administrator of the division of state lands of the state department of conservation and natural resources to lease residential property owned by this state to state officers and employees at less than fair market value in certain circumstances; authorizing the administrator to lease state land for residential purposes without the approval of the state board of examiners or the interim finance committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 358—Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 28, 2001906

 

187AN ACT relating to professional occupations; providing civil immunity to a person who furnishes information to the board of dental examiners of Nevada under certain circumstances; providing civil immunity to members of the board and other persons under certain circumstances; clarifying that an applicant for a limited license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene must be licensed in another state or the District of Columbia at the time of his application and may have that license placed on inactive status after he has been issued a limited license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 378—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 28, 2001907

 

188AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; increasing the period of validity of a permit issued to operate certain unregistered vehicles; revising provisions relating to the form provided by the department of motor vehicles and public safety to a dealer for the transfer of ownership of a motor vehicle; revising the provisions relating to temporary placards issued upon the sale or lease of motor vehicles; abolishing special permits issued upon the sale or lease of motor vehicles; authorizing the department to enter into an agreement with another state concerning the exchange of information relating to the issuance, renewal, suspension or revocation of drivers’ licenses; requiring the investigation of the criminal history of an applicant for a license to operate a school for training drivers or for a license as an instructor for such a school; providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 523—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 28, 2001909

 

189AN ACT relating to the department of museums, library and arts; changing the name of the department to the department of cultural affairs; requiring the administrator of the division of museums and history of the department to establish the powers and duties of the museum directors of the various institutions of the division; transferring the museum directors of the Nevada state museum, the Nevada museum and historical society and the Nevada historical society from the unclassified to the classified service of the state; providing that abandoned property held by an institution of the division of museums and history becomes the property of the division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 541—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 28, 2001925

 

190AN ACT relating to information; providing additional protection for trade secrets; defining an employer’s right to intellectual property created by his employee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 558—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 28, 2001942

 

191AN ACT relating to public financial administration; requiring the chief of the division of internal audits of the department of administration to appoint a manager of internal controls; establishing the qualifications of the manager of internal controls; exempting certain governmental agencies from certain provisions concerning training and assistance provided by the division of internal audits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 561—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 28, 2001942

 

192AN ACT relating to state military; changing the qualifications for appointment as adjutant general; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 471—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 28, 2001945

 

193AN ACT relating to occupational licensing boards; requiring each occupational licensing board to submit a quarterly summary of disciplinary actions and a biennial report of its activities to the director of the legislative counsel bureau; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 420—Senators Carlton and Townsend. Approved May 28, 2001946

 

194AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the District Judges’ Salaries and Judicial Pensions Fund for a shortfall in the money budgeted for retirement benefits and pensions for District Judges and widows; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 237—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May, 29, 2001948

 

195AN ACT relating to public employees; including the state fire marshal, his assistant and his deputies within the definition of a “police officer” for various purposes relating to industrial injuries, occupational diseases and programs for public employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 289—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 29, 2001948

 

196AN ACT relating to the governor; requiring the department of administration to budget for certain transitional expenses of the governor-elect; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 144—Committee on Finance. Approved May 29, 2001949

 

197AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Secretary of State for an unanticipated shortfall in the money budgeted for salaries and costs for information services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 249—Committee on Finance. Approved May 29, 2001950

 

198AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for certain shortfalls in the budget; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 250—Committee on Finance. Approved May 29, 2001950

 

199AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Education for a shortfall in money budgeted for contractual obligations for the Terra Nova Tests; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 251—Committee on Finance. Approved May 29, 2001951

 

200AN ACT relating to the public employees’ benefits program; extending the period in which certain persons must notify the program of their decision regarding coverage under the program; revising the power of the board of the program to establish certain rates and coverage; requiring the board to appoint an attorney to review the program; requiring the board to establish a checking account for the payment of claims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 298—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 29, 2001951

 

201AN ACT relating to traffic laws; revising the requirements for permanent or portable signs in school crossing zones; eliminating the provisions that allow the use of automatic traffic‑control devices in school zones in lieu of permanent or portable signs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 7—Assemblyman Collins. Approved May 29, 2001955

 

202AN ACT relating to water pollution; requiring the director of the state department of conservation and natural resources to conduct an independent investigation before making certain determinations concerning the control of water pollution under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 29—Assemblyman Carpenter. Approved May 29, 2001956

 

203AN ACT relating to trusts; expressly validating a trust for the care of an animal; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 33—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 29, 2001958

 

204AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; abolishing the legislative committee on workers’ compensation; revising the provisions governing maintenance of files of claims at the office of an insurer; requiring the administrator of the division of industrial relations of the department of business and industry to designate a vendor of certain data to assist the administrator in the establishment and revision of a schedule of reasonable fees for accident benefits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 44—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 29, 2001959

 

205AN ACT relating to children; requiring the labor commissioner to adopt regulations prohibiting the employment of children under 16 years of age in certain activities relating to commercial sales; providing civil and criminal penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 74—Assemblymen Berman, Carpenter and Gibbons. Approved May 29, 2001964

 

206AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing a county to exercise additional powers under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 92—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 29, 2001966

 

207AN ACT relating to state emblems; declaring “Silver State Fanfare” as the official state march of the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 165—Assemblymen Brower and Freeman (by request). Approved May 29, 2001966

 

208AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring that a statement of charges be presented to a person requesting the repair of a motor vehicle; removing certain exemptions from the provisions governing garages and garagemen; providing under certain circumstances for the waiver of the registration fee to operate a garage; providing under certain circumstances for the revocation of a certificate of registration to operate a garage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 171—Assemblymen Chowning, Parks, Dini, Freeman, Cegavske, Anderson, Beers, Brower, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Gibbons, Hettrick, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, Manendo, Marvel, McClain, Mortenson, Nolan, Oceguera, Parnell, Price, Smith, Von Tobel and Williams. Approved May 29, 2001967

 

209AN ACT relating to judges; amending the charter of the City of Henderson to make various changes concerning municipal judges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 180—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 29, 2001970

 

210AN ACT relating to barbering; authorizing a person who owns, manages, operates or controls a barber school to charge for barbering services provided to a member of the general public by a student of the barber school; revising the number of instructors required to be on the premises of a barber school; limiting the period of employment of a student of a barber school; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 192—Assemblyman Arberry. Approved May 29, 2001972

 

211AN ACT relating to wildlife; increasing the amount of certain accounts maintained by the division of wildlife of the state department of conservation and natural resources; making various changes regarding the form and period of validity of certain licenses, the fees of license agents and the issuance and possession of certain stamps; authorizing the board of wildlife commissioners to adopt regulations governing the issuance of duplicates of certain licenses; increasing the fee for a state trout stamp and creating a separate account for deposit of the proceeds of the fee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 199—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved May 29, 2001973

 

212AN ACT relating to education; requiring the state board of education and the board of trustees of each school district to adopt policies encouraging effective involvement by parents and families in support of their children and the education of their children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 201—Assemblymen Smith, Gibbons, Parnell, Leslie, Chowning, Bache, Berman, Brown, Cegavske, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Giunchigliani, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, Manendo, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Oceguera and Williams. Approved May 29, 2001978

 

213AN ACT relating to deceptive trade practices; requiring certain tour brokers and tour operators to make certain disclosures relating to price in an advertisement for a sightseeing tour; prohibiting certain tour brokers and tour operators from charging more for a sightseeing tour than the price disclosed in an advertisement for the tour; requiring certain tour brokers and tour operators to include certain information on a billing invoice or receipt given to a customer for a sightseeing tour; requiring a tour operator to honor in good faith any nonexpired coupon or other indicia of discount or special promotion that the tour operator has issued or caused to be issued; requiring certain tour brokers and tour operators to deposit security with the consumer affairs division of the department of business and industry; authorizing certain consumers to bring and maintain an action to recover against the deposited security; providing for the release of the deposited security within a certain period after the tour broker or tour operator ceases to operate; authorizing the commissioner of the consumer affairs division to adopt certain regulations; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 245—Assemblymen Chowning, Anderson, Arberry, Brown, Carpenter, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Hettrick, Koivisto, Manendo, Marvel, McClain, Neighbors, Nolan, Parks, Perkins and Smith. Approved May 29, 2001979

 

214AN ACT relating to the Virgin Valley Water District; revising the term of office of the appointed members of the governing board of the Virgin Valley Water District; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 257—Assemblywoman Von Tobel. Approved May 29, 2001983

 

215AN ACT relating to the National Statuary Hall Collection; providing for the creation of a statue of Sarah Winnemucca for placement in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 267—Assemblymen de Braga, Gibbons, Dini, Cegavske, Anderson, Bache, Berman, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Chowning, Claborn, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Hettrick, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, Manendo, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Oceguera, Parks, Parnell, Price, Smith, Von Tobel and Williams. Approved May 29, 2001984

 

216AN ACT relating to crimes; revising the definition of criminal assault; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 344—Assemblymen Parnell, Gibbons, Smith, de Braga, Bache, Brower, Buckley, Giunchigliani, Lee, Leslie, McClain and Neighbors. Joint Sponsor: Senator Amodei. Approved May 29, 2001986

 

217AN ACT relating to cemeteries; authorizing the adoption of ordinances in certain counties allowing the designation of family cemeteries; revising the authority and procedure for ordering the disinterment and removal of human remains; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 402—Assemblymen Freeman and Marvel. Approved May 29, 2001988

 

218AN ACT relating to the Moapa Valley Water District; revising the provisions governing the qualifications and election of members of the governing board of the district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 440—Assemblywoman Von Tobel. Approved May 29, 2001990

 

219AN ACT relating to unarmed combat; authorizing the Nevada athletic commission to require the registration of certain television networks and sanctioning organizations; requiring certain information that must be provided to the commission to be kept confidential; revising the provisions relating to the suspension of a license or permit issued by the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 446—Assemblymen Perkins, Goldwater and Dini. Approved May 29, 2001992

 

220AN ACT relating to animals; clarifying that certain provisions related to riding horses in public places do not apply to police officers while performing their official duties under certain circumstances; revising the definition of “police animal” for provisions concerning cruelty to animals to include an animal which is used, but not owned, by a governmental agency; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 463—Assemblyman Collins. Approved May 29, 2001996

 

221AN ACT relating to emergency medical services; providing for the issuance in certain counties of permits authorizing fire-fighting agencies to transport sick or injured persons to medical facilities; providing for the adoption of ordinances governing the imposition and collection of certain fees by those fire-fighting agencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 488—Committee on Health and Human Services. Approved May 29, 2001998

 

222AN ACT relating to professions; authorizing an optometrist to collaborate with an ophthalmologist under certain conditions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 491—Assemblymen Humke, Beers, Brower, Buckley, Hettrick, Leslie and Parks. Approved May 29, 20011000

 

223AN ACT relating to education; making certain changes to the method of calculating the amount of the basic governmental services tax to be distributed to a county school district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 501—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 29, 20011001

 

224AN ACT relating to the secretary of state; authorizing the secretary of state to appoint an executive assistant and certain deputies and authorizing such persons to perform certain duties; limiting the number of deputies the secretary of state may appoint; changing the scope of duties the deputies may perform; removing the requirement that the administrator of the securities division of the office of the secretary of state be a deputy of the secretary of state; providing that the administrator of the securities division is in the classified service of the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 536—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 29, 20011003

 

225AN ACT relating to public employees; authorizing an additional deferred compensation plan for state employees and employees of political subdivisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 563—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 29, 20011004

 

226AN ACT relating to judgments; clarifying the circumstances under which the enforcement of a foreign judgment may be stayed; prescribing the amount of a bond to secure the stay of execution of certain judgments pending appeal; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 576—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 29, 20011006

 

227AN ACT relating to certified court reporters; requiring court reporting firms to be licensed by the certified court reporters’ board of Nevada before engaging in business in this state; expanding the regulatory authority of the board; increasing certain fees that are required to be collected by the board; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 622—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 29, 20011007

 

228AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; revising the circumstances under which certain police officers and firemen are entitled to receive compensation for exposure to tuberculosis; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 628—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 29, 20011014

 

229AN ACT relating to mental health; authorizing certain persons to transport an allegedly mentally ill person to a mental health facility at the request of the proper authority; authorizing a physician’s assistant or an advanced practitioner of nursing to conduct the medical examination required for the emergency admission of an allegedly mentally ill person to a mental health facility; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 636—Committee on Health and Human Services. Approved May 29, 20011017

 

230AN ACT relating to indigent persons; revising certain provisions concerning the amelioration of the causes of poverty within this state to conform to changes in the Community Services Block Grant Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 112—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 29, 20011019

 

231AN ACT relating to pupils; revising provisions governing the suspension and expulsion of pupils for possession of a dangerous weapon; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 115—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 29, 20011022

 

232AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing exemptions for certain institutions from the Private Elementary and Secondary Education Authorization Act; requiring an exempt institution to provide notice of the exemption to the parents or guardian of a child before the child enrolls in the institution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 223—Senator Washington. Approved May 29, 20011023

 

233AN ACT relating to education; removing the commission on postsecondary education from the department of education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 237—Senators Wiener, Rawson, Amodei, Mathews, Schneider and Townsend. Approved May 29, 20011025

 

234AN ACT relating to insurance; revising the Nevada Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association Act to incorporate changes made in the model act; prohibiting certain acts; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 252—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 29, 20011025

 

235AN ACT relating to public safety; requiring certain owners of boilers, elevators or pressure vessels to obtain a permit from the division of industrial relations of the department of business and industry before the boiler, elevator or pressure vessel may be operated; requiring elevator mechanics to be certified by the division; requiring the division to adopt regulations governing the maintenance and operation of certain boilers, elevators and pressure vessels and the certification of boiler inspectors and elevator mechanics; authorizing the division to impose certain fees; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 337—Senators Care, Titus, Carlton, Schneider, Wiener, Mathews and Neal. Approved May 29, 20011048

 

236AN ACT relating to drugs; prohibiting certain acts related to drugs and Internet pharmacies; prohibiting practitioners and other persons from prescribing prescription drugs under certain circumstances; providing the attorney general with jurisdiction to prosecute certain acts related to drugs and Internet pharmacies; revising various provisions related to controlled substances and other substances and drugs; requiring the state board of pharmacy to adopt certain regulations related to Internet pharmacies; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 397—Senators Wiener, Mathews, Neal, Rawson, Care, McGinness, Porter and Shaffer. Approved May 29, 20011052

 

237AN ACT relating to wildlife; requiring the board of wildlife commissioners to establish the maximum number of deer and antelope tags which may be issued annually as compensation for damage to private property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 467—Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 29, 20011070

 

238AN ACT relating to health care; providing an additional exception to the prohibition against certain referrals of patients by health care practitioners; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 406—Senator Amodei. Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Brower and Parnell. Approved May 29, 20011072

 

239AN ACT relating to state parks; eliminating the parks marina development fund; expanding the permissible uses of money received from the tax on motor vehicle fuel used in watercraft for recreational purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 499—Committee on Finance. Approved May 29, 20011074

 

240AN ACT relating to the administration of public agencies; expanding the authority of the state board of examiners to make certain emergency expenditures, to waive certain requirements regarding contracts for the services of independent contractors and to authorize its clerk to take certain actions on its behalf; requiring the clerk to make periodic reports of his determinations regarding certain of those actions; requiring certain agreements for interlocal cooperation between public agencies to be in writing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 556—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 29, 20011077

 

241AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; revising the provisions pertaining to the competency of defendants; eliminating the sanity commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 582—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 29, 20011084

 

242AN ACT relating to education; requiring the department of education to develop an informational pamphlet for the high school proficiency examination; requiring the distribution of the pamphlet to pupils and parents and legal guardians; requiring the department to establish a statewide program for use by schools and school districts in their preparation of pupils for the high school proficiency examination; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 318—Committee on Education. Approved May 30, 20011089

 

243AN ACT relating to regional transportation commissions; increasing the membership of the regional transportation commission in certain less populous counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 534—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 30, 20011091

 

244AN ACT relating to insurance; making various changes to the provisions governing the investigation and prosecution of insurance fraud; providing that an insurer and certain other organizations and persons shall be deemed to be victims in cases involving insurance fraud for purposes of restitution; requiring the establishment of a fraud control unit for insurance within the office of the attorney general; defining the duties of the fraud control unit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 135—Assemblymen Dini and Perkins. Approved May 30, 20011093

 

245AN ACT relating to Oriental medicine; revising the provisions relating to the issuance of a license to practice as a doctor of Oriental medicine; abolishing the license to practice as a doctor of acupuncture and the license for an assistant in acupuncture; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 302—Assemblywoman Giunchigliani. Approved May 30, 20011103

 

246AN ACT relating to the adoption of children; requiring the provision of certain information and assistance to certain adoptive parents, prospective adoptive parents and other persons involved in the process of adoption; requiring the division of child and family services of the department of human resources and a child-placing agency timely and diligently to schedule evaluations necessary to identify any special needs an adoptive child may have; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 336—Assemblymen Dini, Parks, Giunchigliani, Ohrenschall, Manendo, Anderson, Arberry, Bache, Buckley, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Freeman, Goldwater, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Oceguera, Parnell, Perkins, Price, Smith and Williams. Approved May 30, 20011110

 

247AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles and public safety; extending the authorized period of expenditure of money appropriated to the department of motor vehicles and public safety for the purchase of modular furniture for the remodeled office in Carson City; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 609—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 30, 20011113

 

248AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions pertaining to the contents of policies adopted by certain larger school districts concerning the reconstruction, renovation or replacement of older buildings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 659—Committee on Education. Approved May 30, 20011113

 

249AN ACT relating to wild horses; revising the provisions relating to the authorization for the expenditure of money in the Heil trust fund for wild horses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 662—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved May 30, 20011114

 

250AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; extending the reversion date of an appropriation made in the previous session for the production of certain license plates; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety to complete the replacement of the bighorn sheep license plates within a specified period; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 525—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 30, 20011115

 

251AN ACT relating to mental health; changing the name of the Nevada mental health institute to northern Nevada adult mental health services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 540—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 30, 20011115

 

252AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the provisions governing the classification of manufactured homes as real property for the purpose of property taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 70—Senator Amodei. Approved May 30, 20011118

 

253AN ACT relating to veterans’ homes; requiring the appointment of an administrator for each veterans’ home in this state and establishing his qualifications; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 135—Senators Care, Amodei, Wiener, Titus, Carlton and Jacobsen. Joint Sponsor: Assemblyman Neighbors. Approved May 30, 20011121

 

254AN ACT relating to taxation; authorizing the Nevada tax commission to exchange with certain local governmental entities information concerning businesses that are subject to the business tax; providing that such exchanges of information are not confidential and privileged; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 222—Committee on Taxation. Approved May 30, 20011122

 

255AN ACT relating to public bodies; prohibiting certain public bodies from taking action by vote without the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the public body; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 329—Senator Care. Joint Sponsor: Assemblyman Parks. Approved May 30, 20011123

 

256AN ACT relating to the Civil Air Patrol; increasing the maximum amount that may be paid to the Civil Air Patrol account from the account for taxes on aviation fuel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 389—Senators O’Donnell, Rawson, Titus, Raggio, Jacobsen, Amodei, Care, Coffin, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, Porter, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Washington and Weiner. Approved May 30, 20011136

 

257AN ACT relating to state financial administration; extending the date for submittal of biennial budgets proposed by state agencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 480—Committee on Finance. Approved May 30, 20011137

 

258AN ACT relating to crimes; revising the penalties for abuse or neglect of a child; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 546—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 30, 20011138

 

259AN ACT relating to public works; requiring the attorney general to prosecute persons who violate certain provisions relating to employment of workmen on a public work; increasing the period within which a person may not be awarded a contract for a public work after being assessed an administrative penalty for committing an offense; revising the provisions governing the determination of the prevailing wages in a county; revising the provisions establishing which workmen are employed on a public work and subject to the provisions governing prevailing wages; clarifying the duties of public bodies to investigate possible violations of certain provisions governing employment on a public work; requiring contractors and subcontractors to submit certain records concerning his workmen to a public body within a certain period; providing that a failure to maintain and provide such records within such period constitutes an offense which may subject the contractor or subcontractor to administrative penalties and civil liability; providing that a violation of certain regulations is a misdemeanor; changing monetary limits of certain penalties and fines; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 560—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 30, 20011143

 

260AN ACT relating to children; revising provisions governing the duty of certain persons to report the abuse or neglect of children; authorizing a county to adopt ordinances regarding the designation and operation of approved youth shelters; providing that approved youth shelters are immune from civil liability under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 264—Assemblymen Buckley, Tiffany, Parks, Manendo, Koivisto, Giunchigliani, Anderson, Arberry, Bache, Beers, Berman, Brower, Brown, Carpenter, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Gibbons, Goldwater, Gustavson, Hettrick, Lee, Marvel, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Oceguera, Parnell, Perkins, Price, Smith and Von Tobel. Approved May 30, 20011150

 

261AN ACT relating to securities; making various changes to provisions governing securities; making various changes to provisions governing the authority of the administrator of the securities division of the office of the secretary of state in licensing matters; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 547—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 30, 20011154

 

262AN ACT relating to offenders; providing that certain prisoners may be assigned to the custody of the division of parole and probation of the department of motor vehicles and public safety to participate in a program for re-entry into the community; providing that certain parolees may be ordered to participate in a program for re-entry into the community; revising the provisions regarding the sealing of records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 519—Committee on Finance. Approved May 30, 20011160

 

263AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring the successor organization to the state industrial insurance system to release certain liens created by the system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 566—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 30, 20011169

 

264AN ACT relating to homes; changing the terms used in provisions relating to mobile home parks to refer to manufactured home parks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 384—Assemblymen Manendo, Buckley, Bache, Claborn, McClain, Anderson, Arberry, Chowning, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Gustavson, Koivisto, Leslie, Mortenson, Oceguera, Ohrenschall, Parks, Parnell, Perkins, Price, Smith, Tiffany, Von Tobel and Williams. Approved May 31, 20011170

 

265AN ACT relating to cosmetology; requiring the licensing of a demonstrator of cosmetics; authorizing the sale of food or beverages in a cosmetological establishment under certain circumstances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 551—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 31, 20011190

 

266AN ACT relating to education; requiring the department of education and the board of trustees of each school district to adopt a plan setting forth procedures concerning the security of certain examinations; requiring the department to establish certain additional procedures and programs relating to the examinations; requiring certain schools to provide for additional administration of the examinations under certain circumstances; prohibiting retaliatory action against an official of a school district or charter school who discloses information regarding irregularities in testing administration or testing security; providing that a teacher or administrator who intentionally fails to observe and carry out the provisions of a plan for test security is subject to disciplinary action; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 214—Committee on Education. Approved May 31, 20011197

 

267AN ACT relating to game tags; imposing an additional fee for processing an application for a game tag for the support of programs to control predators and protect wildlife habitat; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 291—Assemblymen Claborn, Carpenter, Collins, Marvel, Neighbors, Anderson, Bache, Brown, de Braga, Humke, Lee, McClain, Mortenson and Parnell. Approved May 31, 20011213

 

268AN ACT relating to domestic violence; requiring courts in certain smaller counties to be available at all times to issue temporary and extended orders for protection against domestic violence; providing that a person who violates a temporary or extended order must not be released from custody sooner than 12 hours after being taken into custody if the arresting officer determines that the violation is accompanied by a direct or indirect threat of harm; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 377—Assemblymen Parnell, Gibbons, McClain, Bache, Brower, Carpenter, de Braga, Freeman, Goldwater, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Smith and Von Tobel. Joint Sponsor: Senator Amodei. Approved May 31, 20011214

 

269AN ACT relating to legislators; prohibiting a private contract of employment that provides for a loss of job seniority for a legislator because of the legislator’s attendance at certain meetings during the legislative interim; requiring public and certain private employers to grant leave for employees who are legislators to attend certain meetings during the legislative interim; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 57—Senator Carlton. Approved May 31, 20011227

 

270AN ACT relating to statutory liens; providing for the creation and foreclosure of a lien for farm products; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 88—Senators Rhoads and McGinness. Approved May 31, 20011228

 

271AN ACT relating to taxicabs; requiring the taxicab authority to establish a program for the transportation by taxicab of elderly persons and permanently handicapped persons in certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 119—Senator Shaffer. Approved May 31, 20011232

 

272AN ACT relating to sanitation; providing that a solid waste management authority may authorize a nonprofit organization to engage in certain activities pertaining to the cleaning up of dump sites and the education of persons regarding unlawful dumping; authorizing the solid waste management authorities of certain larger counties to establish a program for the control of unlawful dumping; authorizing such a solid waste management authority to delegate certain matters of enforcement to an independent hearing officer or hearing board; authorizing a district health officer to exercise subpoena powers with respect to the unlawful disposal of sewage and solid waste; providing certain civil and other penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 424—Senator Titus. Approved May 31, 20011233

 

273AN ACT relating to aviation; creating the fund for aviation; providing for the administration and expenditure of the money in the fund for certain purposes relating to airports, landing areas and air navigation facilities that are owned or controlled by certain counties, cities or other local governments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 26—Senator O’Donnell. Approved May 31, 20011238

 

274AN ACT relating to technology; prohibiting various acts related to the Internet, networks, computers and electronic mail; prohibiting a person from committing certain acts that prevent, impede, delay or disrupt the normal operation or use of any Internet or network site, electronic mail address, computer, system or network; allowing victims of certain technological crimes to recover response costs in a civil action; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 48—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 31, 20011240

 

275AN ACT relating to local governments; requiring a city or county to establish requirements for certifying and for continuing education for building officials and certain persons who conduct inspections of or review plans prepared for structures or buildings under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 163—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 31, 20011245

 

276AN ACT relating to the protection of children; providing for the delivery of certain newborn infants to certain providers of emergency services; providing for the care, protective custody and disposition of those infants; providing civil and criminal immunity for performing certain acts regarding those infants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 191—Senators Rawson, Carlton, Amodei, Care, Jacobsen, James, McGinness, O’Donnell, Porter, Rhoads, Titus, Washington, Coffin, Mathews, Wiener and Neal. Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Cegavske, Hettrick, Bache, Gustavson, Chowning, Anderson, Carpenter, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Koivisto, Manendo, Mortenson and Parnell. Approved May 31, 20011254

 

277AN ACT relating to therapeutic communities; revising the provisions governing the date on which an offender is eligible to be assigned to participate in a therapeutic community; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 197—Senators Wiener, Rawson, Titus, Mathews, Care, Amodei, Coffin, McGinness, Neal, O’Connell, Porter, Schneider, Shaffer and Washington. Approved May 31, 20011265

 

278AN ACT relating to electricity; revising the provisions governing the sale of electricity and the provision of transmission and distribution services by the Colorado River commission; requiring certain public utilities to make their electric distribution facilities and services available to the Colorado River commission under certain circumstances; requiring such utilities to file tariffs concerning use of their electric distribution facilities and services by the Colorado River commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 211—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 31, 20011266

 

279AN ACT relating to public works; requiring and authorizing certain terms in a contract between a design professional who is a member of a design-build team and a public body; prohibiting a public body from requiring a design professional to indemnify the public body against any liability in a contract with the design professional; providing an exception to such a prohibition; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 255—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 31, 20011268

 

280AN ACT relating to arbitration; adopting the revision of the Uniform Arbitration Act that was adopted in 2000; providing for the transition from the present act to the act as revised; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 336—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 31, 20011274

 

281AN ACT relating to the public employees’ retirement system; providing for benefits for a survivor beneficiary in certain circumstances; decreasing the number of years of service at which a police officer or fireman is eligible to retire regardless of age; revising the formula for calculating retirement allowances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 349—Committee on Finance. Approved May 31, 20011287

 

282AN ACT relating to taxation; clarifying the provisions relating to the taxation of medical devices sold to governmental entities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 528—Committee on Taxation. Approved May 31, 20011294

 

283AN ACT relating to the control of air pollution; authorizing the control officer of a local air pollution control board to request the initiation of certain proceedings regarding the enforcement of certain laws pertaining to the control of air pollution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 533—Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 31, 20011295

 

284AN ACT relating to intercollegiate athletics; requiring the registration of athletes’ agents; requiring the secretary of state to adopt regulations establishing the fees for registration; regulating communication and contracts between athletes and agents; prohibiting certain conduct by athletes’ agents; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 253—Assemblymen Cegavske, Hettrick, Von Tobel, Brown, Anderson, Angle, Arberry, Bache, Berman, Brower, Buckley, Carpenter, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Gustavson, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Marvel, McClain, Neighbors, Nolan, Oceguera, Parks, Parnell, Perkins, Price, Smith, Tiffany and Williams. Joint Sponsors: Senators O’Donnell, Neal, Carlton, McGinness, Titus and Washington. Approved May 31, 20011298

 

285AN ACT relating to juveniles; providing that juveniles who are adjudicated delinquent for committing certain acts that would be crimes if committed by an adult may not have their records automatically sealed; making various other changes related to sealing of juvenile records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 294—Assemblyman Bache. Approved May 31, 20011307

 

286AN ACT relating to state employees; changing the circumstances under which the governor or the head of a state agency may issue an award for public service to a state employee; requiring the state board of examiners to prescribe a maximum amount of money that may be spent on such an award; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 604—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 31, 20011311

 

287AN ACT relating to taxation; expanding the purposes for which the proceeds of certain taxes on fuel for jet or turbine-powered aircraft may be used by a governmental entity; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 39—Senator Townsend. Approved May 31, 20011312

 

288AN ACT relating to governmental purchasing; authorizing a local government and the chief of the purchasing division of the department of administration to receive bids on secure websites on the Internet or its successor; removing the provision requiring notice of the expiration of the insurance coverage of a local government; authorizing a local government to charge fees for the use of a credit card or debit card or the electronic transfer of money when remitting fees or payments to the local government; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 649—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 31, 20011314

 

289AN ACT relating to schools; requiring the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school and private school to establish a committee to develop a plan to be used in responding to certain crises involving violence on school property, at school activities or on school buses; requiring each school to establish a committee to review such a plan developed for the school; requiring the state board of education to develop a statewide plan for the management of certain crises that involve violence on school property, at school activities or on school buses and that require immediate action; requiring the division of emergency management of the department of motor vehicles and public safety to assist, under certain circumstances, with such crises; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 289—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 31, 20011323

 

290AN ACT relating to public schools; requiring the Board of Trustees of the Clark County School District to establish a special planning committee to plan for the construction of smaller schools; requiring the board to report to the Legislative Committee on Education concerning the activities of the special planning committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 311—Senators Schneider, Neal and Shaffer. Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Buckley, Parks, Bache, Price, Beers, Arberry, Berman, Brown, Chowning, Claborn, Giunchigliani, Lee, Manendo, McClain, Mortenson and Tiffany. Approved May 31, 20011338

 

291AN ACT relating to medical facilities; requiring the state board of health to adopt regulations for the licensure of certain mobile units and facilities for refractive laser surgery as medical facilities; requiring facilities for refractive laser surgery to file a surety bond or deposit other security to provide indemnification to certain patients; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 483—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 31, 20011339

 

292AN ACT relating to health care; requiring the Legislative Committee on Health Care to conduct a study of the diversion of patients in need of emergency services and care from hospitals that lack sufficient resources to provide the emergency services and care needed by those patients; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 484—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 31, 20011344

 

293AN ACT relating to property; revising the provisions concerning the rule against perpetuities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 325—Assemblymen Goldwater and Parks. Approved May 31, 20011345

 

294AN ACT relating to elections; providing for certain designated areas for gathering signatures on petitions; prohibiting state and local government, for certain periods, from expending money to support or oppose candidates or ballot questions; extending the period for gathering signatures on certain petitions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 443—Assemblywoman Freeman. Approved May 31, 20011347

 

295AN ACT relating to the preservation of neighborhoods; providing for the revocation of the license or certification of certain facilities for the care and treatment of persons in certain circumstances; requiring certain rental agreements to contain certain additional information; requiring that the responsible person whose telephone number a landlord is required to provide to a tenant for emergencies must reside in the same county in which the premises are located; authorizing the real estate commission to discipline certain licensees in certain circumstances; requiring certain governmental agencies to maintain a log of certain complaints and to submit certain reports to the director of the legislative counsel bureau; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 444—Assemblywoman Freeman. Approved May 31, 20011350

 

296AN ACT relating to business associations; providing for the decrease of issued and outstanding shares of stock in certain circumstances; providing for the voting rights of fiduciaries and joint owners of stock; revising various provisions governing the filing of organizational and related documents; revising the fees for filing certain documents; revising provisions governing the forfeiture of stock by delinquent subscribers; providing for the registration and management of foreign limited-liability companies; revising provisions governing the merger, conversion and exchange of business entities; providing for the domestication of certain foreign business entities; providing that the secretary of state and his employees are not liable for actions or omissions with respect to the examination, acceptance or filing of inaccurate or defective documents received from a business association; making various other changes pertaining to business associations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 51—Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 31, 20011356

 

297AN ACT relating to the program for millennium scholarships; expanding the program to provide for the disbursement of scholarships to students of certain additional colleges and universities in this state; revising the eligibility requirements for certain pupils who did not graduate from high school at the time regularly scheduled for their graduation; increasing the amount of scholarships for upper division courses at community colleges; eliminating the requirement that the scholarship be repaid if a student drops out of school or fails to maintain a certain grade-point average; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 113—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 31, 20011415

 

298AN ACT relating to governmental administration; requiring a local government to submit electronically a fiscal report to the department of taxation and to publish a summary of the fiscal report in a newspaper; requiring the committee on local government finance to establish by regulation certain requirements for a fiscal report of a local government submitted to the department of taxation and for a summary of a fiscal report; authorizing the committee on local government finance to establish by regulation an exception to the requirement that the fiscal report be submitted electronically for certain local governments; authorizing the electronic submission of documents relating to the budgets of local governments to the legislative counsel bureau; repealing the requirement that local governments prepare certain quarterly reports; requiring the publication of certain regulations in the Nevada Administrative Code; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 125—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 31, 20011420

 

299AN ACT relating to education; requiring certain entities that employ children in the entertainment industry to pay for those children to receive tutoring or other educational or instructional services upon the request of a parent or guardian; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 236—Senators Care, Neal, Carlton, Mathews, Schneider, Shaffer, Titus and Wiener. Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Koivisto, Angle, Beers, Cegavske, Chowning, Collins, Manendo, McClain, Mortenson, Parks and Tiffany. Approved May 31, 20011423

 

300AN ACT relating to state job training office; eliminating the office; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 502—Committee on Finance. Approved May 31, 20011424

 

301AN ACT relating to crimes; prohibiting a business from employing, using or allowing a person who is less than 18 years of age to distribute promotional materials that include an offer for alcoholic beverages; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 125—Assemblymen Manendo, Anderson, Price, Williams, Chowning, Angle, Berman, Brower, Carpenter, Cegavske, Claborn, de Braga, Freeman, Gibbons, Gustavson, Koivisto, Leslie, McClain, Neighbors, Oceguera, Parks, Parnell and Von Tobel. Approved May 31, 20011426

 

302AN ACT relating to the Lake Tahoe Basin; authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to carry out the Environmental Improvement Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 177—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved May 31, 20011427

 

303AN ACT relating to elections; revising the definition of a committee for political action; providing a civil penalty for failure to register as a committee for political action; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 227—Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics. Approved May 31, 20011429

 

304AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; revising certain provisions that limit the time of day that an arrest for a misdemeanor may be made to exclude arrests for certain misdemeanor offenses related to domestic violence; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 259—Assemblymen McClain, Koivisto, Leslie, Smith, Oceguera, Anderson, Arberry, Bache, Berman, Brower, Buckley, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, Dini, Freeman, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Hettrick, Humke, Lee, Manendo, Mortenson, Neighbors, Nolan, Parnell, Tiffany and Williams. Approved May 31, 20011431

 

305AN ACT relating to veterans; authorizing the Executive Director of the Office of Veterans’ Services to accept gifts and grants for the support of the World War II Memorial Campaign to establish the national memorial for World War II veterans; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 278—Assemblymen Carpenter, McClain, Nolan, Neighbors, Marvel, Anderson, Arberry, Bache, Beers, Berman, Brower, Brown, Buckley, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Mortenson, Oceguera, Ohrenschall, Parks, Parnell, Perkins, Price, Smith, Tiffany, Von Tobel and Williams. Joint Sponsors: Senators Amodei, Wiener, Rawson, Jacobsen, McGinness and Townsend. Approved May 31, 20011432

 

306AN ACT relating to elections; providing that eligible voters who are elderly or disabled must not be denied the right to participate in elections and to vote privately; requiring the secretary of state to provide certain materials to elderly or disabled persons in a format that can be used by those persons; encouraging each county and city clerk to provide certain information and materials, including ballots, in alternative formats that can be used by elderly or disabled persons; requiring all polling places to be accessible to and equipped for use by voters who are elderly or disabled; excepting disabled voters from certain requirements regarding the voting of absent ballots; requiring absent ballots to be printed in at least 12-point type under certain circumstances; requiring that instructions for registering to vote be posted at certain locations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 295—Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics. Approved May 31, 20011433

 

307AN ACT relating to public employees; authorizing a leave of absence for certain public officers or employees to assist the division of emergency management of the department of motor vehicles and public safety or a local organization for emergency management during a disaster or emergency; revising certain provisions relating to the classified and unclassified services of the state; repealing certain provisions relating to cooperation with the public employees’ retirement board and the requirement of a bond for appointment to certain positions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 386—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 31, 20011438

 

308AN ACT relating to the state public works board; authorizing the removal of the manager of the board under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 414—Assemblymen Perkins, Parks, Beers, Ohrenschall, Gibbons, Anderson, Arberry, Bache, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, Dini, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Oceguera, Parnell, Price, Smith, Tiffany and Williams. Approved May 31, 20011443

 

309AN ACT relating to property; revising the procedures for notification for an application for certain conditional use permits, variances, special use permits or other special exceptions; revising the procedure for the vacation or abandonment of certain easements and rights of way; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 553—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 31, 20011444

 

310AN ACT relating to constables; authorizing constables, upon request by the sheriff, to execute certain process, writs, and warrants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 557—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 31, 20011455

 

311AN ACT relating to state financial administration; exempting certain professional and occupational boards from the state budget act and the provisions governing the administration of state funding; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 569—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 31, 20011456

 

312AN ACT relating to state purchasing; authorizing the chief of the purchasing division of the department of administration to withdraw money from the state purchasing fund under certain circumstances; providing that the maximum balance in the state purchasing fund is permanently reduced by the amount of the withdrawal; limiting the amount of a temporary transfer from the state general fund to the state purchasing fund under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 605—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 31, 20011457

 

313AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; authorizing federally recognized Indian tribes to elect to become liable for payments by way of reimbursement in lieu of contributions to comply with federal law; increasing the daily compensation for service for members of the Nevada employment security council; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 607—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 31, 20011458

 

314AN ACT relating to the University and Community College System of Nevada; authorizing the board of regents of the University of Nevada to create campus review boards to review allegations of misconduct against peace officers of the police department for the system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 634—Committee on Education. Approved May 31, 20011463

 

315AN ACT relating to property insurance; prohibiting a lender from requiring that a borrower insure improvements to real property for more than their replacement value as a condition of obtaining or maintaining a loan secured by real property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 6—Senator Washington. Approved May 31, 20011465

 

316AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for the issuance of special license plates for the appreciation of animals; imposing a fee for the issuance or renewal of such license plates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 54—Senator Rawson. Approved May 31, 20011466

 

317AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing the accountability of public schools; revising provisions governing the requirements for a person to take the tests of general educational development; revising provisions governing the count of pupils and the calculation of basic support under certain circumstances; revising provisions governing the reporting of results of certain achievement and proficiency examinations; revising the requirements for a course in American government and a course in American history; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 165—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 31, 20011470

 

318AN ACT relating to school districts; authorizing the department of education to waive certain eligibility requirements for grants of money previously appropriated for the purchase of library books and extending the reversion date of the appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 196—Senator Mathews. Approved May 31, 20011495

 

319AN ACT relating to local government finance; requiring a local government that desires to loan money from one fund to another fund or to another local government to make certain determinations at a public hearing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 201—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 31, 20011497

 

320AN ACT relating to public schools; revising provisions governing the reemployment of employees of a charter school by a school district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 243—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 31, 20011497

 

321AN ACT relating to drivers’ licenses; requiring the photograph and any information included on the face of a driver’s license or identification card to be placed in a certain manner on the license or card; revising the provisions governing the use of colors on a driver’s license issued to an insulin dependent diabetic or an epileptic; providing that courses in automobile driver education in public schools must be limited to pupils who have attained a certain age; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 260—Committee on Transportation. Approved May 31, 20011500

 

322AN ACT relating to food establishments; excluding certain persons under certain circumstances from regulation as food handlers; clarifying that food prepared in a private home and given away at no charge is not subject to regulation as a food establishment under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 352—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 31, 20011504

 

323AN ACT relating to traffic laws; requiring the driver of a slow-moving vehicle to turn off the roadway in certain circumstances; providing that a vehicle upon a highway of this state must display appropriate lighted lamps and illuminating devices in certain circumstances; authorizing the department of transportation or a local law enforcement agency to allow a person to drive or move certain vehicles or combinations of vehicles to and from the site of an emergency without a special permit under certain circumstances; requiring the department to integrate the consideration of turnouts for vehicles into plans, designs, construction and maintenance of highways in certain circumstances; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 396—Senator McGinness. Approved May 31, 20011506

 

324AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for the issuance of special license plates recognizing current or former service as a volunteer fire fighter; imposing a fee for the issuance and renewal of those license plates to pay expenses related to the training of volunteer fire fighters; limiting the issuance of special license plates indicating current or former employment as a professional full-time salaried fire fighter; imposing a fee for the issuance and renewal of those license plates to be distributed among certain facilities for the treatment of burns which are located within the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 257—Senators Wiener, O’Donnell, Care, Carlton, Shaffer, Amodei, Jacobsen, Titus and Washington. Approved May 31, 20011508

 

325AN ACT relating to air pollution; authorizing the local air pollution control agency in certain counties to establish a program to reduce emissions of air pollutants using credits to allow a certain level of air contaminant which may be traded or sold; requiring such an agency to adopt certain regulations concerning such a program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 535—Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 31, 20011515

 

326AN ACT relating to the welfare of children; requiring the establishment of a program to provide supportive assistance to certain persons who obtain the legal guardianship of certain children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 15—Assemblywoman Giunchigliani. Joint Sponsor: Senator Mathews. Approved June 1, 20011518

 

327AN ACT relating to cosmetology; requiring the state board of cosmetology to provide examinations for licensure as a cosmetologist in English and Spanish; establishing a procedure pursuant to which the board may offer examinations for licensure as a cosmetologist in other languages; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 153—Senator Schneider. Approved June 1, 20011520

 

328AN ACT relating to taxation; increasing and providing for the adjustment of the amount of the exemptions from property and vehicle privilege taxes for veterans and veterans’ organizations; increasing the maximum amount that the state treasurer may accept from certain persons for credit to the veterans’ home account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 156—Senators Shaffer, Care and Titus. Approved June 1, 20011521

 

329AN ACT relating to disabled persons; creating an exception for certain organizations to the competitive bidding process for purchasing by local governments; requiring the committee on employment of persons with disabilities, if created by the governor, to establish a program to encourage and facilitate the purchase of commodities and services from certain organizations by agencies of state and local government; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 175—Senators Schneider, Neal, Mathews, Wiener, Care, Titus and Shaffer. Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Parks, Beers, Carpenter, Chowning, Humke, Manendo and Nolan. Approved June 1, 20011535

 

330AN ACT relating to taxation; exempting from the local school support tax and certain analogous taxes certain systems designed or adapted to use renewable energy to generate electricity; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 273—Senator Rhoads. Approved June 1, 20011537

 

331AN ACT relating to taxation; providing an exemption from the taxes on personal property for certain property of nonresidents that is located in this state; repealing the provisions establishing the committee for assessing livestock; expanding the circumstances under which a senior citizen may receive a refund pursuant to the Senior Citizens’ Property Tax Assistance Act; expanding the property tax exemption for widows to include all surviving spouses; authorizing the county assessor to deposit certain overpayments of taxes in the county treasury unless the taxpayer requests a refund of the overpayment; exempting certain deficient payments of taxes from collection; removing certain duties of county assessors and county treasurers concerning the taxation of animals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 376—Committee on Taxation. Approved June 1, 20011538

 

332AN ACT relating to the public employees’ retirement system; requiring the public employees’ retirement board to conduct a study regarding lump-sum optional retirement programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 431—Assemblyman Oceguera. Approved June 1, 20011571

 

333AN ACT relating to state financial administration; restricting the ability of a state agency to enter into certain agreements to purchase real property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 601—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 1, 20011571

 

334AN ACT relating to taxation; authorizing the City Council of the City of Reno to increase the tax on the rental of transient lodging and levy special assessments in a certain area of the City of Reno to pay the costs of certain capital improvement projects; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 221—Committee on Natural Resources. Approved June 1, 20011572

 

335AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the requirements for certain property of recycling businesses to be exempt from taxation; revising, for a limited period, certain partial abatements from taxation for facilities for the generation of electricity from renewable energy; repealing the provisions that exempt from taxation certain property of businesses that use a facility for the production of electrical energy from solar energy; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 227—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 1, 20011578

 

336AN ACT relating to taxation; providing certain rights for taxpayers of the tax on the transfer of real property; establishing provisions relating to the collection and enforcement of the tax on the transfer of real property; eliminating certain exemptions from the tax on the transfer of real property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 238—Committee on Taxation. Approved June 1, 20011585

 

337AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the definitions of “wholesale dealer” and “wholesale price” for the purpose of imposing the tax on products made from tobacco, other than cigarettes; requiring the payment of the tax after the sale of the products by a wholesale dealer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 381—Senator Jacobsen. Approved June 1, 20011595

 

338AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the formula for the distribution among counties of certain revenue from the tax on certain motor vehicle fuel; providing for a review of the estimates of the total mileage of roads or streets maintained by each county and incorporated city prepared by the department of transportation; extending the date for expiration of the legislative committee to study the distribution among local governments of revenue from state and local taxes and certain statutory provisions relating thereto; changing the name of the committee to the legislative committee for local government taxes and finance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 557—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 1, 20011598

 

339AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing that an instructor for a school for training drivers who provides instruction solely to applicants for commercial drivers’ licenses is not required to complete requirements for continuing education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 242—Assemblymen Marvel and Chowning. Approved June 1, 20011606

 

340AN ACT relating to dentistry; authorizing the board of dental examiners of Nevada to issue certain licenses without examination or clinical demonstrations to dentists and dental hygienists licensed in other jurisdictions under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 133—Senators Shaffer, Coffin, Titus, Carlton and Neal. Approved June 1, 20011607

 

341AN ACT relating to contractors; revising the provisions governing the rights and duties of contractors and subcontractors under contracts and subcontracts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 274—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 31, 20011615

 

342AN ACT relating to contractors; eliminating the duty of a contractor to require proof of payment of the business tax from a subcontractor with whom he has a contract; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 380—Senator Schneider. Approved June 1, 20011626

 

343AN ACT relating to the University and Community College System of Nevada; requiring the board of regents of the University of Nevada to establish policies governing the contracts that faculty members and employees of the system may enter into or benefit from; authorizing such faculty members and employees to enter into or benefit from certain contracts that are consistent with those policies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 543—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved June 5, 20011627

 

344AN ACT relating to the practice of pharmacy; requiring the state board of pharmacy to adopt requirements for the form, content and transmittal of prescriptions for controlled substances; clarifying the authority of the board to regulate pharmacies and wholesalers who offer services in this state via the Internet; revising the disciplinary action that may be taken by the board against the holder of a certificate, license or permit issued by the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 544—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved June 5, 20011629

 

345AN ACT relating to offenders; revising the provisions relating to psychosexual evaluations and the process of certifying whether certain offenders may be granted probation; revising provisions relating to the restoration of civil rights of certain offenders who are honorably discharged from probation; revising the provisions relating to the process of certifying whether certain offenders may be released on parole; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 548—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 5, 20011636

 

346AN ACT relating to telecommunications; providing a procedure by which a customer may dispute a surcharge, fee or designation of place of primary use; changing the place of billing of the customers from which a supplier of mobile telephone service may collect certain fees; changing provisions relating to a limitation on fees charged by local government for a public utility that sells or resells wireless service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 563—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20011642

 

347AN ACT relating to unclaimed property; revising provisions governing when unclaimed property is presumed abandoned; providing for a limited exemption from interest penalties for the late payment or delivery of abandoned property under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 77—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20011645

 

348AN ACT relating to historic preservation; authorizing certain fund raising to benefit historic places or programs pursuant to which a donor of money is, under certain circumstances, allowed to name a historic place or portion thereof; revising the qualifications for membership on the Comstock historic district commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 102—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20011653

 

349AN ACT relating to electric services; requiring electric utilities and alternative sellers to disclose to customers certain information concerning electric services and any products and services relating thereto; setting forth the types of information that must be disclosed by the electric utilities and alternative sellers; requiring the public utilities commission of Nevada to adopt regulations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 197—Assemblymen Leslie, Bache, Parks, de Braga, Gibbons, Brower, Buckley, Chowning, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Humke, Koivisto, Manendo, McClain, Parnell, Smith and Williams. Approved June 5, 20011654

 

350AN ACT relating to metropolitan police departments; revising provisions relating to withdrawal from or dissolution of a department; requiring the approval of the voters for withdrawal from or dissolution of a department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 202—Assemblymen Bache, Giunchigliani, Perkins, Williams, Berman, Anderson, Buckley, de Braga, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Mortenson, Parks, Tiffany and Von Tobel. Joint Sponsors: Senators O’Connell, Wiener, Titus, Schneider and Shaffer. Approved June 5, 20011656

 

351AN ACT relating to peace officers; providing that a peace officer may not be required to submit to a polygraphic examination; providing certain protections to an officer who refuses to submit to such an examination; providing that a person who alleges that an officer has engaged in certain prohibited acts may not be required to submit to a polygraphic examination as a condition to an investigation of the allegation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 282—Assemblyman Bache. Approved June 5, 20011663

 

352AN ACT relating to transportation; authorizing the use of the proceeds of certain taxes for certain highway improvement projects located wholly or partially outside the boundaries of the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 465—Assemblymen Brown, Anderson, Beers, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Gibbons, Hettrick, Lee, Manendo, Marvel, Mortenson, Nolan, Ohrenschall, Parnell, Price, Smith and Von Tobel. Approved June 5, 20011665

 

353AN ACT relating to programs for public employees; establishing for the next biennium the amount to be paid by this state for group insurance for certain public employees, public officers and retired public employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 558—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20011671

 

354AN ACT relating to crimes; authorizing courts to defer and assess costs and fees for obtaining an order to protect a person from the crime of stalking, aggravated stalking and harassment against the adverse party; making various other changes pertaining to such an order; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 82—Assemblymen Koivisto, McClain, Carpenter, Humke, Chowning, Anderson, Arberry, Berman, Buckley, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Dini, Giunchigliani, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Nolan, Oceguera, Parks and Smith. Approved June 5, 20011671

 

355AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for the issuance of special license plates and souvenir license plates for the support of the preservation and restoration of the natural environment of the Lower Truckee River and Pyramid Lake; providing for the issuance of special license plates for the support of rodeos, including support for the programs and activities of the Reno Rodeo Foundation and Nevada High School Rodeo Association or their successors; imposing a fee for the issuance or renewal of such license plates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 113—Assemblymen Anderson, de Braga, Carpenter, Collins, Dini, Beers, Berman, Buckley, Claborn, Gibbons, Hettrick, Lee, Manendo, Marvel, McClain, Neighbors, Nolan, Smith and Von Tobel. Approved June 5, 20011672

 

356AN ACT relating to land use planning; expanding the subjects that must be addressed in a master plan in certain counties; limiting the number of annual amendments to the land use plan of the master plan or portions thereof in certain circumstances; revising provisions governing applications for changes in the boundaries of zoning districts and special use permits with regard to property located within certain unincorporated towns; requiring members of a town advisory board to receive certain training; authorizing the election of and providing limitations on the terms of members of town advisory boards in certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 182—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20011679

 

357AN ACT relating to juveniles; revising the provisions concerning the waiver by juveniles of their right to counsel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 308—Assemblymen Tiffany, Cegavske, Arberry, Beers, Berman, Brower, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, Freeman, Gibbons, Hettrick, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Marvel, Mortenson, Neighbors, Parks, Parnell, Smith and Von Tobel. Joint Sponsor: Senator Wiener. Approved June 5, 20011689

 

358AN ACT relating to criminal records; requiring information concerning the sealing of records and restoration of civil rights to be provided to certain persons; reducing the time required to lapse before a petition to seal certain criminal records may be brought; making various other changes concerning sealing criminal records; revising provisions governing the restoration of civil rights; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 328—Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Anderson, Arberry, Bache, Freeman, Goldwater, Oceguera and Williams. Joint Sponsor: Senator Neal. Approved June 5, 20011690

 

359AN ACT relating to cooperative agreements; prohibiting the operation of certain legal entities created by cooperative agreements between public agencies in such a manner as to affect adversely the continued existence of a public agency that is not a party to such an agreement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 413—Assemblyman Gustavson (by request). Approved June 5, 20011698

 

360AN ACT relating to evidence; expanding the circumstances under which expert testimony concerning the effects of domestic violence and evidence of domestic violence are admissible in a criminal proceeding; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 417—Assemblywoman Leslie. Approved June 5, 20011698

 

361AN ACT relating to the protection of children; providing that a child may be represented by an attorney in certain proceedings that involve the child and that his attorney has certain authority and rights; requiring each person who submits a report or information to a court for consideration in certain proceedings concerning protective services for a child to provide a copy of the report or information to the parent or guardian of the child and the attorney of the parent or guardian within a certain time before the proceeding under certain circumstances; providing that such a proceeding may be continued under certain circumstances; providing that the parent or guardian and the attorney of the parent or guardian is entitled to receive a copy of the recording or transcript of such a proceeding under certain circumstances; reducing the period within which the placement of a child with a person other than his parent must be reviewed under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 429—Assemblyman Hettrick. Approved June 5, 20011699

 

362AN ACT relating to general improvement districts; authorizing a general improvement district in certain counties to charge owners of dwelling units which receive services provided by the district for which the owners are not being charged; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 430—Assemblymen Cegavske and Hettrick. Approved June 5, 20011709

 

363AN ACT relating to local governments; authorizing counties and cities to donate real property to corporations for public benefit in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 451—Assemblymen Perkins, Dini, Giunchigliani, Chowning, Cegavske, Beers, Carpenter, Claborn, de Braga, Goldwater, Hettrick, Koivisto, Leslie, Marvel, McClain, Mortenson, Nolan and Ohrenschall. Approved June 5, 20011710

 

364AN ACT relating to taxation; authorizing the Nevada tax commission to enter into, under certain circumstances, the streamlined sales and use tax agreement, to act jointly with other states to simplify and modernize sales and use tax administration, take other actions reasonably required to implement the agreement and represent this state before the other states that are signatories to the agreement; allocating certain liabilities among certain participants in certain sales or services that involve more than one state; specifying that no provision of the agreement invalidates or amends any provision of Nevada law; requiring out-of-state retailers who contract with the state or a political subdivision to agree to collect sales tax on sales within this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 455—Assemblymen Goldwater, Cegavske and Arberry. Joint Sponsors: Senators McGinness, Coffin and Schneider. Approved June 5, 20011711

 

365AN ACT relating to watercraft; prohibiting the operation of certain motorboats on certain waters by persons who do not satisfy certain requirements; prohibiting the rental or lease of certain motorboats to those persons; requiring the division of wildlife of the state department of conservation and natural resources to certify instructors to provide courses in safe boating; requiring the division to establish a database of persons who possess certificates relating to safe boating; revising provisions regarding the operation of personal watercraft; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 469—Assemblymen Beers, Collins, Brown, Hettrick, Humke, Lee, Ohrenschall, Price and Tiffany. Approved June 5, 20011717

 

366AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing certain counties to establish an advisory committee on aircraft noise; excluding from the purview of the committee the operation of certain types of aircraft; requiring certain counties to enact and enforce certain ordinances concerning the reporting of certain aircraft noise; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 490—Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Oceguera, Manendo, Williams, Ohrenschall, Arberry, Bache, Buckley, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, Goldwater, Koivisto, Lee, McClain, Mortenson, Parks, Perkins and Price. Approved June 5, 20011721

 

367AN ACT relating to public schools; revising provisions governing the policy for the renovation or reconstruction of schools required of certain school districts; revising provisions governing the use of certain proceeds of bonds for a pilot program of a certain school district for the replacement of schools; requiring Clark County school district to continue its pilot program for the replacement of schools; authorizing a certain school district to use a certain amount of money from its fund for capital projects to finance the replacement of schools designated for its pilot program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 499—Assemblymen Williams, Arberry, Chowning and Manendo. Approved June 5, 20011723

 

368AN ACT relating to vehicles; providing for the identification, registration, regulation, taxation and other treatment of recreational park trailers as recreational vehicles; revising certain statutory definitions of “motor home” and “travel trailer;” and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 540—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved June 5, 20011725

 

369AN ACT relating to law enforcement; providing that certain field agents and inspectors of the state department of agriculture are category II peace officers; providing that the peace officers’ standards and training commission may enter into certain interlocal agreements with Indian tribes; requiring that certain peace officers be certified by the commission within a certain period; revising the authority of the director of the state department of agriculture to designate certain department personnel as field agents and expanding their authority to stop vehicles temporarily; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 560—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20011728

 

370AN ACT relating to county recorders; revising the provisions governing county recorders; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 568—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20011732

 

371AN ACT relating to utilities; revising provisions governing annual assessments imposed by the public utilities commission of Nevada; revising provisions governing the establishment of the rates of certain utilities; providing that certain accident reports concerning utilities must be open to public inspection; changing the dates for the calculation and payment of assessments by railroads; revising provisions governing the adoption of water conservation and incentive plans by utilities; revising provisions governing the provision of utility services to mobile home parks and company towns to include services from alternative sellers; providing for the acquisition of utility services by mobile home parks from alternative sellers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 210—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved June 5, 20011762

 

372AN ACT relating to professions; requiring interpreters for persons who are deaf or whose hearing is impaired to be certified; prescribing the requirements for certification; requiring the commission on professional standards in education to adopt regulations that require certain teachers and other educational personnel to satisfy the requirements for certification as an interpreter; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 245—Senator Mathews. Approved June 5, 20011771

 

373AN ACT relating to professions; revising the provisions governing the formation and operation of a professional corporation or association by certain multiple disciplines; authorizing the state board of architecture, interior design and residential design to accept satisfactory evidence of registration as an interior designer in another jurisdiction under certain circumstances; repealing certain provisions governing a member of the board who is a residential designer or registered interior designer; providing that a certificate of registration issued to an architect, registered interior designer or residential designer must be renewed annually; revising the qualifications to apply for registration as an architect or registered interior designer; revising the circumstances under which a residential designer may engage in practice as a registered interior designer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 301—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 5, 20011780

 

374AN ACT relating to local financial administration; revising provisions governing local government finance to comply with current generally accepted accounting and auditing standards; providing a procedure for the augmentation of budgets of local governments; requiring the department of taxation to create certain forms; requiring the state treasurer to withhold distributions from the local government tax distribution account from local governments under certain circumstances; requiring the use of alternative population totals for calculating distributions from the local government tax distribution account under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 317—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20011793

 

375AN ACT relating to podiatry; authorizing a podiatric physician who is licensed by the state board of podiatry to amputate toes under certain circumstances; prohibiting a county hospital from denying a podiatric physician admission to the staff of the hospital under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 405—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved June 5, 20011829

 

376AN ACT relating to the department of prisons; revising provisions relating to the appointment of wardens by the department of prisons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 504—Committee on Finance. Approved June 5, 20011831

 

377AN ACT relating to the state financial administration; clarifying certain provisions governing use of money in the state highway fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 522—Committee on Transportation. Approved June 5, 20011832

 

378AN ACT relating to meetings of public bodies; requiring a public body to give written notice to person against whom the public body is considering taking administrative action or property by eminent domain; revising the definition of “meeting” to include and exclude certain gatherings of members of a public body; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 225—Assemblymen Freeman, Anderson, Gibbons, Williams, Chowning, Arberry, Bache, Beers, Berman, Buckley, Collins, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Humke, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Nolan, Parks, Parnell, Price, Smith and Tiffany. Joint Sponsors: Senators Rawson, Schneider, Neal, O’Connell, Townsend, Amodei, Mathews and Shaffer. Approved June 5, 20011835

 

379AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; declaring a prospective increase in the number of applications that must be received by the department of motor vehicles and public safety before the department may design, prepare or issue future special license plates; revising the amount of the fee for the initial issuance of a special license plate that must be deposited in the revolving account for the issuance of special license plates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 229—Assemblymen Bache, Perkins, Leslie, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Anderson, Arberry, Beers, Berman, Brower, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Cegavske, Claborn, Collins, Freeman, Goldwater, Hettrick, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Nolan, Parks, Parnell, Price, Smith, Tiffany, Von Tobel and Williams. Joint Sponsors: Senators Wiener, Neal, Care, Rawson, O’Connell, Amodei, Carlton, Coffin, Mathews, McGinness, Porter, Schneider, Shaffer and Titus. Approved June 5, 20011837

 

380AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Business and Industry for an unanticipated shortfall in the money budgeted for salaries for meeting expenses and salaries for personnel in the Nevada Athletic Commission. Assembly Bill No. 235—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 5, 20011838

 

381AN ACT relating to children; requiring the adoption of regulations governing the provision of certain information to foster or adoptive parents; revising certain provisions governing procedures for the protection of children from abuse and neglect; clarifying and limiting certain provisions regarding the imposition of civil sanctions for the disclosure of confidential information; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 248—Committee on Health and Human Services. Approved June 5, 20011838

 

382AN ACT making appropriations to the State Department of Agriculture for the revolving account for agriculture working capital and for budgetary shortfalls regarding the State Predatory Animal and Rodent Committee and agricultural administration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 273—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 5, 20011851

 

383AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; requiring genetic marker analysis to be obtained from certain offenders convicted of certain felonies; revising certain provisions concerning genetic marker testing to refer to obtaining a “biological specimen”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 489—Assemblymen Gustavson, Angle, Beers, Anderson, Berman, Brower, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Claborn, Gibbons, Humke, Lee, Oceguera, Price and Von Tobel. Approved June 5, 20011852

 

384AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for the issuance of special license plates for the support of the preservation of the history of atomic testing in Nevada; providing for the issuance of special license plates to support preserving the federal lands surrounding Las Vegas; providing for the issuance of special license plates for antique trucks and truck-tractors; authorizing under certain circumstances the owner or operator of a motor vehicle displaying special license plates for a disabled veteran to park in a parking space designated for handicapped persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 643—Committee on Transportation. Approved June 5, 20011857

 

385AN ACT relating to juveniles; prohibiting an entity that supervises a juvenile who is ordered to perform work or community service from placing the juvenile on a highway except under certain circumstances or in any other dangerous situation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 27—Assemblyman Perkins. Approved June 5, 20011864

 

386AN ACT relating to child support; increasing the presumptive maximum monthly amount that certain parents may be required to pay for support of a child; requiring the office of court administrator to adjust annually the amount of such payments based on the consumer price index; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 37—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 5, 20011865

 

387AN ACT relating to law enforcement; revising provisions governing the duties of certain peace officers in larger counties when certain felonies are committed or attempted in their presence or in an area that is within their jurisdiction; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 220—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 5, 20011868

 

388AN ACT relating to occupational diseases; creating statutory presumptions that hepatitis is an occupational disease for certain firemen and emergency medical attendants; establishing requirements of eligibility for the statutory presumptions; requiring the testing of such employees for the presence of hepatitis; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 313—Assemblymen Oceguera, Gibbons, Goldwater, Buckley, Manendo, Anderson, Angle, Arberry, Bache, Beers, Berman, Brower, Brown, Carpenter, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Gustavson, Hettrick, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Marvel, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Nolan, Ohrenschall, Parks, Parnell, Perkins, Price, Smith, Tiffany, Von Tobel and Williams. Joint Sponsors: Senators Amodei, Carlton, Titus, Porter, Care, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, Raggio, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Washington and Wiener. Approved June 5, 20011871

 

389AN ACT relating to state financial administration; making various changes relating to the collection of debts owed to the state; increasing certain fees and charges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 314—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20011876

 

390AN ACT relating to traffic laws; requiring an offender convicted of a first offense of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance to attend a program of treatment for the abuse of alcohol or drugs when the concentration of alcohol in the blood or breath of the offender is 0.18 or more; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 315—Assemblymen Parks, Manendo, Arberry, Gibbons, Ohrenschall, Anderson, Bache, Beers, Buckley, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Hettrick, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Oceguera, Perkins, Price, Smith and Williams. Approved June 5, 20011884

 

391AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles and public safety; requiring the department to retain for a specified period the originals of certain documents containing the disclosure of the mileage of a motor vehicle; revising provisions regarding the bonds required for certain licensees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 320—Assemblywoman Buckley. Approved June 5, 20011888

 

392AN ACT relating to workers’ compensation; requiring a hearing officer or appeals officer to order an insurer, organization for managed care, third-party administrator or employer to pay for treatment or other services provided to an employee by a provider of health care under certain circumstances; requiring an insurer to include in certain statements a notice setting forth the right of an injured employee to select an alternative treating physician or chiropractor; authorizing an injured employee to select an alternative treating physician or chiropractor under certain circumstances; requiring the administrator of the division of industrial relations of the department of business and industry to design a form notifying an injured employee of his right to select an alternative treating physician or chiropractor; requiring an insurer to deliver to a treating physician or chiropractor certain provisions relating to the evaluation of a permanent impairment under certain circumstances; revising the provisions governing eligibility for and duration of vocational rehabilitation services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 338—Assemblyman Bache. Approved June 5, 20011891

 

393AN ACT relating to educational personnel; requiring boards of trustees of school districts to place a teacher who has been employed by another school district in this state on the salary schedule in a classification that is commensurate with the level of education acquired by the teacher; requiring boards of trustees of school districts to give an administrator who has been employed by another school district in this state credit for his previous administrative service and place him on the salary schedule in a classification that is comparable to his former classification; revising provisions governing the employment status of certain postprobationary employees who voluntarily leave their employment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 380—Assemblymen Bache, Giunchigliani, Williams, Anderson, Parnell, Berman, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Chowning, de Braga, Freeman, Gibbons, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Mortenson, Oceguera, Parks, Smith, Tiffany and Von Tobel. Joint Sponsors: Senators Carlton and Amodei. Approved June 5, 20011904

 

394AN ACT relating to traffic laws; prohibiting the driver of a motor vehicle from permitting a person to ride upon the bed of a flatbed truck or within the bed of a pickup truck under certain circumstances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 383—Assemblymen Koivisto, Bache, McClain, Parks, Anderson, Arberry, Brown, Chowning, Claborn, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Manendo, Mortenson, Nolan, Oceguera, Ohrenschall, Price, Smith and Tiffany. Approved June 5, 20011906

 

395AN ACT relating to land use planning; revising the provisions governing the authority of a city or county to control the location of certain residential facilities; changing the statutory name of “halfway house for alcohol and drug abusers”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 395—Assemblymen Oceguera, Giunchigliani, McClain, Parks, Freeman, Goldwater, Koivisto, Manendo and Price. Joint Sponsors: Senators O’Donnell, O’Connell, Care and Titus. Approved June 5, 20011907

 

396AN ACT relating to arrests; revising the provisions governing the authority of members, agents or local or district officers of certain societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals to make arrests; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 419—Assemblymen Gustavson, Berman, Carpenter, Cegavske, Claborn, Collins, Gibbons, Humke and Price. Joint Sponsor: Senator Washington. Approved June 5, 20011913

 

397AN ACT relating to the state public works board; authorizing the board to enter into a contract with a contractor to assist the board in the development and review of designs, plans, specifications and estimates of costs for a proposed construction project; requiring the board to notify the governor if a member of the board fails to attend three successive meetings of the board; authorizing the governor to replace such a member for the unexpired term of the member; establishing qualifications for appointed members of the board; requiring the board to obtain the approval of the legislature or interim finance committee for certain changes to a project; requiring the inclusion of certain provisions concerning change orders in a contract with a design professional; removing the provision requiring the director of the department of administration to serve as the chairman of the board; requiring the chairman of the board to be elected from among the appointed members of the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 428—Assemblyman Hettrick. Approved June 5, 20011915

 

398AN ACT relating to sanitation; increasing the penalties for disposing of sewage or solid waste unlawfully; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 442—Assemblymen Ohrenschall, Manendo, Claborn, Anderson, Angle, Arberry, Berman, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Chowning, Collins, Dini, Freeman, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Hettrick, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, McClain, Mortenson, Nolan, Oceguera, Parks and Price. Approved June 5, 20011920

 

399AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring certain providers of individual or group health insurance to contract with federally qualified health centers as providers of certain health care services under certain circumstances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 452—Assemblywoman Giunchigliani. Approved June 5, 20011922

 

400AN ACT relating to education; prohibiting harassment and intimidation in public schools; requiring each school district to disseminate related information to pupils; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 459—Assemblymen Parks, Leslie, Williams, Bache, Anderson, Arberry, Buckley, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Koivisto, Manendo, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Ohrenschall, Parnell, Perkins, Price and Smith. Joint Sponsors: Senators Titus, Wiener, Rawson, Care and Coffin. Approved June 5, 20011928

 

401AN ACT relating to public works; eliminating the provision providing an exemption from qualifying to bid for a public work of this state; requiring the state public works board to adopt by regulation an additional criteria for the qualification of bidders on a contract for a public work of this state; authorizing the state public works board and the governing body of a local government to determine whether an applicant is qualified to bid by project or for a specified period; allowing the governing body of a local government that does not adopt criteria for the qualification of bidders to accept a bid on a contract for a public work from certain persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 461—Assemblyman Parks. Approved June 5, 20011930

 

402AN ACT relating to water; requiring a county of origin to obtain the prior approval of the state engineer before imposing a tax on certain transfers of water; requiring the state engineer to make certain determinations concerning those transfers; prohibiting the imposition of the tax upon certain water; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 468—Assemblymen Beers, Tiffany, Berman, Brown, Carpenter, Collins, Hettrick, Humke, Lee, Marvel, Oceguera, Ohrenschall and Price. Approved June 5, 20011933

 

403AN ACT relating to offenders; providing for the continuation of certain programs of treatment for the abuse of alcohol or drugs for certain offenders; revising certain provisions concerning such programs of treatment; making various changes concerning the sentencing of certain persons who are sentenced to imprisonment without the possibility of parole; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 574—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 5, 20011934

 

404AN ACT relating to manufactured home parks; authorizing the landlord of a manufactured home park to require written consent before a person moves a manufactured home or recreational vehicle into the manufactured home park; providing certain statutory exceptions for corporate cooperative parks; requiring the landlord of a manufactured home park to post periodically a report on the quality of water supplied to the manufactured home park; requiring the attendance of the administrator of the manufactured housing division of the department of business and industry or his representative at certain meetings between a landlord and tenant; authorizing the landlord of a manufactured home park to impose certain requirements relating to the occupancy of manufactured homes; providing that certain prohibitions relating to increases in rent for manufactured homes and manufactured home lots apply to long-term leases; reducing certain periods of notice required before a landlord may bring an action for an unlawful detainer or terminate a written agreement; requiring the manufactured housing division of the department of business and industry to create a limited license authorizing the landlord or manager of a manufactured home park to resell a manufactured home under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 619—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved June 5, 20011937

 

405AN ACT relating to water safety; prohibiting the operation of certain vessels unless persons less than 12 years of age are wearing personal flotation devices while the vessel is under way; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 632—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved June 5, 20011947

 

406AN ACT relating to governmental administration; requiring the county or city clerk under certain circumstances to provide the result of a challenge of a voter to the person who initiated the challenge; clarifying the treatment of special absent ballots; revising the procedures for closing a polling place and counting ballots; revising the provisions governing voting by a new resident for President and Vice President; revising the requirement that a judicial officer and a candidate for judicial office must file certain statements of financial disclosure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 638—Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics. Approved June 5, 20011949

 

407AN ACT relating to classifications based on population; changing the population basis for the exercise of certain powers by local governments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 650—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20011959

 

408AN ACT relating to elections; requiring the secretary of state to include on a form for an application to register to vote an option for a registered voter to receive a sample ballot in large type; requiring that certain information be placed on certain sample ballots; requiring that a sample ballot in large type be mailed to a registered voter upon request; requiring that certain sample ballots be printed in at least a certain minimum size print; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 27—Senator Wiener. Approved June 5, 20012001

 

409AN ACT relating to the Airport Authority of Washoe County; revising the provisions governing the appointment of the members of the board of trustees; prohibiting a former member of the board from entering into, bidding on or having a pecuniary interest in a contract with the authority or being employed by the authority until 1 year after the termination of his service on the board; exempting the Authority from certain requirements concerning concession agreements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 38—Senator Townsend. Approved June 5, 20012004

 

410AN ACT relating to public works projects; authorizing certain public bodies to contract with a design-build team for certain public works projects; removing certain requirements for providing notice of certain hearings; removing certain requirements for advertising for preliminary proposals from design-build teams for certain projects; changing certain requirements for the contents of a request for preliminary proposals; authorizing a public body and the department of transportation to select finalists for submitting a final proposal within a certain period; requiring a public body and the department of transportation to consider the degree to which a preliminary proposal is responsive to certain requirements when selecting finalists; changing certain requirements for a request for final proposals; removing the date for expiration of provisions relating to the use of design-build teams on public works projects; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 61—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20012006

 

411AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; removing the authority for a private person to take an arrested person before the nearest magistrate following an arrest; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 182—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 5, 20012023

 

412AN ACT relating to elections; establishing uniform, statewide standards for counting votes cast using certain methods of voting; requiring the secretary of state to adopt regulations establishing uniform, statewide standards for counting votes cast using all other methods of voting; making various changes relating to requests for absent ballots; establishing procedures concerning the custody of certain ballots; limiting, under certain circumstances, a recount requested by a candidate to a recount of the votes received for that candidate and the votes received for the candidate who won the election; prohibiting members of a board of county commissioners or a city council from serving on a recount board under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 297—Senator O’Connell (by request). Approved June 5, 20012024

 

413AN ACT relating to the Airport Authority of Washoe County; increasing the number of trustees on the board of trustees of the Airport Authority of Washoe County; requiring the County Fair and Recreation Board of Washoe County to appoint a trustee who represents consumers of services provided at the airport; requiring an appointing authority to appoint persons who have certain qualifications to serve on the board of trustees of the Airport Authority of Washoe County; prohibiting a member of the board from serving more than two terms; limiting the ability of an appointing authority to remove a member of the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 299—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20012042

 

414AN ACT relating to financial businesses; authorizing certain mortgage companies and lending businesses to be licensed to conduct business in this state from locations outside this state under certain circumstances; establishing certain procedures for a mortgage company to notify the commissioner of financial institutions of a change of address of its licensed place of business; including check-cashing and deferred deposit services in the definition of “financial institution” for purposes of the investigative account for financial institutions; requiring the commissioner of financial institutions to charge a fee for certain services; changing the procedures for a lending business to notify the commissioner of financial institutions of a change of address of its licensed place of business; authorizing the commissioner of financial institutions to impose a fine on a mortgage company or lending business for failing to notify the commissioner of a proposed change of address; removing the requirement that the commissioner of financial institutions notify lending businesses of his receipt of an application for licensure of a lending business; authorizing a credit union to exercise authority and perform acts that a federal credit union may exercise or perform under certain circumstances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 330—Senator Shaffer. Approved June 5, 20012044

 

415AN ACT relating to offenders; revising the provisions pertaining to the registration of certain offenders; revising the provisions pertaining to community notification regarding sex offenders; revising the provisions pertaining to the conditions of probation and parole of sex offenders; revising the provisions governing criminal liability for certain offenders who fail to register or fail to notify certain agencies of a change of address; revising various provisions governing community notification of juvenile sex offenders; revising various provisions governing attendance of juvenile sex offenders at the same public school or private school as their victims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 412—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 5, 20012050

 

416AN ACT relating to public utilities; prohibiting certain governmental entities from acquiring or expanding facilities relating to the provision of certain services provided by public utilities in certain circumstances; providing an exception; requiring the legislative committee to study the distribution among local governments of revenue from state and local taxes to conduct a study and report its findings to the legislature; extending the effective date for certain provisions relating to the legislative committee to study the distribution among local governments of revenue from state and local taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 425—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved June 5, 20012072

 

417AN ACT relating to regional planning; extending the interval at which the regional planning coalition may review certain plans of a governing body, regional agency, state agency or public utility; requiring certain regional and state agencies to ensure, to the extent practicable, that certain of their plans and land use decisions are consistent with certain other regional and local plans; authorizing the regional planning coalition to make certain grants to a city or county for purposes related to land use planning; authorizing the regional planning coalition to request the preparation of not more than one legislative measure for a regular legislative session; authorizing the regional planning coalition to adopt rules or bylaws pertaining to the attendance of members of its governing board at meetings of the governing board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 530—Committee on Natural Resources. Approved June 5, 20012116

 

418AN ACT relating to affordable housing; expanding the powers of the housing division of the department of business and industry; exempting the housing division from the state purchasing act; removing certain requirements for loans made by the housing division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 552—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 5, 20012120

 

419AN ACT relating to telephone systems; providing for the imposition of surcharges on telephone services by certain counties for the enhancement of telephone systems for reporting emergencies in those counties; providing for the deposit of certain fees imposed by cities and counties on providers of personal wireless service into a special revenue fund; revising the purposes for which money in the special revenue fund may be used; prohibiting the governing body of every incorporated city from imposing certain requirements upon a provider of telecommunications service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 569—Senator Amodei. Approved June 5, 20012123

 

420AN ACT relating to orders; making various changes concerning orders for protection against domestic violence; providing that certain orders for protection issued in another state are not subject to certain requirements to be given full faith and credit in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 581—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 5, 20012127

 

421AN ACT relating to property; revising the manner in which the department of transportation is required to dispose of certain property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 219—Committee on Transportation. Approved June 5, 20012132

 

422AN ACT relating to cigarettes; exempting duty-free sales enterprises and persons importing cigarettes for personal use from provisions governing the licensing of cigarette dealers and the taxation of cigarettes; providing that cigarette revenue stamps must identify the dealer who affixed the stamps; requiring certain dealers to file certificates regarding cigarettes imported into the United States; expanding the scope of prohibited acts by cigarette dealers; revising the provisions governing the disposal of certain contraband cigarettes; providing for a private right of action for injunctive relief regarding certain violations of chapter 370 of NRS; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 527—Committee on Taxation. Approved June 5, 20012135

 

423AN ACT making an appropriation to the legislative fund for additional equipment and software for information systems for the Legislative Counsel Bureau and the Nevada Legislature; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 187—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012137

 

424AN ACT making an appropriation to the legislative fund for certain maintenance and rehabilitation projects on the legislative building; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 189—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012138

 

425AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; creating the committee on catastrophic leave to hear appeals from decisions of appointing authorities regarding the use of such leave; prescribing the powers and duties of the committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 285—Assemblymen Parnell, Bache, Smith, Gibbons, Koivisto, McClain, Oceguera and Parks. Approved June 6, 20012139

 

426AN ACT relating to the University and Community College System of Nevada; requiring the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada to appoint a committee to study the organizational structure of certain community colleges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 454—Assemblymen Arberry, Giunchigliani, Collins, Anderson, Berman, Buckley, Dini, Goldwater, Manendo, Mortenson, Neighbors, Price and Tiffany. Approved June 6, 20012141

 

427AN ACT making an appropriation to the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for a radio connection between the Nevada State Park System and the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 507—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012142

 

428AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for furnishings and equipment for the Division of Child and Family Services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 517—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012142

 

429AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Information Technology for phase IIA of the digital microwave upgrade; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 524—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012143

 

430AN ACT making an appropriation to the Legislative Counsel Bureau for new and replacement equipment and various maintenance projects; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 527—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012143

 

431AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for software and computer equipment for the Nevada rural health communications system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 529—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012144

 

432AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for a vehicle, furnishings and equipment for the Nevada Youth Training Center within the Division of Child and Family Services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 531—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012144

 

433AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for a vehicle, office equipment and remodeling for the Northern Nevada Child and Adolescent Services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 532—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012145

 

434AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Business and Industry for the replacement of computers in the Consumer Affairs Division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 533—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012145

 

435AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for an enhanced health clinic for the Jan Evans Juvenile Justice Center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 598—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012146

 

436AN ACT relating to trade practices; authorizing the public utilities commission of Nevada to adopt regulations governing the disclosures that must be made by a provider of a telecommunications service to a customer before the customer is charged for the service; expanding the definition of “deceptive trade practice” to include certain advertising practices relating to goods or services; revising the provisions governing certificates of registration issued to certain registrants by the consumer affairs division; requiring the renewal of those certificates of registration; increasing the amount of the security that certain dance studios and health clubs are required to deposit with the consumer affairs division; requiring certain sellers of travel to register and deposit security with the consumer affairs division; authorizing certain consumers to bring and maintain actions to recover against the security; providing for the release of the security within a certain period after the seller of travel ceases to operate; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 627—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved June 6, 20012146

 

437AN ACT relating to the state department of agriculture; expanding the types of fees that must be used in the plant industry program and expanding the purposes for which expenditures for the plant industry program may be made; abolishing the apiary inspection account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 115—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012154

 

438AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Business and Industry for the replacement of certain computers in the Office of the Labor Commissioner; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 503—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012155

 

439AN ACT making an appropriation to the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for maintenance projects at state parks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 506—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012155

 

440AN ACT making an appropriation to the Interim Finance Committee for allocation to the Department of Human Resources for an electronic application process for the Nevada Check Up program and Medicaid assistance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 514—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012156

 

441AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for the Medicaid Management Information System; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 516—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012157

 

442AN ACT making appropriations to the Motor Pool Division of the Department of Administration and the Investigation Division of the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for the purchase of additional vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 523—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012157

 

443AN ACT making an appropriation to the Supreme Court of Nevada for security system upgrades, a system-wide website and communications infrastructure, and new and replacement equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 525—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012158

 

444AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Taxation for the purchase of new and replacement equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 526—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 6, 20012158

 

445AN ACT relating to higher education; requiring the state treasurer to adopt regulations to establish and carry out the Nevada college savings program as authorized by federal law; creating the Nevada college savings trust fund and providing for its administration; eliminating the prospective expiration of various provisions governing the program for the prepayment of tuition at an institution of higher education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 554—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 6, 20012159

 

446AN ACT relating to insurance; providing for the regulation of the business of viatical settlements; requiring the commissioner of insurance to adopt regulations governing the use of electronic records and signatures; temporarily authorizing the adoption of regulations to enforce federal law concerning a bill of rights for patients; limiting the disclosure of certain information concerning consumers; providing for the conversion of domestic mutual insurers into domestic stock insurers; providing for the reorganization of domestic mutual insurers into mutual insurance holding companies; making various other changes concerning the regulation of insurance; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 618—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved June 6, 20012166

 

447AN ACT relating to cancer; revising the provisions governing certain records of a health care facility relating to cancer; making a fine mandatory for a violation of such provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 630—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved June 6, 20012257

 

448AN ACT relating to public works projects; authorizing public bodies and local governments to award contracts for certain public works projects to specialty contractors; specifying that certain requirements for receiving a certificate for preference in bidding must be satisfied while licensed as a general contractor or specialty contractor; requiring the state contractors’ board to issue a certificate of eligibility to receive a preference in bidding to a specialty contractor under certain circumstances; allowing general contractors and specialty contractors to receive a preference for bidding on public works by purchasing a contractor that possesses such a preference; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 63—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 6, 20012258

 

449AN ACT relating to county government; authorizing a board of county commissioners to designate an animal as inherently dangerous and to provide by ordinance for civil liability for a person who violates certain ordinances relating to the control of animals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 150—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 6, 20012279

 

450AN ACT making appropriations to the Department of Human Resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 247—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012280

 

451AN ACT relating to zoning; requiring a city or county to pay just compensation or authorize an alternative location for certain nonconforming outdoor advertising structures under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 265—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 6, 20012281

 

452AN ACT relating to counties; detaching certain territory from Clark County and attaching that territory to Nye County; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 395—Senator McGinness. Joint Sponsor: Assemblyman Neighbors. Approved June 6, 20012283

 

453AN ACT relating to the office of science, engineering and technology; transferring the office from the University and Community College System of Nevada to the Office of the Governor; revising the duties of the director of the office; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 401—Senators Rawson, Neal and O’Donnell. Approved June 6, 20012284

 

454AN ACT relating to ethics in government; revising certain provisions regarding prohibited pecuniary interests and commitments of public officers and employees; specifying a period for the retention of certain documents filed with the commission on ethics; eliminating the requirement that certain public officials and judicial officers notify the commission in writing of their intent to use previously filed financial disclosure statements to fulfill certain other duties to file financial disclosure statements; providing a maximum civil penalty for failure to file financial disclosure statements in a timely manner; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 466—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 6, 20012287

 

455AN ACT relating to public investments; authorizing additional types of investments for money in certain public funds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 487—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 6, 20012291

 

456AN ACT relating to governmental administration; establishing certain requirements for the use of installment-purchase agreements by local governments; removing the requirement that local governments create funds for certain extraordinary maintenance, repair or improvements; creating certain exceptions to the Uniform Commercial Code—Secured Transactions; authorizing the committee on local government finance to adopt certain regulations; requiring the committee on local government finance to adopt certain regulations; prohibiting the use of the proceeds from certain obligations issued by a local government to pay operating expenses; requiring the Nevada tax commission to appoint a subcommittee to conduct a public hearing concerning the management of a local government in a severe financial emergency; requiring the publication of certain regulations in the Nevada Administrative Code; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 553—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 6, 20012303

 

457AN ACT relating to tort claims; allowing the risk management division of the department of administration and the attorney general to assess counties for certain tort claims under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 568—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 6, 20012339

 

458AN ACT relating to probate; providing for the use of electronic wills and electronic trusts; providing for a declaration of attesting witnesses to a will; revising provisions governing the appeal of a contest of a will; revising provisions governing the summary administration of an estate; providing for the application of certain provisions governing estates to provisions governing trusts; revising various other provisions governing probate; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 33—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 6, 20012340

 

459AN ACT relating to the administration of the courts; revising the manner in which administrative assessments are distributed to the office of the court administrator; requiring the reduction of appropriations made to the supreme court from the state general fund upon the receipt of certain money from those assessments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 139—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012353

 

460AN ACT relating to supervision; ratifying the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision; renouncing the Interstate Compact for the Supervision of Parolees and Probationers and repealing the provisions relating thereto; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 194—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 6, 20012356

 

461AN ACT relating to public welfare; requiring the department of human resources to establish, upon approval of the interim finance committee, a program for the provision of medical assistance to certain working persons with disabilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 207—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved June 6, 20012371

 

462AN ACT relating to juvenile justice; providing for the collection of information on the economic background of each child referred to the system of juvenile justice; requiring each local juvenile probation department to determine whether children of racial or ethnic minorities and children from economically disadvantaged homes are receiving disparate treatment in the system of juvenile justice; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 232—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 6, 20012373

 

463AN ACT relating to public welfare; requiring the state controller to transfer a certain amount of money from the intergovernmental transfer account in the state general fund to the fund for the institutional care of the medically indigent; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 321—Senator McGinness. Approved June 6, 20012374

 

464AN ACT relating to the secretary of state; requiring the secretary of state to post a notice advising customers to review the documents on file at the office of the secretary of state for content, completeness and accuracy and indicating the penalty for knowingly offering any false or forged instrument for filing; authorizing the secretary of state to adopt regulations to prevent the filing of false or forged documents; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 356—Senator O’Connell. Approved June 6, 20012375

 

465AN ACT relating to health care; expanding the authority of the legislative committee on health care to review certain issues relating to long-term care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 402—Senators Rawson, Amodei, Care, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O’Donnell, Schneider, Shaffer, Titus, Washington and Wiener. Approved June 6, 20012376

 

466AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Museums, Library and Arts for grants for library collections and equipment requirements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 431—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012378

 

467AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Museums, Library and Arts for the purchase of computer software and equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 432—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012378

 

468AN ACT making an appropriation to the Division of Mental Health and Developmental Services of the Department of Human Resources for new and replacement equipment, maintenance, and new and replacement computer hardware and software at the Nevada Mental Health Institute; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 435—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012379

 

469AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for new and replacement equipment, operating expenses, and new and replacement computer hardware and software for the Rural Regional Center of the Division of Mental Health and Developmental Services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 436—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012379

 

470AN ACT making an appropriation to the National Judicial College to assist in securing public and private grants and other funding for support during the 2001-2003 biennium; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 437—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012380

 

471AN ACT making an appropriation to the Louis W. McHardy National College of Juvenile and Family Justice to assist in securing public and private grants and other funding for support during the 2001-2003 biennium; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 438—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012381

 

472AN ACT making an appropriation to the Division of Mental Health and Developmental Services of the Department of Human Resources for new and replacement equipment and computer hardware and software at the Desert Regional Center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 439—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012381

 

473AN ACT making an appropriation to the Division of Mental Health and Developmental Services of the Department of Human Resources for new and replacement equipment and computer hardware and software at the Sierra Regional Center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 440—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012382

 

474AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for new and replacement equipment and computer hardware and software at the Rural Clinics; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 441—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012382

 

475AN ACT relating to recreation; revising the particular purposes and extending the periods for the expenditure of certain money previously appropriated to the Division of State Parks of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for park improvement projects; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 448—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012383

 

476AN ACT making an appropriation to the State Department of Agriculture for vehicles and new equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 450—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012385

 

477AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for new and replacement equipment, and hardware and software at the Lakes Crossing Center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 455—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012386

 

478AN ACT making an appropriation to the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Human Resources for new and replacement equipment at the Southern Nevada Child and Adolescent Services Juvenile Treatment Facility; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 456—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012386

 

479AN ACT relating to state financial administration; making an appropriation to the Department of Museums, Library and Arts for a conservation laboratory; extending the reversion date for a prior appropriation made to the Department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 457—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012387

 

480AN ACT making an appropriation to the University and Community College System of Nevada for new and replacement equipment and associated software in the computing center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 461—Committee on Finance. Approved June 6, 20012387

 

481AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing the state department of conservation and natural resources to develop and carry out a program to encourage certain persons to use clean-burning fuel in motor vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 478—Committee on Taxation. Approved June 6, 20012388

 

482AN ACT relating to prison industries; allowing money in the fund for new construction of facilities for prison industries to be used to expand existing industries; creating the committee on industrial programs; specifying the powers and duties of the committee on industrial programs; repealing the statutes creating and governing the advisory board on industrial programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 4—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 8, 20012390

 

483AN ACT relating to traffic laws; requiring a court to order a person who is convicted of a second offense of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance within 7 years to attend a program of treatment for the abuse of alcohol or drugs; increasing the amount of time that such a person may be placed under the clinical supervision of a treatment facility; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 21—Assemblywoman Cegavske. Approved June 8, 20012392

 

484AN ACT relating to meetings of public bodies; requiring a public body to post additional notice of its meetings on its website on the Internet if the public body maintains such a website; providing an exception; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 60—Assemblyman Beers. Approved June 8, 20012395

 

485AN ACT making an appropriation to the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for replacement equipment for the Division of State Parks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 505—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 8, 20012397

 

486AN ACT making appropriations to the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for new and replacement equipment for the Division of Water Resources and to the account for the channel clearance, maintenance, restoration, surveying and monumenting program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 508—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 8, 20012397

 

487AN ACT making an appropriation to the Division of Forestry of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for equipment for the suppression of forest fires; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 510—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 8, 20012398

 

488AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Taxation for implementation of Phase II of the Business Process Re-Engineering Project, development of a scanning and imaging system, and enhancement of the Local Government Financial Reporting System; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 519—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 8, 20012398

 

489AN ACT making an appropriation to the Governor for support of the Nevada Commission for National and Community Service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 521—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 8, 20012399

 

490AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; revising the allowances that may be paid to a retired employee who accepts employment or an independent contract with a public employer under the public employees’ retirement system in a position for which there is a critical labor shortage; restricting the purchase of service credit by certain members of the system; limiting the circumstances under which contributions paid toward the purchase of service credit may be refunded; providing for the immediate assessment of a penalty if a payroll report is not filed or public employer contributions are not remitted in a timely manner; requiring the public employees’ retirement board to conduct an experience study on the system of the employment of certain retired employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 555—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 8, 20012400

 

491AN ACT making an appropriation to restore the balance in the emergency account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 588—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 8, 20012406

 

492AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for computer upgrades at the Division of Parole and Probation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 596—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 8, 20012406

 

493AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for the purchase of computers for and ongoing telecommunication costs of the Division of Parole and Probation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 597—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 8, 20012407

 

494AN ACT relating to contractors; creating a commission on construction education; creating a construction education account; authorizing the commission to grant money from the account for programs of construction education; requiring that certain fines received by the state contractors’ board be credited to the construction education account; revising the exemptions from the provisions governing contractors; removing the requirement that the board require certain applicants for a contractor’s license or a licensee to establish financial responsibility by submitting certain information; authorizing the board to require an applicant or licensee to establish financial responsibility; removing provisions that automatically require the board to hold a hearing if the board refuses to issue or renew a license; changing certain time requirements relating to hearings; requiring the board to send a certain notice to an applicant or licensee if the board denies an application for the issuance or renewal of a license; authorizing an applicant or licensee whose application for the issuance or renewal of a license is denied to request a hearing before the board; requiring the board to hold a hearing if it receives such a request; requiring the board to include certain information on an application for the issuance or renewal of a license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 620—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved June 8, 20012408

 

495AN ACT making appropriations from the state general fund and the state highway fund to the Budget Division of the Department of Administration for the continuation of the development and roll out of the Integrated Financial System; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 658—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 8, 20012416

 

496AN ACT relating to Oriental medicine; revising the provisions relating to the issuance of a license to practice as a doctor of Oriental medicine; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 670—Assemblymen Dini, Giunchigliani, Perkins and Buckley. Approved June 8, 20012416

 

497AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Cultural Affairs for expenses relating to the continued operation of the Southern Nevada office of the Nevada Humanities Committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 428—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012417

 

498AN ACT making appropriations to the Department of Cultural Affairs for the purchase of equipment and to carry out the statewide monument program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 433—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012418

 

499AN ACT making appropriations to the Department of Prisons for various replacement equipment at certain facilities and ongoing expenses of the Pioche Conservation Camp to lease certain equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 442—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012419

 

500AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for security upgrades and operating expenses at various offices of the Division of Parole and Probation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 444—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012419

 

501AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for new and replacement equipment and computer hardware and software for the Division of Mental Health and Developmental Services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 446—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012420

 

502AN ACT making an appropriation to the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for replacement equipment for the Division of Forestry; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 449—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012421

 

503AN ACT making an appropriation to the Nevada Silver Haired Legislative Forum of the Aging Services Division of the Department of Human Resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 462—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012421

 

504AN ACT making appropriations to the Department of Prisons for maintenance projects at certain facilities and ongoing expenses for the various budget accounts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 463—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012422

 

505AN ACT making an appropriation to the Office of the Secretary of State for various enabling technology projects, for promotional materials for the Commercial Recordings Division, and for new and replacement equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 464—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012423

 

506AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation for the Independent Living State Client Services Program for assistive devices to help disabled persons maintain an independent living environment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 477—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012423

 

507AN ACT relating to dairy products; making various changes relating to the transfer of responsibility for the dairy inspection program to the state dairy commission of the department of business and industry; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 505—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012424

 

508AN ACT relating to the Colorado River commission; changing the name of the commission to the Colorado River commission of Nevada; changing the titles of certain officers of the commission; removing the option of the executive director of the commission and the deputy executive director of the commission to engage, under certain circumstances, in a business or occupation or hold another office for profit that is in addition to their employment with the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 531—Committee on Natural Resources. Approved June 8, 20012440

 

509AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; providing a definition of “policy year” for the purpose of industrial insurance; requiring that the assessments payable by private carriers to support the uninsured employers’ claim fund, the subsequent injury fund for private carriers and the fund for workers’ compensation and safety be based upon expected annual premiums to be received by private carriers; specifying the circumstances under which a policy of industrial insurance may exclude coverage for certain employees covered by a consolidated insurance program; allowing certain employers to report information concerning tips received by their employees by a computerized program or process; revising the criteria for the assessment rates for the subsequent injury fund for self-insured employers and associations of self-insured public or private employers; authorizing a private carrier to require a sole proprietor seeking coverage to submit to a physical examination; eliminating the requirement that unpaid premiums bear interest at the rate of 1 percent monthly; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 48—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved June 8, 20012447

 

510AN ACT relating to health care; requiring hearing screenings for newborn children or referrals for such screenings; providing exceptions; establishing the duties of hospitals and obstetric centers concerning the provision of hearing screenings; requiring the state board of health to adopt certain regulations; requiring the health division of the department of human resources to create brochures concerning hearing screenings of newborn children for distribution to the parents and legal guardians of newborn children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 250—Assemblymen Leslie, McClain, Manendo, Anderson, Freeman, Koivisto, Parnell, Smith, Tiffany and Williams. Joint Sponsor: Senator Care. Approved June 8, 20012460

 

511AN ACT relating to financial institutions; revising various provisions regarding the regulation of mortgage brokers and mortgage agents; requiring the holder of certain escrows to obtain certain information from mortgage brokers and mortgage companies; requiring mortgage brokers and mortgage agents to attend certain courses of continuing education; authorizing the commissioner of financial institutions to adopt regulations to increase certain fees for mortgage brokers in certain circumstances; revising provisions relating to certain advertisements and disclosures by mortgage brokers; revising provisions concerning certain powers of attorney; requiring mortgage brokers to register their mortgage agents with the division of financial institutions of the department of business and industry on an annual basis; requiring mortgage agents to pay an annual registration fee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 324—Assemblymen Goldwater, Dini, Cegavske, Parks, Manendo, Berman, Buckley, Freeman, Lee and Smith. Approved June 8, 20012463

 

512AN ACT relating to local financial administration; modifying the list of separate items that a local government is required to include in a supplemental budgetary report of expenses relating to activities designed to influence the passage or defeat of legislation; providing that the budget of a local government must include a separate statement detailing such anticipated expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 326—Assemblymen Goldwater, Beers, Parks, Cegavske, Chowning, de Braga, Dini, Giunchigliani, Hettrick, Leslie, Marvel, Tiffany and Williams. Joint Sponsors: Senators O’Connell and Titus. Approved June 8, 20012477

 

513AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing the purchase of property by a state agency pursuant to a lease-purchase or installment-purchase agreement that extends beyond the current biennium under certain circumstances; allowing the interest on certain state securities to be paid more frequently than semiannually; providing the manner for applying sales and use taxes to personal property transferred to the state pursuant to certain lease-purchase or installment-purchase agreements; authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to refinance existing obligations relating to the Southern Nevada Women’s Correctional Facility; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 567—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 8, 20012478

 

514AN ACT relating to educational personnel; prohibiting under certain circumstances the boards of trustees of school districts from requiring certain licensed employees on leave of absence from employment to submit fingerprints as a condition of return to employment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 660—Committee on Education. Approved June 8, 20012482

 

515AN ACT relating to domestic violence; providing that the court may refer a child to an agency which provides protective services if the child may need counseling as a result of the commission of a battery which constitutes domestic violence; providing that an agency which provides protective services may conduct an assessment of the child to determine whether a psychological evaluation or counseling is needed by the child; providing that certain minors who need an assessment, a psychological evaluation or psychological counseling as a result of a battery which constitutes domestic violence against a member of his household or immediate family are eligible for compensation from the fund for the compensation of victims of crime; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 87—Senators Wiener, James, Care, Porter, Washington, Titus and McGinness. Approved June 8, 20012485

 

516AN ACT relating to time shares; limiting the applicability of provisions governing common-interest communities to the sale or transfer of time shares; requiring a manager of a time-share plan or a project, or both, to register with the real estate division of the department of business and industry; revising the requirements for a time-share instrument; eliminating the requirement that an advertisement for a time share or an offer of sale be approved by the division; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 261—Senator Schneider. Approved June 8, 20012488

 

517AN ACT relating to substance abuse; providing for the licensing and regulation of halfway houses for alcohol and drug abusers as facilities for the dependent; repealing the requirements for the certification of the operators of such halfway houses by the bureau of alcohol and drug abuse in the department of human resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 319—Senators O’Donnell and O’Connell. Approved June 8, 20012518

 

518AN ACT relating to pregnancy; providing for the administration of certain activities to prevent or delay early sexual activity and reduce the rate of pregnancies among unmarried teenage girls in Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 367—Senators Wiener, Rawson, Care, Titus, Washington, Amodei, Carlton, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, Schneider and Townsend. Approved June 8, 20012523

 

519AN ACT relating to energy; revising and clarifying provisions requiring certain providers of electric service to comply with a portfolio standard for renewable energy; authorizing the public utilities commission of Nevada to impose administrative fines against noncomplying providers under certain circumstances and to take other administrative actions to ensure compliance with the portfolio standard; requiring the governing bodies of certain counties and cities to adopt certain codes concerning energy efficiency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 372—Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved June 8, 20012526

 

520AN ACT relating to state government; providing for the reorganization of the department of motor vehicles and public safety into the department of motor vehicles and the department of public safety; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 481—Committee on Transportation. Approved June 8, 20012532

 

521AN ACT relating to nuclear waste; creating the Nevada protection account in the state general fund; providing that the account be used to protect the State of Nevada and its residents through funding activities to prevent the location of a federal nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 494—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012645

 

522AN ACT relating to state financial administration; revising the authorized uses of an appropriation made in the previous session to the Lincoln County School District for the construction of an elementary school; changing the date of the reversion of the appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 498—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012646

 

523AN ACT relating to the University Securities Law; authorizing the board of regents of the University of Nevada to delegate its authority concerning the sale of securities; authorizing variable rates of interest on securities; authorizing the investment of pledged revenues and the proceeds of securities in certain investment contracts; authorizing agreements for an exchange of interest rates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 500—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012647

 

524AN ACT relating to public safety; providing immunity from civil liability for any person who reports certain threats of violence against a school official, school employee or pupil; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 572—Senators Titus, Wiener, Mathews, Coffin, Carlton, Care, Neal, Schneider and Shaffer. Approved June 8, 20012650

 

525AN ACT relating to the office of the governor; transferring the office for hospital patients from the department of business and industry to the office of the governor; creating the bureau for hospital patients within the office for consumer health assistance in the office of the governor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 573—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012652

 

526AN ACT relating to property; transferring the responsibility for administering the program for property tax assistance for senior citizens from the department of taxation to the aging services division of the department of human resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 574—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012655

 

527AN ACT relating to the legislature; revising the provisions governing the compensation of certain legislative employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 579—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012662

 

528AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education for a projected shortfall in the personnel services category; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 581—Committee on Finance. Approved June 8, 20012665

 

529AN ACT relating to the fund for a healthy Nevada; providing that a portion of the money in the fund may be used to pay certain administrative costs incurred by the state treasurer and the department of human resources; providing for the appointment and terms of office of certain officers of the task force; revising the program of subsidies for the provision of prescription drugs and pharmaceutical services to senior citizens; directing the development of an additional subsidized state program to provide prescription drugs and pharmaceutical services to senior citizens with low incomes and repealing the existing insurance-based program under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 539—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved June 5, 20012665

 

530AN ACT relating to fees in civil actions; authorizing a board of county commissioners to impose an additional fee for the filing of certain actions and responses thereto in district courts and justices’ courts to offset a portion of the costs of providing pro bono programs and of providing legal services without a charge to abused or neglected children and victims of domestic violence; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 239—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 12, 20012679

 

531AN ACT relating to air pollution; authorizing certain stations licensed to inspect motor vehicles and devices for the control of pollution to charge a customer a surcharge for the costs of obtaining certain information regarding the customer’s vehicle; authorizing certain stations licensed to inspect motor vehicles and devices for the control of pollution to retain a percentage of certain fees as a commission; revising the provisions relating to expenditures from the pollution control account for purposes relating to air quality; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 198—Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining. Approved June 12, 20012680

 

532AN ACT relating to the Multistate Highway Transportation Agreement; providing that each participating jurisdiction is entitled to select not more than two designated representatives to serve on the cooperating committee; authorizing the departments, agencies and officers of each participating jurisdiction to cooperate with and provide assistance to the cooperating committee under certain circumstances; specifying the designated representatives from this state to serve on the cooperating committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 641—Committee on Transportation. Approved June 12, 20012683

 

533AN ACT making an appropriation to the Welfare Division of the Department of Human Resources for energy bill assistance for low-income Nevadans; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 209—Assemblymen Parnell, Leslie, Smith, Gibbons, Williams, Anderson, Arberry, Bache, Berman, Buckley, Chowning, Collins, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Koivisto, Lee, Manendo, McClain, Neighbors, Parks and Perkins. Approved June 12, 20012689

 

534AN ACT relating to public dental health; providing for the appointment of a state dental health officer and a state public health dental hygienist; establishing their duties; providing for the authorization of a person to practice public health dental hygiene;  and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 208—Senator Rawson. Approved June 13, 20012690

 

535AN ACT relating to juvenile courts; authorizing a juvenile court to establish a program of visitation to the office of the county coroner; authorizing a juvenile court to order a child who is adjudicated delinquent to participate in such a program of visitation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 174—Assemblyman Nolan. Approved June 13, 20012696

 

536AN ACT relating to highways; requiring the department of transportation to establish along certain highways a system of communication for members of the general public to report emergencies and receive information concerning conditions for driving on those highways; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 175—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 13, 20012700

 

537AN ACT making supplemental appropriations to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for shortfalls in the budgets of the Division of Parole and Probation, Field Services, Central Services, Parole Board, the Division of Compliance Enforcement and the Hearings Office; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 234—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012701

 

538AN ACT relating to local governments; revising the provisions relating to the incorporation and organization of cities; directing the Legislative Commission to conduct an interim study to develop and recommend proposed enabling legislation for the creation of an incorporated town; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 381—Assemblymen Bache, Neighbors, Giunchigliani, de Braga, Gibbons, Anderson, Berman, Brown, Buckley, Carpenter, Chowning, Freeman, Hettrick, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Mortenson, Oceguera, Parks, Parnell, Smith, Tiffany and Von Tobel. Joint Sponsors: Senators Amodei and Carlton. Approved June 13, 20012702

 

539AN ACT making an appropriation to the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for the State of Nevada’s share for carrying out the Truckee River Operating Agreement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 504—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012704

 

540AN ACT making an appropriation to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency for threshold research; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 511—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012704

 

541AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for the development of four long-term strategic plans concerning the health care needs of the citizens of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 513—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012705

 

542AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Human Resources for assistance in the operation of certain HIV/AIDS clinics and health care facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 515—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012706

 

543AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Administration for distribution of a grant of money to the Governor’s Advisory Council on Education Relating to the Holocaust for carrying out the duties of the Council and continuing its educational programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 520—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012707

 

544AN ACT making an appropriation to the Buildings and Grounds Division of the Department of Administration for certain expenses related to the Grant Sawyer State Office Building; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 522—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012708

 

545AN ACT making appropriations to the Department of Human Resources for the Welfare Division’s telephone system and for costs relating to the fingerprinting of employees of the Welfare Division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 530—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012708

 

546AN ACT relating to programs for public employees; requiring the commingling of the claims experience of active and retired state employees to determine rates and coverage; prohibiting the board of the public employees’ benefits program from entering into certain contracts; requiring the board to provide an annual report regarding the administration and operation of the program to the director of the legislative counsel bureau; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 564—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 13, 20012709

 

547AN ACT relating to domestic relations; revising the provisions governing the granting of rights to visitation with a child to persons other than the parents of the child; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 25—Senator O’Connell (by request). Joint Sponsor: Assemblywoman Berman. Approved June 13, 20012712

 

548AN ACT relating to electronic transactions; adopting the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; making various related changes pertaining to the use of electronic records and signatures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 49—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 13, 20012714

 

549AN ACT relating to state financial administration; requiring the Department of Personnel to increase the level of compensation of uniformed highway patrol positions; making appropriations to the State Board of Examiners; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 84—Senators Amodei, James, O’Connell, Washington, Porter, Care, Carlton, Jacobsen, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, Rawson, Rhoads, Shaffer, Titus and Townsend. Approved June 13, 20012727

 

550AN ACT relating to insurance; revising provisions governing the prompt payment by insurers of approved claims to providers of health care; revising the rate of interest applicable to the late payment of such claims; prohibiting the assessment of fees against providers of health care to be included on a list of providers of health care; establishing an administrative fine against insurers who do not substantially comply with the provisions requiring prompt payment of approved claims to providers of health care; allowing an employee who is injured or who contracts an occupational disease outside this state to receive compensation from the uninsured employers’ claim fund under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 99—Senator O’Connell (by request). Approved June 13, 20012728

 

551AN ACT relating to persons with disabilities; prescribing the circumstances under which a secure facility for mentally disordered offenders may use mechanical restraint on clients who have disabilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 116—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved June 13, 20012743

 

552AN ACT relating to courts; increasing the number of district judges in the second and eighth judicial districts; increasing the number of district judges in the second and eighth judicial districts who must be judges of the family court; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 137—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012746

 

553AN ACT relating to substance abuse; making appropriations to certain judicial districts for continuation or establishment of programs of treatment for the abuse of alcohol or controlled substances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 143—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012747

 

554AN ACT relating to state financial administration; revising the requirement of financial reporting by the state controller; changing the designation of certain funds and accounts; making various changes relating to warrants of the state controller; requiring the state controller to present funds in annual financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 202—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 13, 20012748

 

555AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Education for a cost-of-living bonus for all public employees in local school districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 458—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012773

 

556AN ACT relating to the adjudication emergency account; authorizing the state board of examiners to establish the maximum balance for the account; authorizing the state engineer to request an allocation from the contingency fund if the balance of the account is below the amount established by the state board of examiners; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 465—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012774

 

557AN ACT relating to skateboard parks; prohibiting a person who uses a skateboard park from engaging in certain conduct; requiring such a person to follow certain safety requirements; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 482—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved June 13, 20012775

 

558AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to acquire certain facilities for Truckee Meadows Community College; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 497—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012777

 

559AN ACT relating to vehicles; authorizing the department of motor vehicles and public safety to establish a program for the electronic submission and storage of documents relating to the registration and title of vehicles; prescribing the requirements of the program; authorizing the department to charge a fee for participation in the program; revising related provisions governing registration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 524—Committee on Transportation. Approved June 13, 20012778

 

560AN ACT relating to crimes; requiring a provider of Internet service to provide access to certain information; authorizing certain persons to issue subpoenas to obtain such information; establishing a penalty for committing the crime of stalking with the use of the Internet or electronic mail; prohibiting the use or attempted use of a computer, network or system to lure children under certain circumstances and providing that such an offense constitutes a sexual offense for the purpose of certain statutes pertaining to sex offenders; making various changes concerning the sale of tobacco products or alcoholic beverages to minors through the use of the Internet; increasing the penalty for certain unlawful uses of encryption; making various changes concerning the crime of annoying or molesting a minor; requiring that certain conditions of probation and parole be imposed upon certain offenders; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 551—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 13, 20012784

 

561AN ACT relating to land use planning; requiring the governing body of each county and city to adopt an ordinance providing for the appeal of certain land use decisions to the governing body; providing for an appeal of such decisions by the governing body to the district court; authorizing the governing body of a county or city to adopt an alternative procedure allowing certain decisions of a board of adjustment to be appealed directly to the district court; raising the maximum compensation that a governing body may provide to its planning commission for each meeting of the planning commission; authorizing certain attested copies of a master plan to be certified by electronic means; modifying the period within which certain entities must take action on a tentative map, parcel map or final map; revising provisions regarding the presentation of a series of final maps for a subdivision; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 554—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 13, 20012803

 

562AN ACT making an appropriation to the Interim Finance Committee to assist school districts in paying for health insurance for their employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 587—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012825

 

563AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles and public safety; revising the amount of money required to be transferred annually from the account for verification of insurance to the state highway fund; requiring the department to increase certain fees as necessary to cover the actual cost of production of photographs for drivers’ licenses and identification cards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 578—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012826

 

564AN ACT relating to tourism; establishing a grant program for the development of projects relating to tourism; creating a committee to administer the grant program; prescribing the membership and duties of the committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 583—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012827

 

565AN ACT relating to public schools; apportioning the state distributive school account in the state general fund for the 2001-2003 biennium; authorizing certain expenditures; providing for a final adjustment following the close of a fiscal year; making various other changes concerning the administration of money for public schools; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 585—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012830

 

566AN ACT relating to injunctions; authorizing employers to obtain temporary and extended orders for protection against harassment in the workplace to protect employers, employees and persons at the workplace from harassment by other persons; establishing the procedures for obtaining such orders; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 370—Assemblymen Leslie, Bache, Parks, Price, McClain, Anderson, Arberry, Chowning, Claborn, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Humke, Koivisto, Manendo, Mortenson, Neighbors, Parnell, Smith and Tiffany. Approved June 13, 20012843

 

567AN ACT relating to false reports; providing for civil liability for making a false report of a crime or an emergency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 399—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 13, 20012851

 

568AN ACT relating to law enforcement; directing the Attorney General to conduct a statistical study regarding traffic stops by the Nevada Highway Patrol and by law enforcement officers in certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 500—Assemblymen Williams, Giunchigliani, Leslie, Goldwater, Parks, Anderson, Bache, Buckley, Chowning, Manendo and Ohrenschall. Approved June 13, 20012852

 

569AN ACT relating to education; making appropriations to the state distributive school account for purposes relating to class-size reduction; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 671—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012854

 

570AN ACT relating to making appropriations from the state general fund and the state highway fund for the support of the civil government of the State of Nevada for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2001, and ending June 30, 2002, and beginning July 1, 2002, and ending June 30, 2003; providing for the use of the money so appropriated; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 672—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012857

 

571AN ACT relating to state employees; establishing the maximum allowed salaries for certain employees in the classified service and employees in the unclassified service of the state; making appropriations from the state general fund and the state highway fund to the state board of examiners for increases in the salaries of certain employees of the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 673—Committee on Ways and Means. Approved June 13, 20012872

 

572AN ACT relating to animals; increasing the penalties for certain mistreatment of animals; authorizing a court to require a defendant convicted of certain offenses involving the mistreatment of animals to submit to a psychiatric evaluation and to participate in counseling or therapy as a condition of probation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 62—Senator O’Connell (by request). Approved June 13, 20012887

 

573AN ACT relating to real property; clarifying the duties owed by a real estate salesman, broker-salesman and broker; establishing renewal requirements for the licensure of such real estate licensees; revising the schedule of fees paid to the real estate division of the department of business and industry; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 418—Senator Schneider. Approved June 13, 20012892

 

574AN ACT relating to education; making appropriations to the Department of Education for educational technology, textbooks and signing bonuses for teachers; making an appropriation to the legislative fund for use by the Legislative Bureau of Educational Accountability and Program Evaluation for an evaluation of educational technology; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 427—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012897

 

575AN ACT relating to governmental administration; revising the authority of the state treasurer to use a facsimile signature; abolishing the division of unclaimed property of the department of business and industry and transferring the duties of the division to the state treasurer; authorizing the state treasurer to employ a deputy of unclaimed property; revising the time for the submission of an annual report by the state treasurer; providing for the submission of certain public revenue and reports to the state controller instead of the state treasurer; revising the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 489—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 13, 20012901

 

576AN ACT making appropriations to the Opportunity Village Foundation for the revitalization of certain thrift stores and to the Washoe Association for Retarded Citizens for creation of a pilot program to develop an employment model and reimbursement model; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 491—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012935

 

577AN ACT relating to the University and Community College System of Nevada; authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds to pay a portion of the cost of constructing buildings for student housing and dining at the Great Basin College; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 496—Committee on Finance. Approved June 13, 20012936

 

578AN ACT relating to health insurance; requiring the board of the public employees’ benefits program to comply with certain provisions concerning health insurance applicable to other insurers with regard to health insurance it provides through a plan of self-insurance; requiring the board to notify certain persons of a proposed change in the premium charged for or coverage of health insurance provided by the public employees’ benefits program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 123—Assemblymen de Braga, Chowning, Freeman, Gibbons, Anderson, Berman, Claborn, Collins, Giunchigliani, Koivisto, Lee, Manendo, Mortenson, Oceguera, Parks, Parnell and Smith. Approved June 14, 20012938

 

579AN ACT relating to cities; expanding the authority of the governing body of an incorporated city in a larger county to annex certain territory; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 179—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 14, 20012941

 

580AN ACT relating to the University and Community College System of Nevada; making an appropriation to support the program to provide loans to nursing students; requiring the development of a plan to increase the capacity of the programs of nursing within the system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 378—Assemblymen Freeman, Leslie, de Braga, Cegavske, Anderson, Arberry, Bache, Beers, Berman, Buckley, Chowning, Dini, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Hettrick, Humke, Manendo, Marvel, Mortenson, Parks, Perkins, Smith and Tiffany. Joint Sponsors: Senators Rawson, Coffin and Mathews. Approved June 14, 20012944

 

581AN ACT relating to elections; providing for a person without a street address to register to vote; clarifying who may sign a petition to fill a vacancy in a nomination for a nonpartisan office; allowing certain persons who change designations of political party affiliation to be independent or minor party candidates for partisan office; revising the requirements concerning certain requests for absent ballots and voting by persons who request absent ballots; revising the requirements for handling and maintaining election materials after an election; revising the requirements concerning the form, contents and filing of certain applications to register to vote; prohibiting the public disclosure of certain information concerning voters; providing for the verification of signatures on county and municipal petitions; removing the option of submitting supplements to certain county and municipal petitions; requiring notice to be given upon an appointment to fill a vacancy in an elected office; repealing the requirement that checklists of voters be created for elections; repealing the restriction on the length of time a voter may remain in a voting booth; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 637—Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics. Approved June 14, 20012946

 

582AN ACT relating to culture; creating the Nevada cultural fund; revising the powers and duties of the state arts council; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 170—Senators Rawson, James, Wiener, Titus, McGinness and Shaffer. Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Arberry, Mortenson, Manendo, Dini and Perkins. Approved June 14, 20012973

 

583AN ACT relating to contractors; providing for the adoption of standards for advertisements used by contractors who repair, restore, improve or construct residential pools and spas; enacting and revising various provisions pertaining to such contractors; requiring the state contractors’ board to adopt standard contract elements for use by such contractors; providing for the designation of an ombudsman for residential pools and spas; revising the provisions governing eligibility for compensation from the recovery fund; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 216—Senators Care and O’Donnell. Approved June 14, 20012975

 

584AN ACT relating to utilities; consolidating and revising the process for reviewing applications for permits, licenses and other approvals by the public utilities commission of Nevada and certain other state and local entities for the construction of certain utility facilities; requiring the commission and other state and local entities to consider such an application in conjunction with any federal proceedings concerning the construction of that facility; making various changes to the Utility Environmental Protection Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 362—Senators Titus, Care, Carlton, O’Connell, Porter, Coffin, Amodei, Raggio, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Townsend, Washington and Wiener. Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Perkins, Bache, Manendo, Parks, Buckley, Neighbors, Anderson, Dini, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Lee, Leslie, McClain, Mortenson, Oceguera, Smith, Tiffany and Von Tobel. Approved June 14, 20012984

 

585AN ACT relating to projects of capital improvement; increasing the total amount of money that may be committed beyond the biennium for all contracts for retrofitting state buildings for energy efficiency; providing for the issuance of general obligation bonds of the state; requiring the repayment for certain projects by certain state agencies; authorizing certain expenditures by the State Public Works Board; levying a property tax to support the consolidated bond interest and redemption fund; exempting certain projects of the Legislative Counsel Bureau from the provisions of chapter 338 of NRS; authorizing the issuance of additional revenue bonds by the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 584—Committee on Finance. Approved June 14, 20012991

 

586AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing expenditures by various officers, departments, boards, agencies, commissions and institutions of the state government for the fiscal years commencing July 1, 2001, and ending June 30, 2002, and beginning July 1, 2002, and ending June 30, 2003; authorizing the collection of certain amounts from the counties for the use of the services of the Public Defender; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 586—Committee on Finance. Approved June 14, 20013011

 

587AN ACT relating to crimes against property; revising the provisions governing actions which constitute theft to include the theft of parts, products or other items related to certain services under certain circumstances and to include theft of gasoline or other fuel or automotive products; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 162—Assemblymen Brown, Oceguera, Cegavske, Angle, Bache, Brower, Carpenter, Lee, Marvel, Mortenson and Von Tobel. Joint Sponsors: Senators Rawson, Porter and O’Connell. Approved June 14, 20013024

 

588AN ACT relating to aging persons; authorizing the Nevada silver haired legislative forum to operate independently of the aging services division of the department of human resources; requiring the legislative commission to appoint the members of the Nevada silver haired legislative forum; revising the membership of the forum; authorizing a legislator to donate a certain amount of unspent campaign contributions to the forum; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 195—Committee on Health and Human Services. Approved June 14, 20013026

 

589AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; revising the provisions relating to the time within which a prosecution for kidnapping or attempted murder must be commenced; revising certain provisions concerning genetic marker testing to refer to obtaining a “biological specimen”; providing for genetic marker testing of certain persons who reside in this state and who are convicted of certain crimes in other states; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 54—Assemblyman Anderson. Approved June 14, 20013031

 

590AN ACT relating to health; making various changes to procedures for the detention and civil commitment of mentally ill persons; expanding the rights of patients of certain health care facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 550—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 14, 20013041

 

591AN ACT relating to local government; prohibiting reprisal or retaliatory action against an officer or employee of a local government who discloses improper governmental action; requiring a local government to establish procedures for hearing appeals relating to a reprisal or retaliatory action; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 556—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 14, 20013048

 

592AN ACT relating to controlled substances; exempting the medical use of marijuana from state prosecution in certain circumstances; revising the penalties for possessing marijuana; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 453—Assemblywoman Giunchigliani. Approved June 14, 20013053

 

593AN ACT relating to gaming; authorizing the Nevada gaming commission to adopt regulations governing the licensing and operation of interactive gaming if the commission first makes certain determinations; providing that a license to operate interactive gaming may be issued only to resort hotels or certain other establishments holding nonrestricted licenses; providing for certain license fees relating to interactive gaming; providing that gross revenue received from interactive gaming is subject to taxation in the same manner as gross revenue received from other games; exempting the operation of interactive gaming from certain other fees and taxes; revising the computation of interest payable by the commission on the overpayment of certain fees and taxes; prohibiting a person from operating interactive gaming until the commission adopts regulations and unless the person procures and maintains all licenses required pursuant to the regulations; providing for the enforceability of gaming debts incurred pursuant to an interactive gaming system; providing for the licensure and regulation of manufacturers of interactive gaming systems and manufacturers of equipment associated with interactive gaming; revising provisions relating to persons who acquire a certain beneficial ownership in a publicly traded corporation registered with the commission; revising the definitions of “gaming employee” and “manufacturer” for the purposes of the Nevada Gaming Control Act; revising provisions governing applications for restricted licenses; providing for the issuance of statewide work permits for gaming employees; establishing a maximum fee for the issuance of such work permits; revising various provisions governing the listing, investigation and disqualification of personnel of a labor organization for gaming employees; prohibiting certain fraudulent acts concerning gaming; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 466—Assemblymen Leslie, Parks, Parnell, Gibbons, Anderson, Brower, Chowning, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Humke, Smith and Tiffany. Joint Sponsor: Senator Mathews. Approved June 14, 20013075

 

594AN ACT relating to transportation; creating the legislative committee on transportation; prescribing the membership, powers and duties of the committee; revising certain provisions concerning the board of directors of the department of transportation; revising provisions governing the remittance of fees by short-term lessors of passenger cars to the department of taxation; authorizing short-term lessors of passenger cars to charge a fee as reimbursement for payment of vehicle licensing fees and taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 460—Assemblyman Parks. Approved June 15, 20013097

 

595AN ACT relating to local governments; expanding the authority of the board of county commissioners of a county to abate nuisances, dangerous structures and dangerous conditions; authorizing the recovery of any applicable costs for the relocation of tenants incurred by the county in abating certain conditions; providing that a board of county commissioners may levy a special assessment to collect costs incurred by the county in abating certain conditions instead of imposing a lien; authorizing a board of county commissioners to adopt certain housing codes; expanding the authority of the governing body of certain cities to abate certain types of nuisances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 131—Assemblymen McClain, Parks, Bache, Price, Williams, Anderson, Arberry, Buckley, Chowning, Claborn, de Braga, Dini, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Neighbors, Nolan, Oceguera, Parnell, Perkins and Smith. Joint Sponsors: Senators Care and Titus. Approved June 15, 20013099

 

596AN ACT relating to persons with disabilities; requiring cooperative efforts to enable existing state programs to make available community-based services for the provision of minimum essential personal assistance to certain of those persons and to establish a program to govern the provision of those services; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 174—Senators Rawson and Titus. Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Marvel, Giunchigliani, Parks, Leslie and Buckley. Approved June 15, 20013105

 

597AN ACT relating to the judicial system; adjusting prospectively the salaries of supreme court justices and district court judges; creating a supreme court and a district court commission on law libraries; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 184—Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 15, 20013109

 

598AN ACT relating to welfare; revising the provisions governing the payment of hospitals for treating a disproportionate share of Medicaid patients, indigent patients or other low-income patients; providing for the allocation and transfer of certain funding for the treatment of those patients; authorizing the imposition in certain counties of a temporary tax on the revenue of hospitals; requiring the legislative committee on health care to conduct a study regarding programs and funding for the treatment of those patients; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 377—Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved June 15, 20013114

 

599AN ACT relating to education; prohibiting an existing public school or home school from converting to a charter school; prohibiting a charter school from operating for profit; creating the fund for charter schools; providing for the sponsorship of charter schools by the state board of education; revising the collective bargaining provisions applicable to charter school employees who are on a leave of absence from a school district; revising provisions governing the formation, operation and personnel of charter schools; authorizing the boards of trustees of school districts and the governing bodies of charter schools to provide programs of distance education for certain pupils; requiring the state board to adopt regulations prescribing the requirements of programs of distance education; revising the provisions governing the apportionments of money from the state distributive school account to provide for the payment of money for pupils who are enrolled in programs of distance education; providing that certain property of charter schools and certain property leased or rented to charter schools is exempt from taxation; extending the prospective removal of the limit on the number of charter schools that may be formed; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 399—Senator Care. Approved June 15, 20013119

 

600AN ACT relating to appraisers of real estate; requiring the real estate division of the department of business and industry to hire professional consultants to ensure compliance with Title XI of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989; increasing certain fees of the real estate division; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 307—Senator Schneider. Approved June 15, 20013169

 

601AN ACT relating to business associations; revising the statutory liability of the stockholders, directors and officers of a corporation; increasing the fees and revising certain requirements for filing certain documents with the secretary of state; requiring certain fees charged by the secretary of state for special services to be deposited in the state general fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 577—Senators James, Raggio, O’Donnell, Amodei, Rawson, Jacobsen and McGinness. Approved June 15, 20013170

 

602AN ACT relating to the legislature; making various changes relating to the legislature and the legislative counsel bureau; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 570—Committee on Legislative Affairs and Operations. Approved June 15, 20013200

 

603AN ACT relating to local governments; authorizing a county recorder to charge and collect an additional fee to pay for the acquisition and improvement of technology used in the office of the county recorder; requiring the county recorder to charge and collect an additional fee to assist persons formerly in foster care; increasing the amount of certain fees charged and collected by certain officials of local governments; creating an account in the department of human resources’ gift fund to assist persons formerly in foster care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 94—Committee on Government Affairs. Approved July 17, 20013208

 

604AN ACT relating to energy; authorizing certain eligible customers to purchase electrical energy, capacity and certain ancillary services from providers of new electric resources; establishing the universal energy charge to fund low-income energy assistance and conservation; requiring certain retail customers to pay the universal energy charge; requiring certain public utilities and municipal utilities to perform certain functions related to the universal energy charge; creating the fund for energy assistance and conservation and setting forth the criteria to determine the eligibility of a household to receive assistance from money in the fund; authorizing certain agencies to render emergency assistance to households in certain circumstances; revising and repealing various provisions concerning the regulation of public utilities and the process of establishing and changing rates; expanding the public utilities commission of Nevada from three to five members; revising the authority of the commission to regulate mergers, acquisitions and certain other transactions involving public utilities and other entities; making various changes with respect to net metering; authorizing the director of the department of business and industry to issue industrial development revenue bonds for certain renewable energy generation projects; creating the task force for renewable energy and energy conservation and prescribing its membership and duties; creating the trust fund for renewable energy and energy conservation; creating the office of energy within the office of the governor; transferring control of the Nevada state energy office from the director of the department of business and industry to the office of energy within the office of the governor; requiring certain lodging establishments to include certain information concerning energy costs on their statement of rates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 661—Select Committee on Energy. Approved July 17, 20013222