OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
EXECUTIVE ORDER
A PROCLAMATION BY THE
GOVERNOR:
WHEREAS, Section 9 of Article V of the Constitution of the State of Nevada provides that, “The Governor may on extraordinary occasions, convene the Legislature by Proclamation and shall state to both houses when organized, the purpose for which they have been convened, and the Legislature shall transact no legislative business, except that for which they were specifically convened, or such other legislative business as the Governor may call to the attention of the Legislature while in Session;” and
WHEREAS, believing that an extraordinary occasion now exists which requires immediate action by the Legislature;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, KENNY C. GUINN, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 9 of Article V of the Constitution of the State of Nevada, do hereby convene the Legislature into a Special Session to approve the redistricting plans required by law for the State of Nevada and to reconsider the matters within the legislation approved during the Seventy-First Session of the Nevada Legislature between 12:00 a.m. and 1:00 a.m., on June 5, 2001. The matters that may be considered are as follows:
SENATE BILL NO. 109 (1st
Reprint)
AN ACT making an appropriation to the Interim Finance Committee for certain contractual services related to the financial reporting of school districts and charter schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SENATE BILL NO. 148 (1st Reprint)
AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions relating to the achievement and proficiency examinations administered in public schools; revising provisions governing the increase of salary for a teacher who is certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; requiring the boards of trustees of school districts to pay the increase of salary retroactively under certain circumstances; authorizing under certain circumstances the employment of licensed teachers who do not hold endorsements in a particular subject area; requiring certain school districts to create and operate regional training programs for the professional development of teachers and administrators; creating the statewide council for the coordination of the regional training programs; authorizing under certain circumstances the licensure and employment of teachers who are not citizens of the United States; prohibiting persons from making certain threats to pupils and employees of school districts, charter schools and private schools; providing for the reimbursement of certain costs of teachers who acquire certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards if money is made available; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SENATE BILL NO. 193 (3rd Reprint)
AN ACT relating to the department of prisons; allowing the director to establish a system for offender management in each institution and facility of the department; allowing the director to continue to develop and implement a program of facility training for correctional staff in each institution and facility of the department; changing the name of the department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SENATE BILL NO. 303 (3rd Reprint)
AN ACT relating to insurance for motor vehicles; specifying that any information except the name of the owner of a motor vehicle may be used as the primary means to verify that a motor vehicle is insured; providing that an operator’s policy of liability insurance may only be issued to certain persons; allowing the release of information related to insurance policies under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SENATE BILL NO. 366 (3rd Reprint)
AN ACT relating to mental health; providing for the establishment by a district court of a program for the treatment of mentally ill offenders; authorizing justices’ courts and municipal courts to transfer original jurisdiction of certain cases to the district court for the purpose of assigning offenders to the program of treatment; enacting various provisions pertaining to the program of treatment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SENATE BILL NO. 445 (2nd Reprint)
AN ACT making appropriations to the Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission for an analysis of job tasks and a study of physical fitness validation for peace officers and to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for various information technology upgrades; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SENATE BILL NO. 518 (2nd Reprint)
AN ACT relating to financial administration; revising the amounts paid to certain public officers and employees as allowances for certain expenses; making appropriations to the contingency fund to restore and increase the balance in the fund; making appropriations to the Interim Finance Committee to assist state agencies and school districts in paying for certain energy needs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SENATE BILL NO. 588 (As introduced)
AN ACT making an appropriation to the Interim Finance Committee to provide assistance to certain educational programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 94 (3rd Reprint)
AN 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. 122 (2nd Reprint)
AN ACT relating to public employees; authorizing a leave of absence for certain public officers and 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; authorizing payment for the unused sick leave of state employees that is accrued but not carried forward in certain circumstances; increasing the maximum authorized amount of money from the reserve for statutory contingency account that the state board of examiners may authorize for payment of the salary of a replacement officer or employee following the purchase of certain leave of a former officer or employee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 133 (4th Reprint)
AN ACT relating to real property; requiring an affidavit in support of an action concerning constructional defects against a design professional; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 232 (1st Reprint)
AN ACT relating to the judiciary; establishing a judicial retirement system for certain justices of the supreme court and district court judges; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 271 (3rd Reprint)
AN ACT relating to the training of drivers; requiring the state board of education to adopt regulations governing automobile driver education in public schools; prohibiting certain younger drivers from transporting certain persons as passengers for a certain period after obtaining a driver’s license; requiring certain younger drivers to hold an instruction permit for a certain period before applying for a driver’s license; extending the period for which a person is authorized to hold an instruction permit; authorizing licensed schools for training drivers to use certain interactive technologies in lieu of actual classroom instruction; requiring an instructor of a school for training drivers to complete certain training before his license as an instructor may be renewed by the department of motor vehicles and public safety; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 343 (3rd Reprint)
AN ACT relating to the protection of children; transferring certain duties of the division of child and family services of the department of human resources to an agency of the county in certain large counties; establishing a legislative committee on children, youth and families; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 405 (1st Reprint)
AN ACT relating to education; expressing the sense of the Nevada Legislature regarding available methods to improve the reading proficiency of Nevada’s school children at an early grade level; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 424 (2nd Reprint)
AN ACT relating to public highways; directing the Department of Transportation, Clark County and the City of Las Vegas to conduct certain assessments concerning the need for the abatement of traffic noise; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 460 (5th Reprint)
AN ACT relating to 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. 483 (5th Reprint)
AN ACT relating to elections; requiring the secretary of state and each city clerk to design the form to be used by a candidate for reporting in kind campaign contributions and expenses; removing the requirement that campaign expenses under a certain amount be separately listed on forms for reporting; revising provisions governing the listing of certain categories of campaign expenses and expenditures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 615 (1st Reprint)
AN ACT relating to natural resources; directing the submission to a vote of the people of a proposal to issue state general obligation bonds to protect, preserve and obtain the benefits of the property and natural resources of this state; providing for the use of the proceeds if the issue is approved; creating the fund to protect natural resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 653 (2nd Reprint)
AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the formula for the distribution of certain revenues among local governments; providing for an adjustment to the base allocation of certain local governments; extending the date for expiration of the legislative committee to study distribution among local governments of revenue from state and local taxes; requiring the advisory committee to the committee to conduct a study; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 661 (4th Reprint)
AN 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. 666 (4th Reprint)
AN ACT relating to Nevada Revised Statutes; making technical corrections to inappropriate or inaccurate provisions; clarifying ambiguous provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY BILL NO.669 (1st Reprint)
AN ACT relating to liquor; authorizing a transfer of liquor between certain affiliated retailers; providing for the enforcement of certain provisions of chapter 369 of NRS; providing a civil penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 3 (1st Reprint)
Assembly Concurrent RESOLUTION—Directing the Legislative Commission to conduct an interim study concerning misdemeanors.
ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 21 (1st Reprint)
Assembly Concurrent RESOLUTION—Directing the Legislative Commission to conduct an interim study of issues regarding the death penalty and related DNA testing.
ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 42 (As introduced)
Assembly Concurrent RESOLUTION—Establishing the Governor’s Task Force on Tax Policy in Nevada.
ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 14 (3rd Reprint)
Assembly Joint RESOLUTION—Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of Nevada to provide a citizens’ commission to establish the salaries of certain elected officers, to remove the requirement that the system for county and township government be uniform, to remove the requirement that the Legislature fix the compensation of certain county officers, to authorize the Legislature to provide for the appointment of certain county officers and to require each board of county commissioners to determine the salaries of certain county officers in its respective county.
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 20 of the 70th Session (1st Reprint)
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION—Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of Nevada to provide requirements for the enactment of property and sales tax exemptions.
During the Special Session, the Legislature may also consider an appropriation to pay for the cost of the Special Session and any other matters brought to the attention of the Legislature by the Governor. The Special Session shall begin at 10:00 a.m. on June 14, 2001.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the state of Nevada to be affixed at the state capitol in Carson City this 13th day of June, in the year two thousand one
GOVERNOR
SECRETARY OF STATE
DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE