Assembly Bill No. 326-Committee on Elections,
Procedures, and Ethics
(On Behalf of Assemblyman Price)
April 2, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs
SUMMARY--Broadens provisions governing loss of job seniority of legislator because of absence from employment while attending legislative session. (BDR 17-1483)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to legislators; broadening the provisions prohibiting the loss of job seniority of a legislator because of his absence from his employment while attending a legislative session to include employment by this state or a local government; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 NRS 218.044 is hereby amended to read as follows:
218.0441. [On and after April 8, 1967, no] No contract of employment wherein a [private individual, corporation, association or partnership] person, this state or a local government is the employer is lawful or enforceable in this state [which works] if it provides for a loss of job seniority of any person [by reason] because of his absence from his regular duties or place of employment while attending a regular or special session of the legislature of this state as a member thereof.
2. The presence in a general contract between an employer and employees or their representative of any provision which violates subsection 1 does not affect the validity of any other [and separable] severable provision.
Sec. 2 The amendatory provisions of section 1 of this act apply to any contract of employment described in that section which is entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 1997.