Referred to Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics
SUMMARY--Revises provisions governing organization of legislative counsel bureau. (BDR 17-976)
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 the legislature; revising certain provisions concerning the organization of the legislative counsel bureau; 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 218.620 is hereby amended to read as follows:
218.620 1. There is hereby created the legislative counsel bureau, which consists of a legislative commission, an interim finance committee, a director, an audit division, a fiscal analysis division, a legal division, a research division, and an administrative division.
2. The legislative auditor is chief of the audit division. The legislative counsel is chief of the legal division. The research director is chief of the research division. The director shall designate from time to time one of the fiscal analysts to be responsible for the administration of the fiscal analysis division.
3. The legislative commission shall:
(a) Appoint the director [.] and the legislative counsel.
(b) Fix the compensation of the director, each of the other division chiefs, and each fiscal analyst.
4. The director shall appoint the legislative auditor, fiscal analysts and [the chiefs of the other divisions] research director with the approval of the legislative commission, and may serve as the chief of any division.
5. The director may, with the consent of the legislative commission, designate one of the other division chiefs or an employee of the legislative counsel bureau as deputy director, who shall serve as deputy director without additional compensation.
Sec. 2 NRS 218.683 is hereby amended to read as follows:
218.6831. The director of the legislative counsel bureau, as executive head of the legislative counsel bureau, shall direct and supervise all its administrative and technical activities. The fiscal analysts, legislative auditor [,] and research director [and legislative counsel] shall perform the respective duties assigned to them by law under the administrative supervision of the director. The legislative counsel shall perform the duties assigned to him under the administrative supervision of the legislative commission.
2. The director of the legislative counsel bureau shall, consistent with the budget approved by the legislative commission and within the limits of legislative appropriations and other available funds, employ and fix the salaries of or contract for the services of such professional, technical, clerical and operational personnel and consultants as the execution of his duties and the operation of the legislative counsel bureau may require.
3. All of the personnel of the legislative counsel bureau are exempt from the provisions of chapter 284 of NRS. They are entitled to such leaves of absence as the legislative commission shall prescribe.
4. The director shall serve as the Nevada legislative federal-state coordinator.