(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS) SECOND REPRINT
Assembly Bill No. 99-Committee on Elections, Procedures,
and Ethics
(On Behalf of the Nevada Association of School Boards)
January 29, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics
SUMMARY--Limits authority to prefile bill or joint resolution to legislators. (BDR 17-331)
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 legislation; limiting the authority to prefile a bill or joint resolution to legislators; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1. NRS 218.277 is hereby amended to read as follows:
218.2771. Any member of the next succeeding regular session of the legislature [and any entity that is authorized to request the preparation of a legislative measure] may request the legislative counsel to prefile any legislative bill or joint resolution that was requested by that legislator [or entity] for introduction in the next succeeding regular session of the legislature.
2. Such bills and joint resolutions must be in such final and correct form for introduction in the legislature as required by the constitution and this chapter.
3. The legislative counsel shall not prefile a bill or joint resolution requested by:
(a) A member of the legislature who is not a candidate for reelection [or any entity that is authorized to request the preparation of a legislative measure] until after the general election immediately preceding the regular session of the legislature.
(b) A member of the legislature who is elected or reelected to his office at the general election immediately preceding the regular session of the legislature until he is determined to have received the highest number of votes pursuant to the canvass of votes required by NRS 293.395.