THE TENTH DAY
Carson City (Wednesday), February 10, 1999
Assembly called to order at 11:06 a.m.
Mr. Speaker presiding.
Roll called.
All present except Assemblyman Marvel, who was excused.
Prayer by the Chaplain, Lt. John Van Cleef.
O Lord, our Governor, bless the leaders of this great State that we may be people of peace among ourselves, and a blessing to those around us. For the ladies and gentlemen of this Assembly, I pray for Your courage, Your wisdom and Your foresight to rest upon them, that they might provide for the needs of all our people. In Your Holy Name, I pray. Amen.
Pledge of allegiance to the Flag.
Assemblyman Perkins moved that further reading of the Journal be dispensed with, and the Speaker and Chief Clerk be authorized to make the necessary corrections and additions.
Motion carried.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Government Affairs, to which were referred Assembly Bills Nos. 94, 99, 125, has had the same under consideration, and begs leave to report the same back with the recommendation: Do pass.
Douglas A. Bache, Chairman
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred Assembly Bill No. 55, has had the same under consideration, and begs leave to report the same back with the recommendation: Do pass.
Bernard Anderson, Chairman
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred Assembly Bill No. 32, has had the same under consideration, and begs leave to report the same back with the recommendation: Re-refer to the Committee on Taxation.
Vonne S. Chowning, Chairman
MOTIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND NOTICES
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that Assembly Bill No. 32 be re-referred to the Committee on Taxation.
Motion carried.
MESSAGES FROM THE Senate
Senate Chamber, Carson City, February 8, 1999
To the Honorable the Assembly:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate on this day concurred in the
Assembly Amendment No. 10 to Senate Joint Resolution No. 4.
Mary Jo Mongelli
Assistant Secretary of the Senate
MOTIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND NOTICES
By the Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics:
Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 13—Directing the Legislative Commission to continue the study of the system of juvenile justice in Nevada.
Assemblywoman Evans moved that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.
Motion carried.
By Assemblywoman Evans:
Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 14—Directing the Legislative Commission to conduct an interim study of the requirements for reapportionment and redistricting in the State of Nevada.
Assemblywoman Evans moved that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.
Motion carried.
INTRODUCTION, FIRST READING AND REFERENCE
By Assemblymen Leslie, Evans, Anderson, Buckley, Goldwater, Freeman, Manendo, Parks, Gibbons, Chowning, Dini, Giunchigliani, Parnell, McClain, Thomas, de Braga, Koivisto, Claborn, Hettrick, Cegavske, Gustavson, Beers, Collins and Segerblom:
Assembly Bill No. 178—AN ACT relating to public welfare; requiring the department of human resources to reimburse directly licensed clinical social workers and marriage and family therapists for certain services rendered under the state plan for Medicaid; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Leslie moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Health and Human Services.
Motion carried.
By Assemblymen Mortenson, Claborn, Freeman, Arberry, Parks, McClain, Anderson, Ohrenschall, Gibbons, Koivisto, Manendo, Price, Segerblom, Nolan and Brower:
Assembly Bill No. 179—AN ACT relating to hazardous materials; prohibiting the sale or use of certain highly flammable refrigerants; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblyman Mortenson moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.
Motion carried.
By Assemblymen Berman, Koivisto, Gibbons, Manendo, Parks, Tiffany, Beers, Hettrick, Bache, Neighbors, Buckley, Cegavske, Humke, Chowning, de Braga, Segerblom and Mortenson:
Assembly Bill No. 180—AN ACT relating to children; requiring school officials to report to authorities a child who possesses a firearm without approval while on school property, on a school bus or at a school activity; providing that such a child must be removed from school, taken into custody, detained for certain periods and psychologically evaluated; requiring a petition alleging delinquency to be filed against such a child under certain circumstances; requiring the juvenile court to order such a child to surrender his driver’s license until he reaches 21 years of age; revising the provisions relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm or other weapon under certain circumstances; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Berman moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Education.
Motion carried.
By Assemblymen Evans, Leslie, Parks, Goldwater, Humke, Manendo, de Braga, Ohrenschall, Koivisto, Bache, Hettrick, Cegavske, Berman, Williams, Beers, Claborn, McClain, Freeman, Arberry, Chowning, Segerblom, Neighbors, Carpenter, Lee, Buckley, Anderson, Perkins, Giunchigliani, Collins, Mortenson, Tiffany, Thomas and Dini; Senators Wiener, Rawson, Titus, Townsend, and Coffin:
Assembly Bill No. 181—AN ACT relating to public health; providing for the transfer of the bureau of alcohol and drug abuse from the department of employment, training and rehabilitation to the department of human resources; providing for additional services relating to substance abuse and mental health; requiring the commission on substance abuse education, prevention, enforcement and treatment to conduct annual evaluations of programs to treat substance abuse; requiring the establishment of pilot projects in family resource centers to provide services relating to substance abuse; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Evans moved that the bill be referred to the Concurrent Committees on Health and Human Services and Ways and Means.
Motion carried.
By the Committee on Transportation:
Assembly Bill No. 182—AN ACT relating to highways; requiring the Department of Transportation and Clark County to enter into an interlocal agreement concerning highways in which both have an ownership interest; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Motion carried.
By the Committee on Transportation:
Assembly Bill No. 183—AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring drivers of vehicles involved in certain accidents to stop, give information, render aid and report accident if they know or have reason to know that an accident has occurred; requiring drivers of vehicles involved in certain accidents to inquire about accident after stopping; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Motion carried.
By the Committee on Transportation:
Assembly Bill No. 184—AN ACT relating to traffic laws; authorizing certain law enforcement officers other than police officers to provide for the removal of vehicles from highways; authorizing the removal of a vehicle that is abandoned within a parking zone on a highway; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Motion carried.
By the Committee on Transportation:
Assembly Bill No. 185—AN ACT relating to traffic laws; prohibiting a truck, commercial vehicle or combination of commercial vehicles from being driven in the left lane of a highway under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Motion carried.
By the Committee on Transportation:
Assembly Bill No. 186—AN ACT relating to driver education; revising provisions governing the requirements for licensure as an operator of or instructor for a school for training drivers; requiring applicants for licensure as operators of or instructors for schools for training drivers to submit their fingerprints for processing by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; abolishing the requirement that such persons hold a driving instructor’s certificate issued by the state department of education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Motion carried.
By the Committee on Transportation:
Assembly Bill No. 187—AN ACT relating to traffic laws; limiting the speed at which a vehicle may be driven on a street or highway which has been marked or posted with signs for the requirement of traction devices, tire chains or snow tires; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Motion carried.
By the Committee on Transportation:
Assembly Bill No. 188—AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising the grounds for denying, suspending or revoking a license to engage in the activity of a broker of vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Motion carried.
By the Committee on Government Affairs:
Assembly Bill No. 189—AN ACT relating to the public employees’ retirement system; authorizing legislators who are also public employees to obtain credit for retirement under the system for periods of service in the Nevada Legislature while on leave from public employment in certain circumstances; requiring certain members of the Nevada gaming commission to participate in the system; authorizing the system to calculate the elective service of certain members as regular service under certain circumstances; amending the benefit formula in certain circumstances; authorizing a public employer to contribute to a retirement fund that is not a part of the system on behalf of certain retired employees; authorizing members to use money from various retirement plans for the purchase of service under certain circumstances; increasing certain survivor benefits; raising the amounts of certain minimum cumulative benefits; eliminating the requirement of marriage to receive benefits under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblyman Bache moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Government Affairs.
Motion carried.
By Assemblyman Arberry (by request):
Assembly Bill No. 190—AN ACT relating to communicable diseases; requiring the testing of certain persons for communicable diseases; increasing the penalty for conduct likely to expose others to a communicable disease; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblyman Arberry moved that the bill be referred to the Concurrent Committees on Health and Human Services and Ways and Means.
Motion carried.
By Assemblymen Segerblom, Neighbors, Parks, Manendo, Gibbons, Anderson, Freeman, Chowning, Williams, Thomas, Arberry, de Braga, Buckley, Koivisto, Collins, Evans, Goldwater, Price, Mortenson, Claborn, Hettrick, Nolan, Bache, Perkins, Leslie and Parnell; Senator Porter:
Assembly Bill No. 191—AN ACT making an appropriation to Boulder City for the Boulder City Museum; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Segerblom moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Motion carried.
By Assemblymen Segerblom, Williams, Parks, Anderson, Gibbons, Buckley, Freeman, Arberry, Berman, Manendo, Chowning, McClain, Koivisto, de Braga, Evans, Goldwater, Giunchigliani, Mortenson and Leslie:
Assembly Bill No. 192—AN ACT relating to firearms; prohibiting a person from negligently storing a firearm; imposing civil liability upon the parent, guardian or other person who is legally responsible for a minor for negligently storing a firearm if the minor gains access to the firearm and commits a negligent act or willful misconduct; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Segerblom moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Motion carried.
By Assemblymen Segerblom, Williams, Buckley, Neighbors, Parks, Manendo, Anderson, Freeman, Chowning, Arberry, McClain, Koivisto, de Braga, Berman, Collins, Evans, Cegavske, Goldwater, Price, Giunchigliani, Mortenson, Claborn, Nolan and Leslie:
Assembly Bill No. 193—AN ACT relating to trade practices; revising the provisions governing the use of a device for automatic dialing and announcing on a telephone; prohibiting the use of such a device under certain circumstances; providing that the dissemination of an unsolicited prerecorded message is a deceptive trade practice under certain circumstances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Segerblom moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Labor.
Motion carried.
By Assemblymen Segerblom, Williams, Buckley, Neighbors, Carpenter, Parks, Manendo, Anderson, Freeman, Chowning, Thomas, Arberry, Koivisto, de Braga, McClain, Berman, Collins, Evans, Goldwater, Humke, Price, Ohrenschall, Giunchigliani, Mortenson, Claborn, Hettrick, Nolan, Lee, Bache, Perkins, Leslie, Gibbons and Parnell:
Assembly Bill No. 194—AN ACT relating to managed care organizations; prohibiting a managed care organization from committing certain acts that limit the accessibility of its insureds to services provided at certain hospitals in smaller cities and unincorporated areas with which the managed care organization has contracted; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Segerblom moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Labor.
Motion carried.
By Assemblymen Ohrenschall, Manendo, Perkins, Buckley, Koivisto, McClain, Mortenson, Bache, Williams, Price, Gibbons, Parks, Carpenter, Lee, Thomas, Leslie, Giunchigliani, Von Tobel, Anderson, Chowning and Arberry:
Assembly Bill No. 195—AN ACT relating to mobile home parks; revising the eligibility requirements for receiving assistance from the fund for low-income owners of mobile homes; authorizing a waiver from the eligibility requirements under certain circumstances; providing authority for law enforcement agencies of certain cities and counties or the metropolitan police department to patrol certain areas within mobile home parks under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Ohrenschall moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Labor.
Motion carried.
By Assemblymen Gustavson, Manendo, Humke, Cegavske, Berman, Hettrick, McClain, de Braga, Parks, Perkins, Gibbons, Bache, Tiffany, Buckley, Goldwater, Angle, Von Tobel, Lee, Nolan, Koivisto, Mortenson, Leslie, Chowning and Beers:
Assembly Bill No. 196—AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing in skeleton form to make it unlawful for a driver of a motor vehicle to have a detectable amount of a controlled substance or its metabolite in his system; making all prior offenses count in determining the penalty for subsequent offenses of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance regardless of when the prior offenses occurred; increasing the penalties for driving under the influence of a controlled substance; making various other changes concerning driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblyman Gustavson moved that the bill be referred to the Concurrent Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means.
Motion carried.
By Assemblymen de Braga, Dini, Hettrick and Parnell; Senators McGinness, Jacobsen, and Amodei:
Assembly Bill No. 197—AN ACT relating to water; including a portion of Churchill County within the Carson Water Subconservancy District; including representatives of Churchill County as members of the board of directors of the Carson Water Subconservancy District; increasing the authorized compensation for members of the board of directors of a water conservancy district; increasing the authorized compensation for members of the board of directors of an irrigation district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblyman de Braga moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.
Motion carried.
SECOND READING AND AMENDMENT
Assembly Bill No. 2.
Bill read second time and ordered to third reading.
Assembly Bill No. 25.
Bill read second time and ordered to third reading.
Assembly Bill No. 73.
Bill read second time and ordered to third reading.
Assembly Joint Resolution No. 5.
Resolution read second time and ordered to third reading.
general file and third reading
Assembly Bill No. 24.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblywoman Buckley.
Roll call on Assembly Bill No. 24:
Yeas—41.
Nays—None.
Excused—Marvel.
Assembly Bill No. 24 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed, as amended.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Assembly Bill No. 101.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblyman Bache.
Roll call on Assembly Bill No. 101:
Yeas—41.
Nays—None.
Excused—Marvel.
Assembly Bill No. 101 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Assembly Bill No. 124.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblyman Bache.
Roll call on Assembly Bill No. 124:
Yeas—41.
Nays—None.
Excused—Marvel.
Assembly Bill No. 124 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
GUESTS EXTENDED PRIVILEGE OF ASSEMBLY FLOOR
On request of Assemblywoman Giunchigliani, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Jennifer Rains.
On request of Assemblyman Hettrick, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Lou Bashor, Matt Bodourian, Dave Bolick, David Brady, Linda Bratton, Cheryl Bricker, Sheila Byington, Tom Chamberlain, Mike Coleman, Joi Davis, Linda Deacy, Ann Delahay, Mo Draper, Bob Hines, Brent Holderman, DeAnne Hoogeshant, Carlene Howard, Shriley Isenagle, Shelli Keiser, Eileen Paige, Damon Partridge, Monique Reno, Mike Riley, Ron Sagen, Dave Sheets, Carolyn Stillman and Sendi Stockle.
On request of Assemblyman Gustavson, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to John Michela, Jerry Mager and Stephie Mager.
Assemblyman Perkins moved that the Assembly adjourn until Thursday, February 11, 1999, at 11:00 a.m.
Motion carried.
Assembly adjourned at 1:47 p.m.
Approved: Joseph E. Dini, Jr.
Attest: Jacqueline Sneddon