THE NINETY-THIRD DAY
Carson City (Tuesday), May 8, 2001
Assembly called to order at 11:07 a.m.
Mr. Speaker presiding.
Roll called.
All present.
Prayer by the Chaplain, Pastor Albert Tilstra.
When we are honestly perplexed and have to do something, and are not sure what to do, we need Your help, O God. In our choices let us not ask, “Will it work?” but rather, “Is it right?” In this prayer we reach up to You. May we find that You are reaching down to us, and may we believe that when we are willing to listen, You will speak. We wait on You, O God.
Amen.
Pledge of allegiance to the Flag.
Assemblyman Parks 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 Commerce and Labor, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 394, has had the same under consideration, and begs leave to report the same back with the recommendation: Do pass.
Joseph E. Dini, Jr., Chairman
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Government Affairs, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 46, 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 Transportation, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 54, has had the same under consideration, and begs leave to report the same back with the recommendation: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Vonne S. Chowning, Chairman
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 517, has had the same under consideration, and begs leave to report the same back with the recommendation: Do pass.
Morse Arberry Jr., Chairman
MESSAGES FROM THE Senate
Senate Chamber, Carson City, May 7, 2001
To the Honorable the Assembly:
I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate on this day passed Assembly Bills Nos. 11, 13, 38, 55, 62, 98, 100, 126, 148, 181, 203, 204, 290, 301, 310, 335, 406, 570, 621, 656; Assembly Joint Resolution No. 6; Senate Bill No. 569.
Also, I have the honor to inform your honorable body that the Senate on this day concurred in the Assembly Amendment No. 642 to Senate Bill No. 203.
Mary Jo Mongelli
Assistant Secretary of the Senate
INTRODUCTION, FIRST READING AND REFERENCE
Senate Bill No. 569.
Assemblyman Parks moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Government Affairs.
Motion carried.
MOTIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND NOTICES
Assemblyman Anderson moved that Senate Bill No. 204 be taken from the Chief Clerk's desk and placed on the Second Reading File.
Remarks by Assemblyman Anderson.
Motion carried.
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that Senate Bill No. 525 be taken from the General File and re-referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Motion carried.
SECOND READING AND AMENDMENT
Assembly Bill No. 237.
Bill read second time.
The following amendment was proposed by the Committee on Ways and Means:
Amendment No. 680.
Amend section 1, page 1, line 3, by deleting “$125,918” and inserting “$109,918”.
Assemblywoman Giunchigliani moved the adoption of the amendment.
Remarks by Assemblywoman Giuchigliani.
Amendment adopted.
Bill ordered reprinted, engrossed and to third reading.
Senate Bill No. 204.
Bill read second time.
The following amendment was proposed by the Committee on Judiciary:
Amendment No. 676.
Amend section 1, page 1, line 11, by deleting “physician” and inserting:
“physician, advanced practitioner of nursing”.
Amend the bill as a whole by adding a new section designated sec. 3, following sec. 2, to read as follows:
“Sec. 3. This act becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. on October 1, 2001.”.
Assemblyman Anderson moved the adoption of the amendment.
Remarks by Assemblyman Anderson.
Amendment adopted.
Bill ordered reprinted, re-engrossed and to third reading.
general file and third reading
Assembly Bill No. 569.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblyman Beers.
Roll call on Assembly Bill No. 569:
Yeas—42.
Nays—None.
Assembly Bill No. 569 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Assembly Bill No. 662.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblyman Collins.
Roll call on Assembly Bill No. 662:
Yeas—42.
Nays—None.
Assembly Bill No. 662 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Senate Bill No. 15.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblyman Collins.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 15:
Yeas—42.
Nays—None.
Senate Bill No. 15 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Senate Bill No. 32.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblymen McClain, Freeman, Parks, Anderson, Price and Humke.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 32:
Yeas—42.
Nays—None.
Senate Bill No. 32 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
MOTIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND NOTICES
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that Senate Bill No. 77 be taken from its position on the General File and placed at the bottom of the General File.
Remarks by Assemblywoman Chowning.
Motion carried.
Assemblywoman Chowning moved that Senate Bill No. 414 be taken from its position on the General File and placed at the bottom of the General File.
Remarks by Assemblywoman Chowning.
Motion carried.
general file and third reading
Senate Bill No. 36.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblymen Claborn, Manendo and Collins.
Assemblyman Manendo requested that his remarks be entered in the Journal.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of SB 36. I think it is a positive step when you can allocate some money into schools for library books. For the record, I wanted to see the money be given—first shot, first priority—to the disadvantaged, at risk schools. What I believe is going to happen is that the chairman of Senate Judiciary and myself are going to send a letter to the school districts asking that they give preference to those schools. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 36:
Yeas—42.
Nays—None.
Senate Bill No. 36 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed, as amended.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Senate Bill No. 114.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblymen Williams and Buckley.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 114:
Yeas—42.
Nays—None.
Senate Bill No. 114 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Senate Bill No. 248.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblyman Leslie.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 248:
Yeas—42.
Nays—None.
Senate Bill No. 248 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Senate Bill No. 264.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblymen Chowning, Goldwater, Humke, Williams, Collins, Beers, Giunchigliani and Claborn.
Mr. Speaker requested the privilege of the Chair for the purpose of making remarks.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 264:
Yeas—23.
Nays—Arberry, Bache, Berman, Brown, Carpenter, Freeman, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Gustavson, Humke, Koivisto, Leslie, Marvel, Parnell, Perkins, Smith, Tiffany, Williams—19.
Senate Bill No. 264 having failed to receive a two-thirds majority, Mr. Speaker declared it lost.
Senate Bill No. 323.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblymen Ohrenschall, Goldwater and Giunchigliani.
Mr. Speaker requested the privilege of the Chair for the purpose of making remarks.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 323:
Yeas—42.
Nays—None.
Senate Bill No. 323 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Senate Bill No. 374.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblyman Smith.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 374:
Yeas—42.
Nays—None.
Senate Bill No. 374 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Senate Bill No. 409.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblymen Chowning and Collins.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 409:
Yeas—21.
Nays—Arberry, Bache, Beers, Berman, Brower, Brown, Carpenter, Collins, Freeman, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Gustavson, Hettrick, Koivisto, Leslie, Marvel, Parnell, Perkins, Smith, Tiffany, Williams—21.
Senate Bill No. 409 having failed to received a two-thirds majority, Mr. Speaker declared it lost.
Senate Bill No. 501.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblywoman Giunchigliani.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 501:
Yeas—42.
Nays—None.
Senate Bill No. 501 having received a constitutional majority, Mr. Speaker declared it passed.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Mr. Speaker announced if there were no objections, the Assembly would recess subject to the call of the Chair.
Assembly in recess at 12:08 p.m.
ASSEMBLY IN SESSION
At 12:09 p.m.
Mr. Speaker pro Tempore presiding.
Quorum present.
Senate Bill No. 77.
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblymen Dini, Hettrick, Anderson, Gustavson and Nolan.
Roll call on Senate Bill No. 77:
Yeas—37.
Nays—Bache, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Leslie, Perkins—5.
Senate Bill No. 77 having received a two-thirds majority, Mr. Speaker pro Tempore declared it passed, as amended.
Bill ordered transmitted to the Senate.
Senate Bill No. 414
Bill read third time.
Remarks by Assemblymen Chowning, Collins, Goldwater and Perkins.
Assemblywoman Buckley requested that the following remarks be entered in the Journal.
Assemblyman Perkins:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker pro Tempore. I felt I should rise and explain my opposition to these types of bills, at least for the record, once this session. We do have a number of license plates in our state, not all of them are the special license plates that are processed by our Transportation Committee. There are plates that honor our veterans, Pearl Harbor survivors; all are very, very worthy causes which I have no quarrel with. We have added UNR, UNLV plates, firefighters plates, arts plates, Lake Tahoe plates, our own legislative plates. There are constitutional office plates, the blue plate, the silver plate, the new plate and the commemorative plate. Plates are everywhere.
Let me suggest that one of the reasons we have license plates for automobiles is to identify the automobile. We have gone beyond that. I understand this plate, at least as the potential design was shown to me, has many of the same colors—reds and oranges—as the current firefighter’s plate. This makes it difficult to discern one plate from another. We have 50 states in this Union, the Canadian provinces, and the Mexican states—all of which are identified by a license plate or plates. Oftentimes an officer in the street is trying to identify a car with a felon, a crime committed, a stolen car, or just a routine traffic stop. It’s not until you are very, very close, sometimes not even then, that you are able to identify the state, the type of plate, or the characters on that plate in order to provide safety for the officer. The information is then communicated to the dispatch center in order to identify who is in the vehicle. It is becoming more and more difficult to identify that vehicle for the safety of the officer. To me that is what the license plate was for, to identify a car with an owner.
The other difficulty we encounter is this has become more of a vanity or an identifier for what someone believes in or wants to do. There are a number of ways you can identify your automobile. You can create different placards to put on your automobile. I would submit to you and this body, Mr. Speaker pro Tempore, that identifying causes was never the reason for the license plate. Lastly, I think that when we look at all of the very honorable license plates we have, the very worthy causes, the folks that we originally wanted to honor—Pearl Harbor survivors and veterans—that adding more and more license plates diminishes the honorability of that particular designation. For all of these reasons I consistently vote against license plates, regardless of their cause or sponsor. Thank you, Mr. Speaker pro Tempore.
Assemblyman Parks moved that Senate Bill No. 414 be taken from the General File and placed on the Chief Clerk’s desk.
Remarks by Assemblyman Parks.
Motion lost on a division of the House.
Mr. Speaker pro Tempore announced if there were no objections, the Assembly would recess subject to the call of the Chair.
Assembly in recess at 12:30 p.m.
ASSEMBLY IN SESSION
At 12:33 p.m.
Mr. Speaker pro Tempore presiding.
Quorum present.
MOTIONS, RESOLUTIONS AND NOTICES
Assemblywoman Buckley moved that Senate Bill No. 414 be taken from the General File and placed on the General File for the next legislative day.
Motion carried.
Mr. Speaker pro Tempore announced if there were no objections, the Assembly would recess subject to the call of the Chair.
Assembly in recess at 12:34 p.m.
ASSEMBLY IN SESSION
At 12:37 p.m.
Mr. Speaker pro Tempore presiding.
Quorum present.
Assemblyman Anderson moved that Senate Bill No. 233 be taken from the Chief Clerk’s desk and placed on the General File for the next legislative day.
Remarks by Assemblyman Anderson.
Motion carried.
INTRODUCTION, FIRST READING AND REFERENCE
By the Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics:
Assembly Bill No. 664—AN ACT relating to education; changing the number of members of the state board of education; revising the districts from which members of the state board of education are elected; changing the number of members of the board of regents; revising the districts from which members of the board of regents are elected; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Giunchigliani moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.
Motion carried.
By the Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics:
Assembly Bill No. 665—AN ACT relating to elections; revising the districts from which members of the state legislature are elected; revising the districts from which representatives in congress are elected; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Assemblywoman Giunchigliani moved that the bill be referred to the Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.
Motion carried.
REMARKS FROM THE FLOOR
Assemblywoman Cegavske requested that her remarks be entered in the Journal.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is my pleasure to introduce to you two of my good friends, Chuck and Carol Phillips. They have been in Las Vegas for nine years. They came from Wisconsin where Chuck was a lobbyist for several non-profit organizations. He represented education, religious groups, charities and hospitals. Carol was a registered nurse. In Wisconsin she developed the Senior Program at St. Mary’s Hospital. They lived in my district for several years, have since moved to Summerlin and reside in District 4. It was interesting to hear Chuck talk a little bit about the differences in Wisconsin. They have 99 members in their Assembly, no lobbyists are allowed on the Floor, and it is very noisy in the chambers. Their Assembly is not required to wear suits; however, the Senate must. Please make them feel welcome.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Signing of Bills and Resolutions
There being no objections, the Speaker and Chief Clerk signed Assembly Bills Nos. 30, 134, 149, 152; Assembly Concurrent Resolutions Nos. 28, 29, 30; Senate Bills Nos. 17, 45, 50, 52, 118, 203, 281, 300; Senate Joint Resolution No. 14.
GUESTS EXTENDED PRIVILEGE OF ASSEMBLY FLOOR
On request of Assemblywoman Cegavske, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Chuck Phillips and Carol Phillips.
On request of Assemblyman Dini, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Patti Gutierrez.
On request of Assemblyman Nolan, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Beau Cassidy and Sue Cassidy.
On request of Assemblywoman Smith, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Mike Sprinkle.
On request of Assemblywoman Tiffany, the privilege of the floor of the Assembly Chamber for this day was extended to Brittney Bateman, Ashley Ehret, Matthew Englert, Gabriel Espinoza, Gaston Gordon, Brittney Griese, Joshua Healea, Charly Mapes, Maria Markos, Joseph Munoz, Samuel Screnock, Natalie Timpson, Velislav Tzakov, Alaura Walzak, Travis Knight, Shawn Willis, Sam Scolari, Cody Robinson, Nina Musillo, Taylor Burke, Samantha Muro, Alexander Beard, Jovanna Blankevoort, Mark Bricker, Christopher Donnelly, Daniel Efargan, Viliame Evans, Jovan Hernandez, Ryan Kilseimer, Erika Larson, Gabrielle Maheras, Michael McNinch, Sadie Mims, Stefany Mitrevski, Andrea O'Shea, Elizabeth Orozco, Kacie Pedraja, Casey Petty, Aisha Ratanapool, Jonathan Sha, William Slagle, Patricia Cooper, Cami Scolari, Earlene Beard, Laura Timpson, Lois Muro, Cindy Mapes, Paul Bateman, Carin McCameron, Elizabeth Orozco, Patti Mims, Lynn Kilseimer, Kimberly Donnelly, Rose Bricker, Anthony Ulintz, Cheryl Ingram.
Assemblywoman Buckley moved that the Assembly adjourn until Wednesday, May 9, 2001 at 11:00 a.m.
Motion carried.
Assembly adjourned at 12:41 p.m.
Approved:Richard D. Perkins
Attest: Jacqueline Sneddon