Senate Bill No. 148–Committee on Government Affairs

 

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AN ACT relating to the Legislature; providing for joint legislative requesters on the list of requests for the preparation of legislative measures published by the Legislative Counsel; 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 218.2475 is hereby amended to read as

follows:

    218.2475  1.  On July 1 preceding each regular session of the

Legislature, and each week thereafter until the adjournment of the

Legislature sine die, the Legislative Counsel shall prepare a list of

all requests received by him, for the preparation of measures to be

submitted to the Legislature. The requests must be listed

numerically by a unique serial number which must be assigned to

the measures by the Legislative Counsel for the purposes of

identification in the order that he received the requests. Except as

otherwise provided in [subsection 3,] subsections 3 and 4, the list

must only contain the name of each requester, the date and a brief

summary of the request.

    2.  The Legislative Counsel Bureau shall make copies of the list

available to the public for a reasonable sum fixed by the Legislative

Commission upon the recommendation of the Director of the

Legislative Counsel Bureau.

    3.  In preparing the list, the Legislative Counsel shall:

    (a) Not include the name of the Legislator who has requested the

preparation of a measure until:

        (1) The particular measure is introduced in the Legislature;

or

        (2) The Legislator requests that his name be disclosed as the

requester of the measure,

whichever occurs first.

    (b) If a standing or special committee of the Legislature requests

a measure on behalf of a Legislator or organization, include the

name of the standing or special committee and the name of the

Legislator or organization on whose behalf the measure was

originally requested.

    4.  Upon the request of a Legislator who has requested the

preparation of a measure and requested that his name be disclosed

pursuant to subsection 3, the Legislative Counsel shall add the

name of one or more Legislators from either or both houses of the

Legislature as joint requesters. The Legislative Counsel shall not

add the name of a joint requester to the list until he has received

confirmation of the joint request from the primary requester of the

measure and from the Legislator to be added as a joint requester.

The Legislative Counsel shall remove the name of a joint

requester upon receipt of a request to do so made by the primary

requester or the joint requester. The names must appear on the list

in the order in which the names were received by the Legislative

Counsel beginning with the primary requester. The Legislative

Counsel shall not act upon the direction of a joint requester to

withdraw the requested measure or modify its substance until the

Legislative Counsel has received confirmation of the withdrawal

or modification from the primary requester. For the purposes of

all limitations on the number of legislative measures that may be

requested by a Legislator, a legislative measure with joint

requesters must only be counted as a request of the primary

requester.

 

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