Senate Bill No. 311–Senator Carlton

 

March 17, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Legislative Affairs and Operations

 

SUMMARY—Prohibits persons subject to regulation by occupational licensing board from refusing to provide service to current or former Legislator based on vote or abstention of that Legislator. (BDR 17‑922)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to the State Legislature; prohibiting a person who is subject to regulation by an occupational licensing board from refusing to provide service to a current or former Legislator based on the vote or abstention of that Legislator on any proposed legislation or other matter on which a vote is taken; providing that a violation constitutes grounds for disciplinary action by the appropriate occupational licensing board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1. Chapter 218 of NRS is hereby amended by adding

1-2  thereto a new section to read as follows:

1-3  1.  A person who is a member of any profession, occupation

1-4  or business regulated by an occupational licensing board pursuant

1-5  to title 54 of NRS shall not refuse to provide service to a current or

1-6  former Legislator based on the vote or abstention of that

1-7  Legislator on any proposed legislation or other matter on which a

1-8  vote is taken.

1-9  2.  A violation of subsection 1 constitutes grounds for

1-10  disciplinary action by the appropriate occupational licensing

2-1  board against the person who commits the violation. The

2-2  occupational licensing board may take any disciplinary action

2-3  against the person, including, without limitation, the imposition of

2-4  any monetary penalty, that the board is otherwise authorized to

2-5  take against that person when grounds exist for disciplinary

2-6  action.

2-7  Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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