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Statutes of the State of Nevada - Seventieth Session, 1999

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the legislative fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 1 — Senators Raggio and Titus.  Approved February 2, 1999

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AN ACT relating to state financial administration; making appropriations to the benefit services fund from the state general fund and the state highway fund; suspending indefinitely the operation of the Committee on Benefits and transferring its powers and duties to the Governor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 176 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved February 19, 1999

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AN ACT relating to crimes; repealing the rule that for a prosecution for murder or manslaughter, the death of the victim must occur within 1 year and 1 day of the act which caused the death of the victim; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 11 — Senator Titus.  Joint Sponsor: Assemblyman Perkins.  Approved March 10, 1999

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AN ACT relating to biological weapons; prohibiting the development, production, stockpiling, transfer, acquisition, retention or possession of a biological agent, toxin or delivery system in certain circumstances; prohibiting a person from making threats or conveying false information concerning the presence, delivery, dispersion, release or use of a biological agent or toxin under certain circumstances; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 18 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 11, 1999

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AN ACT relating to actions for dental malpractice; repealing the prospective expiration of the provisions governing screening panels for dental malpractice claims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 25 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 16, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the state militia; increasing the maximum allowable age for commissioned officers of the Nevada National Guard; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 99 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 16, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the state controller; eliminating the prohibition against certain employees of the state controller pursuing other businesses or occupations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 101 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 16, 1999

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AN ACT relating to state financial administration; changing the designation of certain funds to accounts; changing the designation of the account to which certain proceeds of the tax on liquor are transferred; changing the designation of the department of human resources’ gift fund from a special revenue fund to a trust fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 124 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 16, 1999

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AN ACT relating to parole; making various changes concerning a parolee who commits a felony in another jurisdiction; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 80 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 16, 1999

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AN ACT relating to service of process; clarifying the meaning of the term “street address” of a resident agent; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 19 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 18, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the protection of property; extending the date of expiration of a permit to operate as a locksmith or safe mechanic; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 115 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved March 18, 1999

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AN ACT relating to public employees; revising the provisions governing the manner in which the compensation deferred pursuant to the public employees’ deferred compensation program and all property, rights and income relating thereto are held by the state to comply with federal law; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 125 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 18, 1999

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AN ACT relating to state employees; requiring that the interest and income earned on the money in the deferred compensation account be credited to the account; requiring that certain money be deposited in the account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 126 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 18, 1999

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AN ACT making an appropriation to restore the balance in the stale claims account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 177 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved March 18, 1999

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AN ACT relating to children; authorizing juvenile courts and probation officers to allow certain juvenile offenders to participate in programs of restitution through work that includes instruction in skills for employment and work ethics; providing for the establishment of such programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 77 — Senators Wiener, Care, McGinness, Porter, Titus and Washington.  Approved March 22, 1999

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AN ACT relating to children; authorizing a juvenile court to require certain children to participate in a supervised program for the arts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 87 — Senators Weiner, McGinness, Porter, Titus and Washington.  Approved March 23, 1999

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AN ACT relating to state financial administration; requiring certain contracts to be reduced to writing and signed by each party to those contracts; repealing provisions regarding recordation, custody and preservation of contracts to which the state is a party; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 93 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 24, 1999

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AN ACT relating to crimes; providing an additional penalty for murder or attempted murder of a person who is 65 years of age or older; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 63 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 24, 1999

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AN ACT relating to emergency management; requiring the chief of the division of emergency management of the department of motor vehicles and public safety to assist in the development of comprehensive, coordinated plans for emergency management; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 98 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 24, 1999

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AN ACT relating to emergency medical services; revising provisions governing the withholding of life-resuscitating treatment pursuant to a do-not-resuscitate order; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 73 — Assemblywoman Segerblom.  Approved March 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to debit cards; providing that certain crimes and civil actions concerning credit cards also apply to debit cards; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 83 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to legal documents; providing for service of certain legal documents related to criminal cases by means of a facsimile machine; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 120 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to traffic laws; increasing the minimum fine for an offender convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance for the first or second offense; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 23 — Assemblyman Manendo.  Approved March 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to crimes; imposing community service for a second or subsequent offense of unlawfully parking in a space designated for the handicapped; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 45 — Assemblyman Manendo.  Approved March 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to real property; revising the provisions relating to the liability of a mortgagee or trustee for a deed of trust who fails to record the discharge of the mortgage or deed of trust when the underlying debt is satisfied; authorizing a title insurer under certain circumstances to record a release of a mortgage if the underlying debt is satisfied and the mortgagee has failed to record the discharge of the mortgage as required; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 96 — Senator Shaffer.  Approved March 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the protection of children; providing civil and criminal immunity to persons who cause medical tests to be performed on children suspected of being abused or neglected or provide records or copies thereof of those medical tests to certain persons; requiring those medical records or copies thereof to be provided to certain law enforcement agencies, agencies that provide protective services to children and the prosecuting attorney’s office; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 68 — Assemblywoman Evans.  Approved March 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to campgrounds; revising the fees required to be paid by certain developers who sell memberships in campgrounds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 104 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved March 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to local governmental financial administration; clarifying the provisions governing the imposition and use of a portion of the taxes on the rental of transient lodging and sales and use taxes in certain counties; providing for the administration and collection of the sales and use taxes by the department of taxation; ratifying certain actions of the Board of County Commissioners of Washoe County concerning the imposition of a portion of the sales and use taxes; clarifying the construction of certain commitments made by the City of Reno; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 255 — Senators Raggio, Townsend, Jacobsen, Washington and Mathews.  Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Gibbons, Anderson, Brower, Gustavson, Evans, Humke, Angle, Freeman and Leslie.  Approved March 30, 1999

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AN ACT relating to prisoners; requiring a court to deduct money owed for restitution from a monetary judgment awarded to or settlement entered into by a person who is or was imprisoned in the state prison or a county or city jail or detention facility in a civil action brought against the State of Nevada, a county or a city; requiring a prisoner who has filed an action for small claims to pay the estimated costs of his transportation to the department of prisons in advance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 22 — Assemblywoman Cegavske.  Approved April 1, 1999

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AN ACT relating to parole; requiring the division of parole and probation of the department of motor vehicles and public safety to categorize a discharge from parole as honorable or dishonorable; requiring that a parolee must be issued an honorable discharge to have his civil rights restored; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 79 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 1, 1999

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AN ACT relating to courts; authorizing courts to contract for the acceptance of credit cards and debit cards for the payment of fees, fines and other charges owed to the court; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 24 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 1, 1999

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AN ACT relating to state obligations; authorizing a state agency that issues bonds in the name of the state to delegate the authority to sign a contract for the purchase of the bonds to a person designated by the state treasurer; authorizing the state treasurer to employ legal, financial and other professional services in connection with the authorization, sale or issuance of certain obligations; expanding the time within which certain bonds for highway construction must mature; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 128 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 7, 1999

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AN ACT relating to notaries public; providing that information obtained by the secretary of state during an investigation of a violation of certain provisions concerning notaries public is confidential; providing that an applicant for appointment as a notary public is not required to disclose his residential address or telephone number on certain documents; increasing fees that notaries public may charge for providing certain services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 127 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 7, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the Nevada athletic commission; authorizing the commission to recover certain costs associated with the issuance or reinstatement of a license; expanding the circumstances under which such costs may be recovered if disciplinary action is taken by the commission; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 158 — Committee on Finance.  Approved April 7, 1999

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AN ACT relating to health care records; expanding the circumstances under which a provider of health care is required to make health care records available for inspection by an investigator for the attorney general or a grand jury; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 113 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved April 7, 1999

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AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the fund for class-size reduction for additional anticipated expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 278 — Committee on Finance.  Approved April 8, 1999

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AN ACT relating to local governmental finances; authorizing the board of county commissioners of Douglas County to impose a local sales and use tax for libraries, airports, facilities and services for senior citizens and parks and recreational programs and facilities; conforming a similar definition provision in the Carson City Charter; authorizing the board of county commissioners of Douglas County to issue bonds and other securities to fund libraries, airports and facilities and services for senior citizens; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 174 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved April 8, 1999

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AN ACT relating to hospital districts; providing for the dissolution of hospital districts in certain smaller counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 275 — Assemblymen Neighbors and de Braga.  Joint Sponsor: Senator McGinness.  Approved April 8, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the transportation of pupils; revising provisions governing the authority of the boards of trustees of school districts to purchase tickets for the transportation of pupils on public buses; authorizing fully regulated carriers to provide reduced rates to the boards of trustees of school districts for the transportation of pupils; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 2 — Committee on Education.  Approved April 13, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the sale of real estate; authorizing licensed real estate broker-salesmen and real estate salesmen to use additional terms to refer to their licensed status; requiring certain information to be included in advertisements by licensees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 58 — Assemblyman Beers.  Approved April 14, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the state judicial department; clarifying that judges of municipal courts and justices of the peace may not seek reelection if they were previously removed or retired from any judicial office; clarifying that a justice of the supreme court, district court judge, justice of the peace or municipal court judge is not ineligible to be a candidate for judicial office if a decision to remove or retire him from judicial office is pending appeal before the supreme court or has been overturned by the supreme court; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 20 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 19, 1999

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AN ACT relating to crimes against property; making various changes to provisions concerning a merchant taking a person into custody and detaining him; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 85 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 19, 1999

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AN ACT relating to mental health; changing the name of the mental hygiene and mental retardation division of the department of human resources and the commission on mental health and mental retardation; changing the name of certain budget accounts and facilities of the division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 305 — Committee on Health and Human Services.  Approved April 22, 1999

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AN ACT relating to crimes; revising provisions governing compensation provided to certain victims of crime so that residents of another state are treated the same as residents of this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 353 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 22, 1999

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AN ACT relating to mentally ill persons; clarifying the provisions governing the testimony that may be considered in a proceeding for the involuntary court-ordered admission of a mentally ill person to a mental health facility; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 140 — Committee on Health and Human Services.  Approved April 22, 1999

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AN ACT relating to justices’ courts; requiring a justice’s court or a county to collect restitution ordered by the court; requiring that the money collected by a justice’s court or county for restitution be paid to the person named in the order or deposited to a fund for the compensation of victims of crime; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 122 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 22, 1999

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AN ACT relating to prisoners; authorizing a county or city to seek reimbursement of costs from a nonindigent prisoner sentenced to a program as an alternative to incarceration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 115 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 22, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the tax on special fuel; requiring the department of motor vehicles and public safety to prepare and submit a report to the legislature concerning the administration and enforcement of certain provisions relating to the tax on special fuel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 28 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing patriotic observance in public schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 144 — Assemblymen Parnell and Dini.  Joint Sponsor: Senator Jacobsen.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to residential facilities for groups; revising the definition of “residential facilities for groups”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 167 — Assemblymen Hettrick, Beers, Goldwater, Cegavske, Chowning, Parks, de Braga, Price, Dini, Perkins and Giunchigliani.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to elderly persons; revising the provisions governing the duties of the specialist for the rights of elderly persons within the aging services division of the department of human resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 250 — Committee on Health and Human Services.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to married women; repealing certain obsolete provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 340 — Assemblymen Cegavske, Von Tobel, Berman, Angle, Giunchigliani, de Braga, Buckley, Evans, Ohrenschall, Gibbons, Segerblom, Leslie, McClain, Koivisto, Chowning, Tiffany, Parnell and Freeman.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the state distributive school account for additional anticipated expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 345 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to parole; requiring the department of prisons to determine the eligibility of a prisoner for parole, notify the state board of parole commissioners and provide data regarding the prisoner to the state board of parole commissioners; removing the requirement that a prisoner complete an application to be considered for parole; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 390 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to prisoners; making technical corrections to the statutes concerning credits against the sentences of certain prisoners; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 391 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to older persons; removing certain obsolete provisions concerning certain protective services for older persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 649 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to crimes; providing an enhanced penalty for the assault or battery of a taxicab driver; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 146 — Senators Titus, Amodei, Mathews, O’Donnell, Porter, Raggio, Rawson and Shaffer.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to guardianships; requiring a court to consider certain factors in determining whether a parent is qualified and suitable to act as guardian of a minor; requiring a court to consider certain factors in determining the best interests of a minor when asked to remove the guardian of the minor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 347 — Senators Wiener, Washington, Care, Amodei, Coffin, James, Mathews, McGinness, Porter, Schnieder, Shaffer and Titus.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to writs of habeas corpus; specifying the circumstances under which a court may summarily dismiss a petition for a writ of habeas corpus; making various other changes to the provisions governing writs of habeas corpus; providing that credits against the sentence of an offender may be forfeited for the filing of a frivolous petition for a writ of habeas corpus; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 361 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to children; requiring the division of child and family services of the department of human resources and private adoption agencies to disclose certain information to prospective adoptive parents; revising the amount of money that the division may charge for certain services it provides related to the placement of a child for adoption; providing a preference for the placement of siblings together; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 232 — Senators Porter, Rawson, Townsend, Schneider, Washington, Jacobsen, Amodei, Care, James, McGinness, Rhoads and Wiener.  Joint Sponsor: Assemblywoman Segerblom.  Approved April 27, 1999

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AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the time within which a claim for a homeowner’s refund may be filed under the Senior Citizens’ Property Tax Assistance Act; advancing the date by which such a refund must be paid; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 36 — Senator James (by request).  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; revising the provisions governing discovery in criminal cases; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 173 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing the department of motor vehicles and public safety to file a certificate of delinquency on taxes, fees and assessments owed to the department; deleting an exemption provided for certain special fuel users from the requirement of obtaining a special fuel user’s license; providing that certain refunds owed to licensed special fuel users be credited against any debt owing to the department by such users; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 202 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to historic preservation; authorizing the board of directors of the Las Vegas Valley water district to establish and maintain a desert preserve located in or within the vicinity of the Big Spring Archeological District; providing for the issuance of special license plates to support the desert preserve; imposing a fee for the issuance or renewal of those license plates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 204 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing each board of county commissioners by ordinance to establish, use and operate a wetlands mitigation bank; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 217 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to abandoned vehicles; making changes concerning the appraisal of an abandoned vehicle; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 268 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to deferred compensation; providing, in compliance with federal law, that all amounts of compensation deferred pursuant to the deferred compensation program for employees of political subdivisions and all property, rights and income relating thereto must be held in trust for the exclusive benefit of the participants in the program and their beneficiaries; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 367 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to public defenders; requiring the deputies of the public defender to be governed by the merit personnel system of the county in certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 456 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to juries; exempting a victim of domestic violence who has a fictitious address from service as a grand or trial juror; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 480 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; allowing the use of certain affidavits at a preliminary examination or grand jury proceeding under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 483 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to state financial administration; increasing the maximum amount of money from the reserve for statutory contingency account that the state board of examiners may authorize for payment of the salary of a replacement officer or employee following the purchase of the unused leave of a former officer or employee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 498 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to governmental administration; authorizing a designee of the clerk of the state board of examiners to approve certain contracts on behalf of the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 533 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 29, 1999

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AN ACT relating to state lands; revising the provisions governing the option of certain persons to purchase the mineral interests owned by the State of Nevada in certain trust lands; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 344 — Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the support of children; prohibiting a stay of certain proceedings for the enforcement of child support; authorizing the issuance of additional orders in certain proceedings for the enforcement of child support; exempting the division of wildlife of the state department of conservation and natural resources from certain regulations relating to the submission of a statement concerning compliance with a court order for child support as a condition to the issuance or renewal of a license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 352 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the commission for cultural affairs; authorizing the commission to grant as financial assistance for certain projects a certain amount of the interest earned on the fund for the preservation and promotion of cultural resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 374 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to medical laboratories; revising the provisions governing the requirements to qualify for certification as an assistant in a medical laboratory; authorizing licensed or certified personnel of a medical laboratory to perform certain tests without obtaining a license for that purpose; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 7 — Senator Rawson.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to public employment; exempting temporarily relatives of members of certain town boards from prohibition against certain public employment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 226 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to counties; clarifying the authority of a board of county commissioners to take final action at a meeting held outside the county seat; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 261 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to writs; providing that an application for a writ of mandamus that alleges an unconstitutional prior restraint must be labeled in a certain manner; requiring the court in which such an application for a writ is filed to render judgment on the application within 30 days; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 326 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to taxation; clarifying the provisions governing the administration of the exemption from the sales and use tax on food for human consumption; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 238 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to taxation; extending from 2 years to 3 years the interval between studies of the ratio of assessed to taxable value of property in each county; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 494 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to real estate; revising the educational requirements for obtaining an original real estate broker’s or broker-salesman’s license; abolishing the authority of the real estate commission to waive those requirements for applicants in rural areas; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 99 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to peace officers; providing that criminal investigators employed by the secretary of state have the powers of a peace officer; requiring criminal investigators employed by the secretary of state to comply with the standards of the peace officers’ standards and training committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 183 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the care of animals; revising certain requirements concerning the licensing of veterinarians; revising the grounds for disciplinary action against veterinarians, euthanasia technicians and veterinary technicians; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 100 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 3, 1999

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AN ACT relating to agricultural districts; revising the provisions governing the terms of the members of a district board of agriculture for certain agricultural districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 166 — Senator Rhoads.  Approved May 5, 1999

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AN ACT relating to bail; requiring a bail agent and bail enforcement agent to notify a local law enforcement agency after apprehending a defendant; requiring a bail agent and bail enforcement agent to notify a local law enforcement agency before forcibly entering an inhabited dwelling; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 485 — Assemblymen Koivisto, Anderson, Manendo, Mortenson, Parnell, Segerblom, McClain, Claborn, Freeman, Bache, de Braga, Parks, Chowning, Williams and Buckley.  Approved May 5, 1999

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AN ACT relating to programs for public employees; revising the provisions governing the securing of certain insurance and services for the officers and employees of a public agency through a nonprofit cooperative association or nonprofit corporation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 227 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 5, 1999

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AN ACT relating to county hospitals; authorizing county hospitals to join purchasing groups for the purpose of purchasing supplies, materials and equipment used by the hospital; authorizing county hospitals under certain circumstances to purchase supplies, materials and equipment without complying with the Local Government Purchasing Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 251 — Committee on Health and Human Services.  Approved May 5, 1999

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AN ACT relating to counties; requiring that uninsured deposits by a county treasurer be secured by certain collateral; providing a procedure for the sale of such collateral if the depository fails to pay a deposit upon demand; authorizing the deposit of county money in insured credit unions; clarifying that property taxes are not paid quarterly; providing for the listing on one trustee certificate issued by a county tax receiver of all properties on which taxes are delinquent; providing for the recording of the certificate against each property described in the certificate; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 375 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 5, 1999

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AN ACT relating to psychology; specifying that the practice of psychology includes the diagnosis and treatment of alcoholism and substance abuse; reducing the number of members of the board of psychological examiners required for a quorum; revising provisions governing the written examination required for licensure as a psychologist; revising the grounds for disciplinary action against a psychologist; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 24 — Senator Mathews.  Approved May 5, 1999

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AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; clarifying the applicability of the provisions governing occupational diseases to various provisions governing industrial insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 92 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 5, 1999

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AN ACT relating to pharmacy; eliminating the requirement that the secretary and treasurer of the state board of pharmacy furnish a bond for the benefit of the board; revising the qualifications of a registered pharmacist; providing expiration dates for certificates, licenses and permits issued by the board; revising the provisions governing the computerized program developed by the board and the investigation division of the department of motor vehicles and public safety to track prescriptions for certain controlled substances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 101 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 5, 1999

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AN ACT relating to hospice care; revising the benefits for such care required to be provided to persons eligible for Medicaid; authorizing certain nurses who provide such care to make pronouncements of death; expanding the class of facilities eligible to obtain a license to provide such care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 382 — Senators Titus and Raggio.  Approved May 5, 1999

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AN ACT relating to workers’ compensation; revising the penalties for the failure of an employer to provide and secure or maintain workers’ compensation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 175 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 5, 1999

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AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; clarifying the circumstances under which employees who work variable work schedules or innovative work weeks are eligible for overtime; repealing certain redundant and obsolete provisions governing reports of promotion to be made by appointing authorities and the continued employment of certain employees in the classified service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 499 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 5, 1999

252

96

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing the department of motor vehicles and public safety to issue placards for certain persons who respond to emergencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 65 — Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 11, 1999

253

97

AN ACT relating to hazardous materials; changing the date by which certain fees for the storage of extremely hazardous materials must be paid; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 243 — Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 11, 1999

254

98

AN ACT relating to vehicles; requiring certain sellers and lessors of vehicles to provide the buyer or lessee with a temporary placard for use in place of a license plate; providing that the placard must contain the date of expiration by the seller or lessor of the report of sale or report of lease of the vehicle; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 209 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 11, 1999

255

99

AN ACT relating to highways; providing for the prompt payment of subcontractors for the construction and improvement of highways; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 301 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 11, 1999

260

100

AN ACT relating to city elections; clarifying the application of certain provisions of Title 24 of NRS to city elections; requiring city clerks to publish a notice of the primary city election and general city election; authorizing the governing body of a city to establish the filing fee for candidates for city offices by resolution; eliminating the requirement that the special polling place must be maintained in the office of the city clerk; changing the date by which the city clerk must provide a voting booth for voting absent ballots in the office of the city clerk; prohibiting electioneering around or inside the office of the city clerk during the period for voting absent ballots in the office of the city clerk; changing the requirements for the appointment of members to the ballot board for early voting for a city election; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 444 — Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.  Approved May 11, 1999

262

101

AN ACT relating to municipal obligations; requiring the governing body of a local government that authorizes a medium-term obligation to include certain information in the resolution authorizing the obligation and to amend its plan for capital improvement under certain circumstances; eliminating the exception for medium-term obligations from the limitation on the amount that certain local governments may receive from taxes ad valorem; ratifying the approval of the issuance of certain medium-term obligations by the board of trustees of the Pahrump Community Library District; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 299 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 11, 1999

275

102

AN ACT relating to scrap metal; prohibiting the burning of stolen metallic wire to remove insulation; requiring junk dealers to obtain certain information before purchasing or receiving certain metallic wire from another person; requiring junk dealers to retain such information for a certain period; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 55 — Assemblyman Collins.  Approved May 11, 1999

279

103

AN ACT making supplemental appropriations to the Department of Museums, Library and Arts for the administration of the Department, to offset unanticipated shortfalls in the revenue from admissions at certain museums and for additional utility expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 277 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 11, 1999

280

104

AN ACT relating to commercial transactions; revising Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 62 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 11, 1999

281

105

AN ACT relating to statutes; ratifying technical corrections made to sections of NRS and to multiple amendments of sections of NRS; correcting the effective date of, correcting certain provisions in and repealing certain provisions in Statutes of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 453 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 11, 1999

395

106

AN ACT relating to the court system; revising the provisions relating to the authority of a chief judge in a judicial district that includes a county whose population is 100,000 or more; providing for the establishment of procedures for addressing certain grievances of parties in such a judicial district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 50 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 13, 1999

703

107

AN ACT relating to the court system; requiring the district courts, justices’ courts and municipal courts to submit certain statistical information to the court administrator; requiring the court administrator to compile such information and submit an annual report concerning the information to the director of the legislative counsel bureau; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 51 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 13, 1999

705

108

AN ACT relating to agriculture; revising the definition of “nursery” to include a location where nursery stock is propagated and from which nursery stock is distributed directly to a customer; exempting certain nurseries that are licensed by another state from the requirement of obtaining a license from the administrator of the division of agriculture of the department of business and industry; revising the definition of “peddler” to exclude certain nurserymen licensed by another state; requiring nursery stock shipped intrastate or interstate to a point within this state to be accompanied by an inspection certificate or a phytosanitary certificate; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 135 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 13, 1999

708

109

AN ACT relating to watercraft; increasing the threshold amount of property damage at which an operator is required to report a casualty involving his vessel; requiring the division of wildlife of the state department of conservation and natural resources to investigate certain casualties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 138 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 13, 1999

712

110

AN ACT relating to juveniles; requiring the court to order a child who injures another person, or the parent or guardian of the child, to provide restitution for medical expenses or to perform community service; revising the provisions governing the inspection of photographs of children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 165 — Assemblywoman Angle (by request).  Approved May 13, 1999

714

111

AN ACT relating to children; providing that a child who allegedly commits an offense involving a firearm must be taken into custody and detained for certain periods and may be psychologically evaluated; requiring the juvenile court to order counseling or other psychological treatment for a child who commits an offense involving cruelty to an animal; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 221 — Assemblymen Anderson, Manendo, Buckley, Segerblom, Thomas, Evans, Bache, Freeman, Parnell, Koivisto, McClain, Claborn, Mortenson, de Braga, Chowning, Humke, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Leslie, Brower, Beers, Nolan, Hettrick, Cegavske, Perkins, Lee, Neighbors, Berman, Gibbons, Price, Ohrenschall, Von Tobel, Parks, Williams and Dini.  Approved May 13, 1999

716

112

AN ACT relating to juveniles; revising provisions concerning notification of a parent, guardian or custodian of a child who is taken into custody for committing an offense; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 262 — Assemblymen Parks, Perkins, Bache, de Braga, Segerblom, Anderson, Neighbors, Thomas, Buckley, Lee, Arberry, Collins, Manendo, Williams, Cegavske, Beers, Brower, Tiffany, Gustavson, Chowning, Evans, Leslie, Koivisto, Freeman, Carpenter, Parnell, Gibbons, Goldwater, McClain, Dini, Nolan, Price, Berman, Von Tobel, Claborn, Mortenson, Giunchigliani, Humke and Hettrick.  Approved May 13, 1999

722

113

AN ACT relating to children; making various changes concerning granting rights to visitation with a child to persons other than the parents of the child; repealing a duplicative provision concerning the rights of grandparents to visitation with a child; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 436 — Assemblymen Berman, Carpenter, Leslie, Nolan, Segerblom, Beers, Gibbons, Marvel, Price, Ohrenschall, Von Tobel, Manendo, Collins, Parks, Arberry, Bache, Buckley, Tiffany, Hettrick, Brower and Humke.  Approved May 13, 1999

726

114

AN ACT relating to vessels; authorizing the administrator of the division of wildlife of the state department of conservation and natural resources to require reimbursement of certain expenses of the division associated with events involving vessels; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 437 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 13, 1999

729

115

AN ACT relating to watercraft; making various changes to the provisions governing abandoned vessels; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 438 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 13, 1999

730

116

AN ACT relating to controlled substances; providing an additional penalty for committing certain offenses relating to controlled or counterfeit substances on the grounds of a public park; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 464 — Assemblymen Freeman, Parks, Parnell, Mortenson, Von Tobel, Gibbons, Manendo, Ohrenschall, Nolan, Leslie, Price, Koivisto, Humke, Hettrick, Cegavske, Berman, McClain, Collins, Carpenter and Gustavson.  Approved May 13, 1999

731

117

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the provisions governing the reporting requirements, payment schedules and collection procedures for the tax on the net proceeds of minerals; broadening the authorized uses for the money in a county fund for mitigation; authorizing a school district to establish a fund for mitigation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 506 — Assemblymen Marvel, Carpenter, Brower, de Braga, Hettrick, Cegavske, Dini and Neighbors. Joint Sponsors: Senators Rhoads, McGinness and Amodei.  Approved May 13, 1999

732

118

AN ACT relating to domestic relations; requiring a court under certain circumstances to consider the best interest of a child when determining whether to grant permission to a parent to move the child out of this state; removing the reference to a parent having joint custody of a child in a provision concerning consent required to move a child from this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 544 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 13, 1999

737

119

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for a shortfall in salaries and operating expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 281 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 13, 1999

738

120

AN ACT relating to telecommunications; requiring the department of human resources to provide certain providers of telecommunication services with information concerning customers who are eligible to receive lifeline and link up services; regulating the provision of such services to eligible customers; authorizing under certain circumstances the reimbursement of eligible providers that provide lifeline services; providing immunity from liability under certain circumstances with respect to the provision of enhanced 911 services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 487 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 13, 1999

738

121

AN ACT relating to regional planning; authorizing peace officers to issue a warning and provide certain information to persons who violate certain ordinances adopted by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency; requiring peace officers who issue a warning to such persons to report certain information to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 510 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 13, 1999

741

122

AN ACT relating to domestic relations; prohibiting a court from awarding custody to or rights to visitation to a parent who is convicted of murder of the first degree for the murder of the other parent of a child under certain circumstances; establishing a presumption that custody of a child by a person who has engaged in certain acts of domestic violence is not in the best interest of the child; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 456 — Assemblyman Perkins.  Approved May 13, 1999

742

123

AN ACT relating to children; authorizing the assignment of certain juvenile offenders to a program of cognitive training and human development; establishing requirements for such a program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 229 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 14, 1999

745

124

AN ACT relating to controlled substances; authorizing the court to order a person convicted of distributing or selling an imitation controlled substance, a controlled substance or drug paraphernalia to a person who is under 18 years of age to pay restitution for the costs of the victim for participating in a program of treatment for the abuse of controlled substances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 336 — Assemblyman Neighbors. Joint Sponsor: Senator McGinness.  Approved May 14, 1999

748

125

AN ACT relating to district courts; increasing the fees charged by a reporter of a district court; establishing fees for a reporter of a district court who provides an instantaneous translation of testimony into English and a diskette containing the translation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 545 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 14, 1999

750

126

AN ACT relating to crimes; authorizing a person entitled to possession of property that has been stolen or embezzled and is in the custody of a law enforcement agency to claim such property; increasing the time within which a law enforcement agency must return property evidencing a crime to the person who is entitled to possession of the property; revising the provisions governing removal of property received in pledge by a pawnbroker; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 647 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 14, 1999

753

127

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring the administrator of the division of industrial relations of the department of business and industry to provide to the department of taxation certain information upon request; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 54 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 14, 1999

756

128

AN ACT relating to health insurance; requiring certain policies of health insurance that provide coverage for drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the treatment of a medical condition to include coverage for certain other uses of those drugs; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 56 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 14, 1999

759

129

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing notice of a civil action to recover damages for an industrial injury to be given by the attorney or representative of the injured employee or his dependents; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 64 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 14, 1999

763

130

AN ACT relating to license plates; providing for the manufacturing of certain license plates under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 267 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 14, 1999

766

131

AN ACT relating to insurance; changing the date by which an insurer must furnish proof of its entitlement to the credit against the insurance premium tax for maintaining a home office or regional home office in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 462 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 14, 1999

768

132

AN ACT relating to malpractice; providing for preferential scheduling of claims filed by claimants who are 70 years of age or older or who are critically ill; revising the provisions governing the admissibility at trial of certain findings of a screening panel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 479 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 14, 1999

769

133

AN ACT relating to records; ratifying the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 484 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 14, 1999

771

134

AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles and public safety; creating a revolving account to pay for the cost of issuing special license plates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 490 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 14, 1999

779

135

AN ACT relating to actions concerning persons; authorizing the attorney general to represent a justice of the peace or municipal judge under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 648 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 14, 1999

781

136

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; making appropriations to the benefit services fund from the state general fund and the state highway fund; requiring an assessment of certain state agencies for deposit in the benefit services fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 416 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 14, 1999

783

137

AN ACT relating to land use; revising provisions governing the notice and hearing requirements for land use regulations, restrictions and exceptions to allow notice by electronic means in certain circumstances; revising provisions relating to the merger and resubdivision of subdivided lands; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 542 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 18, 1999

784

138

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for additional expenses for the registration of motor vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 517 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 18, 1999

792

139

AN ACT relating to general improvement districts; requiring segregation by the category of the use of the proceeds from property taxes levied within a district; clarifying that a board of trustees of a district may not continue the levy of tax that is used for capital expenditures or debt service on general obligations after those amounts are paid in full; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 529 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 18, 1999

793

140

AN ACT relating to professions; revising the definition of “practice of marriage and family therapy”; authorizing the board of examiners for marriage and family therapists to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 218 — Senator Schneider (by request).  Approved May 18, 1999

794

141

AN ACT relating to public investments; revising certain limitations on the investment of state money; revising certain limitations on the investment of money in the trust fund for prepaid tuition; authorizing the state treasurer to employ investment and financial advisers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 129 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 18, 1999

796

142

AN ACT making an appropriation to restore the balance in the reserve for statutory contingency account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 175 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 18, 1999

804

143

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Legislative Counsel Bureau for the reproduction of older volumes of Nevada Reports; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 322 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 18, 1999

804

144

AN ACT relating to state parks; revising the provisions governing the expenditure of money from the account for the repair and maintenance of state parks, monuments and recreational areas; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 441 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 18, 1999

805

145

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing a temporary advance from the state general fund to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education’s fund for student loans; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 587 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 18, 1999

806

146

AN ACT relating to the residential construction tax; including areas for organized amateur sports in the types of facilities for which money from the tax may be expended; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 630 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 18, 1999

807

147

AN ACT relating to fireworks; requiring a license or permit that may be required for the sale of fireworks to be issued by the licensing authority of a city or county; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 25 — Senator Neal.  Approved May 18, 1999

808

148

AN ACT relating to telecommunications; revising various provisions governing telegraphs and telephones; repealing various provisions relating to telegraphs; prohibiting injury or obstruction to a telecommunications line of a community antenna television system; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 27 — Senator Wiener.  Approved May 18, 1999

809

149

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing certain associations of self-insured private employers to determine the amount of tangible net worth and manual premium that an employer must have to become a member of the association; authorizing certain associations of self-insured private employers to determine the documentation demonstrating solvency that an employer must provide to become a member of the association; specifying that under certain circumstances the addition of an employer to the membership of an association of self-insured private employers is not a change in the information that the association submitted to the commissioner of insurance in its application for certification; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 44 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 18, 1999

811

150

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring insurers to include certain information concerning premiums for insurance with notices of renewal sent to insureds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 140 — Senator O’Connell.  Approved May 18, 1999

816

151

AN ACT making an appropriation to restore the balance in the emergency account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 159 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 18, 1999

818

152

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Budget Division of the Department of Administration for reimbursement of the Legal Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for the expenses involved in preparing bill drafts requested by agencies of the executive branch; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 250 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 18, 1999

818

153

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; requiring the administrator of the employment security division of the department of employment, training and rehabilitation to order that benefits for unemployment not be charged against the record for experience rating of an employer if the employer provides, within a certain period, evidence satisfactory to the administrator that the employee claiming the benefits left his employment voluntarily without good cause or was discharged for misconduct connected with his employment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 332 — Senator Porter.  Approved May 18, 1999

819

154

AN ACT relating to short-term lessors of passenger cars; authorizing the commissioner of insurance to issue a limited agent’s license to a short-term lessor of passenger cars who conducts certain limited insurance activities; providing an exemption from examination for applicants for such limited licenses; authorizing employees of such a short-term lessor to conduct without a license certain limited insurance activities within the scope of the limited license held by the short-term lessor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 351 — Senator Townsend.  Approved May 18, 1999

820

155

AN ACT relating to child support; creating a fund for the disbursement of payments for child support collected by the welfare division of the department of human resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 398 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 18, 1999

823

156

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; providing a civil penalty for the submission of a false claim to the state or to a local government; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 418 — Senators Titus, Wiener and Care.  Approved May 18, 1999

824

157

AN ACT relating to children; providing for protective custody for children upon the death of a parent that is or may be a result of domestic violence; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 412 — Senators Mathews, Rawson, Amodei, Coffin and Washington.  Approved May 18, 1999

830

158

AN ACT relating to local government finance; requiring each local government to prepare a capital improvement plan; authorizing local governments to enter into contracts for the construction or completion of certain public works before the issuance of bonds or medium-term obligations under certain circumstances; authorizing counties to acquire securities issued by municipalities within those counties that are issued for infrastructure projects under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 433 — Senator Porter.  Approved May 18, 1999

832

159

AN ACT relating to the City of North Las Vegas; amending the city charter to provide that the city attorney is appointed by, serves at the pleasure of, and is under the general direction and supervision of, the city council; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 454 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 18, 1999

838

160

AN ACT relating to financial institutions; authorizing banks to maintain trust offices in various locations under certain circumstances; authorizing the commissioner of financial institutions to collect fees for trust offices; clarifying the circumstances under which a foreign trust company or bank may be appointed to act as fiduciary in this state; amending the requirements for the articles of incorporation and organization of a trust company; amending certain requirements of an application for a license as a trust company; providing for the qualifications of the directors and officers of a trust company; revising the investment powers of a trust company; authorizing the commissioner of financial institutions to impose administrative penalties for violations of certain provisions governing trust companies; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 465 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 18, 1999

839

161

AN ACT relating to concealed firearms; requiring a sheriff to provide notice to a victim of a violent crime regarding certain actions taken concerning a permit to carry a concealed firearm or an application for such a permit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 449 — Senator Coffin.  Approved May 18, 1999

850

162

AN ACT relating to civil actions; requiring arbitrators to make certain findings in certain civil actions; requiring such findings to be introduced into evidence at a trial de novo before a jury; requiring the court to give certain jury instructions concerning arbitration at a trial de novo before a jury; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 315 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 19, 1999

851

163

AN ACT relating to local improvements; authorizing the creation of a local improvement district for a street beautification project; requiring the governing body of a municipality which creates an improvement district to establish a procedure for hardship determinations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 95 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1999

853

164

AN ACT relating to manufactured housing; requiring dealers to comply with certain requirements concerning money held by them pending the sale or exchange of an interest in a manufactured home, mobile home or commercial coach; establishing requirements relating to the enforceability of certain brokerage agreements; requiring dealers who enter into brokerage agreements to perform certain acts relating to their clients; revising the categories of licensure as a limited serviceman; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 107 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 20, 1999

858

165

AN ACT relating to safety in the workplace; requiring the establishment of a written safety program in certain workplaces where explosives are manufactured; providing exceptions; requiring safety programs and related training programs to be in a language and format that is understandable to each employee; revising the provisions governing the manner in which rights and responsibilities of employers and employees relating to safety are furnished to employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 111 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 20, 1999

863

166

AN ACT relating to mentally ill persons; clarifying certain provisions governing the rights of a client concerning admission to a mental health facility; revising the circumstances under which a mentally ill person who is involuntarily admitted to a mental health facility and is conditionally released may be required to return to the facility; revising the process by which such a person may be unconditionally released before the expiration of the statutory period for detention; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 141 — Committee on Health and Human Services.  Approved May 20, 1999

866

167

AN ACT relating to the rehabilitation division of the department of employment, training and rehabilitation; specifying the duties of the administrator of the rehabilitation division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 203 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 20, 1999

869

168

AN ACT relating to escrows; requiring the holder of an escrow to record certain information regarding the license or certificate of cooperation of a real estate broker, broker-salesman or salesman at the time an escrow for the sale of real property is established; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 215 — Assemblymen Humke, Beers, Hettrick, Perkins, Buckley, Giunchigliani, Berman, Gibbons and Chowning.  Approved May 20, 1999

873

169

AN ACT relating to children; imposing certain requirements before a court may waive arrearages in the payment of child support; expanding the class of persons to whom district attorneys must provide certain services for the support of children; clarifying certain provisions regarding the appointment of a guardian ad litem in an action to determine paternity; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 231 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1999

874

170

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; amending the provisions governing the recovery of assets pursuant to the Medicaid estate recovery program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 249 — Committee on Health and Human Services.  Approved May 20, 1999

876

171

AN ACT relating to the incorporation of cities; deleting certain requirements for the incorporation of cities by general law; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 254 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1999

880

172

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; requiring biennial reporting by the director of the department of administration on the status of internal accounting and administrative controls in certain state agencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 255 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1999

882

173

AN ACT relating to ethics in government; revising the definition of “public officer” to exclude a county health officer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 260 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1999

883

174

AN ACT relating to county recorders; increasing the fee charged by a county recorder for certifying a document; prohibiting the recording of certain documents that do not contain certain information; revising the manner in which the county recorder provides the welfare division of the department of human resources with information contained in an affidavit of death; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 414 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1999

884

175

AN ACT relating to the Moapa Valley Water District; expanding the jurisdiction and service area of the district; reducing the size of the governing board of the district; clarifying the length of the terms of the members of the governing board; revising the provisions governing the filling of a vacancy on the governing board; eliminating certain obsolete provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 425 — Assemblywoman Von Tobel.  Approved May 20, 1999

886

176

AN ACT relating to purchasing by local governments; exempting contracts for the purchase of computer hardware and associated peripheral equipment and devices from the requirements for competitive bidding set forth in the Local Government Purchasing Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 445 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1999

889

177

AN ACT relating to the division of minerals of the department of business and industry; requiring the commission on mineral resources to adopt regulations establishing the amount of certain fees imposed for the support of the division and for certain programs of the division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 450 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 20, 1999

890

178

AN ACT relating to land use planning; authorizing a governing body or planning commission to consider certain criteria in determining whether to approve, conditionally approve or disapprove a second or subsequent parcel map with respect to certain tracts of land; authorizing a governing body to extend the period for recording an approved parcel map; increasing the amount that a governing body may set for the fee for filing a tentative map of division into large parcels; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 461 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1999

893

179

AN ACT relating to occupational safety and health; requiring the administrator of the division of industrial relations of the department of business and industry to establish a section for enforcement and a section for safety and health consultation, education, information and training within the division; requiring those sections to perform certain duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 489 — Assemblymen Gibbons, Segerblom, Goldwater, Marvel, Berman, Hettrick, Cegavske, Humke, Chowning, Beers, de Braga, Von Tobel, Collins, Carpenter, Mortenson and Leslie.  Approved May 20, 1999

896

180

AN ACT relating to foster homes; clarifying and limiting the liability of certain persons who provide foster care for children in their care; limiting the criminal liability of such persons for the truancy of children in their care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 531 — Committee on Health and Human Services.  Approved May 20, 1999

897

181

AN ACT relating to gaming; providing that certain gaming employees who work in more than one location are not required to obtain more than one work permit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 593 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1999

899

182

AN ACT relating to administrative procedures; revising the provision regarding the procedure upon the refusal of a state agency to revise an administrative regulation objected to by the legislative commission; declaring that a certain regulation will not become effective; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 612 — Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.  Approved May 20, 1999

902

183

AN ACT relating to civil practice; removing a provision that specifies that an oral application or written motion for attorney’s fees does not affect a final judgment or the time for an appeal; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 624 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1999

903

184

AN ACT relating to cities; prohibiting certain cities from annexing only a portion of an individual lot or parcel of land; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 640 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1999

904

185

AN ACT relating to obligations for the support of children; revising provisions concerning the notice to withhold income sent to the employer of a person alleged to be liable for child support; providing that all payments made pursuant to an order for the assignment of income for the payment of child support be made to the welfare division of the department of human resources or its designated representative for appropriate disbursement; revising the procedure for notifying an employer of his duty to enroll a child of his employee in a plan of health insurance as ordered by a court; repealing a provision that requires a recipient of a payment of child support to provide notice of his receipt of such payment to certain persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 644 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1999

905

186

AN ACT relating to real property; revising the provisions governing certain disclosures required to be made to certain purchasers of residences; revising the provisions governing notices of public hearings regarding certain changes in zoning regulations, restrictions and districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 121 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1999

909

187

AN ACT relating to the charter of the City of Las Vegas; amending the charter to create six wards in the City of Las Vegas upon the approval of the registered voters of the city; authorizing the city council or the voters within the city to increase the number of wards in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 274 — Senators Neal and Coffin.  Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Bache, Williams, Berman, Freeman, Gibbons, Humke, Lee, Mortenson, Neighbors, Parnell, Segerblom, Thomas, Tiffany and Von Tobel.  Approved May 20, 1999

914

188

AN ACT relating to public administrators; increasing the value of estates that may be administered by a public administrator by affidavit; authorizing the destruction of the property of a ward or decedent without giving notice to the next of kin, under certain circumstances; prohibiting certain public administrators from acting as guardians of proposed wards; revising the circumstances under which a public administrator is required to petition a court for letters of administration; allowing the appointment of a public guardian for a person who is under 60 years of age; authorizing a public administrator or a deputy designated by him to obtain the name and address of a customer of a public utility; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 472 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1999

916

189

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.  Assembly Bill No. 197 — Assemblymen de Braga, Dini, Hettrick and Parnell.  Joint Sponsors: Senators McGinness, Jacobsen and Amodei.  Approved May 20, 1999

921

190

AN ACT relating to public investments; authorizing certain public entities to lend securities under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 14 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 20, 1999

925

191

AN ACT relating to manufactured buildings; revising the provisions concerning the codes, standards and regulations adopted by the manufactured housing division of the department of business and industry; increasing the penalty for a violation of the provisions governing manufactured buildings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 177 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 20, 1999

928

192

AN ACT relating to lobbyists; revising the provisions regarding the reporting of expenditures by lobbyists; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 518 — Assemblymen Segerblom, Mortenson, Koivisto, Gibbons, Collins, McClain, Parnell, Williams, Lee, Manendo, Carpenter, Goldwater, Brower, Beers, Perkins, Arberry, Giunchigliani, Parks, Ohrenschall, Price, Chowning, de Braga, Anderson, Tiffany, Freeman, Neighbors, Thomas, Humke and Berman.  Approved May 20, 1999

930

193

AN ACT relating to ethics in government; revising the provisions governing the financial disclosure statements of certain public and judicial officers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 611 — Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.  Approved May 20, 1999

931

194

AN ACT relating to emergency care; extending limited immunity from liability regarding the use of automated defibrillators and related training; extending limited immunity from liability to licensed practical nurses for providing or supervising certain emergency care; extending limited immunity from liability to certain providers of health care licensed in another state who render emergency care to persons in this state; conforming certain related provision regarding the occupational safety program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 409 — Assemblymen Gustavson, Nolan, Beers, Brower, Leslie, Evans, Cegavske, Hettrick, Lee, Berman, Von Tobel, Carpenter, Gibbons, Angle, Tiffany, Freeman, Bache, Anderson, Arberry, Parks, Ohrenschall, Price, Buckley, Giunchigliani, Thomas and Chowning.  Approved May 20, 1999

934

195

AN ACT relating to real estate; exempting property managers of certain real estate from certain licensing and permit requirements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 447 — Assemblyman Carpenter.  Approved May 20, 1999

938

196

AN ACT relating to taxation; requiring the board of county commissioners of Washoe County to reduce the rate of a certain special motor vehicle privilege tax imposed during a certain period; prospectively prohibiting the board of county commissioners of Washoe County from imposing, levying or continuing the tax after a certain date; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 471 — Assemblymen Humke, Freeman, Gibbons, Brower, Anderson, Angle, Gustavson, Evans and Manendo.  Approved May 20, 1999

940

197

AN ACT relating to deceased persons; requiring a funeral director to obtain the approval of the state board of funeral directors, embalmers and operators of cemeteries and crematories to manage a funeral establishment; providing that a funeral director is responsible for the proper management of each funeral establishment of which he is the manager; restricting the number of terms that a member of the board may serve consecutively; clarifying certain provisions governing the required education for a license to practice the profession of embalming; providing that a majority of the adult children of a deceased person may order the cremation of the human remains of the deceased person; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 241 — Senator Shaffer.  Approved May 20, 1999

941

198

AN ACT relating to taxation; creating a presumption that certain tangible personal property initially used in interstate or foreign commerce outside this state was not purchased for storage, use or other consumption in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 262 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 20, 1999

943

199

AN ACT relating to property tax; revising the provisions governing the establishment of combined tax rates to determine compliance with applicable limitations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 536 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1999

945

200

AN ACT relating to unfair trade practices; clarifying the persons on whose behalf the attorney general may bring a civil action for unfair trade practices; clarifying the persons who may bring a civil action for unfair trade practices; increasing the percentage of money collected for unfair trade practices that must be credited to the attorney general’s special fund and the maximum balance which may be detained in the fund; limiting the amount of money collected for unfair trade practices that can be credited to the attorney general’s special fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 108 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 20, 1999

945

201

AN ACT relating to the department of transportation; abolishing the state highway payroll clearing account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 150 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 20, 1999

947

202

AN ACT relating to elections; revising the provisions governing the form for an application to register to vote; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 169 — Assemblywoman Tiffany.  Approved May 20, 1999

947

203

AN ACT relating to peace officers; prohibiting false or fraudulent complaints against a peace officer; requiring each agency that employs peace officers to establish a written procedure for investigating complaints against peace officers; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 304 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1999

948

204

AN ACT relating to gaming; making various changes relating to the manufacture, sale and distribution of gaming devices and associated equipment and inter-casino linked systems; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 651 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1999

949

205

AN ACT relating to the housing division of the department of business and industry; increasing the permissible aggregate principal amount of the outstanding obligations of the division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 100 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

959

206

AN ACT relating to watercraft; clarifying restrictions on the operation of a vessel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 136 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 24, 1999

960

207

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.  Assembly Bill No. 188 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 24, 1999

961

208

AN ACT relating to professional land surveyors; authorizing a professional land surveyor to remove certain monuments; prescribing the manner in which such monuments must be perpetuated; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 202 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 24, 1999

963

209

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing under certain circumstances that a local or state apprenticeship committee or an organization that sponsors programs of apprenticeship is an organization created for educational purposes for the purpose of an exemption from sales and use taxes and certain analogous taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 207 — Assemblymen Claborn, de Braga, Koivisto, Price, Collins, Anderson, Giunchigliani, Ohrenschall, McClain, Leslie, Chowning, Mortenson and Humke.  Approved May 24, 1999

965

210

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the provisions governing the exemption of the property of apprenticeship programs from property taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 211 — Assemblymen Price, Collins, Chowning, Claborn, de Braga, Parks, Giunchigliani, Arberry, Ohrenschall, Gibbons, Williams, Von Tobel, Segerblom, Buckley, Carpenter and Bache.  Approved May 24, 1999

967

211

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; repealing the permanent net proceeds fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 234 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 24, 1999

968

212

AN ACT relating to the Lake Tahoe Basin; authorizing Douglas County to enter into certain contracts and agreements relating to the creation and operation of a nonprofit organization to operate a transit system in the Lake Tahoe Basin; exempting Douglas County from the Local Government Purchasing Act for the purposes of entering into such contracts and agreements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 236 — Assemblyman Hettrick.  Joint Sponsor: Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 24, 1999

968

213

AN ACT relating to medical facilities; creating a new category of medical facility for modified medical detoxification; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 265 — Assemblymen Leslie, Gibbons, Buckley, de Braga, Parnell, Parks, Williams and Manendo.  Joint Sponsor: Senator Townsend.  Approved May 24, 1999

969

214

AN ACT relating to regional transportation commissions; increasing the number of representatives on the regional transportation commission of Carson City; providing for the designation of a chairman of the commission; establishing staggered terms of office for the representatives of the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 270 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 24, 1999

970

215

AAN ACT relating to the public employees’ retirement system; providing for the counting of certain service performed by certain injured police officers and firemen towards eligibility for retirement as a police officer or fireman; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 303 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 24, 1999

972

216

AN ACT relating to juveniles; providing a mechanism for the funding of certain regional facilities for children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 314 — Assemblymen Dini, Hettrick, de Braga and Parnell.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Jacobsen, Amodei and McGinness.  Approved May 24, 1999

974

217

AN ACT relating to drivers’ licenses; repealing certain requirements relating to the submission of a statement regarding compliance with a court order for child support as a condition to the issuance or renewal of a license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 410 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 24, 1999

976

218

AN ACT relating to recreational areas; revising the age and residency requirements for free use of state parks and other recreational areas by certain elderly persons; requiring the collection of an administrative fee for the issuance of a permit for such use; clarifying the authority for the collection of reasonable fees for entering, camping and boating in state parks and recreational areas; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 439 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 24, 1999

977

219

AN ACT relating to the optional tax on revenues from the rental of transient lodging; revising the provisions governing the expenditure of the proceeds of the tax to benefit public transportation within certain county transportation districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 459 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

980

220

AN ACT relating to property; prohibiting a landlord from refusing to accept rent from a tenant in certain circumstances; revising the definition of rent set forth in the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 462 — Assemblymen Buckley, Anderson, Carpenter, Manendo, McClain, Leslie, Koivisto, Claborn, Collins, de Braga and Williams.  Approved May 24, 1999

981

221

AN ACT relating to wild horses; authorizing a county, upon request, to institute an action in federal court on behalf of a landowner requesting a writ of mandamus requiring certain action by federal authorities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 509 — Assemblyman Carpenter.  Approved May 24, 1999

984

222

AN ACT relating to transportation; authorizing the governing bodies of certain governmental entities to create and use an expedited process for executing certain written agreements relating to certain highway projects in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 553 — Assemblyman Parks.  Approved May 24, 1999

985

223

AN ACT relating to local government finance; requiring certain cities and counties to continue to levy and collect certain license taxes which are pledged for the payment of certain bonds and other obligations and to transmit those taxes to the county fair and recreation board; authorizing the pledge of certain license or other excise taxes to the payment of revenue bonds; making various other changes governing obligations of county fair and recreational boards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 554 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 24, 1999

987

224

AN ACT relating to taxation; transferring the responsibility for the collection of taxes and fees imposed on certain fuels from the department of taxation to the department of motor vehicles and public safety; providing for the collection of the tax on certain types of motor vehicle fuel at the terminal rack by suppliers of those types of fuel; prohibiting exporters of certain types of motor vehicle fuel from selling or distributing those types of fuel in this state; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 584 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 24, 1999

990

225

AN ACT relating to state purchasing; requiring the chief of the purchasing division of the department of administration to adopt regulations that establish procedures for the awarding of contracts and the evaluation of proposals; requiring contracts for services that are provided by independent contractors to certain agencies and elected officers to be awarded in the same manner as contracts for services for state agencies are awarded; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 588 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

1024

226

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the provisions governing the appraisal of real property to include further grouping of parcels and an analysis of discounted cash flow; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 601 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 24, 1999

1029

227

AN ACT relating to local financial administration; establishing the severe financial emergency fund; authorizing the executive director of the department of taxation to loan money from the fund to a local government in severe financial emergency under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 606 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

1031

228

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; revising the provisions concerning the certification of certain devices used to test the intoxication of a person; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 620 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 24, 1999

1033

229

AN ACT relating to purchasing by local governments; increasing under certain circumstances the threshold for the size of a contract that is subject to the requirements concerning the advertisement of contracts and solicitation of bids; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 639 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

1034

230

AN ACT relating to public schools; requiring the boards of trustees of school districts to pay increased salaries to teachers who maintain certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; requiring related information to be included in the annual budget report of each school district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 46 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 24, 1999

1036

231

AN ACT relating to the division of industrial relations of department of business and industry; specifying the information that the administrator of the division can require insurers who provide industrial insurance to provide on claims those insurers process; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 53 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 24, 1999

1038

232

AN ACT relating to mental health; allowing a second evaluation requested by a client who is admitted to a mental health facility to be conducted by a psychiatrist or psychologist who does not have a contractual relationship with or financial interest in the facility; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 73 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 24, 1999

1040

233

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising the circumstances under which certain fines are increased for violating a limitation of weight of a motor vehicle; requiring the director of the department of transportation to designate restricted highways which are susceptible to severe damage if traveled upon at certain times of the year in violation of such a limitation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 81 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 24, 1999

1041

234

AN ACT relating to wildlife; authorizing the board of wildlife commissioners to adopt regulations setting forth the circumstances under which a person may fish in certain lakes or ponds without a license, permit or stamp; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 105 — Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 24, 1999

1042

235

AN ACT relating to wildlife; defining the terms “license” and “permit” for the purposes of the assessment of demerit points for wildlife convictions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 106 — Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 24, 1999

1043

236

AN ACT relating to water; revising the circumstances under which the state engineer may postpone action on an application to use water or reject an application for an interbasin transfer of ground water; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 108 — Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 24, 1999

1045

237

AN ACT relating to judgments of conviction; requiring the use of the judgment of conviction as the warrant or authority for the execution of a sentence; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 118 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 24, 1999

1047

238

AN ACT relating to regional transportation commissions; establishing staggered terms of office for the representatives of certain regional transportation commissions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 129 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 24, 1999

1049

239

AN ACT relating to personal care facilities; repealing the provisions providing for the registration of homes for individual residential care; providing that such homes must become licensed to continue to operate; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 163 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 24, 1999

1050

240

AN ACT relating to aeronautics; establishing certain minimum standards for the operation of a skydiving business; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 179 — Senator McGinness.  Joint Sponsor: Assemblyman de Braga.  Approved May 24, 1999

1054

241

AN ACT relating to public health; creating the advisory subcommittee on fetal alcohol syndrome of the advisory board on maternal and child health and providing its duties; requiring the health division of the department of human resources to develop and carry out certain programs relating to the prevention and treatment of fetal alcohol syndrome; making various other changes relating to fetal alcohol syndrome; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 197 — Senators Wiener, Rawson, Townsend, Titus, Mathews, Care, Porter and Schneider.  Approved May 24, 1999

1056

242

AN ACT relating to the regulation of construction; revising provisions governing the payment of fees by public agencies to cities and counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 216 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

1064

243

AN ACT relating to crimes; prohibiting hazing at high schools, colleges and universities in this state; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 297 — Senator Titus.  Approved May 24, 1999

1065

244

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; making an appropriation to the National College of Juvenile and Family Law; requiring the transfer of money from the fund for the National College and Family Law to the state general fund; authorizing the return of the money transferred from the fund under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 303 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 24, 1999

1066

245

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; making an appropriation to the National Judicial College; requiring the transfer of money from the fund for the National Judicial College to the state general fund; authorizing the return of the money transferred from the fund under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 304 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 24, 1999

1067

246

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the provisions governing the collection of the taxes on the transfer of real property; clarifying the responsibility for payment of the taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 318 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 24, 1999

1067

247

AN ACT relating to diseased animals; requiring the state quarantine officer to maintain confidentiality of certain notices regarding diseased animals under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 330 — Senator Rhoads.  Approved May 24, 1999

1069

248

AN ACT relating to vessels; revising the provisions governing the payment of storage fees for certain vessels stored to preserve evidence of the commission of a crime; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 343 — Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 24, 1999

1070

249

AN ACT relating to the University and Community College System of Nevada; authorizing the construction and equipment of a building for the Desert Research Institute; authorizing the issuance of securities to pay for part of the cost of the building; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 371 — Senators Titus and Raggio.  Joint Sponsor: Assemblyman Dini.  Approved May 24, 1999

1070

250

AN ACT relating to state land; authorizing the state land registrar to convey certain land to Clark County; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 377 — Senator Porter.  Joint Sponsor: Assemblywoman Segerblom.  Approved May 24, 1999

1074

251

AN ACT relating to the state fire marshal; clarifying the class of counties in which the state fire marshal may enforce certain laws and regulations and conduct certain investigations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 389 — Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 24, 1999

1075

252

AN ACT relating to local governments; requiring certain information to be provided on a ballot question for certain elections for the approval of general obligations and increases in rates of property tax; amending the dates on which certain elections for certain increases in rates of property tax may be held; requiring the committee on local government finance to provide forms annually for ballot questions which may be used for certain elections for the approval of general obligations and increases in rates of property tax; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 501 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

1078

253

AN ACT relating to water resources; revising the provisions regarding the plan relating to water resources developed by the division of water planning of the state department of conservation and natural resources; requiring governmental agencies to consider the plan when developing and implementing policies relating to water resources; requiring the administrator of the division to submit a written report to the legislature; requiring the administrator to report to the legislative commission at certain times; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 526 — Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 24, 1999

1087

254

AN ACT relating to redevelopment; revising the requirements for the area that may be included in a redevelopment area; prohibiting the repeal, amendment or modification of the provisions governing redevelopment in any manner that would impair any bonds or securities issued pursuant to those provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 528 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

1090

255

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for the review and adjustment of the amount allocated to certain governmental entities from the local government tax distribution account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 534 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

1091

256

AN ACT relating to taxation; including the assessed valuation attributable to a redevelopment agency in the calculation of the assessed valuation of a local government or special district for use in the formula for distribution of the proceeds of certain taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 535 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

1092

257

AN ACT relating to taxation; requiring the governor to certify the population of towns for certain purposes; making various changes to the provisions governing the methods by which the assessed valuation of the taxable property of certain local governments is calculated for the purpose of distributing the proceeds of certain taxes; making various changes to the provisions governing the method by which the population of certain local governments is determined for the purpose of distributing the proceeds of certain taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 538 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 24, 1999

1096

258

AN ACT relating to civil actions; revising the provisions governing an offer of judgment in a civil action; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 492 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 24, 1999

1102

259

AN ACT relating to tobacco; requiring all manufacturers of tobacco products sold in this state to participate in the settlement made between certain manufacturers and this and other states or to place money in escrow; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 667 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 24, 1999

1105

260

AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles and public safety; authorizing the use of digital images on drivers’ licenses and identification cards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 678 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 24, 1999

1109

261

AN ACT relating to public employment; providing temporarily that retired public employees may accept certain employment with the University and Community College System of Nevada without affecting the distribution of their existing retirement allowances; requiring the public employees’ retirement board to conduct a study of the effect on the public employees’ retirement system of the employment of retired public employees by public employers participating in the system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 74 — Assemblyman Thomas.  Approved May 24, 1999

1111

262

AN ACT relating to water; requiring the state board of health to adopt regulations requiring the fluoridation of certain public water systems; limiting the application of certain existing provisions concerning proposals to adjust the concentration of fluoride in water in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 284 — Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Arberry, Parks, Bache, Williams, de Braga, Collins, Perkins, Buckley, Manendo, Lee, Evans, Anderson, McClain, Koivisto, Tiffany, Freeman, Parnell, Ohrenschall, Von Tobel, Price, Gibbons, Neighbors, Goldwater, Thomas, Carpenter, Segerblom, Leslie, Brower, Nolan, Beers, Mortenson and Claborn.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Rawson, Coffin, Titus, Jacobsen, Amodei, Care, Carlton, Mathews, Neal, Schneider, Shaffer and Wiener.  Approved May 24, 1999

1112

263

AN ACT relating to labor; requiring the wages or compensation of certain employees who work with certain explosives to be based solely on the number of hours the employees work; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 110 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 25, 1999

1114

264

AN ACT relating to hazardous materials; revising the designation of highly hazardous substances for the purposes of regulating facilities where such substances are produced, used, stored or handled; excluding certain types of household waste from the definition of hazardous waste; authorizing the state department of conservation and natural resources to include within its plan of management of hazardous waste in this state a description of the hazards associated with certain uses of commercial products; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 173 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 25, 1999

1116

265

AN ACT relating to public health; authorizing a law enforcement officer, correctional officer, emergency medical attendant, fireman and any other person who is employed by an agency of criminal justice or the employer of any such person to petition a court to require a person who may have exposed the employee to a contagious disease to be tested for the human immunodeficiency virus and the hepatitis B surface antigen; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 483 — Assemblymen Anderson, Manendo, Leslie, Parks, Freeman, Buckley, Carpenter, Ohrenschall, Brower, Gustavson, Koivisto, Angle, McClain, Nolan, de Braga, Hettrick and Goldwater.  Approved May 25, 1999

1122

266

AN ACT relating to public safety; providing for the registration and regulation of facilities that manufacture explosives for sale by the division of environmental protection of the state department of conservation and natural resources; requiring an assessment of risks through analysis of hazards to be conducted at a regulated facility where highly hazardous substances are located or explosives are manufactured for sale if such a substance or explosive is newly introduced into the facility; abolishing the requirement that the division establish a schedule for those assessments; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 535 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 25, 1999

1124

267

AN ACT relating to water controls; requiring that an analysis of water performed as a condition precedent to the transfer of real property be performed by a certified laboratory; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 574 — Assemblymen Humke, de Braga, Ohrenschall, Hettrick, Lee and Segerblom.  Approved May 25, 1999

1133

268

AN ACT relating to school personnel; removing the requirement that a superintendent of schools of a school district be licensed as a school administrator; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 576 — Committee on Education.  Approved May 25, 1999

1134

269

AN ACT relating to land use; requiring a person who wishes to commence operation of a facility where explosives or certain substances will be used, manufactured, processed, transferred or stored to obtain a conditional use permit from the governing body of the city or county in which the facility is to be located; providing exceptions; establishing the procedures for granting such a permit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 603 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 25, 1999

1135

270

AN ACT relating to crimes against property; increasing the penalty for certain crimes involving an unauthorized, forged or counterfeit trade-mark or design; establishing a rebuttable inference regarding the existence of the intent to sell certain items; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 616 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 25, 1999

1139

271

AN ACT relating to judicial process; authorizing the supreme court to establish rules governing the electronic filing, storage and reproduction of documents filed with various courts; authorizing certain peace officers and other persons to issue certain electronic citations and to file such citations electronically with a court or traffic violations bureau; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 650 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 25, 1999

1141

272

AN ACT relating to cosmetology; establishing a program for the training of cosmetologists’ apprentices; providing a fee for the registration of such apprentices; authorizing the issuance of a citation and providing an administrative penalty for the unauthorized practice of cosmetology; providing a fee for an application for a license to practice cosmetology; revising the requirements relating to reciprocity for licensure in any branch of cosmetology; revising provisions governing the licensure of a cosmetological establishment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 13 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 25, 1999

1150

273

AN ACT relating to disabled persons; requiring the department of motor vehicles and public safety to issue expedited service permits to certain persons with disabilities that entitle those persons to expedited service from state agencies under certain circumstances; prohibiting unauthorized persons from using or attempting to use such a permit to obtain services from those agencies; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 35 — Senator Titus.  Approved May 25, 1999

1158

274

AN ACT relating to cooperative agreements; revising provisions governing cooperative agreements to allow certain transactions by public agencies with Indian tribes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 52 — Senator Mathews.  Approved May 25, 1999

1160

275

AN ACT relating to prisoners; allowing the director of the department of prisons to assign certain prisoners to a therapeutic community without their consent; revising the provisions governing assignment to and eligibility for participation in a therapeutic community; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 57 — Senator Wiener.  Approved May 25, 1999

1162

276

AN ACT relating to vehicles; revising the definition of “used vehicle” as used in certain provisions concerning the sale of certain used vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 153 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 25, 1999

1163

277

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for the issuance of special license plates indicating support for the promotion of agriculture within this state, including support for the programs and activities of the Future Farmers of America within the State of Nevada; providing for the issuance of special license plates for the support of the natural environment of the Mount Charleston area; imposing a fee for the issuance or renewal of such license plates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 339 — Senators Rhoads, Jacobsen, McGinness, Amodei and James.  Approved May 25, 1999

1164

278

AN ACT relating to athletic trainers; requiring the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners to appoint an advisory committee to recommend legislation concerning the regulation of athletic trainers in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 357 — Senators Wiener, Shaffer, Rawson, Mathews and Amodei (by request).  Approved May 25, 1999

1169

279

AN ACT relating to emergency medical services; creating a committee on emergency medical services; providing the method of appointment of members; establishing the powers and duties of the committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 365 — Senator Amodei.  Joint Sponsor: Assemblyman Dini.  Approved May 25, 1999

1170

280

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for the issuance of decals to affix to special license plates that display emblems or other insignia of specific military units within particular branches of the Armed Forces of the United States; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 379 — Senator Porter.  Approved May 25, 1999

1172

281

AN ACT relating to real estate; providing for a claim of a real estate broker against certain proceeds received from the disposition of commercial real estate for services provided by the broker pursuant to a brokerage agreement; providing that a real estate broker who records such a claim is subject to certain disciplinary action if the claim is determined by a district court to be frivolous and made without reasonable cause; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 452 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 25, 1999

1174

282

AN ACT relating to local governments; requiring a legislative measure to include on its face certain disclosures concerning unfunded mandates under certain circumstances; placing a monetary limitation on the programs and services for which a specified source for additional revenue must be authorized; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 471 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 25, 1999

1181

283

AN ACT relating to the determination of population; revising the applicability of the information obtained pursuant to a national decennial census to determinations of population for certain purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 531 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 25, 1999

1182

284

AN ACT relating to municipal courts; authorizing certain cities to establish the terms of office of municipal judges by ordinance; clarifying that municipal judges may be appointed in certain cities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 314 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 25, 1999

1183

285

AN ACT relating to water; clarifying the authorized extent of use of water from a domestic well; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 291 — Senator Jacobsen (by request).  Approved May 25, 1999

1184

286

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; revising the reversion for certain previously appropriated money for the Medicaid Managed Care Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 284 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 25, 1999

1184

287

AN ACT relating to the rehabilitation division of the department of employment, training and rehabilitation; renaming the vocational rehabilitation revolving account as the rehabilitation division revolving account; eliminating the services to the blind revolving account; providing for the transfer of the money in the services to the blind revolving account to the rehabilitation division revolving account; increasing the maximum permissible amount in the rehabilitation division revolving account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 190 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 25, 1999

1185

288

AN ACT relating to sentencing; revising the penalty for commission of a category E felony; allowing the court to require a person convicted of a category E felony to serve a term of confinement in the county jail as a condition of probation; revising the provisions relating to presentence investigations and reports; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 148 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 25, 1999

1186

289

AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; clarifying provisions governing the purchase by a state agency of service credit in the public employees’ retirement system on behalf of certain employees under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 111 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 25, 1999

1198

290

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the commission on educational technology to appoint an advisory committee to submit recommendations to the commission regarding the establishment, coordination and use of a telecommunications network in the public schools of this state; revising the standards of content and performance required to be adopted by the council to establish academic standards for public schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 49 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 25, 1999

1199

291

AN ACT relating to Nevada Revised Statutes; making technical corrections to inappropriate or inaccurate provisions; clarifying ambiguous provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 645 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 25, 1999

1203

292

AN ACT relating to school districts; requiring the Legislative Auditor to conduct an audit of the school districts in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 241 — Assemblymen McClain, Koivisto, Parks, Manendo, Claborn, Chowning, Lee, Williams, Segerblom, Bache, Giunchigliani, Arberry, Thomas, Goldwater, Anderson, Price, Ohrenschall, Freeman, de Braga, Gustavson, Collins, Parnell, Leslie, Mortenson, Gibbons, Berman, Perkins, Beers, Neighbors, Carpenter, Angle, Tiffany, Buckley, Nolan, Hettrick, Humke, Evans and Cegavske.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Washington, Porter, Amodei and Shaffer.  Approved May 25, 1999

1221

293

AN ACT relating to public water; revising the provisions governing liens upon lands entitled to receive water from an irrigation district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 252 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 25, 1999

1222

294

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; removing the limitation on the payment of a death benefit for the transportation of the remains of a deceased employee beyond the continental limits of the United States; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 253 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 25, 1999

1224

295

AN ACT relating to wildlife; requiring the board of wildlife commissioners to make certain revisions to the criteria for the issuance of special incentive elk tags; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 296 — Assemblyman Carpenter.  Approved May 25, 1999

1226

296

AN ACT relating to tenancies; prohibiting a landlord from terminating a tenancy in violation of provisions governing discrimination in housing; revising certain rights and obligations of landlords and tenants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 397 — Assemblymen Goldwater, Buckley, Thomas, Segerblom, Gibbons, Neighbors, Perkins, Giunchigliani, Williams, Parks, Collins, Manendo, Ohrenschall, Price, Evans, Leslie, Koivisto, Parnell, McClain, Claborn and Bache.  Approved May 25, 1999

1228

297

AN ACT relating to taxation; exempting certain property acquired by the Nevada Land Conservancy and the American Land Conservancy from property taxes; revising the provisions governing the requirements for such exemptions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 423 — Assemblymen Freeman, Gibbons, Humke, Leslie and Evans.  Approved May 25, 1999

1232

298

AN ACT relating to unarmed combat; requiring the Nevada athletic commission to keep certain information confidential; authorizing the commission to grant limited, restricted or conditional licenses; revising the provisions relating to applications for licenses; authorizing the commission to take disciplinary actions against certain persons; revising the powers of the commission relating to hearings; prohibiting perjury; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 467 — Assemblymen Goldwater, Buckley, Koivisto and Perkins.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Carlton, Coffin, James, Porter, Schneider, Shaffer and Titus.  Approved May 25, 1999

1233

299

AN ACT relating to trusts; enlarging the class of permitted beneficiaries of a spendthrift trust; enlarging the category of spendthrift trusts to which the law of this state applies; providing a limitation of actions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 469 — Assemblyman Goldwater.  Approved May 25, 1999

1236

300

AN ACT relating to navigable rivers; requiring the division of state lands and the division of environmental protection of the state department of conservation and natural resources to refund under certain circumstances fees paid by governmental entities to obtain a permit to conduct channel clearance of rivers; revising provisions governing the account for the channel clearance, maintenance, restoration, surveying and monumenting program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 490 — Assemblymen Hettrick, de Braga, Carpenter, Dini and Parnell.  Approved May 25, 1999

1240

301

AN ACT relating to emergency management; expanding the authority of the division of emergency management of the department of motor vehicles and public safety, the governor and local organizations of emergency management to respond to emergencies and disasters; authorizing the governor and the legislature to declare disasters; revising the composition of the board of search and rescue; requiring the coordinator of search and rescue to be an employee of the division of emergency management; expanding the membership of the committee on training in search and rescue; transferring the responsibility to administer the emergency assistance account within the disaster relief fund from the state emergency response commission to the division of emergency management; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 626 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 25, 1999

1241

302

AN ACT relating to transportation; authorizing certain advertising in airspace over highways; requiring the department of transportation to establish fees for authorizing the use of trade-marks and symbols that identify individual enterprises on directional or informational signs and for providing information concerning commercial attractions; revising certain fees for providing information to the members of the general public; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 627 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 25, 1999

1259

303

AN ACT relating to taxation; clarifying the provisions governing the treatment of photographer’s proofs for purposes of taxes on retail sales; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 424 — Senator Schneider.  Approved May 25, 1999

1262

304

AN ACT relating to economic development; authorizing for certain businesses to apply to the commission on economic development for approval of a program to train employees of that business; requiring the director of the department of employment, training and rehabilitation to grant money to programs approved by the commission under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 419 — Senators James, Porter and Titus.  Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Bache, Cegavske and Perkins.  Approved May 25, 1999

1262

305

AN ACT relating to substance abuse; requiring halfway houses for alcohol and drug abusers to be certified by the bureau of alcohol and drug abuse in the rehabilitation division of the department of employment, training and rehabilitation; revising the fees that may be charged by the bureau for certifying facilities, programs or personnel; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 161 — Senator Titus.  Approved May 25, 1999

1265

306

AN ACT relating to taxation; specifying certain properties that must be assessed by the Nevada tax commission; defining “property of an interstate or intercounty nature” for the purpose of determining whether a property must be assessed by the Nevada tax commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 383 — Senator Schneider.  Approved May 25, 1999

1269

307

AN ACT relating to the tax on special fuel; authorizing the department of motor vehicles and public safety or its authorized agent to stop and inspect a motor vehicle that is using or transporting special fuel in violation of certain provisions; authorizing the department to impose an administrative fine under certain circumstances; requiring a person who resells special fuel that is exempt from the tax on special fuel to collect and remit the tax to the department of motor vehicles and public safety under certain circumstances; authorizing a special fuel supplier to retain a portion of the tax collected as a fee in certain circumstances; reducing the value of the bond that a special fuel dealer is required to provide in certain circumstances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 349 — Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 25, 1999

1272

308

AN ACT relating to parole; requiring under certain circumstances that certain photographs be included in the files pertaining to certain prisoners when those prisoners are considered for parole; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 395 — Senator Washington.  Approved May 25, 1999

1276

309

AN ACT relating to the commission on substance abuse education, prevention, enforcement and treatment; revising the composition and duties of the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 346 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 25, 1999

1280

310

AN ACT relating to public safety; revising the provisions governing registration and community notification of sex offenders and offenders convicted of a crime against a child; revising the provisions governing the statewide registry of sex offenders and offenders convicted of a crime against a child; revising the provisions governing psychosexual evaluations of certain sex offenders; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 515 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 25, 1999

1284

311

AN ACT relating to taxation; requiring strict construction of certain provisions governing the imposition of sales and use taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 522 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 25, 1999

1311

312

AN ACT relating to local governments; revising the manner in which the revenue from certain fees for business licenses is calculated; revising the provisions for increasing certain taxes or fees on private enterprises; providing additional notification for certain types of changes in fees imposed upon private enterprises; authorizing a county or city to impose a tax or a fee upon a business under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 455 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 25, 1999

1312

313

AN ACT relating to telecommunication services; providing for the alternative regulation of incumbent local exchange carriers; providing for the reclassification of basic network services provided by such carriers; requiring the public utilities commission of Nevada to establish standards of performance and reporting relating to the provision of local telecommunication services; providing an expedited procedure to resolve certain disputes between providers of telecommunication services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 440 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 25, 1999

1314

314

AN ACT relating to property taxes; providing that a local government is exempt from paying delinquent taxes on certain property held in trust by the county treasurer that is transferred to the local government for use as open-space real property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 523 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 25, 1999

1321

315

AN ACT relating to marriage; authorizing a justice of the peace and municipal judge to accept certain gifts in connection with solemnizing a marriage; authorizing a county clerk to charge fees for correcting certain errors in marriage licenses and certificates of marriage and for replacing certain certificates of marriage that have been lost or destroyed; authorizing a county recorder to charge fees for correcting certain errors in certificates of marriage; establishing fees for recording corrected certificates of marriage with the county recorder; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 512 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 25, 1999

1322

316

AN ACT relating to nursing; eliminating the civil liability of members of the state board of nursing under certain circumstances; revising the definitions of “nursing assistant,” “practice of practical nursing” and “practice of professional nursing”; making various changes concerning disciplinary action against a licensee or a holder of a certificate; increasing the permissible fees that may be charged by the board; revising provisions governing the approval of schools of nursing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 204 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 25, 1999

1324

317

AN ACT relating to tow cars; revising the provisions governing the maintenance and use by the Nevada highway patrol of lists of operators of tow cars; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 387 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 27, 1999

1331

318

AN ACT relating to the practice of law; revising certain provisions relating to the unauthorized practice of law; increasing the penalties for the unlawful practice of law; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 18 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1999

1333

319

AN ACT relating to public safety; providing for an increased penalty for felonies committed under certain circumstances that threaten the safety of pupils and school employees; revising certain provisions governing the definition of first degree murder; establishing for the purposes of the death penalty an aggravating circumstance relating to murders committed under certain circumstances that threaten the safety of pupils and school employees; revising various provisions relating to juveniles who commit certain unlawful acts; making various other changes concerning the safety of pupils and school employees; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 53 — Assemblyman Carpenter.  Approved May 28, 1999

1334

320

AN ACT relating to personal identity; prohibiting a person from obtaining any personal identifying information of another person and using the information to harm that other person or for any unlawful purpose; making various changes to provisions concerning identity fraud and false status; authorizing a person to bring a civil action against another person who unlawfully obtained and used his personal identifying information; requiring a creditor who mails a solicitation for an extension of credit to a person to use the same address to mail the extension of credit to the person under certain circumstances; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 71 — Assemblywoman Buckley.  Joint Sponsor: Senator Raggio.  Approved May 28, 1999

1343

321

AN ACT relating to sanity commissions; revising the provisions governing the compensation of the members of a sanity commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 82 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1999

1346

322

AN ACT relating to justices of the peace; requiring that the justices of the peace in certain townships be licensed and admitted to practice law in the courts of this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 86 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1999

1347

323

AN ACT relating to decedents; providing that a person who is a culpable actor in the felonious and intentional killing of a decedent may not inherit from the decedent or accrue other benefits based upon the death of the decedent; providing for a civil action; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 159 — Assemblymen Gibbons, Chowning, Hettrick, Ohrenschall, Dini, Bache, Gustavson, Freeman, Tiffany, de Braga, Mortenson, Cegavske, McClain, Claborn, Beers, Anderson, Goldwater, Lee, Neighbors, Segerblom, Carpenter, Nolan, Leslie and Thomas.  Approved May 28, 1999

1348

324

AN ACT relating to public schools; requiring school districts to spend a minimum amount of money each year on certain items for public schools; revising provisions regarding budgets of school districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 219 — Assemblymen Cegavske, Hettrick, Perkins and Dini.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Raggio, Rawson, Porter, Titus, James, Amodei, Care, O’Donnell and Washington.  Approved May 28, 1999

1357

325

AN ACT relating to crimes; revising the provisions governing the unlawful exhibition or distribution of material that is harmful to minors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 282 — Assemblymen Lee, Gibbons, Segerblom, Mortenson, Neighbors, Thomas, Koivisto, McClain, Goldwater, Perkins, Cegavske and Collins.  Approved May 28, 1999

1360

326

AN ACT relating to water districts; extending an exception from the advertising of public contracts to certain additional water districts; excluding a certain part of the original territory of the Virgin Valley water district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 295 — Assemblywoman Von Tobel.  Approved May 28, 1999

1360

327

AN ACT relating to the charter of the City of Reno; providing that the boundaries of wards must be determined on the basis of population; revising provisions prohibiting certain officers from holding certain other offices or employment; revising the qualifications for certain offices; revising certain provisions governing the adoption of ordinances; providing that a misdemeanor offense under state law is deemed also to be a misdemeanor offense against the city if the offense is committed within the city; repealing certain provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 309 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1999

1365

328

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; expanding the circumstances under which special license plates may be used on motor vehicles loaned by dealers and rebuilders of vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 329 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 28, 1999

1370

329

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; providing for industrial insurance coverage for domestic workers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 334 — Assemblymen Hettrick, Humke, Collins, Perkins, Dini, Cegavske, Beers, Nolan, Leslie, Evans, Goldwater, Thomas, Carpenter, Segerblom, Gustavson, Chowning, de Braga, Mortenson, Claborn, McClain and Koivisto.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Townsend, O’Connell and Rhoads.  Approved May 28, 1999

1371

330

AN ACT relating to domestic violence; allowing a person who is applying for a temporary order for protection against domestic violence to apply, at the same time, for an extended order for protection against domestic violence; requiring that a hearing concerning the issuance of an extended order for protection against domestic violence be held within 45 days after the application for the extended order is filed; authorizing the court to appoint a master to take testimony and recommend orders in cases concerning orders for protection against domestic violence; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 339 — Assemblymen Evans, Chowning, de Braga, Claborn, Koivisto, McClain, Parnell, Anderson, Cegavske, Humke, Mortenson, Gustavson, Angle, Buckley, Leslie and Brower.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Amodei, Mathews, Shaffer and Wiener.  Approved May 28, 1999

1372

331

AN ACT relating to the state seal; designating official colors for reproductions and facsimiles of the state seal; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 350 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1999

1374

332

AN ACT relating to state land use planning; revising provisions governing the procedures to be followed if the Federal Government files a realty action concerning the purchase of private land in Nevada or the exchange of public land for private land in Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 358 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 28, 1999

1376

333

AN ACT relating to crimes; increasing the penalties for the crime of aggravated stalking; requiring certain training for peace officers concerning the crimes of stalking and aggravated stalking; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 363 — Assemblymen Leslie, Anderson, Brower, Parnell, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Perkins, Dini, Bache, Koivisto, McClain, Claborn, de Braga, Hettrick, Lee, Nolan, Arberry, Thomas, Parks, Neighbors, Goldwater, Beers, Chowning, Price, Freeman, Ohrenschall, Evans, Collins, Manendo, Mortenson, Humke, Carpenter, Cegavske, Williams, Gustavson, Segerblom, Berman, Buckley, Von Tobel, Tiffany and Marvel.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Townsend, Titus, Mathews and James.  Approved May 28, 1999

1377

334

AN ACT relating to courts; authorizing the parties to certain actions to use a settlement conference, short trial and other alternative methods of resolving disputes under certain circumstances; providing for the adoption of rules and procedures governing the use of alternative methods of resolving disputes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 392 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1999

1379

335

AN ACT relating to crime; making various changes concerning probationers who are supervised by departments of alternative sentencing; authorizing a court to take certain actions if such a probationer violates a condition of a suspended sentence; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 406 — Assemblymen Hettrick, Cegavske, Anderson, Bache, Tiffany, Koivisto, McClain, Angle, Gustavson, Claborn, Mortenson, Beers, Nolan, Brower, Leslie, Evans, Perkins, Humke, Berman, Collins, Thomas, Lee, de Braga, Neighbors, Parks, Von Tobel, Segerblom, Goldwater, Dini, Buckley, Giunchigliani, Arberry, Gibbons, Carpenter and Marvel.  Joint Sponsor: Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 28, 1999

1381

336

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; prohibiting a person from committing certain acts that constitute aggressive driving; providing in certain circumstances for the suspension or revocation of the driver’s license of a person who commits certain acts that constitute aggressive driving; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 457 — Assemblymen Parks, Leslie, Koivisto, Bache, Freeman, Tiffany, Cegavske, Hettrick, Manendo, Berman, Gustavson, Gibbons, Williams, Anderson, Goldwater, Segerblom, Giunchigliani, Ohrenschall, Von Tobel, de Braga, Nolan, Angle and Neighbors.  Joint Sponsor: Senator Amodei.  Approved May 28, 1999

1384

337

AN ACT relating to agriculture; eliminating the requirement for the registration of apiaries; eliminating the annual fee for colonies of bees; eliminating the requirement for a permit issued by the division of agriculture of the department of business and industry to transport apiaries, bees, hives, combs or other used apiary supplies in this state; eliminating the requirement for a permit issued by the division to import into this state certain bees, used beehives, honeycombs or appliances; eliminating the requirement for the inspection of certain apiaries of queen bees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 481 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 28, 1999

1387

338

AN ACT relating to elections; revising the procedure by which independent candidates and candidates of minor parties qualify to appear on the ballot for the general election; revising certain provisions governing challenges to the registration of a voter; enacting certain provisions governing the reporting of election results; revising the procedure for consolidating precincts and for designating a precinct to be a mailing precinct; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 520 — Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.  Approved May 28, 1999

1389

339

AN ACT relating to adult persons; revising provisions concerning their guardianship; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 517 — Assemblymen Freeman, Gibbons, Arberry, Giunchigliani, Williams and Parks.  Approved May 28, 1999

1396

340

AN ACT relating to local economic benefit; authorizing the creation of nonprofit regional development corporations by local governments in the area adjacent to the Nevada Test Site; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 528 — Assemblymen Neighbors and Dini.  Joint Sponsor: Senator McGinness.  Approved May 28, 1999

1402

341

AN ACT relating to the charter of Carson City; providing for a charter committee; increasing the salary of the mayor; revising the restriction on certain city officials engaging in any other business or occupation; making various other changes to the city charter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 539 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1999

1406

342

AN ACT relating to firearms; providing that certain lawsuits against a manufacturer or dealer of firearms or ammunition or a trade association related to firearms or ammunition by a governmental entity may be brought only by the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 543 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1999

1411

343

AN ACT relating to gaming; revising the public policy of this state concerning gaming to clarify that it applies to gaming establishments which hold restricted or nonrestricted licenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 583 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1999

1412

344

AN ACT relating to the City of North Las Vegas; revising the provisions of the North Las Vegas City Charter regarding the election of city councilmen; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 590 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1999

1413

345

AN ACT relating to state purchasing; requiring the chief of the purchasing division of the department of administration to assess fees for the use of the procurement and inventory services of the purchasing division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 591 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1999

1415

346

AN ACT relating to counties; revising the composition of certain county fair and recreation boards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 599 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1999

1416

347

AAN ACT relating to the charter of the City of Las Vegas; revising provisions governing the description of the territory of the City of Las Vegas; placing the city auditor under the direction and supervision of the city council; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 637 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1999

1418

348

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; providing for the recording in the central accounting system of this state of certain revenue receivable by a state agency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 638 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1999

1420

349

AN ACT relating to land use planning; authorizing certain cities and counties to represent themselves with respect to certain matters involving the use of federal land; authorizing certain cities and counties to bring and intervene in actions with respect to certain activities of federal agencies and instrumentalities; authorizing the board of county commissioners of Esmeralda, Lincoln or Nye County to create an area or zone for the preservation of a species or subspecies of wildlife that is threatened with extinction and to impose and collect a fee for that purpose; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 641 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1999

1421

350

AN ACT relating to gaming; changing the deadline for collection of the annual excise tax on slot machines; clarifying a provision governing the issuance and expiration of a manufacturer’s, seller’s or distributor’s license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 646 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1999

1423

351

AN ACT relating to health care; requiring the department of human resources to take certain actions to increase the enrollment of and health care services provided to Indian children in the children’s health insurance program; establishing an advisory committee to provide advice and recommendations to the Nevada Indian commission concerning the children’s health insurance program as it relates to Indian children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 10 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 28, 1999

1426

352

AN ACT relating to education; making various changes regarding the administration, required reporting and security of the achievement and proficiency examinations administered to pupils in public schools; providing administrative penalties for breaches of the security or confidentiality of the achievement and proficiency examinations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 21 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 28, 1999

1430

353

AN ACT relating to real property; revising certain provisions governing claims against contractors for constructional defects in residences; revising the statutes of limitation and statutes of repose relating to certain actions on real property; requiring specified disclosures on the sale of certain residences; revising certain provisions governing insurance for home protection; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 32 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1435

354

AN ACT relating to credit unions; authorizing the State of Nevada and agencies and subdivisions thereof, and certain other persons, to deposit money in credit unions; requiring the commissioner of financial institutions to adopt regulations relating to records of credit unions; providing that deposits for insurance for credit unions’ members’ accounts are nonrisk assets; increasing the amount a credit union may loan to its directors and committee members without approval of its board of directors; authorizing credit unions to invest in certain bank obligations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 39 — Senator Amodei.  Approved May 29, 1999

1449

355

AN ACT relating to educational personnel; authorizing the boards of trustees of school districts to prescribe by regulation or negotiate with respect to the payment of unused sick leave to licensed teachers in the form of the purchase of retirement credit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 50 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 29, 1999

1557

356

AN ACT relating to educational personnel; authorizing school districts, in determining the salaries of certain teachers, to give credit to those teachers for previous teaching service earned in another state; requiring the commission on professional standards in education to adopt regulations for approval of the standards for licensing teachers of other states; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 51 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 29, 1999

1559

357

AN ACT relating to business; providing for the creation of business trusts; making various changes concerning other forms of business organization; revising various provisions governing the filing of organizational and related documents; revising certain provisions governing sales of real property; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 61 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 29, 1999

1561

358

AN ACT relating to the commission on mental health and developmental services; revising the composition of the commission to include a marriage and family therapist; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 97 — Senator Wiener.  Approved May 29, 1999

1640

359

AN ACT relating to older persons; authorizing the chairman of the Nevada commission on aging to appoint former members of the commission and other interested persons to serve in an advisory capacity to the commission; providing for the payment of a per diem allowance and travel expenses to such persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 117 — Senator Wiener.  Approved May 29, 1999

1641

360

AN ACT relating to local governments; requiring certain cities and counties to establish requirements for the maintenance of records by certain resellers of paging services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 131 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1642

361

AN ACT relating to state property; authorizing the chief of the purchasing division of the department of administration to transfer, upon request, any surplus supplies, materials or equipment of a state agency to another state agency without cost to the requesting state agency; authorizing the chief of the purchasing division to sell surplus supplies, materials or equipment of state agencies under certain circumstances; extending the authority of a board of county commissioners to make charitable grants to include certain property; authorizing the governing body of a city to make charitable grants of money or certain property to certain nonprofit organizations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 139 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1999

1643

362

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring an administrator to pay claims relating to health insurance coverage in a certain manner; limiting the amount that a health insurer may charge providers of health care to be included on a list of providers that is given to insureds of the insurer; making various changes concerning payment of claims by health insurers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 145 — Senators O’Connell and Townsend.  Approved May 29, 1999

1646

363

AN ACT relating to highways; clarifying the authority of the department of transportation to include in a contract made or awarded for the construction, improvement, maintenance or repair of a highway or appurtenance to a highway a provision for the payment of an additional amount of money if the construction, improvement, maintenance or repair is completed before a certain date; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 168 — Senator Schneider.  Joint Sponsor: Assemblywoman Buckley.  Approved May 29, 1999

1652

364

AN ACT relating to professional occupations; requiring the board of dental examiners of Nevada to issue a limited license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene to certain persons employed by the University and Community College System of Nevada; revising provisions relating to restricted licenses to practice dentistry; revising the fees that must be charged by the board; expanding the disciplinary powers of the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 181 — Senators Rawson, Raggio, Wiener,Townsend, Neal and Coffin.  Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Perkins, Dini and Goldwater.  Approved May 29, 1999

1653

365

AN ACT relating to local financial administration; extending the use of a fund to stabilize the operation of a local government to include mitigation of the effects of a natural disaster; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 194 — Senators Rawson, Amodei, James, McGinness, O’Donnell, Porter and Titus.  Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Cegavske, Goldwater, Manendo and Tiffany.  Approved May 29, 1999

1659

366

AN ACT relating to the division of wildlife of the state department of conservation and natural resources; allowing a change in the location of the headquarters of the division; requiring the division to contract with a private entity to conduct a drawing to award and issue tags for a special season; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 211 — Senator O’Connell.  Approved May 29, 1999

1662

367

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; providing standards for making a right turn under certain circumstances; deleting the provision which allows a driver of a motor vehicle to stop, stand, park or drive within a pathway or lane provided for bicycles if he is preparing to make or making a turn; clarifying the prohibition against entering or proceeding through an intersection while driving within a pathway or lane provided for bicycles; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 235 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 29, 1999

1664

368

AN ACT relating to taxation; prohibiting a dealer from taking certain actions regarding cigarettes manufactured for export outside the United States; prohibiting a dealer from affixing a revenue stamp or meter impression upon certain containers of cigarettes; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 244 — Senator Jacobsen (by request).  Approved May 29, 1999

1666

369

AN ACT relating to taxes on fuels; revising procedures pursuant to which a board of county commissioners may impose a tax on fuel for jet or turbine‑powered aircraft; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 287 — Senator Porter.  Approved May 29, 1999

1667

370

AN ACT relating to public schools; clarifying the provision regarding the prohibition of nonsecular activities in the public schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 289 — Senator Washington.  Approved May 29, 1999

1673

371

AN ACT relating to vehicles; revising provisions governing the removal and disposition of abandoned vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 300 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 29, 1999

1674

372

AN ACT relating to livestock; creating the rangeland resources commission; providing for its membership; prescribing its powers and duties; imposing a fee for certain animal unit months that are authorized for use on grazing lands; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 310 — Senators Rhoads, McGinness, Jacobsen and Amodei.  Approved May 29, 1999

1676

373

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; providing for the exclusive use of certain parking spaces designated for the handicapped by certain vehicles; prohibiting persons from parking in certain spaces; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 338 — Senator Rawson.  Approved May 29, 1999

1680

374

AN ACT relating to local governmental purchasing; limiting the time certain local governments are required to maintain a record of requests for bids and bids received; authorizing the authorized representative of a local government to let contracts in an emergency and to assign awarded contracts; authorizing local governments to reaward contracts; prohibiting the sale of personal property of a local government unless the property is no longer required for public use; authorizing local governments to join or use the contracts of the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 341 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1999

1682

375

AN ACT relating to telephone services; extending the prospective expiration of certain provisions concerning surcharges on telephone services in certain counties for the enhancement of the telephone systems for reporting emergencies in those counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 366 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1999

1686

376

AN ACT relating to cooperative agreements; authorizing certain public entities to enter into cooperative agreements for the preservation, protection, restoration and enhancement of unique archeological or historical sites in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 397 — Senator Porter.  Approved May 29, 1999

1687

377

AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing a board of county commissioners to enter into certain agreements with respect to the construction or remodeling of buildings and facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 407 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1999

1688

378

AN ACT relating to the residential construction tax; revising the provisions governing the rate of the tax that may be imposed on the development of mobile home lots; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 408 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1999

1689

379

AN ACT relating to public health; establishing certain requirements related to smoking in certain public areas of grocery stores; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 421 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 29, 1999

1691

380

AN ACT relating to accountants; revising provisions governing the qualifications and examination of applicants for certificates of certified public accounting; making various changes relating to the professional conduct of companies practicing certified public accounting or public accounting; revising provisions governing the organizational structure of companies practicing certified public accounting or public accounting; prohibiting the secretary of state from accepting for filing certain articles of incorporation or amendments thereto that contain certain words relating to accounting; repealing certain prohibited acts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 439 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1695

381

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; revising the penalty for exceeding the posted speed limit in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 442 — Senators Rhoads, Neal, Jacobsen, Care, Townsend, James, Amodei, Carlton, Coffin, Mathews, McGinness, Raggio, Rawson, Schneider, Shaffer, Titus and Washington.  Approved May 29, 1999

1711

382

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; revising provisions in cases of delinquency in payment of employers’ assessments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 464 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1712

383

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; revising the provisions concerning employee leasing companies; revising the provisions concerning the modified programs of industrial insurance for the department of prisons, jails and other detention facilities; revising the provision concerning the timing of payment of premiums and reporting of payroll to insurers; clarifying that a rate service organization used by an association of self-insured public or private employers must be licensed; clarifying the authority of the commissioner of insurance over private carriers who provide industrial insurance; specifying the authority of the commissioner of insurance to suspend the authorization of a private carrier to provide industrial insurance; revising various provisions to facilitate the authorization of private carriers to provide industrial insurance; reducing the penalty for misrepresenting information that will affect the amount of an employer’s premium; revising the provisions concerning payment from the uninsured employers’ claim fund; increasing the amount a real estate licensee is deemed to receive as a wage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 495 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1714

384

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for the revision of the provisions governing tax abatements for certain businesses to provide uniformity in the criteria for qualification; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 537 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1999

1740

385

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the department of education to prescribe a form for use by school districts in the development of individualized education programs for pupils with disabilities; authorizing school districts to use expanded forms that comply with the form prescribed by the department; requiring the department to provide information to the boards of trustees of school districts concerning the identification and evaluation of pupils with disabilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 3 — Committee on Education.  Approved May 29, 1999

1750

386

AN ACT relating to public schools; requiring the superintendent of public instruction to provide certain information concerning statutes and regulations affecting public schools and pupils to the boards of trustees of school districts; requiring the boards of trustees to provide similar information concerning statutes to parents and educational personnel; increasing the maximum salaries allowed for the members of the boards of trustees of certain school districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 37 — Committee on Education.  Approved May 29, 1999

1752

387

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to adopt a plan for the establishment of a program for the professional development of teachers; requiring the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada to adopt a plan for the establishment of a program for the recruitment of teachers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 47 — Committee on Education.  Approved May 29, 1999

1754

388

AN ACT relating to insurance; authorizing the manager of the state industrial insurance system to establish a domestic mutual insurance company to transact industrial insurance and other casualty and property insurance in this state; abolishing the state industrial insurance system and authorizing the transfer of the assets of the system to the company under certain circumstances; allowing certain employees of the system and the company to retain their rights to reemployment in the executive branch of state government under certain circumstances; authorizing hearing and appeals officers to order an insurer to reimburse an injured employee for the expense of a second determination of disability under certain circumstances; revising the provisions governing the effect on the availability of compensation of a preexisting condition and of an aggravation of an industrial injury or disease that is not related to employment; revising the provisions governing the determination and provision of compensation for permanent total disability, temporary total disability and permanent partial disability; expanding the maximum length of certain programs of vocational rehabilitation; authorizing vocational rehabilitation services to be provided outside of this state under certain circumstances; creating the office for consumer health assistance; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 37 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1756

389

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; revising the provisions governing the forfeiture of bail and the exoneration of a surety; revising various other provisions governing bail; increasing the penalties for a defendant who fails to appear; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 273 — Senator Neal (by request).  Approved May 29, 1999

1844

390

AN ACT relating to public works; making various changes with respect to the eligibility of a contractor to receive a preference in bidding on public works; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 437 — Senators Porter and Schneider.  Approved May 29, 1999

1849

391

AN ACT relating to occupational safety; requiring the division of industrial relations of the department of business and industry to establish standards and procedures for places of employment where explosives are manufactured; providing exceptions; requiring annual certification of such places of employment and of persons training employees at those places of employment; requiring the disclosure of confidential information of the division to law enforcement agencies under certain circumstances; authorizing the legal counsel of the division to prosecute certain criminal violations of laws relating to labor and industrial relations; providing administrative penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 112 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1853

392

AN ACT relating to public water systems; expanding the authority of the state board of health to regulate such systems; requiring certain systems to have the necessary technical, managerial and financial capabilities to comply with certain federal regulations; revising the requirement that operators of such systems be certified by the state board of health; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 134 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 29, 1999

1864

393

AN ACT making an appropriation to the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for certain costs of litigation and for costs related to consultants on the administration of water resources statewide; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 151 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 29, 1999

1870

394

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.  Assembly Bill No. 181 — 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.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Wiener, Rawson, Titus,Townsend and Coffin.  Approved May 29, 1999

1871

395

AN ACT relating to automotive repairs; requiring a garageman to display at his place of business certain information concerning the repair of motor vehicles and to file a bond with the department of motor vehicles and public safety under certain circumstances; revising the provisions concerning a written estimate of cost to repair a motor vehicle; extending the date upon which the advisory board on the repair of motor vehicles expires by limitation; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 258 — Assemblymen Chowning, Segerblom, de Braga, Mortenson, Claborn, McClain, Koivisto, Freeman, Bache, Anderson, Tiffany, Thomas, Parks, Gibbons, Berman, Evans, Cegavske, Price, Arberry, Ohrenschall, Manendo, Humke, Dini, Perkins, Buckley and Brower.  Approved May 29, 1999

1893

396

AN ACT relating to vehicles; requiring certain information to be included in a consignment contract involving a vehicle; requiring a consignee of a vehicle to establish a trust account in which the proceeds of a consignment sale of the vehicle must be deposited; prescribing duties for a consignee of a consignment contract involving a vehicle; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 271 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 29, 1999

1901

397

AN ACT relating to solicitation by telephone; requiring certain applicants for registration as a seller and certain persons associated with a seller to obtain a work card issued by the sheriff of the county in which the business of the seller is located; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 283 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1904

398

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the provisions governing the compensation paid to the State of Nevada for the cost of collecting certain taxes on behalf of local governments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 288 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 29, 1999

1907

399

AN ACT relating to employment; requiring an employer or former employer of a person who is an applicant for a position as a peace officer with a law enforcement agency to provide certain information regarding the applicant to the law enforcement agency under certain circumstances; providing immunity from civil liability in certain circumstances for an employer or former employer that provides such information; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 297 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1999

1908

400

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety to purchase customer management systems for certain offices; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 341 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 29, 1999

1910

401

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for the completion of the Agency Automation Project; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 343 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 29, 1999

1911

402

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Division of Agriculture of the Department of Business and Industry for Veterinary Medical Services for a shortfall in revenue for personnel services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 344 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 29, 1999

1911

403

AN ACT relating to programs for public employees; establishing for the next biennium the amount to be paid by the state for group insurance for participating officers and employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 370 — Assemblymen Parnell, Gibbons, de Braga, Bache, Segerblom, Neighbors, Leslie, Anderson, Lee, Freeman, Koivisto, McClain and Chowning.  Approved May 29, 1999

1912

404

AN ACT relating to optometry; revising the authority of an optometrist to prescribe certain therapeutic pharmaceutical agents; authorizing an optometrist to treat persons diagnosed with glaucoma, under certain circumstances, if he holds a certificate issued by the Nevada state board of optometry; requiring the board to adopt regulations that prescribe the requirements for the issuance of such a certificate; authorizing an optometrist to practice under an assumed or fictitious name if the name has been registered with the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 432 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1913

405

AN ACT relating to explosives; providing for inspections by various state and local agencies of certain regulated facilities where certain explosives are manufactured, used, processed, handled, moved on site or stored; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 451 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 29, 1999

1918

406

AN ACT relating to vehicles; prohibiting the inclusion of certain statements regarding mileage in certain certificates of ownership; revising the provisions governing the sale of a vehicle as salvage; renaming a certificate of dismantling as a salvage title; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 452 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 29, 1999

1919

407

AN ACT relating to schools for training drivers; revising the qualifications of an applicant for a license to operate such a school; authorizing the school to offer or provide training to certain minors; increasing the period of a license to operate the school; increasing the amount of liability insurance required for a person who operates the school; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 492 — Assemblyman Humke (by request).  Approved May 29, 1999

1924

408

AN ACT relating to regional planning; providing for the establishment of a regional planning coalition in certain counties; setting forth the powers and duties of the regional planning coalition; requiring certain entities to submit certain plans to the regional planning coalition for review and recommendations; authorizing a city or county to establish its own policies and procedures with respect to regional planning in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 493 — Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Arberry, Williams, Parks, Collins, Manendo, Ohrenschall, Bache, Segerblom, Neighbors, Buckley, Perkins, Thomas, Gibbons and Anderson.  Approved May 29, 1999

1926

409

AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles and public safety; expanding the information that the director of the department of motor vehicles and public safety may release to a licensed private investigator; requiring the private investigator’s licensing board to suspend the license of a private investigator who requests such information for an unauthorized purpose; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 503 — Assemblyman Hettrick.  Joint Sponsor: Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 29, 1999

1932

410

AN ACT relating to employment practices; revising the provisions governing the employment practices of certain employers to prohibit discrimination based upon sexual orientation; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 311 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1935

411

AN ACT relating to health insurance; providing that a policy of health insurance must include a provision allowing a woman who is covered by the policy to have direct access to certain health care services for women; prohibiting a managed care organization from committing certain acts that limit the accessibility of its insureds to services provided at certain hospitals and other licensed health care facilities with which the managed care organization has contracted; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 515 — Assemblymen de Braga, Segerblom, Neighbors, Collins, McClain, Chowning, Buckley, Lee, Berman, Gibbons, Price, Ohrenschall, Mortenson, Claborn, Freeman, Evans, Parnell and Koivisto.  Approved May 29, 1999

1943

412

AN ACT relating to health care facilities; requiring the periodic investigation of the criminal histories of employees and independent contractors of certain health care facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 573 — Assemblymen Humke and Freeman.  Approved May 29, 1999

1946

413

AN ACT relating to charitable annuities; excluding them from the categories of insurance and securities; requiring certain reports; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 555 — Assemblymen Manendo, Koivisto, Bache, Claborn, Mortenson, Goldwater, Neighbors, Leslie, Gibbons, Price, Freeman, Gustavson, Berman, McClain, Buckley, Carpenter, Ohrenschall, Nolan, Perkins, Williams, Chowning, Humke, Evans, Thomas, Segerblom, Collins, Parks, Giunchigliani, Arberry, Anderson, Lee, Brower, de Braga, Dini, Beers, Parnell, Angle, Tiffany, Von Tobel, Marvel, Hettrick and Cegavske.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Titus, Wiener, Rawson, Amodei, Care and Washington.  Approved May 29, 1999

1950

414

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Division of Insurance of the Department of Business and Industry for additional expenses relating to projected salaries, travel and operating costs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 656 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 29, 1999

1951

415

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for additional operating expenses of the Nevada Highway Patrol Division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 657 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 29, 1999

1952

416

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for additional anticipated expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 658 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 29, 1999

1952

417

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for the payment of a stale claim for a health insurance premium; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 661 — Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 29, 1999

1953

418

AN ACT relating to commercial transactions; providing for the establishment of provisions regarding the use of digital signatures; authorizing the secretary of state to adopt regulations regarding digital signatures; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 674 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1953

419

AN ACT relating to veterans’ affairs; revising certain provisions relating to the account for a veterans’ cemetery in northern Nevada, the account for a veterans’ cemetery in southern Nevada and the veterans’ home account; creating an account for veterans’ affairs, a gift account for veterans’ cemeteries and a gift account for veterans’ homes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 94 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1999

1956

420

AN ACT relating to vehicles; providing immunity under certain circumstances for short-term lessors of vehicles from administrative fines and other penalties that may be imposed by the transportation services authority for vehicles leased by short-term lessors that are operated in passenger service without a certificate of public convenience and necessity; providing for the release of such a vehicle impounded by the transportation services authority to a short-term lessor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 677 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 29, 1999

1962

421

AN ACT relating to educational personnel; requiring the boards of trustees of school districts to pay the cost for a licensed teacher to purchase retirement credit if the teacher provides instruction in certain schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 9 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 29, 1999

1965

422

AN ACT relating to education; prohibiting a school district or charter school from placing a child in a program for pupils with disabilities solely because the child is a disciplinary problem; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 126 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 29, 1999

1966

423

AN ACT relating to contractors; establishing an account from which owners of a single‑family residence who are damaged by the failure of residential contractors to perform qualified services adequately may recover certain costs; requiring a residential contractor to pay to the state contractors’ board an annual assessment; revising the provisions authorizing the board to take disciplinary action against licensees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 636 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1999

1967

424

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Commission on Ethics for an anticipated shortfall in operational expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 546 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 29, 1999

1973

425

AN ACT relating to regional planning; providing for the coordination of planning among various governmental entities in certain counties with respect to air pollution, land use and transportation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 394 — Senator Titus.  Approved May 29, 1999

1973

426

AN ACT relating to the state militia; authorizing an increase in the reimbursement for certain educational expenses of the members of the active Nevada National Guard; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 292 — Senator Rhoads.  Approved May 29, 1999

1978

427

AN ACT relating to the City of Sparks; making various changes to the charter of the City of Sparks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 215 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1999

1979

428

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Welfare Division of the Department of Human Resources for expenses related to the NOMADS Project; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 547 — Committee on Finance.  Approved May 29, 1999

1982

429

AN ACT relating to public works projects; revising the provisions concerning the progress payments made to contractors, subcontractors and suppliers for public works projects; prescribing the amount that may be withheld from those payments; requiring the person who withholds certain amounts from those payments to provide notice and the reason for withholding those amounts to the recipient of the payments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 144 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1999

1983

430

AN ACT relating to health care; requiring health insurers to include in certain policies of health insurance coverage for services and prescription drugs and devices related to contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy; providing a religious exemption for certain insurers; prohibiting certain health insurers from committing certain acts concerning coverage for services related to contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 60 — Assemblywoman Giunchigliani.  Approved May 29, 1999

1995

431

AN ACT relating to public safety; requiring permits to construct or operate new processes which include any activity involving highly hazardous substances at any regulated facility where those substances are located; requiring a permit to construct, alter the construction of or modify certain processes at a place of employment where certain explosives are located; providing that certain monetary penalties must be deposited in the fund for precaution against chemical accidents; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 536 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 29, 1999

2006

432

AN ACT relating to taxation; raising the tax on the rental of transient lodging within Washoe County to pay certain costs related to the promotion of tourism; requiring the Reno/Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority to grant to the Lake Tahoe Incline Village and Crystal Bay Visitors Bureau a certain percentage of the taxes collected from the rental of transient lodging in Incline Village and Crystal Bay to pay certain costs related to the promotion of tourism; imposing certain requirements with respect to air travel by officers and employees of certain county fair and recreation boards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 477 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 30, 1999

2011

433

AN ACT relating to public lands; authorizing the division of state lands of the state department of conservation and natural resources to establish and carry out certain programs relating to the Lake Tahoe Basin; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 132 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved May 31, 1999

2017

434

AN ACT relating to family law; revising the provisions relating to the assignment of certain cases in family court; requiring the chief judge to assign certain cases in family court that involve the same parties or children to the same department; requiring a party who files the initial pleading in family court to provide certain information concerning other cases in family court; revising the provisions governing contempt in certain cases involving family law; allowing parties in divorce actions to make offers of judgment concerning property rights under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 154 — Assemblymen Buckley, Carpenter, Ohrenschall, Leslie, Gustavson, Koivisto, Angle, McClain, Claborn, Collins, Nolan, Manendo and Anderson.  Approved May 31, 1999

2019

435

AN ACT relating to children; requiring the notification of certain persons who apply to receive the placement of a child regarding the status of their application; creating a board to expedite and limiting the periods for certain procedures involved in proceedings for the placement of children; making various changes regarding the appointment and duties of a guardian ad litem for certain children in protective custody; making various changes in accordance with the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 and the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1996; clarifying certain provisions regarding the authority of a court to determine the custody of a child; authorizing the involvement of various persons interested in certain proceedings for the placement of children; providing a preference for the placement of siblings together; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 158 — Assemblymen Dini, Perkins, Evans, Anderson, Thomas, Parks, Bache, Segerblom, Neighbors, de Braga, Manendo, Carpenter, Koivisto, Williams, Chowning, Giunchigliani, Gibbons, Leslie, Nolan and Buckley.  Approved May 31, 1999

2026

436

AN ACT relating to mobile home parks; prohibiting a landlord of a mobile home park from prohibiting a tenant from exhibiting a political sign within the boundary of the lot of the tenant under certain circumstances; authorizing a tenant to exhibit a political sign within the right of way of a highway under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 39 — Assemblyman Manendo.  Approved May 31, 1999

2046

437

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.  Assembly Bill No. 182 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 31, 1999

2049

438

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.  Assembly Bill No. 195 — Assemblymen Ohrenschall, Manendo, Perkins, Buckley, Koivisto, McClain, Mortenson, Bache, Williams, Price, Gibbons, Parks, Carpenter, Lee, Thomas, Leslie, Giunchigliani, Von Tobel, Anderson, Chowning and Arberry.  Approved May 31, 1999

2050

439

AN ACT relating to grazing; providing that a grazing preference right is appurtenant to base property; prohibiting a person from being deprived of that right without just compensation under certain circumstances; providing a penalty for willfully or negligently interfering with the herding or grazing of livestock or damaging or destroying certain improvements under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 198 — Assemblymen Carpenter, Hettrick, Gustavson, Collins, Von Tobel, Neighbors, de Braga and Dini.  Approved May 31, 1999

2052

440

AN ACT relating to volunteers; creating a revolving account to pay the costs of the central repository to process requests from nonprofit agencies to determine whether a volunteer who works directly with children has committed a sexual offense; authorizing state and local governmental agencies to establish forms and procedures for persons to make donations to the account while they are transacting business with the governmental agency; providing that the decision by a nonprofit agency not to use the account must not be considered as evidence of negligence or causation in a civil action brought against the agency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 239 — Assemblyman Nolan.  Approved May 31, 1999

2054

441

AN ACT relating to vehicles; authorizing law enforcement agencies to conduct certain inspections for the purpose of locating stolen vehicles; increasing the penalties for altering or removing the identification number or mark of a motor vehicle or part of a motor vehicle; prohibiting the ownership or operation of premises used for certain acts concerning stolen motor vehicles and parts of motor vehicles; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 458 — Assemblymen Parks, Chowning, Collins, Manendo, Gibbons, Lee, Arberry, Freeman, Anderson, Williams, Angle, Tiffany, Von Tobel, Neighbors and Leslie.  Approved May 31, 1999

2055

442

AN ACT relating to domestic violence; providing that a juvenile who is taken into custody for committing a battery that constitutes domestic violence must not be released for at least 12 hours; revising provisions concerning when an officer who takes a juvenile into custody must notify a parent, guardian or custodian and probation officer of the juvenile; revising the provisions governing orders for protection against domestic violence; providing that a person who commits a battery upon a person to whom he is related by marriage or with whom he has had or is having a dating relationship may not be admitted to bail sooner than 12 hours after his arrest; establishing the amount at which bail must be set if such a person is subsequently admitted to bail in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 473 — Assemblymen McClain, Manendo, Collins, Claborn, Leslie, Koivisto, Anderson, Evans, Nolan, Beers, Parnell, Tiffany, Freeman, Bache, Giunchigliani, Williams, Parks, Von Tobel, Chowning, Humke, Ohrenschall, de Braga, Perkins, Lee, Neighbors, Mortenson, Segerblom, Gibbons, Buckley, Arberry and Carpenter.  Approved May 31, 1999

2059

443

AN ACT relating to administrative procedure affecting businesses; requiring certain governmental entities to consider the impact on small businesses of regulations promulgated by the governmental entity; requiring local governmental entities to consider the impact on businesses of certain rules promulgated by the governmental entity; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 486 — Assemblymen Goldwater, Lee, Perkins, Buckley, Neighbors, Berman, Gibbons, Marvel, Price, Ohrenschall, Anderson, Freeman, Parnell, Koivisto, McClain, Angle, Mortenson, Humke, Claborn, de Braga, Chowning, Bache, Evans, Leslie, Nolan, Giunchigliani, Arberry, Williams, Collins, Manendo, Parks, Beers, Carpenter, Segerblom, Thomas and Dini.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Rawson, O’Connell and Titus.  Approved May 31, 1999

2070

444

AN ACT relating to veteran affairs; authorizing the Nevada veterans’ services commission to hold additional meetings; expanding the permissible locations at which meetings of the commission may be held; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 530 — Assemblymen Neighbors, Carpenter and Dini.  Joint Sponsors: Senators McGinness and Jacobsen.  Approved May 31, 1999

2074

445

AN ACT relating to hospital districts; authorizing a board of county commissioners to create a hospital district for the sole purpose of contracting for hospital services under certain circumstances; authorizing district hospitals to join purchasing groups to purchase supplies, materials and equipment used by the hospital; authorizing district hospitals under certain circumstances to purchase supplies, material and equipment without complying with the Local Government Purchasing Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 533 — Assemblyman Brower.  Approved May 31, 1999

2075

446

AN ACT relating to zoning; revising the type of notice that certain governing bodies must provide for certain proposed amendments to the boundary of a zoning district; revising the requirements for the approval of an amendment of the boundary of a zoning district in certain circumstances; requiring the governing body of certain counties to give notice to the governing body of a city of zoning regulations, restrictions or boundaries or amendments thereof in certain unincorporated areas; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 569 — Assemblymen Williams and Giunchigliani.  Approved May 31, 1999

2078

447

AN ACT relating to roads; providing for the creation of districts for the maintenance of roads; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 604 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 31, 1999

2084

448

AN ACT relating to the central repository for Nevada records of criminal history; requiring certain agencies of criminal justice to submit certain records to the central repository for Nevada records of criminal history; authorizing the central repository to disseminate information contained in the central repository by electronic means; making various other changes concerning the central repository for Nevada records of criminal history; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 621 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 31, 1999

2089

449

AN ACT relating to trade secrets; prohibiting certain acts related to trade secrets; authorizing a court to award exemplary damages in certain circumstances; clarifying certain means that a court may use to preserve the secrecy of an alleged trade secret; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 375 — Senator Schneider.  Approved June 7, 1999

2100

450

AN ACT relating to intoxicating liquor; requiring a supplier who ships liquor into this state to pay certain taxes under certain circumstances; requiring a supplier who ships wine into this state to enter into a franchise agreement with a wholesaler under certain circumstances; requiring a supplier of wine to pay a fee under certain circumstances; requiring a wholesaler of liquor to purchase liquor from certain persons; requiring the department of taxation to adopt certain regulations; allowing the importation without a license of wine by certain persons for personal use; requiring a person who accepts wine shipped into this state to be a certain age; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 428 — Senator Schneider.  Approved June 7, 1999

2103

451

AN ACT relating to school districts; authorizing the board of trustees of a school district in a large county to expand the duties of the oversight panel for school facilities created for the school district under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 435 — Senator Porter.  Approved June 7, 1999

2106

452

AN ACT relating to taxation; exempting certain ad valorem tax levies in certain counties from the limitation on the total ad valorem tax levy for all public purposes under certain circumstances; requiring the publication of a notice if the highest combined tax rate in the county exceeds a certain level; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 476 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 7, 1999

2107

453

AN ACT relating to pupils; prescribing the conditions under which a pupil shall be deemed suspended from school; requiring schools to notify parents before pupils are deemed habitual disciplinary problems; authorizing schools, under certain circumstances, to develop plans of behavior designed to prevent pupils from being deemed habitual disciplinary problems; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 14 — Committee on Education.  Approved June 7, 1999

2110

454

AN ACT relating to education; excluding institutions or persons who offer certain computer software training programs from regulation as a postsecondary educational institution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 152 — Assemblywoman Tiffany.  Approved June 7, 1999

2115

455

AN ACT relating to elections; providing for the appointment of committees to prepare arguments for and against county and municipal ballot questions; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 200 — Assemblymen Mortenson, Giunchigliani, Cegavske, Hettrick, de Braga, Claborn, Anderson, Williams, Parks, Collins, Manendo, Von Tobel, Price, Gibbons, Segerblom, Nolan and Beers.  Joint Sponsor: Senator Porter.  Approved June 7, 1999

2116

456

AN ACT relating to water; authorizing grants for certain costs associated with connections to municipal water systems and for certain improvements to conserve water; increasing the amount of general obligation bonds that the state board of finance may issue to provide the grants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 237 — Assemblymen Dini, de Braga and Hettrick.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Amodei, McGinness and Jacobsen.  Approved June 7, 1999

2121

457

AN ACT relating to land use planning; revising provisions regarding plans for capital improvements; expanding the contents of a comprehensive regional plan; requiring members of the regional planning commission to complete certain training; authorizing the governing body of a local government to use certain land use controls and principles of zoning; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 424 — Assemblymen Freeman, Gibbons, Humke, Leslie, Evans and Anderson.  Approved June 7, 1999

2123

458

AN ACT relating to taxation; authorizing the board of county commissioners of additional counties to adopt an open-space plan and to impose certain related taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 504 — Assemblyman Hettrick.  Joint Sponsor: Senator Jacobsen.  Approved June 7, 1999

2129

459

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising provisions concerning driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 542 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 7, 1999

2133

460

AN ACT relating to elections; making various provisions for access to and use of polling places and absent ballots by voters who are disabled, elderly or unable to go to polling places; requiring a candidate to be an actual, as opposed to constructive, resident of his claimed residence; changing the period that unused ballots must be held by the county clerk; revising the requirements for recounting ballots by hand; specifying the time within which a public officer who is subject to a recall may resign without a special election being conducted; making various changes to election deadlines and procedures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 614 — Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.  Approved June 7, 1999

2146

461

AN ACT relating to public transit; exempting a common motor carrier that operates a public transit system which provides certain transportation services from the requirement of obtaining a certificate of public convenience and necessity under certain circumstances; expanding the authorized purposes of interlocal contracts to include the joint use or operation of a system of public transportation; authorizing a regional transportation commission, certain less populous counties and incorporated cities within such counties to establish or operate a public transit system that provides certain services to serve certain specified persons and the public; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 628 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 7, 1999

2172

462

AN ACT relating to contractors; establishing a program for the issuance of a license in an expedited manner; establishing a fee; establishing an inactive status for a contractor’s license; authorizing the state contractors’ board to prescribe a fee; making various changes relating to the grounds for disciplinary action; prohibiting the unauthorized use, copying or reproduction of the seal of the state contractors’ board; making various changes with respect to a monetary limit on a contractor’s license; expanding certain requirements concerning experience, knowledge, financial responsibility and good character with respect to applicants and licensed contractors; providing for notification to the board by a surety within a certain time after an action is commenced by or against the surety; establishing provisions relating to the suspension or revocation of the license of a contractor if a surety pays a claim against the bond of the licensed contractor; increasing the amount of certain fees that the board may charge; amending certain requirements for a hearing if the board summarily suspends the license of a contractor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 633 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 8, 1999

2177

463

AN ACT relating to the state legislature; establishing certain limitations on the drafting of requests for legislation; authorizing the appointment of committees to conduct certain activities before the commencement of a regular session; making various changes regarding expenditures from the legislative fund; repealing the provisions requiring the submission of joint resolutions to the governor for approval; clarifying references to certain standing committees; revising the duties of the legislative counsel regarding administrative regulations; revising certain provisions governing fiscal notes concerning legislative measures; making various changes regarding the dissemination of certain budgetary information; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 631 — Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.  Approved June 8, 1999

2184

464

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; creating the office of financial analysis and planning within the fiscal analysis division of the legislative counsel bureau; creating a task force for financial analysis and planning; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 525 — Assemblymen Evans, Arberry, Goldwater, Giunchigliani, Humke, Dini, Buckley, Segerblom, Nolan, Berman, Perkins, Lee, Claborn, Gibbons, Neighbors, Marvel, Bache, Chowning, Anderson, Freeman, Leslie, de Braga, Parnell, Collins, McClain, Manendo, Koivisto, Thomas, Parks and Ohrenschall.  Approved June 8, 1999

2209

465

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; prohibiting organizations for managed care that provide medical and health care services to injured employees from engaging in certain practices that restrict the actions of a provider of health care; requiring a response to a request for prior authorization for medical treatment to be issued within a certain number of days; allowing an injured employee whose employer’s insurer has entered into a contract with an organization for managed care or providers of health care to change treating physicians or chiropractors under certain circumstances; requiring that a test of an injured employee for the presence of alcohol or a controlled substance be performed by a laboratory that is licensed by the health division of the department of human resources; allowing hearing officers and appeals officers to refer an injured employee to a physician or chiropractor competent to determine the necessity of certain medical treatment; revising the provisions governing the filing of rates for industrial insurance with the commissioner of insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 470 — Assemblymen Goldwater and Buckley.  Approved June 8, 1999

2212

466

AN ACT relating to public welfare; clarifying the duties of and making various changes concerning the division of health care financing and policy of the department of human resources; making various changes concerning the children’s health insurance program; repealing the prospective expiration of the provisions governing the division of health care financing and policy; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 429 — Committee on Health and Human Services.  Approved June 8, 1999

2225

467

AN ACT relating to the devolution of property and rights; providing for the administration of trusts and the estates of decedents; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 400 — Assemblymen Lee, Anderson, Bache and Goldwater.  Approved June 8, 1999

2249

468

AN ACT relating to the Southern Nevada Water Authority; authorizing the Southern Nevada Water Authority, under specified circumstances, to increase certain fees; authorizing the Southern Nevada Water Authority to assist certain property owners to connect their property to a public water system; authorizing the Southern Nevada Water Authority to operate a project for the recharge and recovery or underground storage and recovery of water; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 347 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 8, 1999

2386

469

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Motor Pool Division of the Department of Administration for the purchase of additional vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 346 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 8, 1999

2389

470

AN ACT making an appropriation to the legislative fund for additional equipment and software for information systems for the Legislative Counsel Bureau; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 321 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 8, 1999

2389

471

AN ACT relating to public works projects; requiring the adoption of criteria for the qualification of bidders on certain contracts for public works; making an exemption for local governments and the department of transportation in certain circumstances; requiring a person to qualify before bidding on such contracts in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 298 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 8, 1999

2390

472

AN ACT relating to administrative procedure; revising the definition of “regulation” for purposes of the Nevada Administrative Procedure Act; exempting certain agencies from the provisions of the Act in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 12 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 8, 1999

2405

473

AN ACT relating to justices’ courts; increasing the monetary limit of claims adjudicated in justices’ courts pursuant to the procedure for small claims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 30 — Senator Amodei.  Approved June 8, 1999

2408

474

AN ACT relating to holidays; changing the legal holiday for the observance of Nevada Day; removing the exception that allows schools to remain open on Nevada Day; revising the provision governing the transaction of banking business on holidays and weekends; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 31 — Senator Amodei.  Approved June 8, 1999

2410

475

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring certain records of an employer who is insured by a private carrier to be open to inspection by that private carrier; expanding the types of organizations or associations of employers to which private carriers may provide industrial insurance; changing the period within which an insurer must provide notice that an employer has changed insurers or allowed his industrial insurance to lapse; revising the provisions concerning employee leasing companies; requiring an insurer to notify certain claimants of circumstances under which a claim for workers’ compensation may be closed automatically; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 38 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 8, 1999

2412

476

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; reallocating an appropriation for education that was made by the 69th session of the Nevada Legislature; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 282 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2418

477

AN ACT relating to peace officers; reorganizing the peace officers’ standards and training committee in the department of motor vehicles and public safety into the peace officers’ standards and training commission and defining its duties; providing for the appointment of an executive director of the commission and defining his duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 68 — Senator Jacobsen.  Approved June 8, 1999

2419

478

AN ACT relating to professions; requiring applicants for licensure as professional engineers and land surveyors to be graduates of certain curricula approved by the state board of professional engineers and land surveyors; revising the provisions governing the active experience required of applicants for licensure as professional engineers; authorizing the state board of professional engineers and land surveyors to require certain business organizations to register with the board before engaging in or offering to engage in the practice of professional engineering or land surveying; revising the authority of the board to waive the examination on the fundamentals of engineering for certain applicants for a license as a professional engineer; revising the provisions governing the unlawful use of certain terms relating to the practice of professional engineering; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 103 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 8, 1999

2433

479

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; providing for the availability of benefits to certain police officers and firemen for exposure to a contagious disease; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 132 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 8, 1999

2445

480

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; revising the definition of the phrase describing the minimum content of alcohol required to be in the blood or breath of a person for the person to be considered to be operating a vehicle or vessel under the influence of intoxicating liquor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 152 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 8, 1999

2448

481

AN ACT relating to land use; requiring a master plan to include a school facilities plan; requiring a person who proposes to develop a project of significant impact in the Las Vegas urban growth zone to submit an impact statement in certain circumstances; prohibiting a local governmental entity from approving such a project in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 191 — Senator Titus.  Approved June 8, 1999

2471

482

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising the requirements for obtaining a driver’s license, motorcycle driver’s license or an instruction permit by an applicant who was born outside the United States; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 203 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 8, 1999

2475

483

AN ACT relating to veterans; creating an office of veterans’ services; changing the name and transferring the offices of the executive and deputy executive directors for veteran affairs from the office of the military to the office of veterans’ services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 263 — Senator Jacobsen.  Approved June 8, 1999

2477

484

AN ACT relating to taxation; prohibiting, under certain circumstances, the imposition of penalties and interest on delinquent taxes for the period during which an audit of a taxpayer is extended; revising the manner in which penalties and interest are calculated if a taxpayer has made overpayments and underpayments; providing for the appeal of any decision of the executive director or other officer of the department of taxation to the Nevada tax commission; requiring the commission to adopt certain regulations; expanding the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights; increasing the amount of taxes, penalties and interest that may be waived if a taxpayer has relied to his detriment on the advice of the department; authorizing certain actions relating to the payment of taxes to be brought in various counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 362 — Senator O’Connell.  Approved June 8, 1999

2480

485

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising the rights of dealers in new vehicles as against manufacturers, importers and distributors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 372 — Senator Townsend.  Approved June 8, 1999

2505

486

AN ACT relating to animals; making certain acts regarding the treatment of certain animals unlawful; increasing the penalties for certain mistreatment of animals; clarifying the definition of a service animal; providing penalties; providing certain exceptions with respect to rodeos, livestock shows and ranches; prohibiting a place of public accommodation from refusing admission or service to a person who is accompanied by a police dog; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 396 — Senators Townsend and Titus.  Approved June 8, 1999

2515

487

AN ACT relating to insurance guaranty associations; excluding certain claims from the definition of “covered claim”; revising the provisions governing the obligation of the Nevada insurance guaranty association to pay a covered claim; revising the order of distribution of certain claims from the estate of an insurer on liquidation of the insurer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 74 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2521

488

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Education for reimbursement of certain costs of public school teachers related to acquiring certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; requiring a teacher to repay the reimbursement to the Department under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 47 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2527

489

AN ACT relating to regional planning; revising the composition of the debt management commission in certain counties; providing for the creation of the Southern Nevada Regional Planning Coalition; establishing a governing board; prescribing the powers and duties of the board; establishing a technical committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 436 — Senator Porter.  Approved June 8, 1999

2528

490

AN ACT relating to local governments; requiring a question to be submitted to the electors of certain local governments in severe financial emergency asking whether the local government should be disincorporated or dissolved if the Nevada tax commission determines that the severe financial emergency is unlikely to cease to exist within 3 years; requiring certain taxes and mandatory assessments to be raised and services of the local government limited if the electors of such a local government do not approve such a question; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 473 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 8, 1999

2534

491

AN ACT relating to state lands; creating a revolving account for land management; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 508 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2540

492

AN ACT relating to debt management commissions; authorizing the provision of staff or technical assistance to the commissions; establishing certain qualifications for members of the commissions; providing for the removal of members of the commissions in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 470 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 8, 1999

2541

493

AN ACT relating to trade practices; prohibiting an informal merchant from selling new products that have certain defects; removing the purchasing and selling of used books from the definition of “junk dealer” and “secondhand dealer”; revising the definition of “secondhand dealer” to exclude certain persons who engage in the business of buying or selling secondhand firearms under certain circumstances; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 109 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 8, 1999

2543

494

AN ACT relating to prisons; authorizing the director of the department of prisons to allow the transfer of funds from the offenders’ store fund to compensate a center for the purpose of making restitution for certain costs incurred by the center under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 687 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 8, 1999

2546

495

AN ACT relating to interior design; providing for the exemption of certain practices from regulation by the state board of architecture; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 610 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 8, 1999

2548

496

AN ACT relating to agricultural extension programs; expanding the subjects included in agricultural extension programs; making an appropriation to the agricultural extension department of the public service division of the University and Community College System of Nevada for the abatement of tall white top; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 324 — Assemblymen Dini, Neighbors, de Braga, Marvel, Hettrick, Arberry, Carpenter and Parnell.  Approved June 8, 1999

2550

497

AN ACT relating to elections; describing the categories of expenses that must be included in certain reports of expenses and expenditures; revising various provisions governing the forms for reporting campaign contributions, expenses and expenditures; limiting the prohibition against causing to be published certain false statements of fact made during a political campaign to certain false statements of fact made about a candidate; requiring the commission on ethics to make certain specific findings before the commission may determine that a person has violated the prohibition against causing to be published certain false statements of fact about a candidate; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 130 — Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.  Approved June 8, 1999

2552

498

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring the director of the department of motor vehicles and public safety to order the redesign and preparation of motor vehicle license plates with colors that are predominately blue and silver; authorizing the department to adopt regulations which prescribe methods, other than by pen and ink, by which a signature may be affixed upon a manufacturer’s certificate of origin or a manufacturer’s statement of origin; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 76 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 8, 1999

2566

499

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; clarifying that a person with a disability may obtain a special license plate and parking sticker to park a motorcycle in a space designated for the handicapped; requiring the registration of certain low-speed vehicles; limiting highways upon which a low-speed vehicle may be operated; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 59 — Assemblyman Perkins.  Approved June 8, 1999

2568

500

AN ACT relating to the department of prisons; enacting provisions governing the operation of vending machines located in the visitors’ areas of institutions and facilities of the department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Assembly Bill No. 289 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 8, 1999

2574

501

AN ACT relating to district courts; providing for an additional judge for the fifth judicial district; authorizing the board of county commissioners to establish one or more locations within the county for a district court to hold court in addition to the county seat; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 38 — Assemblyman Neighbors.  Approved June 8, 1999

2575

502

AN ACT relating to barbering; prohibiting the refunding of the fee for an examination for licensure by the state barbers’ health and sanitation board if the applicant, without good cause, fails to appear for the examination; requiring persons who are required to display their licenses to provide identification upon the request of a representative of the board; exempting prisoners from the provisions regulating the practice of barbering; increasing the bond and salary of the secretary‑treasurer of the board; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 8 — Senator Rawson.  Approved June 8, 1999

2576

503

AN ACT making appropriations to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for the costs of the VHF Highband Radio Project and to the Department of Transportation for completion of 800 MHz radio communication system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 504 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2588

504

AN ACT relating to persons with mental disabilities; extending certain governmental services relating to mental retardation to persons with related conditions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 469 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 8, 1999

2589

505

AN ACT relating to education; creating a committee to study the methods of funding higher education in this state; providing for its organization, powers and duties; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 443 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2605

506

AN ACT relating to programs for public employees; providing for coverage under certain programs of group insurance or other medical or hospital service without charge for the surviving spouse and any surviving child of certain police officers and firemen; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 404 — Senators James, Townsend, O’Connell, Rawson, Carlton, Amodei, Care, Coffin, Jacobsen, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, Porter, Raggio, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Titus, Washington and Wiener.  Approved June 8, 1999

2607

507

AN ACT relating to courts; increasing the number of district judges in the eighth judicial district; increasing the number of those district judges who must be judges of the family court; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 401 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 8, 1999

2610

508

AN ACT relating to the protection of children; authorizing certain counties that are required to provide protective services for children to enter into an agreement with the division of child and family services of the department of human resources to establish a pilot program to provide continuity of care for children who receive protective services; requiring the division to report to the legislature; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 288 — Senator Washington.  Approved June 8, 1999

2611

509

AN ACT making an appropriation to restore the balance in the contingency fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 283 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2613

510

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for the purchase of modular furniture for the remodeled office in Carson City; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 280 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2613

511

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Lincoln County School District for the construction of an elementary school to replace an unsafe existing school; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 236 — Senator McGinness.  Joint Sponsor: Assemblyman Neighbors.  Approved June 8, 1999

2614

512

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. Assembly Bill No. 189 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 8, 1999

2615

513

AN ACT relating to higher education; creating an advisory committee to examine the issue of locating a new 4-year state college in Henderson, Nevada; making an appropriation to the advisory committee for a needs assessment and implementation plan for a 4-year state college in Henderson, Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 220 — Assemblymen Perkins, Dini, Segerblom, Goldwater, Thomas, Gibbons, Cegavske, Lee, Neighbors, Berman, Bache, Price, Ohrenschall, Manendo, Parks, Anderson, Hettrick, Beers, Nolan, Mortenson, Claborn, Chowning, Humke, McClain and Williams.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Porter, Wiener, Care, James, O’Connell, Amodei, Carlton, Neal, O’Donnell, Raggio, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer and Townsend.  Approved June 8, 1999

2625

514

AN ACT relating to the Lake Tahoe Basin; requiring the Administrator of the Division of State Lands of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to coordinate the development and implementation of a program for the protection of the Lake Tahoe Basin; authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds and providing for legislative appropriations to carry out the program; creating the fund to protect the Lake Tahoe Basin; authorizing the Administrator of the Division of State Lands to issue grants to carry out the program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 285 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved June 8, 1999

2626

515

AN ACT relating to water; revising the provisions establishing the priority of certain water rights; providing that certain evidence may be considered to show whether a water right has been abandoned; declaring that certain water rights are not subject to a determination of abandonment; clarifying the circumstances under which water becomes appurtenant to land; providing that certain surface water rights are not subject to forfeiture for failure to use water pursuant to that right within a certain period; establishing the Newlands Project Water Rights Fund and a related program for the acquisition of certain surface water rights; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 380 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved June 8, 1999

2630

516

AN ACT relating to public welfare; requiring the Department of Human Resources to conduct a study of the methodology used in determining the amount of payments made to certain hospitals that treat Medicaid, indigent or other low-income patients; providing monetary assistance to restore a certain base amount in the fund for the institutional care of the medically indigent; providing for the allocation and transfer of certain funding for the treatment of Medicaid, indigent and other low-income patients; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 386 — Committee on Health and Human Services.  Approved June 8, 1999

2634

517

AN ACT relating to controlled substances; revising the penalties for manufacturing or compounding certain controlled substances; authorizing peace officers to destroy materials or substances that they reasonably believe are hazardous waste at the time of seizure of certain substances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 454 — Assemblyman Perkins.  Approved June 8, 1999

2636

518

AN ACT making an appropriation to the White Pine County School District for the payment of short-term debts incurred by the school district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 480 — Assemblymen de Braga, Mortenson, Chowning, Manendo and Ohrenschall.  Joint Sponsor: Senator McGinness.  Approved June 8, 1999

2643

519

AN ACT relating to the University and Community College System of Nevada; authorizing the financing of campus facilities required or desired by the master plans at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of Nevada, Reno, with revenue bonds issued pursuant to chapter 501, Statutes of Nevada 1991; increasing the maximum amount authorized for those bonds; increasing the time within which those bonds may be issued; authorizing the issuance of bonds for the construction of a dental school; including any revenue derived from dental services provided at a facility of the system within the definition of “pledged revenues” for the purposes of the University Securities Law; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 527 — Assemblymen Parks, Segerblom, Mortenson, Bache, Giunchigliani, Thomas, Buckley, Ohrenschall, Chowning, Collins, Manendo, Williams, McClain, Claborn, de Braga, Humke, Hettrick, Cegavske, Perkins, Lee, Neighbors, Berman, Gibbons, Marvel and Price.  Approved June 8, 1999

2644

520

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Prisons for equipment and supplies to open Cold Creek State Prison; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 690 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 8, 1999

2647

521

AN ACT relating to special legislative license plates; granting to Joseph E.  Dini, Jr., the use of the special legislative license plate designated “State Assemblyman 1” as a lifetime endowment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 695 — Assemblymen Perkins, Anderson, Angle, Arberry, Bache, Beers, Berman, Brower, Buckley, Carpenter, Cegavske, Chowning, Claborn, Collins, de Braga, Evans, Freeman, Gibbons, Giunchigliani, Goldwater, Gustavson, Hettrick, Humke, Koivisto, Lee, Leslie, Manendo, Marvel, McClain, Mortenson, Neighbors, Nolan, Ohrenschall, Parks, Parnell, Price, Segerblom, Thomas, Tiffany, Von Tobel and Williams.  Approved June 8, 1999

2647

522

AN ACT relating to public schools; revising the provisions governing the program of accountability for public schools; requiring a charter school to adopt a final budget in accordance with the regulations of the department of education; revising provisions governing the administration and reporting of the achievement and proficiency examinations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 70 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2649

523

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; requiring that the signs designating the speed limit in a school zone or school crossing zone indicate the times during which the speed limit is in effect; providing for the designation of such times; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 80 — Senator O’Donnell.  Approved June 8, 1999

2674

524

AN ACT relating to prisoners; making it unlawful for prisoners to commit certain acts involving human excrement or bodily fluid; requiring that prisoners who commit certain acts involving human excrement or bodily fluid be tested for communicable diseases; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 149 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 8, 1999

2676

525

AAN ACT relating to state government; creating the committee for public safety telecommunications operators in the department of motor vehicles and public safety; requiring agencies that employ persons as public safety telecommunications operators to require those persons to obtain certain certification and training; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 165 — Senator Amodei.  Approved June 8, 1999

2678

526

AN ACT relating to domestic relations; revising the provisions requiring the inclusion of social security numbers and certain other information in judgments of divorce and court orders for child support; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 242 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 8, 1999

2679

527

AN ACT relating to time shares; requiring a person who resells a time share to disclose certain facts to a purchaser; requiring certain persons who resell time shares to register as time share resale brokers; requiring the disclosure of certain facts in an agreement between an owner and a person who resells a time share; requiring a time share resale broker to place certain advance fees in a trust account until the sale of the time share or the expiration of the listing; requiring the real estate division of the department of business and industry to review the advertising of a time share being offered for resale; requiring a filing fee; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 322 — Senator Schneider.  Approved June 8, 1999

2686

528

AN ACT relating to hazardous materials; providing incentives for the voluntary removal or rendering harmless of environmental contamination; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 363 — Senator Titus.  Approved June 8, 1999

2689

529

AN ACT relating to air pollution; directing the Legislative Commission to conduct an interim study of certain air quality control programs; setting forth the purpose and duties of the subcommittee of the Legislative Commission; establishing an advisory committee; directing the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety to implement certain programs of air quality control; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 432 — Senator Porter.  Approved June 8, 1999

2696

530

AN ACT relating to technology; creating the advisory board for the Nevada task force for technological crime; prohibiting various acts related to computers, networks and electronic mail; requiring providers of Internet service to keep certain information confidential under certain circumstances; prohibiting prisoners from having access to telecommunications devices except under certain circumstances; prohibiting certain deceptive trade practices by providers of telecommunications service; making various other changes to provisions governing the use of technology; providing penalties; authorizing certain expenditures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 485 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 8, 1999

2700

531

AN ACT relating to public health; authorizing certain persons to possess and administer controlled substances and dangerous drugs; requiring the state board of pharmacy to prepare an annual report concerning immunizations administered by pharmacists; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 519 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 8, 1999

2719

532

AN ACT relating to air pollution; revising the provisions relating to expenditures from the pollution control account for purposes relating to air quality; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 511 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2723

533

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Agency for Nuclear Projects of the Office of the Governor for additional expenses relating to projected salaries, travel and operating costs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 507 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 8, 1999

2726

534

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising the penalty for driving without the required insurance in effect; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 272 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 8, 1999

2727

535

AN ACT relating to state government; authorizing the commission to appoint an executive director and commission counsel and providing their duties; clarifying the intent of the legislature with respect to the Nevada Ethics in Government Law; increasing the number of members of the commission; authorizing the chairman of the commission to issue subpoenas in certain circumstances; revising the provisions relating to requests for opinions by the commission and the manner in which determinations of just and sufficient cause to render such opinions are made; revising the provisions relating to the confidentiality of persons who request an opinion by or provide testimony to the commission; authorizing the commission to take testimony by telephone or video conference in certain circumstances; revising the civil penalties for willful violations of ethical provisions; revising the penalties for certain crimes; authorizing the commission and the secretary of state to waive certain civil penalties in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 478 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 9, 1999

2728

536

AN ACT relating to education; creating the millennium scholarship trust fund; providing for the award of millennium scholarships by the board of regents of the University of Nevada; prescribing the conditions of eligibility for students to receive millennium scholarships; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 496 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

2750

537

AN ACT relating to health care; providing that senior citizens are eligible for Medicaid upon purchasing and receiving benefits from certain policies of insurance for long-term care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 370 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 9, 1999

2754

538

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; creating the fund for a healthy Nevada; creating the task force for the fund for a healthy Nevada; providing for subsidies to be granted to senior citizens for pharmaceutical services; creating the trust fund for public health; creating the board of trustees of the trust fund for public health; providing for the allocation and use of certain proceeds from settlement agreements and civil litigation between the State of Nevada and tobacco companies; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 474 — Assemblymen Evans, Perkins, Dini, Arberry, Marvel, Giunchigliani, Hettrick, Beers, Goldwater, Cegavske, Chowning, Parks, de Braga, Price, Leslie, Segerblom, Thomas, Gibbons, Ohrenschall, Von Tobel, Manendo, Buckley, Bache, Parnell, Williams, Anderson, Freeman, Koivisto, McClain, Angle, Gustavson, Claborn, Mortenson, Humke, Lee, Carpenter, Collins, Berman, Tiffany, Neighbors, Brower and Nolan.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Amodei, Carlton, Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O’Connell, O’Donnell, Porter, Raggio, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Titus, Townsend, Washington and Wiener.  Approved June 9, 1999

2755

539

AN ACT relating to concealed firearms; expanding the locations into which a permittee may carry a concealed firearm; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 166 — Assemblymen Hettrick, Cegavske, Nolan, Brower, Berman, Gustavson, Beers, Humke, Carpenter, Tiffany, Von Tobel, Angle, Lee, Gibbons, Chowning, Manendo, Ohrenschall, Collins, Koivisto, Parks, Arberry, Williams, Buckley, Freeman, Mortenson, Perkins, Price, Anderson, Goldwater, Leslie, Dini, Evans, McClain, de Braga, Marvel, Thomas, Neighbors, Segerblom, Parnell and Claborn.  Approved June 9, 1999

2767

540

AN ACT relating to taxation; making various changes in the provisions governing the exemption and assessment of property for taxation; revising the provisions governing the administration and collection of certain taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 668 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 9, 1999

2769

541

AN ACT relating to insurance; revising the fees for the issuance and renewal of a license for a surplus lines broker; revising the provisions governing authorized investments by insurers; requiring the commissioner of insurance to adopt regulations for the licensing of provider‑sponsored organizations; revising the requirements for certain insurers to accept surplus lines risks; clarifying the authority of the commissioner to impose a fine or penalty or initiate or continue a disciplinary proceeding against a person who has voluntarily surrendered his license or certificate of registration; revising the provisions governing the disclosure statement required for certain umbrella policies; revising various provisions governing health insurance; requiring an applicant for a license as a general agent to file a bond; revising the requirements for the issuance of a certificate of registration as an administrator; revising the qualifications for licensure by a corporation as a bail agent or bail enforcement agent; revising the authority of the commissioner to approve certain contracts relating to the state’s group insurance plan; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 680 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 9, 1999

2783

542

AN ACT relating to projects of capital improvement; providing for the issuance of general obligation bonds of the state; requiring the repayment for certain projects by certain state agencies; authorizing certain expenditures by the State Public Works Board; levying a property tax to support the consolidated bond interest and redemption fund; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 699 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

2822

543

AN ACT relating to education; renaming the fund for class-size reduction as the fund for school improvement; making appropriations to the state distributive school account for purposes relating to class-size reduction; making supplemental appropriations to the fund for class-size reduction to cover certain shortfalls in revenue; requiring the transfer of money from the fund for school improvement to provide scholarships for students pursuing degrees in teaching; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 700 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

2837

544

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; making appropriations to various projects and programs that benefit the residents of this state; establishing a position of Weed Control Analyst and providing the powers and duties of the position; advancing the effective date of certain previously enacted provisions concerning the governmental regulation of the practice of dentistry; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 560 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

2842

545

AN ACT relating to the division of child and family services of the department of human resources; requiring the administrator of the division to appoint certain deputies, including a deputy administrator for youth corrections; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 519 — Assemblymen Humke, Buckley, Arberry, Berman, Perkins, Nolan, Beers, Parks, Goldwater, Segerblom, Giunchigliani, Carpenter, Thomas, Anderson, Bache, Freeman, Tiffany, Koivisto, McClain, Claborn, Mortenson, de Braga, Chowning, Gustavson and Angle.  Approved June 9, 1999

2851

546

AN ACT relating to public works; requiring governmental entities to comply with certain federal requirements in the design, construction and alteration of public buildings and facilities; requiring the state public works board and local building departments to verify that public buildings and facilities conform with the federal requirements; revising provisions governing the development and review of plans for the construction and alteration of school buildings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 598 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

2852

547

AN ACT relating to contractors; authorizing the state contractors’ board to request the public utilities commission of Nevada to order providers of telephone service to disconnect a telephone number included in advertisements for services for which the advertiser does not have the required license; authorizing the board to request a provider of paging services to switch a beeper number or disconnect paging services to a beeper included in such advertising; requiring such providers of services to comply with the orders; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 128 — Senators O’Donnell, O’Connell, Amodei, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, Porter, Raggio, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer, Townsend and Washington.  Approved June 9, 1999

2856

548

AN ACT relating to the department of museums, library and arts; revising the qualifications of the director of the department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 559 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

2859

549

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Transportation to conduct a feasibility study of improving access highways in adjoining states; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 558 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

2860

550

AN ACT relating to local improvements; authorizing a municipality to form a local improvement district for a commercial area vitalization project; authorizing a municipality who forms a local improvement district for a commercial area vitalization project to enter into contracts with certain nonprofit associations for certain purposes; authorizing a municipality to dissolve a local improvement district formed for such purposes under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 530 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 9, 1999

2861

551

AN ACT relating to genetic information; providing that it is an unlawful employment practice for an employer, a labor organization or an employment agency to discriminate against a person based on genetic information; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 16 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 9, 1999

2874

552

AN ACT relating to programs of treatment for abuse of alcohol or drugs; providing that certain prisoners may be assigned to the custody of the division of parole and probation of the department of motor vehicles and public safety to participate in a program of treatment for the abuse of alcohol or drugs; making an appropriation to the Second Judicial District Court and the Eighth Judicial District Court for the continuation of their programs of treatment for abuse of alcohol or drugs by certain persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 184 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

2876

553

AN ACT relating to the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety; extending the reversion date of a prior appropriation for completion of Phase II of the Implementation Plan for the Business Process Re-Engineering Project of the Department; making an appropriation to the Department for the implementation of Phase II of Project Genesis and related enabling technologies; making a supplemental appropriation to the Department for additional expenses for the registration of motor vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 279 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

2883

554

AN ACT relating to public employment; directing the Department of Personnel to increase the salaries of certain classified positions in the Department of Prisons and to conduct an occupational study of those positions; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.  Senate Bill No. 353 — Senator Jacobsen.  Approved June 9, 1999

2884

555

AN ACT relating to public financial administration; creating the division of internal audits of the department of administration and the executive branch audit committee; providing the powers and duties of the new division and committee; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 550 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

2885

556

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing expenditures by various officers, departments, boards, agencies, commissions and institutions of the state government for the fiscal years commencing July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2000, and beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001; authorizing the assessment of certain boards for certain costs of the Budget Division of the Department of Administration; authorizing the collection of certain amounts from the counties for the use of the services of the Public Defender; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 551 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

2894

557

AN ACT relating to the protection of children; providing that certain reasonable acts of discipline by a parent or guardian of a child do not warrant action by an agency which provides protective services to children or a law enforcement agency; providing that references to such acts must be expunged from the records of the agency which provides protective services to children or the law enforcement agency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 553 — Senator Raggio.  Approved June 9, 1999

2910

558

AN ACT relating to state employees; establishing the maximum allowed salaries for employees in the unclassified service of the state; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 554 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

2913

559

AN ACT relating to public schools; apportioning the state distributive school account in the state general fund for the 1999-2001 biennium; authorizing certain expenditures; providing for a final adjustment following the close of a fiscal year; making various other changes concerning the administration of money for public schools; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 555 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

2924

560

AN ACT making an appropriation to the State Public Works Board for the construction of a Hi-Tech Learning Center in Pahrump; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 205 — Assemblymen Neighbors and Segerblom.  Joint Sponsor: Senator McGinness.  Approved June 9, 1999

2944

561

AN ACT making an appropriation to the State Public Works Board for feasibility studies regarding the construction of Hi-Tech Learning Centers in Lyon County and in Douglas County, Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 360 — Assemblyman Dini.  Approved June 9, 1999

2944

562

AN ACT relating to education; requiring that the annual audit of certain school districts include an audit of expenditures relating to the design, construction, acquisition and renovation of school facilities and grounds; requiring certain school districts to develop and adopt a policy to renovate or reconstruct certain school facilities; requiring a certain school district to establish a pilot program for replacing schools; authorizing the use of certain proceeds of bonds for the pilot program; requiring the submission of an interim report concerning the progress of the pilot program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 368 — Committee on Education.  Approved June 9, 1999

2945

563

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing the supreme court of Nevada to enter into a long-term lease for office space for the court in Clark County which extends beyond the 1999-2001 biennium; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 595 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

2948

564

AN ACT relating to the judiciary; increasing the benefits provided to the surviving spouses of justices of the supreme court and district judges; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 622 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 9, 1999

2949

565

AN ACT relating to contractors; providing for the establishment of an investigations office by the state contractors’ board and prescribing its duties; making various changes regarding the procedures and grounds for taking and the scope of disciplinary action against a contractor; requiring annual reports by the state contractors’ board; making various changes concerning constructional fraud, proceedings of the board, the prerequisites to obtaining and maintaining a license, the enforcement of licensing requirements and the imposition of administrative and criminal penalties for violations; providing additional administrative and criminal penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 634 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 9, 1999

2950

566

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to pay a portion of the costs of establishing a certain tricounty railway; revising the provision governing the reversion of the appropriation made during the 68th session of the Nevada Legislature to the Tricounty Railway Commission of Carson City, Lyon and Storey counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 663 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

2970

567

AN ACT relating to recreation; revising the particular purposes and extending the periods for the expenditure of certain money previously appropriated to the division of state parks of the state department of conservation and natural resources for park improvement projects; authorizing the state board of finance to issue general obligation bonds for certain purposes; authorizing the division of wildlife of the state department of conservation and natural resources to expend the proceeds of such bonds for those purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 683 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

2971

568

AN ACT relating to the commission for the preservation of wild horses; authorizing the commission to spend a portion of the money in the Heil trust fund for wild horses to conduct a study of the feasibility of establishing a private foundation for the promotion of the public adoption of wild horses and burros; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 684 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

2974

569

AN ACT relating to domestic relations; amending Assembly Bill No. 456 of the 1999 Legislative Session to revise to requirements for determining custody and rights to visitation of a parent who is convicted of first degree murder of the other parent of the child; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 688 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 9, 1999

2975

570

AN ACT relating to prisons; authorizing travel expenses for certain persons employed at the Men’s Prison No. 7; increasing the amount authorized for travel expenses; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 691 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

2976

571

AN ACT relating to making appropriations from the state general fund and the state highway fund for the support of the civil government of the State of Nevada for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2000, and beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001; providing for the use of the money so appropriated; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 697 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

2977

572

AN ACT relating to common-interest communities; requiring an association of a common-interest community to prepare and distribute operating and reserve budgets; requiring the executive board of such an association to conduct studies of the reserves of the association; requiring the ombudsman for owners in common-interest communities to maintain a registration of each association organized in this state; expanding the authority of the real estate commission to issue subpoenas; making the statutory requirements for common-interest communities applicable to certain preexisting communities; revising the manner in which fines may be imposed for a violation of the governing documents of an association; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 451 — Senators Schneider, O’Connell, Rawson, Amodei, Coffin and Porter.  Approved June 9, 1999

2993

573

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; revising the provisions governing the state’s program of group insurance and other benefits by replacing the committee on benefits with the board of the public employees’ benefits program, changing the related powers and duties, requiring the appointment of an executive officer and certain other officers, providing education and experience requirements for members of the board and appointed officers and requiring members of the board and the executive officer to complete continuing education; authorizing certain periodic state employees to receive extended coverage from the public employees’ benefits program; renaming the interim retirement committee and expanding its duties to include the review of the operation of the public employees’ benefits program; authorizing certain public employees to secure insurance from an insurer or employee benefit plan other than through the public employees’ benefits program; removing the duty of the state risk manager to act as an adviser for group insurance and other employees’ benefits; authorizing the state risk manager to employ necessary staff to perform his duties; requiring the commissioner of insurance to adopt regulations providing for uniform claim forms and billing codes and compatible electronic data transfers relating to the provision of health care, health care plans or health insurance for certain insurers and administrators; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 544 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 9, 1999

3020

574

AN ACT relating to professions; creating the board of examiners for alcohol and drug abuse counselors; prescribing the powers and duties of the board; requiring persons who counsel alcohol and drug abusers to be licensed or certified by the board; prescribing the requirements for licensure and certification; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 210 — Senator Townsend.  Approved June 9, 1999

3049

575

AN ACT relating to insurance; providing for the revision of the provisions governing parity for insurance benefits for the treatment of conditions relating to mental health; exempting certain group health coverage provided by public agencies from certain provisions governing required benefits; making various changes concerning the notice required to be provided to an insured when an insurer denies coverage of a health care service; requiring a managed care organization to provide coverage for medically necessary emergency services provided to an insured at any hospital; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 293 — Assemblymen Nolan, Beers, Brower, de Braga, Chowning, Evans, Leslie, Hettrick, Cegavske, Gustavson and Angle.  Approved June 9, 1999

3080

576

AN ACT relating to health insurance; requiring certain policies of health insurance to include coverage for the treatment of conditions relating to severe mental illness; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 557 — Senator Townsend.  Approved June 9, 1999

3100

577

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds under certain circumstances to assist in the construction of a California Immigrant Trail Interpretive Center in Elko County; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 329 — Senator Rhoads.  Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Carpenter and Marvel.  Approved June 9, 1999

3107

578

AN ACT relating to crimes; revising the penalty for the crime of petit larceny; revising the penalty for the crime of driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 360 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 9, 1999

3109

579

AN ACT relating to gates that provide access for vehicular traffic; requiring that certain gates comply with certain safety standards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 302 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 9, 1999

3112

580

AN ACT relating to business; exempting a business that creates or produces motion pictures from the requirement of obtaining a business license from the department of taxation; increasing the membership of the commission on tourism; revising the provisions concerning legislative appropriations to the commission on economic development for awarding grants to develop certain programs for occupational education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 259 — Senator Porter.  Approved June 9, 1999

3113

581

AN ACT relating to emergency management; limiting the amount of the balance remaining in the emergency assistance account within the disaster relief fund at the end of a fiscal year that may be allocated by the state emergency response commission; providing for the activation of the state disaster identification team of the division of emergency management of the department of motor vehicles and public safety upon the request of a political subdivision in certain circumstances; making various changes to provisions relating to the disaster relief fund; making appropriations to the division for certain purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 193 — Senators Rawson, O’Donnell and Jacobsen.  Approved June 9, 1999

3120

582

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing certain private companies, public entities and utilities to establish and administer a consolidated insurance program to obtain industrial insurance coverage for a construction project; providing certain limitations regarding the scope of a consolidated insurance program; authorizing the state industrial insurance system or certain private carriers to provide industrial insurance coverage for a consolidated insurance program; requiring that a consolidated insurance program must provide for the safety and administration of claims of employees of contractors and subcontractors who are engaged in a construction project; setting forth the provisions that must be included within a contract to provide industrial insurance coverage for a consolidated insurance program; allocating responsibility for the payment of claims for industrial insurance that are covered by a consolidated insurance program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 133 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 9, 1999

3139

583

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions regarding the council to establish academic standards for public schools; delaying the prospective dates by which certain achievement and proficiency examinations used to measure the achievement of pupils in the standards of content and performance adopted by the state board of education must be administered in the public schools; prescribing the dates for the administration of a high school proficiency examination that measures the achievement of pupils in the standards of content and performance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 104 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 9, 1999

3153

584

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; making appropriations for various projects and programs that benefit the residents of this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 703 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

3156

585

AN ACT relating to the legislature; revising the provisions relating to the compensation and titles of certain legislative employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 702 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

3164

586

AN ACT relating to public employees; making appropriations from the state general fund and the state highway fund to the State Board of Examiners for increases in the salaries of certain employees of the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 701 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

3166

587

AN ACT relating to dairy products; authorizing the state dairy commission and the state sealer of weights and measures to approve, jointly, the size of containers used to package fluid dairy products for retail sale; requiring certain containers used for the sale of such products to be marked with their capacity in fluid ounces and a comparison of that quantity with certain units of measure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 694 — Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining.  Approved June 9, 1999

3168

588

AN ACT relating to water; amending Assembly Bill No. 284 of the 1999 Legislative Session to make the provisions of the bill applicable to water authorities; requiring an advisory question concerning the fluoridation of water to be placed on the general election ballot in a county whose population is 400,000 or more; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 689 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 9, 1999

3169

589

AN ACT relating to gaming; revising the provisions governing the imposition of the casino entertainment tax on certain service charges; prohibiting certain persons from entering into contracts or agreements with a licensee; authorizing a rehearing on a claim for a refund of gaming license fees or taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 669 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 9, 1999

3172

590

AN ACT relating to programs for recycling; broadening the applicability of provisions regarding the availability of programs for recycling; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 564 — Assemblymen Thomas, Giunchigliani, Evans, de Braga, Goldwater, Buckley, Chowning, Mortenson, Claborn, McClain, Koivisto, Parnell, Freeman, Bache, Anderson, Collins, Manendo, Ohrenschall, Price, Neighbors, Berman, Lee, Carpenter, Segerblom, Beers, Leslie, Humke and Perkins.  Approved June 9, 1999

3178

591

AN ACT relating to education; making various changes relating to the discipline of pupils; requiring the superintendent of public instruction to establish a pilot project for alternative programs of education for disruptive pupils; requiring certain selected schools to participate in the pilot project and establish alternative programs of education for disruptive pupils; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 521 — Assemblymen Dini, Perkins, Buckley, Arberry, Evans, Giunchigliani, Parks, Price, Williams, Manendo, Chowning, Koivisto, de Braga, Bache, Ohrenschall, Lee, Neighbors, Thomas, Mortenson, Leslie, Goldwater, Anderson, McClain, Segerblom, Collins, Freeman, Parnell, Claborn, Hettrick, Gibbons, Beers, Marvel, Carpenter, Nolan, Von Tobel, Tiffany and Humke.  Approved June 9, 1999

3185

592

AN ACT relating to mobile home parks; requiring a landlord of a mobile home park to remove snow from certain areas of the park; requiring a landlord to trim the trees within the park and dispose of the trimmings from those trees; increasing the fee for a late monthly rental payment; authorizing a landlord to give a discount on the monthly rental payment to a tenant who pays his rent in a timely manner or pays his rent by check, money order or electronic means; prohibiting a tenant from harassing a landlord, manager or assistant manager of a mobile home park, or an employee or agent of a landlord; providing remedies for failure of the buyer and tenant of a mobile home to gain prior approval of landlord where required; providing a civil penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 477 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 9, 1999

3190

593

AN ACT relating to the judicial system; increasing the additional salary for longevity paid to certain justices and judges; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 472 — Assemblymen Arberry, Buckley, Goldwater, Mortenson, Parks, Anderson, Dini, Claborn, de Braga, Chowning, Parnell, Koivisto, McClain, Williams, Neighbors, Lee, Thomas, Segerblom and Perkins.  Approved June 9, 1999

3196

594

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising the provisions governing the exemption of works of fine art from certain taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 521 — Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 9, 1999

3197

595

AN ACT relating to insurance; providing for the regulation of captive insurers; establishing requirements for licensure in this state as a captive insurer; establishing minimum required amounts of capital and surplus that must be maintained by a captive insurer; providing for a premium tax; exempting licensed captive insurers from certain taxes; authorizing the commissioner of insurance to adopt regulations; prohibiting a captive insurer from transacting insurance without a license; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 635 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 9, 1999

3207

596

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; providing for the revision of provisions governing the construction and financing of school facilities; creating a fund to assist school districts in financing capital improvements in certain circumstances; revising the provisions relating to the period in which the board of trustees of a school district may issue bonds without an election; imposing an additional sales tax to pay the cost of extraordinary maintenance, extraordinary repair and extraordinary improvement of school facilities in certain circumstances; extending the duration and changing the duties of the state planning commission for the new construction, design, maintenance and repair of school facilities; authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to assist school districts in financing certain capital improvements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 597 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

3218

597

AN ACT relating to persons with disabilities; prohibiting the use of aversive intervention on persons with disabilities under certain circumstances; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 280 — Assemblymen Buckley, Carpenter, Ohrenschall, Leslie, Thomas, Segerblom, Perkins, Giunchigliani, Lee, Arberry, Parks, Williams, Manendo, Anderson, Price, Freeman, Goldwater, Gibbons, McClain, Koivisto, Collins, Bache, Tiffany, Neighbors, Nolan, Hettrick and Evans.  Approved June 9, 1999

3229

598

AN ACT relating to health care; creating a task force on the policy of the State of Nevada concerning access to public health services; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 556 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

3253

599

AN ACT relating to education; prescribing the academic subjects for public schools; requiring the state board of education to adopt certain courses of study; repealing certain courses of study; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 445 — Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 9, 1999

3256

600

AN ACT relating to utilities; providing for the appointment of hearing officers to conduct proceedings before the public utilities commission of Nevada; revising the provisions governing recoverable costs; providing for the provision of basic electric services during the period of transition to a competitive market; providing for an auction of the right to provide such electric services; making various changes related to the provision of electricity in a competitive market; revising the provisions governing the statutory deadline by which customers may begin obtaining potentially competitive services; repealing provisions relating to deferred accounting; authorizing the use of the name or logo of a provider of a noncompetitive service by an affiliate of a provider of electric services or a provider of natural gas; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 438 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 9, 1999

3259

601

AN ACT relating to taxation; conforming the permissible methods for use by the Nevada tax commission in determining the taxable value of property to those permissible for use by county assessors; exempting intangible personal property from taxation; directing the legislative committee to study the distribution among local governments of revenue from state and local taxes to conduct a study; requiring that a report of the recommendations and findings of the study be presented to the 71st session of the Nevada legislature; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 411 — Senator O’Connell.  Approved June 9, 1999

3273

602

AN ACT relating to traffic; prohibiting a governmental entity and any agent thereof from using certain electronic devices to gather evidence for the issuance of a traffic citation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 381 — Senators James, Rhoads, Porter, Washington, Amodei and Wiener.  Joint Sponsor: Assemblyman Perkins.  Approved June 9, 1999

3278

603

AN ACT relating to the office of the governor; removing the employees of the office of the governor from the classified and unclassified service of the state; requiring the governor to adopt certain rules and policies and determine the salaries and benefits of the employees of the office of the governor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 660 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

3278

604

AN ACT relating to the protection of certain persons in commercial transactions; providing additional deceptive trade practices; revising the provisions regarding loans in the form of deferred deposits; extending the exemption of workers’ compensation benefits from creditors; requiring an owner or keeper of a hotel, inn, motel or motor court to maintain a printed statement of the charge or rate of charges by the day for lodging and to make that statement available upon request; eliminating the requirement that the rates be posted in every bedroom of the establishment; eliminating the provisions that prohibit such an establishment from requiring a person to pay for a greater number of days than actually requested to secure accommodations; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 431 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 9, 1999

3280

605

AN ACT relating to the Department of Administration; extending the reversion dates for certain prior appropriations made to the Department; making appropriations to the Department for the completion of Phase III and for the continued development of the Integrated Financial Management System; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 305 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

3287

606

AN ACT relating to education; creating a subcommittee on charter schools of the state board of education; revising the process for the review and approval of an application to form a charter school; providing for a process of appeal if the board of trustees of a school district denies an application for a charter school; revising provisions governing the employment and compensation of employees of charter schools; revising various other provisions governing charter schools; requiring the boards of trustees of school districts to provide certain services under certain circumstances to children in private schools, charter schools and home schools; revising provisions governing the computation of basic support to include children in private schools, charter schools and home schools who are enrolled in classes in public schools; revising various other provisions governing the system of public education; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 348 — Assemblymen McClain, Buckley, Carpenter, de Braga, Segerblom, Berman, Dini, Manendo, Williams, Lee, Thomas, Price, Ohrenschall, Gibbons, Von Tobel, Collins, Parks, Koivisto, Arberry, Giunchigliani, Freeman, Chowning, Anderson, Gustavson, Leslie, Claborn, Beers, Nolan, Brower, Hettrick, Humke, Perkins, Evans, Parnell, Mortenson, Bache, Cegavske, Neighbors, Goldwater, Marvel, Tiffany and Angle.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Porter, Titus, O’Connell, Washington, Wiener, Amodei, Care, Carlton, Coffin, Jacobsen, James, Mathews, McGinness, Neal, O’Donnell, Raggio, Rawson, Rhoads, Schneider, Shaffer and Townsend.  Approved June 9, 1999

3288

607

AN ACT relating to public schools; creating the Commission on School Safety and Juvenile Violence; providing for its membership and duties; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 686 — Committee on Education.  Approved June 9, 1999

3324

608

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Division of Agriculture of the Department of Business and Industry for the support of the Advisory Council for Organic Agricultural Products; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 323 — Assemblymen Dini, Neighbors, de Braga, Marvel, Hettrick, Carpenter and Parnell.  Approved June 9, 1999

3327

609

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Registration Division of the Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety for the expenses related to the production of license plates; requiring certain money collected to defray the cost of manufacturing certain special license plates to be allocated to the revolving account for the issuance of special license plates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 342 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 9, 1999

3327

610

AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; revising the provisions governing contributions by justices of the supreme court; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 269 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 9, 1999

3329

611

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 that payment of remuneration to certain drivers of taxicabs, limousines and buses under certain circumstances constitutes a deceptive trade practice; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 193 — 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.  Approved June 9, 1999

3331

612

AN ACT relating to service contracts; requiring a person who issues service contracts to obtain a certificate of registration from the commissioner of insurance; establishing the requirements for the contents of such contracts; prohibiting a person from requiring the purchase of a service contract as a condition for the approval of a loan or the purchasing of goods; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 673 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 9, 1999

3335

613

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Museums, Library and Arts for the remodeling of the Boulder City Railroad Museum; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 308 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

3342

614

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Taxation for an estimated shortfall in the amount budgeted for payment of services provided by the Department of Information Technology; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 545 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 9, 1999

3343

615

AN ACT relating to state facilities; requiring the state to pay the connection fees for the connection of state buildings and other facilities to the sewage system of Carson City; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 368 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 9, 1999

3343

616

AN ACT relating to hazardous materials; revising the requirements for the transportation of hazardous materials by motor carriers; revising the authority of the department of motor vehicles and public safety to administer and enforce those requirements; providing for the imposition of an assessment upon certain motor carriers; revising the requirements for the reporting of accidents and incidents involving a hazardous material; authorizing the imposition of civil penalties for certain violations; revising the definition of a hazardous material for certain purposes; prohibiting the political subdivisions of this state from regulating the transportation of hazardous materials; making various changes regarding the amount and disposition of certain fees for permits and other regulation; revising the method for funding the state emergency response commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 167 — Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved June 11, 1999

3344

617

AN ACT relating to common-interest communities; enacting various provisions governing certain rights of an association with respect to certain property; making various other changes concerning common-interest communities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 192 — Senator Rawson.  Approved June 11, 1999

3354

618

AN ACT relating to revenue bonds for industrial development; providing under certain circumstances for the confidentiality of certain records submitted by obligors for the issuance of such bonds; prohibiting, under certain circumstances, the issuance of such bonds by the state if the issuance would result in the abandonment or closure of an existing facility; revising the prerequisites to the financing of a proposed project; authorizing the director of the department of business and industry to adopt regulations related to the issuance of such bonds and to refund such bonds issued by counties and cities in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 369 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 11, 1999

3356

619

AN ACT relating to land use planning; providing for the establishment of provisions to preserve the rural character and density of certain areas in larger counties; providing for a governing body to establish an analysis of the cost to construct infrastructure in certain areas; authorizing the governing body to enter into agreements to carry out the plan for the development of infrastructure in certain areas; revising the limitation on local control over the location of housing for persons with disabilities; requiring the health division of the department of human resources to maintain a registry of residential facilities for groups; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 391 — Senators Porter and James.  Approved June 11, 1999

3363

620

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; creating the appeals panel for industrial insurance to hear grievances of certain employers concerning the establishment of experience modification factors, the assignment of classifications of risk and the application of certain information filed with the commissioner of insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 417 — Senator O’Connell.  Approved June 11, 1999

3376

621

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing the council to establish academic standards for public schools; requiring the administration and reporting of examinations related to the standards established by the council; requiring the department of education to administer the high school proficiency examination in mathematics for certain pupils who failed the examination; requiring the department of education to establish a task force to conduct a study of the high school proficiency examination in mathematics; revising other provisions relating to education; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 466 — Committee on Finance.  Approved June 11, 1999

3382

622

AN ACT relating to controlled substances; prohibiting a person from driving or operating a vehicle or vessel if the person has a detectable amount of certain prohibited substances in his blood or urine; making various other changes concerning controlled substances and impaired operation of vehicles and vessels; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 481 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 11, 1999

3400

623

AN ACT relating to public financial administration; providing procedures for the collection of certain debts owed to state agencies; requiring certain reporting by state agencies; providing for the adoption of necessary regulations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 500 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 11, 1999

3442

624

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing the programs of accountability of school districts; making various changes regarding truancy and the discipline of pupils who are habitual truants; providing that an enrolled pupil who is 17 years of age but less than 18 years of age is subject to the truancy statutes; expanding the circumstances under which a school district may permit children to be transported on school buses and vehicles; expanding the circumstances under which probation officers may serve as juvenile court masters; revising the actions that a juvenile court must take against a pupil who is found to be a habitual truant; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 15 — Committee on Education.  Approved June 11, 1999

3449

625

AN ACT relating to law enforcement; requiring the boards of trustees of certain school districts to employ a chief of school police; authorizing the boards of trustees of certain school districts to contract with metropolitan police departments for police services; authorizing the boards of trustees of certain other school districts to contract with the county sheriff for police services; providing for the creation of a school police unit within a metropolitan police department that has entered into a contract with the board of trustees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 376 — Assemblyman Bache.  Approved June 11, 1999

3462

626

AN ACT relating to land use planning; requiring that a governing body must include a manufactured home within the definition of a single-family residence in the zoning ordinances of the governing body; requiring a governing body to adopt certain standards with respect to manufactured homes that are not affixed to a lot within a mobile home park; providing the circumstances pursuant to which a manufactured home constitutes real property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 323 — Senator Amodei.  Joint Sponsor: Assemblywoman Buckley.  Approved June 11, 1999

3464

627

AN ACT relating to public works; authorizing a public body to contract with a design-build team or specialty contractor for the design and construction of a public work in certain circumstances; authorizing a public body to contract with a nonprofit organization for the design and construction of a project to restore, enhance or develop wetlands; authorizing the department of transportation to contract with a design-build team with respect to a project for the design and construction, reconstruction or improvement of highways in certain circumstances; setting forth the method in which proposals for a design-build contract must be solicited; setting forth the method in which a design-build team must be selected; authorizing a public body or the department of transportation to employ an architect or engineer to oversee the construction of a public work or project; creating an interim advisory committee to study the use of design-build contracting; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 475 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 11, 1999

3467

628

AN ACT relating to the legislature; authorizing the use of the supplemental allowance provided for legislators to pay the costs of additional housing during a regular legislative session under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 170 — Assemblyman Nolan.  Approved June 11, 1999

3505

629

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Education for certain nonprofit public broadcasting stations that primarily serve educational, informational and cultural needs of communities in Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 224 — Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Anderson, Bache, Freeman, Parnell, Koivisto, McClain, Angle, Claborn, Mortenson, de Braga, Nolan, Leslie, Dini, Tiffany, Evans, Parks, Arberry, Williams, Thomas, Collins, Manendo, Ohrenschall, Price, Beers, Goldwater, Buckley, Neighbors, Cegavske, Hettrick, Marvel, Perkins, Berman, Segerblom, Gibbons, Brower, Gustavson, Humke, Chowning, Lee and Carpenter.  Approved June 11, 1999

3508

630

AN ACT relating to public health; requiring the establishment and maintenance of a system for the collection and analysis of information concerning birth defects and other adverse birth outcomes; restricting access to and the use of information obtained by the system; making various changes to the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 238 — Assemblymen Evans, Manendo, Gibbons, Humke, Williams, Goldwater, Segerblom, Chowning, Giunchigliani, Arberry, Hettrick, Freeman and Cegavske.  Approved June 11, 1999

3508

631

AN ACT relating to public safety; requiring a person to report certain violent or sexual offenses against a child to a law enforcement agency under certain circumstances; providing a penalty; revising the provisions governing reports of the abuse or neglect of a child and reports of the abuse, neglect, exploitation or isolation of persons who are 60 years of age or older; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 267 — Assemblymen Perkins, Williams, Lee, Carpenter, Ohrenschall, Thomas, de Braga, Berman, Claborn, Anderson, Collins, Parnell, Neighbors, Mortenson, Segerblom, Buckley, Freeman, Evans, Goldwater, Brower, Chowning, McClain, Parks, Manendo, Bache, Tiffany, Hettrick, Price, Gibbons, Leslie, Nolan, Beers, Giunchigliani and Dini.  Joint Sponsors: Senators James, Rawson, Coffin, O’Donnell, Titus, Amodei, Care, Carlton, Mathews, Neal, Porter, Schneider, Shaffer, Washington and Wiener.  Approved June 11, 1999

3517

632

AN ACT relating to eminent domain; establishing a preference in the processing of actions related to eminent domain under certain circumstances; revising the date of valuation used to assess the amount of compensation and damages awarded in an action relating to eminent domain; revising a provision governing the amount of interest a plaintiff must pay on the final judgment in an action relating to eminent domain; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 287 — Assemblymen Segerblom, Gibbons, Williams, Parks, Buckley, Manendo, Freeman, de Braga, Collins, Berman, Neighbors, Tiffany, Evans, Cegavske, Anderson, Goldwater, Gustavson, Humke, Price, Giunchigliani, Mortenson, Claborn, Hettrick, Angle, Nolan, Carpenter and Beers.  Approved June 11, 1999

3533

633

AN ACT relating to local government; authorizing a local government to donate certain personal property to a governmental entity for certain purposes; revising the provisions governing the conveyance of certain property owned by a local government to a nonprofit organization for use as affordable housing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 318 — Assemblywoman Buckley.  Approved June 11, 1999

3535

634

AN ACT making an appropriation to the account for local cultural activities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 320 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 11, 1999

3540

635

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Interim Finance Committee to provide a portion of the funding necessary for the construction of a new juvenile detention facility and juvenile addiction center in Washoe County; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 330 — Assemblymen Evans, Anderson, Freeman, Leslie, Humke, Gibbons, Brower and Gustavson.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Mathews, Townsend and Raggio.  Approved June 11, 1999

3540

636

AN ACT relating to water; establishing the circumstances under which certain temporary permits for the appropriation of ground water may be revoked; restricting the authority of the state engineer to limit the depth of or prohibit the repair of certain wells; requiring the state engineer to file certain notices with the county recorder; revising the method for calculating the fee charged to a user of water for the beautification of the City of North Las Vegas; requiring the legislative committee on public lands to conduct a study of water wells; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 408 — Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 11, 1999

3541

637

AN ACT relating to elections; revising provisions governing the recall of public officers; revising various provisions governing the circulation of petitions and verification of signatures on petitions; changing the date of the primary city election for certain cities; revising various deadlines and procedures relating to the filing of petitions, challenges, withdrawals of candidacy, lists of candidates and reports of campaign contributions and expenditures; prohibiting the solicitation of certain contributions; revising certain provisions governing the testing of mechanical voting systems; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 615 — Committee on Elections, Procedures, and Ethics.  Approved June 11, 1999

3546

638

AN ACT relating to crimes; providing an affirmative defense under certain circumstances for a defendant who is charged with the crime of knowingly failing to provide child support or spousal support; making various changes concerning such a crime; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 617 — Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 11, 1999

3567

639

AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles and public safety; creating the motor vehicles branch and the public safety branch within the department; abolishing the registration division and drivers’ license division of the department and transferring their duties to the motor vehicles branch of the department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 679 — Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 11, 1999

3571

640

AN ACT relating to fees; revising the provisions governing certain fees imposed by the state board of agriculture and the state department of agriculture; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 693 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 11, 1999

3597

641

AN ACT relating to Southern Nevada Correctional Center; authorizing the department of prisons to enter into a lease of the Southern Nevada Correctional Center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 696 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 11, 1999

3602

642

AN ACT relating to health care; making various changes concerning certain health care facilities; requiring licensure of homes for individual residential care in certain counties; providing civil penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 373 — Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Arberry, Parks, Williams, Collins, Manendo, Ohrenschall, Price, Gibbons, Berman, Chowning, Freeman, de Braga, Evans, Leslie, Nolan, Claborn, Mortenson, Lee, Neighbors, Buckley, Bache, Anderson, Perkins, Koivisto, McClain and Parnell.  Approved June 11, 1999

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AN ACT relating to community redevelopment; restricting the power of eminent domain of a redevelopment agency in certain counties; authorizing the creation of advisory councils for redevelopment within redevelopment areas; authorizing the funding of such councils; revising the provisions governing the setting aside of money for low income housing in certain cities; making various changes relating to relocation benefits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 306 — Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Buckley, Arberry, Anderson, Bache, Freeman, Tiffany, Parnell, de Braga, Williams, Parks, Segerblom, Collins, Manendo, Ohrenschall and Goldwater.  Approved June 11, 1999

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AN ACT relating to retirement; requiring the Legislative Commission to conduct an interim study of the pension plan for certain justices and judges; authorizing an expenditure by the Public Employees’ Retirement System to assist in carrying out the study; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 698 — Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 11, 1999

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AN ACT relating to state government; reestablishing the state department of agriculture; requiring the commission on mineral resources to establish fees for the production of certain oil and gas and for filing certain documents and issuing certain permits to drill wells; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 103 — Assemblymen Marvel, de Braga, Hettrick, Dini, Carpenter, Collins, Neighbors and Humke.  Joint Sponsors: Senators Rhoads and McGinness.  Approved June 11, 1999

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AN ACT relating to financial transactions; revising the provisions relating to certain loans secured by liens on real property; revising the provisions relating to the licensing and the operation of certain mortgage companies and mortgage brokers; requiring certain mortgage brokers to maintain a minimum net worth; prohibiting various acts by mortgage companies, mortgage brokers and mortgage agents; providing for administrative sanctions and criminal penalties; revising various provisions concerning certain construction controls and escrow agencies; requiring certain construction controls, escrow agencies, title agents and title insurers to maintain a surety bond; revising certain provisions related to the presentation for payment of certain checks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 64 — Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 11, 1999

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