AB600

Existing law: (1) creates the Legislative Fund as a special revenue fund for the use of the Legislative Department of the State Government; (2) provides that money in the Legislative Fund does not revert to the State General Fund; and (3) requires money to be paid out of the Legislative Fund only on claims approved by the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau or his or her designee. (NRS 218A.150) Existing law further provides that when various items or services provided at the expense of the Legislative Fund are sold, the proceeds from such sales are deposited in the Legislative Fund. (NRS 218F.410-218F.440) Section 2 of this bill clarifies that proceeds from the sales of food or other items in the Legislative Building or any building maintained for the use of the Legislature or the Legislative Counsel Bureau must be similarly deposited in the Legislative Fund. Section 1 of this bill makes a conforming change relating to the petty cash account of the Legislative Counsel Bureau to account for the clarification made by section 2. Existing law reserves the powers and duties relating to the revision of statutes and the compilation, organization, revision and publication of the Nevada Revised Statutes to the Legislative Counsel and the Legal Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau. (Chapter 220 of NRS) Specifically, the Legislative Counsel is: (1) required to classify and arrange the entire body of statute laws in logical order throughout the volumes of the Nevada Revised