SB109
AN ACT relating to the Legislature; reducing, with certain exceptions, the number of legislative measures that are authorized to be requested or required to be prefiled for a regular legislative session; codifying into statute, with certain exceptions, certain provisions of the Joint Standing Rules of the Senate and Assembly that authorize requests for legislative measures; eliminating the authority of a caucus leader to allocate the legislative measures requested by a Legislator whose office becomes vacant during a certain period; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to the Legislature; reducing, with certain exceptions, the number of legislative measures that are authorized to be requested or required to be prefiled for a regular legislative session; codifying into statute, with certain exceptions, certain provisions of the Joint Standing Rules of the Senate and Assembly that authorize requests for legislative measures; eliminating the authority of a caucus leader to allocate the legislative measures requested by a Legislator whose office becomes vacant during a certain period; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Introduction Date
Thursday, January 23, 2025
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AN ACT relating to the Legislature; reducing, with certain exceptions, the number of legislative measures that are autho
Under existing law, committees, Legislators and other persons and entities are authorized to request the drafting of legislative measures for consideration during a regular legislative session. Existing law also establishes: (1) the maximum number of measures that those persons and entities are authorized to request; and (2) the minimum number of legislative measures that Legislators are required to prefile. (NRS 218D.150-218D.220, 219A.220) Sections 1-8 of this bill reduce the maximum number of requests for the drafting of legislative measures that are authorized to be made by requesters, unless the maximum number of requests authorized in existing law is 2 or less. Sections 1 and 2 clarify that the requests are required to be submitted to the Legislative Counsel. Section 1 also reduces the number of legislative measures that are required to be prefiled by Legislators, unless the minimum number of requests required to be prefiled in existing law is 2 or less. In addition to the requests currently authorized in the Nevada Revised Statutes, existing joint standing rules authorize each House, from the first day of a regular session until 5 p.m. on the 15th calendar day of the regular session, to submit a maximum of 60 requests for the drafting of a bill or joint resolution. The Majority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly are required to allocate all, some or none of these authorized requests and provide the Legislative Counsel with a written list of the number
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