218D.635 - Transmittal of passed measure to State Printer; meaning and interpretation of new and omitted matter in enrolled measure; comparison of enrolled copy with official engrossed copy; presentat

218D.635  Transmittal of passed measure to State Printer; meaning and interpretation of new and omitted matter in enrolled measure; comparison of enrolled copy with official engrossed copy; presentation to officers for signatures.

      1.  The Legislative Counsel shall transmit copies of passed bills or resolutions without delay, in the order of their receipt, to the State Printer, taking a receipt therefor. The receipt must bear the date of delivery and give the bill or resolution number.

      2.  The State Printer shall without delay enroll (print) the bills or resolutions in the order of their receipt, and they must be printed in enrolled form, retaining symbols indicating amendments to existing law only. In printing enrolled bills amending existing law, the State Printer, in cooperation with the Legislative Counsel, shall cause to be printed between brackets the words, phrases or provisions of the existing law, if any, which have been stricken out or eliminated by the adoption of the amendment, and shall cause to be printed in italics all new words, phrases or provisions, if any, which have been inserted into or added to the law by the passage of such amendment.

      3.  In ascertaining the correct reading, status and interpretation of an enrolled bill amending existing law, the matter inserted within brackets must be omitted, and the matter in italics must be read and interpreted as part of the enrolled bill.

      4.  The Legislative Counsel shall carefully compare the enrolled copy with the official engrossed copy, and if the enrolled copy is found to be correct, the Legislative Counsel shall present it to the proper officers for their signatures. When the officers sign their names thereon, as required by law, it is enrolled. The official engrossed copy may by resolution be used as the enrolled bill.

      [8:3:1949; A 1955, 732]—(NRS A 1965, 1452; 1969, 1520; 1973, 1458; 1985, 460; 1993, 1534; 1997, 13; 2005, 3)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.350)

      NRS 218D.640  Signatures required on enrolled bills and joint resolutions.  Every bill and joint resolution passed by both Houses shall be signed after enrollment, by the respective presiding officers thereof and by the Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the Assembly.

      [9:3:1949; 1943 NCL § 7298.09]—(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.360)