218D.105 - Additional requirements for submitting requests; deadline; priority of certain requests; requirements during session; waiver of deadline in exceptional circumstances.
218D.105 Additional requirements for submitting requests; deadline; priority of certain requests; requirements during session; waiver of deadline in exceptional circumstances.
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 5, the Legislative Counsel and the Legal Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau shall not prepare or assist in the preparation of proposed legislation for any agency or officer of the Executive Branch of the State Government or for a county, school district or city before a regular session of the Legislature unless the request is approved by the Governor or a designated member of the Governor’s staff, or the governing body of the county, school district or city, and transmitted to the Legislative Counsel on or before September 1 preceding the convening of the session.
2. A request for proposed legislation may be submitted to the Legislative Counsel pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 218D.175 by the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, State Controller or State Treasurer without the approval of the Governor or a designated member of the Governor’s staff.
3. After November 1, preceding a legislative session, the Legislative Counsel and the Legal Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau shall give full priority to the preparation of proposed legislation requested by members of the Legislature.
4. The Legislative Counsel and the Legal Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau shall not prepare or assist in the preparation of any proposed legislation during any regular session of the Legislature except as authorized by statute or joint rule of the Legislature.
5. The Legislative Commission, when the Legislature is not in session, or a standing committee which has jurisdiction of the subject matter when the Legislature is in session, may, if it finds that exceptional circumstances so warrant, authorize the drafting of legislation requested after the time limited by subsection 1 of this section and subsection 1 or 3 of NRS 218D.175.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 1190; A 1967, 106; 1969, 1004; 1973, 1122; 1975, 1389; 1983, 1372; 1993, 939; 1995, 1950; 1997, 1751; 1999, 2195; 2001, 3202; 2007, 3166)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.245)