218D.150 - Requests from Legislators and chairs of standing committees.

218D.150  Requests from Legislators and chairs of standing committees.

      1.  Each:

      (a) Incumbent member of the Assembly may request the drafting of not more than 6 legislative measures submitted to the Legislative Counsel on or before September 1 preceding the commencement of a regular session of the Legislature and not more than 5 legislative measures submitted to the Legislative Counsel after September 1 but on or before December 15 preceding the commencement of a regular session of the Legislature.

      (b) Incumbent member of the Senate may request the drafting of not more than 12 legislative measures submitted to the Legislative Counsel on or before September 1 preceding the commencement of a regular session of the Legislature and not more than 10 legislative measures submitted to the Legislative Counsel after September 1 but on or before December 15 preceding the commencement of a regular session of the Legislature.

      (c) Newly elected member of the Assembly may request the drafting of not more than 5 legislative measures submitted to the Legislative Counsel on or before December 15 preceding the commencement of a regular session of the Legislature.

      (d) Newly elected member of the Senate may request the drafting of not more than 10 legislative measures submitted to the Legislative Counsel on or before December 15 preceding the commencement of a regular session of the Legislature.

      2.  In addition to the number authorized pursuant to subsection 1:

      (a) The chair of each standing committee of the immediately preceding regular legislative session, or a person designated in the place of the chair by the Speaker of the Assembly or the Majority Leader of the Senate, as the case may be, may request before the date of the general election preceding the commencement of the next regular legislative session the drafting of not more than 1 legislative measure for introduction by the committee in a subject within the jurisdiction of the committee for every 15 legislative measures that were referred to the respective standing committee during the immediately preceding regular legislative session.

      (b) A person designated after a general election as a chair of a standing committee for the next regular legislative session, or a person designated in the place of a chair by the person designated as the Speaker of the Assembly or the Majority Leader of the Senate for the next regular legislative session, may request on or before December 15 preceding the commencement of the next regular legislative session the drafting of the remaining number of the legislative measures allowed for the respective standing committee that were not requested by the previous chair or designee.

      3.  Each request made pursuant to this section must be on a form prescribed by the Legislative Counsel.

      (Added to NRS by 1999, 2184; A 2001, 3200; 2003, 2087; 2007, 3165)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.2423)