218D.130 - Preparation and publication of list; information included; joint requesters; nonreturning Legislators.
218D.130 Preparation and publication of list; information included; joint requesters; nonreturning Legislators.
1. On July 1 preceding each regular session of the Legislature, and each week thereafter until the adjournment of the Legislature sine die, the Legislative Counsel shall prepare a list of all requests received by the Legislative Counsel, for the preparation of measures to be submitted to the Legislature. The requests must be listed numerically by a unique serial number which must be assigned to the measures by the Legislative Counsel for the purposes of identification in the order that the Legislative Counsel received the requests. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 3 and 4, the list must only contain the name of each requester, the date and a brief summary of the request.
2. The Legislative Counsel Bureau shall make copies of the list available to the public for a reasonable sum fixed by the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau.
3. In preparing the list, the Legislative Counsel shall, if a standing or special committee of the Legislature requests a measure on behalf of a Legislator or organization, include the name of the standing or special committee and the name of the Legislator or organization on whose behalf the measure was originally requested.
4. Upon the request of a Legislator who has requested the preparation of a measure, the Legislative Counsel shall add the name of one or more Legislators from either or both Houses of the Legislature as joint requesters. The Legislative Counsel shall not add the name of a joint requester to the list until the Legislative Counsel has received confirmation of the joint request from the primary requester of the measure and from the Legislator to be added as a joint requester. The Legislative Counsel shall remove the name of a joint requester upon receipt of a request to do so made by the primary requester or the joint requester. The names must appear on the list in the order in which the names were received by the Legislative Counsel beginning with the primary requester. The Legislative Counsel shall not act upon the direction of a joint requester to withdraw the requested measure or modify its substance until the Legislative Counsel has received confirmation of the withdrawal or modification from the primary requester.
5. If the primary requester of a measure will not be returning to the Legislature for the legislative session in which the measure is to be considered, the primary requester may authorize a Legislator who will be serving during that session to become the primary sponsor of the measure, either individually or as the chair on behalf of a standing committee. If the Legislator who will be serving during that session agrees to become or have the committee become the primary sponsor of the measure, that Legislator shall notify the Legislative Counsel of that fact. Upon receipt of such notification, the Legislative Counsel shall list the name of that Legislator or the name of the committee as the primary requester of the measure on the list.
6. For the purposes of all limitations on the number of legislative measures that may be requested by a Legislator, a legislative measure with joint requesters must only be counted as a request of the primary requester.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 1166; A 1989, 1, 637; 1993, 826; 2003, 935; 2005, 928, 1232)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.2475)