218F.150 - Officers and employees of Legislative Counsel Bureau not to oppose or urge legislation; exceptions; conditions and limitations on disclosure of information.
218F.150 Officers and employees of Legislative Counsel Bureau not to oppose or urge legislation; exceptions; conditions and limitations on disclosure of information.
1. The Director, other officers and employees of the Legislative Counsel Bureau shall not:
(a) Oppose or urge legislation, except as the duties of the Director, the Legislative Auditor, the Legislative Counsel, the Research Director and the Fiscal Analysts require them to make recommendations to the Legislature.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, NRS 218D.130, 218D.135, 218D.250 and 353.211, disclose to any person outside the Legislative Counsel Bureau the contents or nature of any matter, unless the person entrusting the matter to the Legislative Counsel Bureau so requests or consents.
2. The nature or content of any work previously done by the personnel of the Research Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau may be disclosed if or to the extent that the disclosure does not reveal the identity of the person who requested it or include any material submitted by the requester which has not been published or publicly disclosed. The content of the work product of the Legal and Fiscal Analysis Divisions is confidential and not subject to subpoena only if at the time of creation a representation of confidentiality is made.
3. When a statute has been enacted or a resolution adopted, the Legislative Counsel shall upon request disclose to any person the state or other jurisdiction from whose law it appears to have been adopted.
4. The records of the travel expenses of Legislators and officers and employees of the Legislative Counsel Bureau are available for public inspection at such reasonable hours and under such other conditions as the Legislative Commission prescribes.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 340; A 1979, 1327; 1985, 1131; 1987, 1167; 1989, 267; 1991, 462, 1835, 2447; 1993, 574, 575; 1995, 1107, 1950)—(Substituted in revision for part of NRS 218.625)