Legislative Measures and Procedures

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Section
218D.050

General powers and duties of Legislative Counsel and Legal Division regarding legislative measures.

Section
218D.100

Applicability; general requirements for submitting requests.

Section
218D.105

Requirements for waiving deadline for authorized nonlegislative requesters in exceptional circumstances.

Section
218D.110

Requests from Legislative Department: Duties of Legislative Counsel; priority and order of drafting.

Section
218D.115

Requests from authorized nonlegislative requesters: Duties of Legislative Counsel; priority and order of drafting.

Section
218D.130

Preparation and publication of list; information included; joint requesters; nonreturning Legislators.

Section
218D.135

Authorized disclosures concerning certain requests; notice of duplicative requests.

Section
218D.150

Requests from Legislators and chairs of standing committees.

Section
218D.155

Requests from legislative leadership, Legislative Counsel, General Counsel, Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the Assembly.

Section
218D.160

Requests from chairs of Legislative Commission and Interim Finance Committee; requests from statutory, interim and other committees.

Section
218D.175

Requests from Governor, Director of Office of Finance and constitutional officers.

Section
218D.190

Requests from Supreme Court.

Section
218D.205

Requests from counties, school districts and cities.

Section
218D.210

Requests from association of counties or cities.

Section
218D.212

Requests from regional behavioral health policy boards.

Section
218D.213

Requests from Patient Protection Commission.

Section
218D.214

Requests from Nevada Right to Counsel Commission.

Section
218D.216

Requests from Nevada Sentencing Commission.

Section
218D.218

Requests from Advisory Committee on Housing.

Section
218D.220

Requests from Nevada Silver Haired Legislative Forum.

Section
218D.250

Certain legislative measures requested by committee must include name of Legislator or organization on whose behalf legislative measure was requested.

Section
218D.270

Certain legislative measures must include information relating to unfunded mandates.

Section
218D.290

Certain legislative measures must include digest when practicable; contents and style; revision.

Section
218D.310

Verification of legal descriptions of land in certain legislative measures.

Section
218D.330

Effective date of legislative measure when not specifically prescribed; period during which legislative measure that expires by limitation remains effective.

Section
218D.350

Requirements for certain legislative measures enacting tax exemptions subject to Section 6 of Article 10 of the Nevada Constitution.

Section
218D.355

Requirements for certain legislative measures authorizing or increasing tax abatements approved by Office of Economic Development.

Section
218D.370

Criteria for amending population classifications.

Section
218D.380

Requirements for certain legislative measures involving submission of reports to Legislature; Legislative Commission to review and recommend regarding necessity of certain reports.

Section
218D.385

Director to develop recommendations for elimination or revision of requirements to submit certain reports.

Section
218D.400

"Presiding officer" defined.

Section
218D.415

Summary of certain legislative measures must include information concerning fiscal effect and appropriations.

Section
218D.430

Fiscal note required for certain bills and joint resolutions affecting State Government.

Section
218D.435

Fiscal note required for certain bills and joint resolutions affecting local governments.

Section
218D.440

Fiscal note not required for amendments unless requested by presiding officer.

Section
218D.445

Legislator may raise issue that legislative measure requires fiscal note; determination of need for fiscal note by presiding officer.

Section
218D.460

Requester of legislative measure must be informed of need for fiscal note; procedure for submitting legislative measure to agency or local government for fiscal note.

Section
218D.465

Form of fiscal note; review by Director of Office of Finance.

Section
218D.470

Contents of fiscal note.

Section
218D.475

Time for agency or local government to prepare and return fiscal note; extension.

Section
218D.480

Transmittal of fiscal note to chairs of committees; additional procedures for preparing fiscal notes concerning legislative measures affecting local governments; retention of copies of fiscal notes.

Section
218D.485

Printing of fiscal notes.

Section
218D.495

Unlawful to copy or disseminate information concerning legislative measure submitted for fiscal note; exceptions; penalty.

Section
218D.550

Determination of form and correction of mistakes by Legislative Counsel.

Section
218D.555

Printing of legislative measures and fiscal notes; changes and corrections by Legislative Counsel.

Section
218D.560

Drafting and printing of bills; marking of new and old matter.

Section
218D.575

Request for prefiling; distribution of certain prefiled measures between Houses; review for proper form; limitations on prefiling.

Section
218D.580

Transmittal of prefiled measures to Houses; numbering, contents and form; printing and release of copies.

Section
218D.585

Introduction and referral of prefiled measures upon convening of regular session.

Section
218D.600

Introduction of legislative measure in duplicate.

Section
218D.605

Designation of one copy of legislative measure as original; binding original with cover; transmittal to Houses; preservation of authenticity of original.

Section
218D.610

General duties regarding reprinting, engrossment, reengrossment and enrollment; insertion of amendments.

Section
218D.615

Reprinting of legislative measure passed in one House and amended in other; attachment and endorsement of amendments.

Section
218D.630

Transmittal of passed legislative measure to Legislative Counsel for enrollment; receipt; notations in history of legislative measure.

Section
218D.635

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

Section
218D.640

Signatures required on enrolled bills and joint resolutions.

Section
218D.655

Delivery of official engrossed bill to Secretary of State.

Section
218D.660

Delivery of enrolled bill to Governor for action.

Section
218D.675

Procedure upon delivery to Governor; computation of time for action; approval by Governor; delivery of bill to Secretary of State if approved.

Section
218D.680

Delivery of bill to Secretary of State if bill becomes law without Governor’s signature or if veto overridden.

Section
218D.700

Secretary of State must provide receipt for bills received from Governor; retention by Governor.

Section
218D.705

Secretary of State must bind and index bills enacted into law and other legislative measures; payment of expenses.

Section
218D.720

Correction by Legislative Commission after adjournment of Legislature.

Section
218D.800

Delivery to Secretary of State of enrolled joint resolution proposing constitutional amendment; return to Legislature; placement on ballot after second passage; notations in history of resolution; publication in Statutes of Nevada.

Section
218D.802

Publication of joint resolution proposing constitutional amendment after first passage during certain special sessions.

Section
218D.805

Procedure for revising enrolled joint resolution proposing constitutional amendment before second passage to account for intervening amendments ratified by voters.

Section
218D.810

Preparation and distribution of ballot materials.

Section
218D.900

Requests for distribution; payment of costs; exceptions; cost schedule; money deposited to and paid from Legislative Fund.

Section
218D.905

Distribution to Legislators, legislative officers and Legislative Counsel Bureau.

Section
218D.910

Distribution to certain judicial officers, court administrators, clerks and district attorneys.

Section
218D.915

Distribution to certain state and local officers, justices of the peace, libraries and members of the press.

Section
218D.930

Daily journals of legislative proceedings: Printing; contents; form; number of copies; authentication; binding.

Section
218D.935

Bound journals of legislative proceedings: Printing; indexes; delivery; free copies to Legislators.

Section
218D.940

Daily history of legislative measures: Printing; contents; form; number of copies; authentication; binding.

Section
218D.955

Compilation; advance sheets; statutory tables and indexes; printing and distribution.

Section
218D.960

Number of copies; contents.

Section
218D.965

Style and form; meaning and interpretation of new and omitted matter.