Nevada Revised Statutes (Last Updated: December 24, 2014) |
TITLE17 STATE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT |
CHAPTER218D. Legislative Measures and Procedures |
REQUESTS FOR DRAFTING LEGISLATIVE MEASURES |
General Requirements and Priorities |
NRS218D.100. Applicability; general requirements for submitting requests.
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1. The provisions of NRS 218D.100 to 218D.220, inclusive, apply to requests for the drafting of legislative measures for a regular session.
2. Except as otherwise provided by a specific statute, joint rule or concurrent resolution, the Legislative Counsel shall not honor a request for the drafting of a legislative measure if the request:
(a) Exceeds the number of requests authorized by NRS 218D.100 to 218D.220, inclusive, for the requester; or
(b) Is submitted by an authorized nonlegislative requester pursuant to NRS 218D.175 to 218D.220, inclusive, but is not in a subject related to the function of the requester.
3. The Legislative Counsel shall not:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in NRS 218D.150, 218D.155 and 218D.160, assign a number to a request for the drafting of a legislative measure to establish the priority of the request until sufficient detail has been received to allow complete drafting of the legislative measure.
(b) Honor a request to change the subject matter of a request for the drafting of a legislative measure after it has been submitted for drafting.
(c) Honor a request for the drafting of a legislative measure which has been combined in violation of Section 17 of Article 4 of the Nevada Constitution.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 2184; A 2003, 2086; 2011, 3184, 3261; 2013, 509, 3322)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.2405)