2013 Nevada Legislature

 

The 2011 session will convene on Feb. 7. As of Thanksgiving week, there were 602 bill draft requests.

2013 BDR list

103


Senator Hardy

Makes various changes concerning ethics in government.

111


Assemblyman Conklin

Revises provisions governing ethics in government.

Press badges

Here’s a link to information on press accreditation for the 2013 session. There is an online form, then go to the Legislative Police office in Carson City for a badge.

Newspaper Day at the Capital is scheduled for March 8.

Copyright agreement for content posted to NELIS.


Caution

This link will get you 192 pages of exceptions to the Nevada open-records statute. Yes, 192 pages worth.


Open meeting law

Complaints and violations by year.

Until the end of the session

2013 bill list (these are bills on our watch list)


AB4

Government Affairs

Revises certain provisions governing public records and legal notices.


AB31

Government Affairs

Revises various provisions relating to public records.


AB35

Legislative Operations and Elections

Makes various changes to provisions governing elections.


AB65

Government Affairs

Revises various provisions relating to open meetings.


AB48

Legislative Operations and Elections

Makes various changes relating to elections. (


AB66

Taxation

Revises the circumstances under which the State Board of Equalization must provide notice of a proposed increase in the valuation of property.


AB67

Judiciary

Revises provisions relating to crimes. (BDR 3-403)


AB75

Revises provisions governing the publication of property tax rolls. (BDR 32-486)


AB118

Establishes the Legislative Open Meeting Law.


AB251

Requires disclosure to the public of certain contact information for a member of certain public bodies.


AB267

Revises certain provisions governing publication of legal notices and legal advertisements.


AB316

Revises provisions governing medical records. (BDR 40-233)



SB2

Government Affairs

Grants power to local governments to perform certain acts or duties which are not prohibited or limited by statute.


SB30

Revises provisions governing the dissemination of records of criminal history by an agency of criminal justice.


SB39

Government Affairs

Revises provisions governing the Nevada Commission on Homeland Security.


SB45

Revises provisions governing the sealing and removal of certain records of criminal history.


SB49

Revises provisions relating to public officers. (


SB56

Revises provisions governing state financial administration.


SB73

Revises provisions relating to cruelty to animals.


SB74

Revises provisions relating to public records.


SB116

Provides for establishment of electronic death registry system.


SB203

Requires legislative lobbyists to file quarterly reports concerning lobbying activities under certain circumstances. (BDR 17-26)


SB364

Revises provisions governing governmental administration. (BDR 19-185)



Tips for using NELIS (click on the slide above)

NELIS is the system for submitting testimony, amendments and other exhibits, such as charts or Powerpoint presentations, to committees of the Nevada Legislature.

It’s a very powerful tool for reporters covering the session, or Nevada issues in general, as it contains tons of information.

Here are some basic tips (illustrated by the slide show above) for getting the most out of NELIS.

  1. 1.NELIS is found on the Nevada Legislature’s web site, which itself has many functions, including the ability to view nearly all committee hearings while they are happening. (The red arrow in the slide show above points to where you’ll find NELIS on the Legislature’s home page.)

  2. 2.One of the ways to quickly find what you’re looking for is to click on the  Committees tab in the middle of the main NELIS page.

  3. 3.Once you’ve selected a committee, you can click on the meetings tab (red arrow above). It will take you to a schedule of all the meetings that committee has held so far ...

  4. 4.... and, when you’ve selected a meeting date, you will be able to click on Exhibits to see the materials submitted to the committee for that meeting.

  5. 5.In this example, you see several proposed amendments to AB65 (including one by the NPA, circled in red), copies of testimony, charts about Open Meeting Law violations and more.

Legislature’s lawyers reject request for Brooks report

The Nevada’s Legislature’s counsel has rejected a request by the Nevada Press Association and 13 news organizations for copies of the 900-page report that was the basis for removal from office of Assemblyman Steven Brooks.

Here’s the response.

The news organizations, including the Associated Press and a dozen Nevada newspapers, asked for the report under the state’s open-records law after a seven-member committee of the Assembly met in closed session to deliberate Brooks’ expulsion and informed the press that the report would remain confidential. The full Assembly then voted, without most of the members ever seeing the report, to remove him from office.

The response from the Legislative Counsel Bureau is a 16-page legal argument for how and why the Nevada Legislature should be able to meet and deliberate in secret, and then act on the basis of a secret document.

I hope this does not represent the Legislature’s view of its responsibility to the public, and I’m certain this does not represent the public’s view of the Legislature’s responsibility to the people of Nevada.