S.J.R. 19


Senate Joint Resolution No. 19--Committee on Taxatio
    n

                   April 5, 1995
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         Referred to Committee on Taxation


SUMMARY--Proposes to amend Nevada constitution to 
          impose additional requirements for 
          enactment of legislative measures that 
          impose or increase public revenue. 
          (BDR C-614)

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.
              Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.



EXPLANATION--Matter in italics is new; matter in bra
ckets [ ] is material to be omitted.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION--Proposing to amend the Nevada constitution to 
        impose additional requirements for the enactment of bills that 
        impose or increase public revenue.


  RESOLVED BY THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF 
NEVADA, JOINTLY, That section 18 of article 4 of the 
constitution of the State of Nevada be amended to read as 
follows:
  [Sec: 18.  Every] 
  \Sec. 18.  1.  Except as otherwise provided in 
subsections 2 and 3, every\\ bill, except a bill placed 
on a consent calendar adopted as provided in this section, 
shall be read by sections on three several days, in each 
House, unless in case of emergency, two thirds of the House 
where such bill may be pending shall deem it expedient to 
dispense with this rule; but the reading of a bill by 
sections, on its final passage, shall in no case be 
dispensed with, and the vote on the final passage of every 
bill or joint resolution shall be taken by yeas and nays to 
be entered on the journals of each House; and a majority of 
all the members elected to each house, shall be necessary to 
pass every bill or joint resolution, and all bills or joint 
resolutions so passed, shall be signed by the presiding 
officers of the respective Houses and by the Secretary of 
the Senate and Clerk of the Assembly. Each House may provide 
by rule for the creation of a consent calendar and establish 
the procedure for the passage of uncontested bills.
  \2.  Any bill that imposes or increases a tax, fee, 
assessment, rate or any other form of public revenue must be 
considered and approved twice for final passage in each 
house. A period of at least 10 calendar days must elapse 
between the date of the first vote on final passage and the 
date of the additional reading and second vote on final 
passage required by this subsection. No substantive 
amendments may be made to such a bill between the first vote 
and the second vote. The provisions of this subsection apply 
regardless of the existence of an emergency.
  3.  A second vote on the final passage of any bill that 
imposes or increases a tax, fee, assessment, rate or any 
other form of public revenue is void unless it is taken at 
least 10 calendar days before the adjournment sine die of a 
regular session of the legislature.\\

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