"                       S.J.R. 23 of the 67th Session" 


Senate Joint Resolution No. 23--Senator O'Connell

                 January 16, 1995
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    Referred to Committee on Government Affairs


SUMMARY--Proposes to amend Nevada constitution to 
          authorize specifically legislative review 
          of administrative regulations. (BDR C-39)

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 
        authorize specifically the legislative review of 
        administrative regulations.


  RESOLVED BY THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF 
NEVADA, JOINTLY, That section 1 of article 3 of the 
constitution of the State of Nevada be amended to read as 
follows:
  Section [.] 1.  \1.\\  The powers of the 
Government of the State of Nevada shall be divided into 
three separate departments,--the Legislative,--the Executive 
and the Judicial; and no persons charged with the exercise 
of powers properly belonging to one of these departments 
shall exercise any functions, appertaining to either of the 
others, except in the cases [herein] expressly directed or 
permitted [.] \in this constitution.
  2.  If the legislature authorizes the adoption of 
regulations by an executive agency which bind persons 
outside the agency, the legislature may provide by law for:
  (a) The review of these regulations by a legislative 
agency before their effective date to determine initially 
whether each is within the statutory authority for its 
adoption;
  (b) The suspension by a legislative agency of any such 
regulation which appears to exceed that authority, until it 
is reviewed by a legislative body composed of members of the 
Senate and Assembly which is authorized to act on behalf of 
both houses of the legislature; and
  (c) The nullification of any such regulation by a majority 
vote of that legislative body, whether or not the regulation 
was suspended.\\

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