S.R. 12


Senate Resolution No. 12--Senators Raggio and Titus

                   June 21, 1995
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                 Read and adopted


SUMMARY--Designates certain members of Senate as 
          regular and alternate members of 
          Legislative Commission. (BDR R-2144)




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

SENATE RESOLUTION--Designating certain members of the Senate as 
        regular and alternate members of the Legislative Commission 
        and providing the method for selecting alternate members.


  RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, 
That pursuant to the provisions of NRS 218.660 and the 
Joint Rules of the Legislature, Senators Randolph J. 
Townsend, Ann O'Connell, Lawrence E. Jacobsen, Alice 
Costandina Titus, Ernest E. Adler and Joseph M. Neal, Jr., 
are designated as the regular Senate members of the 
Legislative Commission; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That Senators William J. Raggio and 
Mark A. James are designated as the first and second 
alternate members, respectively, for Senator Randolph J. 
Townsend; Senators Suzanne Lowden and Jon C. Porter are 
designated as the first and second alternate members, 
respectively, for Senator Ann O'Connell; and Senators Mike 
McGinness and Dean A. Rhoads are designated as the first and 
second alternate members, respectively, for Senator Lawrence 
E. Jacobsen; and be it further
  RESOLVED, That Senators Raymond C. Shaffer and 
John B. Regan are designated as the first and second 
alternate members, respectively, for Senators Alice 
Costandina Titus, Ernest E. Adler and Joseph M. Neal, Jr.; 
and be it further
  RESOLVED, That the procedure for requesting an 
alternate member to replace a regular member during his 
absence at a meeting, must be as follows:
  1.  The Secretary of the Legislative Commission shall 
establish a record of service of alternate members at 
meetings of the Legislative Commission, and shall maintain a 
list of the alternate members for each individual Senator or 
group of Senators. Each list must contain a numerical 
designation in ascending order for each alternate member on 
the list. The initial sequence in which the alternate 
members must be listed must correspond to their designation 
as alternates in this resolution.
  2.  If a regular member of the Legislative Commission is 
unable to attend a scheduled meeting of the commission, and 
notifies the Secretary of the Legislative Commission, the 
Secretary shall request the alternate member with the lowest 
numerical designation on the appropriate list to replace the 
regular member at the meeting. If the alternate member does 
not agree to serve, the Secretary shall make the same 
request of the alternate member with the next higher 
numerical designation on the list, and so on through the 
list until an alternate member agrees to replace the regular 
member.
  3.  An alternate member who agrees to replace a regular 
member at a meeting of the Legislative Commission loses the 
numerical designation he had on the appropriate list at the 
time he was requested to serve. The Secretary of the 
Legislative Commission shall, when the alternate member 
agrees to replace the regular member, assign to that 
alternate member the highest numerical designation on the 
appropriate list. At the same time, the Secretary shall also 
reduce by one the numerical designation in the appropriate 
list to those alternate members who have higher numerical 
designations in the appropriate list than the alternate 
member who has agreed to serve.
  4.  An alternate member who is requested to replace a 
regular member at a meeting of the Legislative Commission, 
but who does not agree to replace the regular member, does 
not lose the numerical designation he had on the appropriate 
list at the time of the request.

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