MONDAY, March 25

8:00 AM - Joint Meeting of the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means and Senate Committee on Finance (Carson City/Las Vegas) Education and Division of Health Care Financing and Policy Budget Hearings

9:00 AM - Assembly Committee on Government Affairs Meeting (Carson City/Las Vegas)

·         S.B. 231 - Requires a vacancy in the membership of town boards of unincorporated towns, town advisory boards, boards of directors of local improvement districts and boards of trustees of general improvement districts to be filled by appointment by the applicable board of county commissioners.

·         S.B. 267 - Allows for the internet publication of a legal notice or legal advertisement in lieu of publishing in a newspaper of general circulation so long as (1) the internet website is maintained by a newspaper or broadcast radio or television station, and (2) the newspaper/broadcaster prints the Internet address of its Internet website on the place where legal notices are generally published, and (3) the mailing address and phone number of any state agency or local government at which a person may request or obtain a copy of the legal notice or legal advertisement is published on both the newspaper and the internet website unless a specific statute specifically prohibits publication in that way.

·         S.B. 281 Requires that records kept about workers who are employed by a contractor and subcontractor in connection with a public work include gender and ethnicity but only if the worker agrees to supply such information voluntarily.

9:00 AM - Assembly Committee on Judiciary Meeting (Carson City/Las Vegas)

·         A.B. 365 - Requires, subject to availability of funding, interpreters be appointed in judicial proceedings where a person with a language barrier is a witness, defendant or litigant; and revises existing law concerning the interrogation or the taking of a statement of certain persons to provide that an interpreter be made available to a person with a language barrier before any such interrogation or taking of a statement.

·         A.B. 366 - Revises provisions limiting non-profit corporations from paying dividends on stock or membership certificates in excess of 8 percent annually; revises provisions governing mergers, conversions and exchanges of nonprofit cooperative corporations

9:00 AM - Senate Committee on Judiciary (Carson City/Las Vegas)

·         S.B. 137 - Removes firearms from list of weapons a person is prohibited from carrying in a concealed manner without a permit; removes the provision that a firearm capable of being concealed have a barrel size of less than 12 inches in length; eliminates the government’s authority to establish provisions for the concealed carrying of a firearm.

·         S.B. 223 - Allows an employee of the Nevada System of Higher Education or a private or public school to carry a concealed firearm while on the property of the Nevada System of Higher Education or a private or public school if the employee: (1) has a permit to carry a concealed firearm; and (2) notifies the president of a branch or facility of the Nevada System of Higher Education, the principal of the school or the designee of any such person that the employee will be carrying a concealed firearm on the property.

·         S.B. 226 - Requires a person who holds a permit to carry a concealed firearm to obtain a driver's license or identification card from the Department which contains a designation that the person holds such a permit; authorizes such a person to obtain an additional identification card which does not contain the designation; provides that a person may obtain one permit to carry all handguns owned by the person, and such a permit is valid for any handgun which the person owns or thereafter obtains; requires an permit applicant to demonstrate competence with handguns before obtaining a permit, and requires a permittee to demonstrate continued competence with handguns before renewing the permit; repeals amendments (against concealed permit ordinances or regulations adopted before June 13, 1989) requiring the board of county commissioners to require a period of at least 60 days of residency in the county before registration of such a firearm is required, and a period of at least 72 hours for the registration of a pistol by a resident of the county upon transfer of title to the pistol to the resident by purchase, gift or any other transfer; and make new provisions as amended on January 1, 2014 apply to ordinances or regulations adopted before, on or after June 13, 1989.

9:30 AM - Senate Committee on Transportation Meeting (Carson City/Las Vegas)

WORK SESSION

·         S.B. 219 - Provides for the consequences of a violation of a city or county ordinance prohibiting driving under the influence to be the same as the consequences of a violation of the state law prohibiting the same or similar conduct, including, without limitation, consequences related to the revocation of the driver's license of a person convicted of driving under the influence.

·         S.B. 204 - Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish a secure, online next-of-kin registry where the general population can assign names and telephone numbers of up to two emergency contact persons; requires the DMV to make registry information accessible to law enforcement, coroner and medical examiner personnel;  requires law enforcement, coroner and medical examiner personnel to use the registry to contact next of kin on behalf of a registrant who is the victim of a motor vehicle accident who is dead, seriously injured or incapacitated and unable to communicate or in the event of a death or injury as a result of a criminal act or other emergency.

11:00 AM - Senate Floor Session (Carson City)

The Agenda will be posted 30 minutes prior to commencement.

SECOND READING AND AMENDMENT

S.B.203—Do pass

GENERAL FILE AND THIRD READING

S.B.77—Do pass

11:30 AM - Assembly Floor Session (Carson City)

The Agenda will be posted 30 minutes prior to commencement.

SECOND READING

A.B.94—Do pass (CL)

A.B.181—Do pass (CL)

S.B.15—Do pass (CL)

GENERAL FILE

S.B.187—Do pass (1st reprint) (ED)

1:30 PM - Assembly Committee Meeting on Commerce and Labor (Carson City/Las Vegas)

·         A.B. 106 - Provides for the award of certain costs, fees and expenses to prevailing parties in actions before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Board; requires the Division to pay interest on the amount due the prevailing party that is affirmed in a court of appeals, requires an award of costs, fees and expenses made to a prevailing party to be paid from money provided by appropriation by the Legislature for the funding of the Division.

·         A.B. 214 - Requires the State Contractors’ Board to adopt by regulation a classification of licensure for persons who install or maintain building shell insulation or thermal system insulation.

·         A.B. 297 - Expands the definition of a “person” prohibited from making or causing to be made false communications, statements or representations for the purposes of obtaining certain industrial insurance accident benefits to include certain governmental entities.

1:30 PM - Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services Meeting (Carson City/Las Vegas)

·         A.B. 1 - Requires the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to include in the State Plan for Medicaid a requirement that the State cover certain costs of emergency care, including dialysis, provided to patients with kidney failure; requires the Director to provide preliminary eligibility determination to disabled persons who apply for assistance under the Supplemental Security Income Program; and provides that if a preliminary determination is made that the person is eligible for the Supplemental Security Income Program, the person must be made eligible for Medicaid.

1:30 PM - Senate Committee Meeting on Commerce, Labor and Energy (Carson City/Las Vegas)

·         S.B. 287 - Authorizes the State Board of Cosmetology to adopt regulations setting forth the requirements for teaching a class or program in any branch of cosmetology at a location other than a school of cosmetology licensed by the Board; establishes disciplinary action the Board may impose on a person who violates those regulations; allows the holder of the license or certificate of registration to display a copy of the license or certificate of registration in lieu of displaying the original license or certificate of registration; authorizes a licensee to obtain a duplicate license for any reason; revises existing law by providing that any salicylic acid used for the purpose of peeling skin must not exceed a concentration of 2 percent.

·         S.B. 288 - Prohibits a debt-management service from requesting or receiving payment of any fee from a client until it has (1) settled the terms of at least one debt pursuant to a settlement agreement or other contract executed by the individual and the individual has made at least one payment pursuant to that settlement agreement or other contract, and (2) enacted rules for determining the amount of fee or consideration the debt-management service may request; removes a requirement that a debt-management service return 65 percent of any portion of the set-up fee received under existing law if an agreement which contemplated that the individual's creditors would settle debts for less than the principal amount of the debt is terminated. 

·         S.B. 316 - Requires a contractor to dispose of certain solid waste produced by construction, demolition or similar work at a materials recovery facility approved by the State Environmental Commission if such a facility is located within 15 miles of the site of the work.

·         S.B. 354 - Defines a “residential mortgage loan servicer” as a person or institution that directly or indirectly services residential mortgage loans; requires the Commissioner of Mortgage Lending to adopt regulations for their licensure including: (1) the method and form of application for a license; (2) the method and form of the issuance, denial or renewal of a license; (3) the grounds and procedures for the revocation, suspension or nonrenewal of a license; (4) the imposition of reasonable fees for application and licensure; and (5) any provisions necessary to comply with the provisions of the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008;  requires a residential mortgage loan servicer to take reasonable steps to ensure that all employees and independent contractors of the residential mortgage loan servicer comply with certain statutory provisions and regulations and further requires a residential mortgage loan servicer to take corrective action when an employee or independent contractor is not in compliance with those statutes and regulations; requires a residential mortgage loan servicer to record the number and nature of certain complaints made about its employees or independent contractors and, if the residential mortgage loan servicer engages in telemarketing activities, to perform random recording and testing of oral representations made by its sales and customer service representatives; prohibits a person who knows or reasonably should know that a residential mortgage loan servicer is in violation of certain statutes or regulations from providing substantial assistance or support to the residential mortgage loan servicer; requires the Legislative Commission to appoint a committee to conduct an interim study concerning the laws of this State relating to the mortgage lending industry. The study must include: (1) consideration of proposals for the separate licensing and regulation by the Division of Mortgage Lending of the Department of Business and Industry of residential mortgage bankers and commercial mortgage bankers and for the licensing and regulation by the Division of private money lenders; (2) a survey of the laws of this State and other states and territories of the United States relating to the licensing and regulation of professions related to the mortgage lending industry; (3) an examination of methods by which other jurisdictions have regulated the mortgage lending industry in a manner consistent with federal law; (4) input from all interested parties; and (5) an examination of any other matter that the committee determines to be relevant to the study.

1:30 PM - Senate Committee Meeting on Government Affairs (Carson City/Las Vegas)

·         S.B. 257 - Requires a law enforcement agency to adopt and enforce policies and procedures requiring a peace officer, upon the request of the driver of a motor vehicle, to provide his or her name and badge number when making a traffic stop unless doing so would endanger the life, health or safety of the peace officer.

·         S.B. 273 - Adds a deputy's failure to become certified by the Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission within 12 months of hire or the loss of that certification as “cause” for termination within the probationary period.

·         S.B. 284 - Requires a law enforcement agency in a county whose population is 100,000 or more (currently Clark and Washoe Counties) to adopt policies and procedures to govern the investigation of motor vehicle accidents in which peace officers employed by the law enforcement agency are involved.

·         S.B. 342 - Authorizes a city or county to establish by ordinance a simplified procedure for the vacation or abandonment of a street for the purpose of conforming the legal description of real property to a recorded survey or map of the relevant area.

3:15 PM - Assembly Committee on Education Meeting (Carson City/Las Vegas)

·         A.B. 222 - Requires the Board of Trustees of the Clark County School District, in cooperation with the UNLV, and the Board of Trustees of the Washoe County School District, in cooperation with the UNR, to adopt pilot programs for the establishment of reading skills development centers at certain high-risk schools located within those School Districts; requires the Clark County School District to implement the pilot program beginning with the 2013-2014 school year and requires the Washoe County School District to implement the pilot program beginning with the 2014-2015 school year; make appropriations from the State Supplemental School Support Account to Washoe County/UNR in the amount in $1,500,000 for the 2014-2015 pilot year program and Clark County/UNLV in the amount of $1,000,000 for the year 2013-2014 and $1,500,000 for the year 2014-2015 for the establishment, operation and support of the reading skills development centers; requires representatives from each to report to each standing committee having primary jurisdiction over matters relating to K-12 public education at the beginning of the 78th Session of the Legislature on the results of the pilot program.  

·         Presentation concerning the Nevada Youth Legislature

3:30 PM - Senate Committee on Education Meeting (Carson City/Las Vegas)

·         S.B. 163 - Requires public and private elementary and secondary educational institutions, including charter schools, to provide pupils with instruction in civics as part of the required instruction in American government.

·         S.B. 269 - Revises the actions a school principal and/or advisory board reviewing school attendance may take against a pupil who has been declared a habitual truant to include referring the pupil to a school police officer or, if a public school does not have a school police officer, the person designated by the principal of the school, to impose administrative sanctions which include the delaying of the ability of a pupil to receive a driver's license and the suspension of the pupil's driver's license; provides a mechanism under which a parent may appeal the imposition of administrative sanctions; revises the requirements for issuing a driver’s license to a person aged 16-17 and a restricted driver’s license to a person aged 14-18 to require the applicant to submit to the Department of Motor Vehicles written verification that the person: (1) complies with the minimum attendance and academic requirements in public school; (2) is exempt from compulsory public school attendance; (3) has received a high school diploma or certificate of attendance; or (4) has passed the test of general educational development.

·         S.B. 384 - Changes the name of the State Public Charter School Authority to the Nevada Public Charter School Authority; authorizes the Nevada Public Charter School Authority to issue bonds and other obligations to finance the acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance or furnishing of property, buildings and facilities for charter schools; enacts the Charter School Financing Law and provides for the issuance of such obligations by the Authority; authorizes a charter school to incorporate as a nonprofit corporation; authorizes a charter school to borrow money and encumber its property and other assets, and to use public money to purchase property with the approval of the charter school's sponsor.

5:30 PM - Address to Joint Chambers by Rep. Mark Amodei (Carson City)