Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 218D - Legislative Measures and Procedures
NRS 218D.115 - Requests from authorized nonlegislative requesters: Duties of Legislative Counsel; priority and order of drafting.


1. The Legislative Counsel shall assist authorized nonlegislative requesters in the drafting of the legislative measures which they are authorized to request pursuant to NRS 218D.175 to 218D.220, inclusive.
2. To ensure the greatest possible equity in the handling of such requests, drafting must proceed as follows:
(a) Requests from each agency or officer of the Executive Department or from a county, school district or city must, insofar as is possible, be acted upon in the order in which they are received, unless a different priority is designated by the requester.
(b) As soon as an agency or officer of the Executive Department has requested 10 legislative measures for a regular session, the Legislative Counsel may request the agency or officer to designate the priority for each succeeding request.
3. The priority designated pursuant to this section must guide the Legislative Counsel in acting upon the requests of the respective agencies and officers of the Executive Department and the counties, school districts and cities to ensure each agency and officer, and each county, school district and city, as nearly as is possible, an equal rank.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1370; A 1989, 2120; 1993, 939; 1995, 1949; 1997, 1750; 1999, 2193; 2011, 3186, 3666; 2013, 3323)

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Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 218D - Legislative Measures and Procedures

NRS 218D.050 - General powers and duties of Legislative Counsel and Legal Division regarding legislative measures.

NRS 218D.100 - Applicability; general requirements for submitting requests.

NRS 218D.105 - Requirements for waiving deadline for authorized nonlegislative requesters in exceptional circumstances.

NRS 218D.110 - Requests from Legislative Department: Duties of Legislative Counsel; priority and order of drafting.

NRS 218D.115 - Requests from authorized nonlegislative requesters: Duties of Legislative Counsel; priority and order of drafting.

NRS 218D.130 - Preparation and publication of list; information included; joint requesters; nonreturning Legislators.

NRS 218D.135 - Authorized disclosures concerning certain requests; notice of duplicative requests.

NRS 218D.150 - Requests from Legislators and chairs of standing committees.

NRS 218D.152 - Requests from certain Legislators whose offices become vacant.

NRS 218D.155 - Requests from legislative leadership, Legislative Counsel, General Counsel, Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the Assembly.

NRS 218D.160 - Requests from chairs of Legislative Commission and Interim Finance Committee; requests from statutory, interim and other committees.

NRS 218D.175 - Requests from Governor, Director of Office of Finance and constitutional officers.

NRS 218D.190 - Requests from Supreme Court.

NRS 218D.205 - Requests from counties, school districts and cities.

NRS 218D.210 - Requests from association of counties or cities.

NRS 218D.211 - Requests from certain regional transportation commissions.

NRS 218D.212 - Requests from regional behavioral health policy boards.

NRS 218D.213 - Requests from Patient Protection Commission.

NRS 218D.217 - Requests from Nevada Commission on Minority Affairs.

NRS 218D.218 - Requests from Advisory Committee on Housing.

NRS 218D.220 - Requests from Nevada Silver Haired Legislative Forum.

NRS 218D.250 - Certain legislative measures requested by committee must include name of Legislator or organization on whose behalf legislative measure was requested.

NRS 218D.270 - Certain legislative measures must include information relating to unfunded mandates.

NRS 218D.290 - Certain legislative measures must include digest when practicable; contents and style; revision.

NRS 218D.310 - Verification of legal descriptions of land in certain legislative measures.

NRS 218D.330 - Effective date of legislative measure when not specifically prescribed; period during which legislative measure that expires by limitation remains effective.

NRS 218D.350 - Requirements for certain legislative measures enacting tax exemptions subject to Section 6 of Article 10 of the Nevada Constitution.

NRS 218D.355 - Requirements for certain legislative measures authorizing or increasing tax abatements approved by Office of Economic Development.

NRS 218D.370 - Criteria for amending population classifications.

NRS 218D.380 - Requirements for certain legislative measures involving submission of reports to Legislature; Legislative Commission to review and recommend regarding necessity of certain reports.

NRS 218D.385 - Director to develop recommendations for elimination or revision of requirements to submit certain reports.

NRS 218D.400 - "Presiding officer" defined.

NRS 218D.415 - Summary of certain legislative measures must include information concerning fiscal effect and appropriations.

NRS 218D.430 - Fiscal note required for certain bills and joint resolutions affecting State Government.

NRS 218D.435 - Fiscal note required for certain bills and joint resolutions affecting local governments.

NRS 218D.440 - Fiscal note not required for amendments unless requested by presiding officer.

NRS 218D.445 - Legislator may raise issue that legislative measure requires fiscal note; determination of need for fiscal note by presiding officer.

NRS 218D.460 - Requester of legislative measure must be informed of need for fiscal note; procedure for submitting legislative measure to agency or local government for fiscal note.

NRS 218D.465 - Form of fiscal note; review by Director of Office of Finance.

NRS 218D.470 - Contents of fiscal note.

NRS 218D.475 - Time for agency or local government to prepare and return fiscal note; extension.

NRS 218D.480 - Transmittal of fiscal note to chairs of committees; additional procedures for preparing fiscal notes concerning legislative measures affecting local governments; retention of copies of fiscal notes.

NRS 218D.485 - Printing of fiscal notes.

NRS 218D.495 - Unlawful to copy or disseminate information concerning legislative measure submitted for fiscal note; exceptions; penalty.

NRS 218D.550 - Determination of form and correction of mistakes by Legislative Counsel.

NRS 218D.555 - Printing of legislative measures and fiscal notes; changes and corrections by Legislative Counsel.

NRS 218D.560 - Drafting and printing of bills; marking of new and old matter.

NRS 218D.575 - Request for prefiling; distribution of certain prefiled measures between Houses; review for proper form; limitations on prefiling.

NRS 218D.580 - Transmittal of prefiled measures to Houses; numbering, contents and form; printing and release of copies.

NRS 218D.585 - Introduction and referral of prefiled measures upon convening of regular session.

NRS 218D.600 - Introduction of legislative measure in duplicate.

NRS 218D.605 - Designation of one copy of legislative measure as original; binding original with cover; transmittal to Houses; preservation of authenticity of original.

NRS 218D.610 - General duties regarding reprinting, engrossment, reengrossment and enrollment; insertion of amendments.

NRS 218D.615 - Reprinting of legislative measure passed in one House and amended in other; attachment and endorsement of amendments.

NRS 218D.630 - Transmittal of passed legislative measure to Legislative Counsel for enrollment; receipt; notations in history of legislative measure.

NRS 218D.635 - Transmittal of passed legislative measure to State Printer; meaning and interpretation of new and omitted matter in enrolled legislative measure; comparison of enrolled copy with official engrossed copy; presentation to officers for si...

NRS 218D.640 - Signatures required on enrolled bills and joint resolutions.

NRS 218D.655 - Delivery of official engrossed bill to Secretary of State.

NRS 218D.660 - Delivery of enrolled bill to Governor for action.

NRS 218D.675 - Procedure upon delivery to Governor; computation of time for action; approval by Governor; delivery of bill to Secretary of State if approved.

NRS 218D.680 - Delivery of bill to Secretary of State if bill becomes law without Governor’s signature or if veto overridden.

NRS 218D.700 - Secretary of State must provide receipt for bills received from Governor; retention by Governor.

NRS 218D.705 - Secretary of State must bind and index bills enacted into law and other legislative measures; payment of expenses.

NRS 218D.720 - Correction by Legislative Commission after adjournment of Legislature.

NRS 218D.800 - Delivery to Secretary of State of enrolled joint resolution proposing constitutional amendment; return to Legislature; placement on ballot after second passage; notations in history of resolution; publication in Statutes of Nevada.

NRS 218D.802 - Publication of joint resolution proposing constitutional amendment after first passage during certain special sessions.

NRS 218D.805 - Procedure for revising enrolled joint resolution proposing constitutional amendment before second passage to account for intervening amendments ratified by voters.

NRS 218D.810 - Preparation and distribution of ballot materials.

NRS 218D.900 - Requests for distribution; payment of costs; exceptions; cost schedule; money deposited to and paid from Legislative Fund.

NRS 218D.905 - Distribution to Legislators, legislative officers and Legislative Counsel Bureau.

NRS 218D.910 - Distribution to certain judicial officers, court administrators, clerks and district attorneys.

NRS 218D.915 - Distribution to certain state and local officers, justices of the peace, libraries and members of the press.

NRS 218D.930 - Daily journals of legislative proceedings: Printing; contents; form; number of copies; authentication; binding.

NRS 218D.935 - Bound journals of legislative proceedings: Printing; indexes; delivery; free copies to Legislators.

NRS 218D.940 - Daily history of legislative measures: Printing; contents; form; number of copies; authentication; binding.

NRS 218D.955 - Compilation; advance sheets; statutory tables and indexes; printing and distribution.

NRS 218D.960 - Number of copies; contents.

NRS 218D.965 - Style and form; meaning and interpretation of new and omitted matter.