Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 218D - Legislative Measures and Procedures
NRS 218D.475 - Time for agency or local government to prepare and return fiscal note; extension.


1. Whenever a bill or joint resolution is submitted to an agency for a fiscal note, the agency shall prepare the fiscal note and return it to the Fiscal Analysis Division within 5 working days. The Fiscal Analysis Division may extend the period for not more than 10 additional working days if the matter requires extended research.
2. Whenever a bill or joint resolution is submitted to a local government for a fiscal note, the local government shall:
(a) Review the provisions of the bill or joint resolution to determine whether the bill or joint resolution reduces the revenues or increases the expenditures of the local government; and
(b) If the local government determines that the bill or joint resolution reduces the revenues or increases the expenditures of the local government, prepare a fiscal note for that bill or joint resolution and return it to the Fiscal Analysis Division within 8 working days.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 1005; A 1975, 1390; 1977, 343; 1979, 390; 2001, 3204; 2003, 2089; 2011, 3195)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

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.