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- 83rd Session (2025)
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 8–Committee
on Legislative Operations and Elections
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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION—Amending the Joint
Standing Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the 83rd
Session of the Legislature.
RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, THE
ASSEMBLY CONCURRING, That Rule No. 11 of the Joint Standing
Rules of the Senate and Assembly as adopted by the 83rd Session of
the Legislature is hereby amended to read as follows:
Rule No. 11. Membership and Organization.
1. When members of the minority party in the Senate or
in the Assembly comprise [one-third or] less than half of the
total number elected to that House, minorit y party
membership for that House on the Legislative Commission
must be:
(a) One, if such membership is less than one -fifth of the
total number elected to that House.
(b) Two, if such membership is at least one -fifth but [not
more] less than [one-third] half of the total number elected to
that House.
If the [members of the minority party in the Senate or in
the Assembly comprise more than one -third of the total
number elected to that ] membership of a House [, minority]
is evenly divided by party , each party’s membership for that
House on the Commission must be three . [, being equal to
the membership of the majority party.]
2. Each House shall select one or more alternate
members for each member from that House, designating them
according to party or according to the individual member
whom the alternate would replace.
3. A vacancy in the regular Senate or Assembly
membership created by death or by resignation or by the
Legislator’s ceasing to be a member of the Legislature shall
be filled by the proper alternate member as designated by that
House. If there is no proper alternate member, the Legislative
Commission shall fill the vacancy by appointing a Senator or
Assemblymember of the same party.
4. If for any reason a member is or will be absent fro m a
meeting and there are no alternates available, the Chair of the
Commission may appoint a member of the same House and
political party to attend the meeting as an alternate.
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5. The members shall serve until their successors are
appointed by resolution as provided in NRS 218E.150, except
that the membership of any member who does not become a
candidate for reelection or who is defeated for reelection shall
terminate on the day next after the election and the vacancy
shall be filled as provided in this Rule.
6. The Chair shall be selected at the first meeting of the
newly formed Legislative Commission and shall serve until
his or her successor is appointed following the formation of
the next Legislative Commission.
And be it further
RESOLVED, That this resolution becomes effective upon
adoption.
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