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Assembly approves Windsor Park Environmental Justice Act amendments; lawmaker abstains citing employment
Summary
The Assembly adopted an amendment and passed Senate Bill 393, the Windsor Park Environmental Justice Act, but Assembly member Bachus announced an employment-related conflict and abstained from the vote.
On June 2 the Nevada Assembly adopted a committee amendment and passed Senate Bill 393, described on the floor as revising the Windsor Park Environmental Justice Act, and ordered the bill to the Senate.
Assembly member Monroe Moreno moved for adoption of amendment number 9-67 on behalf of the committee on ways and means; the Assembly approved the amendment before proceeding to final passage.
Assembly member Bachus took the floor to disclose that he is an attorney for the Community Property Development Program Center of Nevada and said that the organization “has been awarded under the Windsor Park Environmental Justice Act as a developer.” He stated that his legal employment would “preclude me from voting on this,” and said he would abstain on SB 393. The chief clerk then recorded 26 ayes, 15 nays and 1 abstention; the Assembly declared the bill passed and ordered it immediately transmitted to the Senate.
The floor transcript supplies the bill title, the committee amendment number and the roll-call outcome, but does not include the bill’s full text or additional floor debate about programmatic or implementation details in the excerpted floor proceedings.
The Assembly followed regular floor process: committee amendment adoption, no further amendments offered on the floor, and a recorded roll-call vote. The abstention by Bachus was made on the record as a conflict tied to his legal employment and the developer’s involvement under the act.
