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Staff outline committee scope, returning constitutional amendments and prefiled bills
Summary
Committee policy analyst Haley Proll presented the committee brief, reviewed subject areas the committee covers — including campaign practices, elections and constitutional amendments — and noted two joint resolutions from 2023 (AJR 5 and AJR 6) are returning in 2025.
Haley Proll, the committee policy analyst, presented the committee brief to the Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections, outlining the committee’s typical subject areas and the current workload.
Proll said the committee routinely covers campaign practices, amendments to the Nevada Constitution, elections, ethics and government, initiative and referendum petitions, lobbying, and legislative business such as interim study requests and measures amending permanent statutory committees. She noted that bills with significant fiscal impact may be concurrently referred to Ways and Means and that the Senate and Assembly committees’ jurisdictions are not identical.
Proll highlighted that two assembly joint resolutions from 2023 — AJR 5 and AJR 6 — were returned to this committee and, if passed in 2025, would be placed on the 2026 ballot because constitutional amendments must pass two consecutive legislatures in identical form and then be approved by voters. She also said that as of the committee briefing there were 13 prefiled bills referred to the committee; that number had increased to 17 by the time the brief was finalized.
In response to a question from the chair about workload trends, Proll said the committee’s workload has been fairly stable over the past three sessions and may have slightly decreased; she cautioned it was too early to predict the full session workload because many bill draft requests could still be referred to this committee or to the Senate committee.
Proll closed by pointing members to publications and statistical information available on NELIS and the Legislative Counsel Bureau’s research division for further background.
