Commission on Ethics subcommittee backs draft to amend Nevada ethics law

The Commission on Ethics legislative subcommittee voted unanimously to recommend that the full commission approve a bill draft to amend Nevada Revised Statutes chapter 281A for submission to the full commission and, ultimately, the 2023 legislative session.

The subcommittee’s executive director, Ross Armstrong, presented a cleaned-up “bill draft request language for the 2023 legislative session” that retains language from AB 65 and adds new clarifications and procedural changes. “Blue and red text is the language from AB 65 last session…and text in green is either new deletions or additions,” Armstrong said.

The draft would preserve certain section numbering from the prior AB 65 text to ease Legislative Counsel Bureau review and makes a range of changes: clarified definitions and confidentiality rules; explicit statutory authority for settlement conferences and approval of deferral…