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Senate Natural Resources Committee: Consent calendars, work-session bills and committee votes
Summary
The committee approved two consent calendars and advanced several bills during a combined hearing and work session; this summary lists each measure the committee voted on or assigned with the outcome and key details from the meeting.
At its meeting, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources adopted two consent calendars and advanced multiple bills during the work session. Most measures were noncontroversial and were advanced by unanimous or voice votes; a small number carried proposed amendments that were read into the record.
Key actions and outcomes (committee action as recorded in the meeting):
- Consent calendar (no amendments): AB 26 (dams) — do pass; AB 86 (forestry) — do pass; AB 132 (water) — do pass; AB 354 (Nevada State Board on Geographic Names) — do pass; AB 429 (natural resources) — do pass. Committee assigned floor statements to senators for each bill as part of the standard process.
- Consent calendar (with amendments; motion was "amend and do pass as amended"): AB 29 (motor vehicle fuel) — amendment clarifies display language for price/grade and nomenclature for biodiesel blends; AB 104 (water) — amendments revise state engineer responsibilities regarding certain groundwater applications and change terminology from "vested" to "decreed/adjudicated" in specific sections; AB 487 (sale of certain pets) — amendment replaced original provisions and instead required an interim study by the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Natural Resources relating to retail pet-store sales of cats and dogs. Committee moved and passed the consent calendar with amendments.
- Assembly Bill 40 (reclamation, solid waste and hazardous-waste management): Committee moved to amend and do pass; the proposed amendment revised provisions relating to solid waste management authority duties and other agency concerns.
- Assembly Bill 59 (wildlife-feeding and related provisions): Committee moved to amend and do pass as amended. The amendments removed two sections requested by the Nevada Department of Wildlife (sections 4 and 16) and revised prohibitions related to intentional baiting or feeding of wildlife; committee members clarified the intent is to prohibit intentional baiting to attract game birds for hunting (not incidental feeding on agricultural fields).
- Assembly Bill 136 (animals/signage): Hearing and committee action took place; the committee moved to advance the bill (see separate article for details).
- Senate Bill 464 (Interstate Mining Compact): Hearing and committee action took place; the committee moved to advance the bill (see separate article for details).
All measures on the consent calendars and the work-session items were advanced by the committee by voice vote as recorded on the record. Floor statement assignments were made for bills advanced from both consent calendars and for bills that were amended in the work session; these assignments were recorded during the meeting.
