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Another bill calls for annual sessions

A second constitutional amendment calling for annual legislative sessions was introduced Friday, this time in the Senate.

SBR6 joins AJR6, which was introduced Thursday. While the Assembly version would add a 60-day session in even numbered years, SJR6 by Joyce Woodhouse, D-Las Vegas, would add a 30-day interim session.

Her plan also differs from the Assembly proposal in that the 30 day session would be limited to consideration of budgets and revenue bills.

It was referred to the Legislative Operations and Elections Committee for study.

Bill seeks to tighten campaign spending reporting

Sen. John Lee, D-Las Vegas, Friday introduced legislation designed to tighten reporting of how candidates spent campaign contributions.

SB210 would mandate reporting how candidates disposed of unspent campaign contributions and the annual balance of campaign accounts.

It would also require those candidates who don't appear on a ballot to dispose of unspent contributions. It would authorize them to contribute those funds to the state public schools budgets or a county school district fund.

It would also put limits on how much money an unsuccessful candidate can donate to persons or groups advocating for or against ballot questions.

The bill was referred to Legislative Operations and Elections for study.

Bill would add a new judicial district

Sen. Mike McGinness, R-Fallon, has introduced legislation that would create a new judicial district composed of Churchill and Mineral counties, labeling them the 10th Judicial District.

It would also move one of the three judges in the Third Judicial District " which now contains Churchill County " to the new district.

The legislation was introduced in the Senate two years ago but failed to win passage.

It was referred to the Judiciary Committee for study.

Assembly bill would take another bite from Clark finances

The Assembly has introduced another proposal designed to take money from local governments to help the state's financial crunch.

AB321 would take money from Clark County collected from the optional sales tax for water authority infrastructure projects and put it into the state General Fund.

The bill would take away from Clark any money collected from that tax that hasn't already been pledged to another use between now and Fiscal Year 2015.

"Nevada Appeal Capitol Bureau