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A
Good
afternoon,
I
want
to
welcome
everyone
to
this
afternoon's
meeting
of
the
senate
committee
on
legislative
operations
and
elections.
We
are
very
pleased
to
have
our
assemblywoman
here
to
present
today
and
I
believe,
there's
also.
There
may
be
some
witnesses
on
zoom.
We
want
to
testify
and
witnesses
who
are
in
person
who
have
flown
up
here
for
assembly
bill
302,
madam
secretary,
we
do
have
a
quorum
present
majority
leader,
canazaro
and
senator
seaver's
cancer.
Please
mark
them
present
as
they
arrive
a
few
housekeeping
announcements.
A
As
you
know,
the
legislative
building
is
now
open
to
the
public,
with
limited
capacity
and
appointments
can
be
made
for
meetings
with
legislators
and
to
attend
committee
hearings
for
everyone
who
is
in
person
and
for
those
online.
We
please
ask
you
to
keep
your
devices
muted
when
you're,
not
speaking,
and
please
silence
your
telephones,
computers,
tablets
for
all
individuals
who
are
present
in
our
meeting
room.
Please
keep
your
face
covering
on
and
maintain
the
social
distancing
rules
of
the
building.
A
Even
with
our
legislative
building
open.
Most
people
are
still
viewing
committee
meetings
online
through
the
legislature
streaming
service
or
on
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legislature's
youtube
channel.
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youtube
channel
can
be
viewed
at
a
later
time.
A
As
you
know,
committee
information
is
available
on
the
nellis
system,
which
can
be
accessed
through
the
legislature's
website.
Those
wishing
to
provide
testimony
or
public
comment
should
register
to
participate
through
nellis
and
select
their
preferred
method.
If
you'd
like
to
register
to
make
your
comments
via
telephone
you'll
receive
an
email
confirmation
with
call
and
information.
A
When
testifying,
we
do
ask
you
to
state
your
name
and
to
spell
your
name,
and
if
you
represent
an
organization,
please
let
us
know
what
organization
you
represent
at
the
end
of
the
hearing,
there
will
be
a
period
for
public
comment
and
we
may
limit
the
length
of
testimony
and
the
the
time
for
public
comment.
You
may
also
submit
your
full
comments
in
writing
if
you
wish.
A
I
know
that
that
was
a
lot
of
housekeeping
information,
so
please
don't
hesitate
to
contact
committee
staff
or
my
office
if
you
have
any
questions
or
need
assistance
with
that.
I'd
like
to
open
the
hearing
on
assembly,
bill
302
and
we're
very
lucky
to
have
assemblyman
summers
armstrong
here
to
present
today.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
and
please
go
ahead.
B
B
During
the
legislative
sessions,
our
organizations
and
peer
advocates
collaborate
on
bills
impacting
minority
communities.
The
two
legislative
measures
would
further
advance
the
ncma
accomplishments
on
behalf
of
the
african
american
latinx
asian
american
pacific,
islander
communities
within
the
legislative
process.
Thank
you
for
your
consideration
and
support
of
ab302,
and
that
was
submitted,
or
it
was
dated
march
26
2021.
A
Thank
you
very
much,
thank
you
for
your
presentation
and
I
had
the
privilege
and
pleasure
of
getting
to
know
your
predecessors,
both
simon
mccurdy,
sullivan,
munford
and
former
sunderland
williams,
and
I
think
it's
it's
awesome.
I
think
you're,
the
first,
our
first
female
representative
of
assembly,
district
six
and
I
know
you're
doing
a
tremendous
job
over
in
the
other
house.
Thank
you
for
presenting
assemble
302
and
whoever
would
like
to
proceed.
Please
come
forward
and
thank
you
again
for
traveling
all
the
way
up
to
carson
city
today.
C
Good
afternoon
it's
an
honor
to
be
here,
chair
orange
shawl
members
of
the
senate
legislative
operation
elections
committee.
For
the
record,
my
name
is
maisha
williams.
It's
m-y-I-s-h-a.
C
I
serve
as
the
vice
chair
of
the
nevada
commission
on
minority
affairs
housed
under
the
department
of
business
and
industry
and
with
me
today
is
the
commission's
management
analyst
miss
emily
kuh.
C
We
appreciate
assemblywoman
summers:
armstrong
for
inviting
the
commission
to
co-present
assembly
bill
302,
which
allows
the
commission
to
request
the
drafting
of
two
legislative
measure
measures
each
session.
We
are
a
nine-member
volunteer
body
charged
with
advocating
for
minorities
throughout
the
state
of
nevada.
C
Commissioners
are
appointed
with
careful
consideration
for
representation
across
minority
groups
and,
as
trusted
ambassadors,
we're
highly
involved
in
community
activities.
We
take
lead
on
disseminating
information
resources
that
are
crucial
to
the
health
and
education
of
the
communities
that
we
represent.
C
The
commission
actively
participated
in
the
80th
legislative
session,
supporting
measures
addressing
inequalities
in
minority
communities
and
with
support
from
senator
harris,
we
successfully
passed
senate
bill
211
to
increase
funding
for
the
commission
this
session.
We
continue
on
this
important
path
and
are
backing
legislation
that
addresses
disparities
that
have
been
exhaust
exacerbated
by
the
pandemic.
C
Over
the
past
year,
commissioners
have
heard
directly
from
a
wide
range
of
diverse
community
members
about
challenges
related
to
economic
conditions,
illness
and
vaccinations,
mental
health
and
social
injustice.
As
community
leaders,
we
often
act
as
the
eyes
the
ears
and
the
voice
of
the
minority
communities
we
serve.
We
strongly
believe
that
this
creates
a
duty
to
redirect
these
common
concerns
that
we're
trusted
to
remediate
and
propose
needed
legislative
solutions
that
will
ultimately
improve
the
quality
of
life
for
all
nevadans.
C
Our
request
for
two
bdrs
aligns
with
precedent
set
by
the
commission
over
the
past
few
legislative
sessions
with
seven
subcommittees
representing
minorities.
Statewide.
We
have
the
difficult
task
of
selecting
only
the
most
pressing
issues
brought
to
the
commission
each
session
with
the
added
challenge
of
locating
bdr
sponsors.
C
C
D
Hi,
thank
you
for
coming
up
and
thank
you
for
giving
us
a
little
bit
of
the
history,
because
I
was
asking
the
chair
some
questions
before
the
meeting,
because
I'm
a
freshman
legislature,
legislator
and
I
wasn't
aware
of
kind
of
the
history
of
your
commission.
So
I
think
that's
really
great
look.
My
my
district.
D
I
represent
senate
district
7
in
las
vegas,
a
huge
minority
district
and
many
times
the
minority
community
isn't
represented,
and
so
I'm
excited
about
this,
and
I
think
that
two
legislative
measures
is
great,
but
I
would
also
like
to
chair.
If
I
could
ask
our
counsel:
is
it
I
I've
noticed
in
the
hearings
that
we've
had
that
commissions
come
to
us
with
and
and
they
have
bdrs
and
it's
all
over
the
board.
D
Who
has
what
is
there
some
kind
of
standard
that
commissions
usually
have
or
how
do
we
decide
how
many
commission
gets
or.
E
Thank
you.
This
is
brian
fernley
committee
counsel.
The
the
requests
for
state
agencies
are
set
forth
in
statute,
so
it's
the
legislature
passing
bills
that
determines
how
many,
how
many
bill
draft
requests
an
agency
a
commission
gets.
E
Currently
there
are.
The
governor's
office
has
an
allocation
of
110
bill
draft
requests,
which
are
requests
that
are
submitted
by
the
executive
branch
agencies
to
the
governor,
and
then
the
governor
selects
110
to
submit
to
the
lcb
for
drafting.
There
are
also
a
few
other
commissions
and
boards
that
have
their
own
bill
draft
requests,
but
that's
all
set
forth
in
in
nrs218d
and
I'd
be
happy
to
send.
Send
you
a
list
of
those
entities
that
have
bill
draft
requests.
D
So
I
I
like
this
and
I
want
this
to
happen.
I
just
feel
like
I
need
some
background
information.
D
E
And
I
can
answer
that
and
kind
of
lay
out
the
timing
for
how
these
bdrs
would
work
under
this
bill.
The
the
two
bdrs
for
the
commission
on
minority
affairs
would
be
would
need
to
be
submitted
to
the
lcb
for
drafting
by
september
1st,
and
they
would
need
to
be
drafted
and
and
pre-filed
by
the
third
wednesday
in
november.
E
So
so
these
would
be
early,
be
done
early
in
session
and
be
ready
for
hearing
and
consideration
at
the
beginning
of
session.
A
E
Yes,
the
the
these
in
in
the
bill
itself,
it
says
that
they,
these
two
bdrs,
would
have
to
be
pre-filed
by
the
third
wednesday
in
november
preceding
the
session,
so
they
would
be,
they
would
be
pre-filed
and
would
be
available
at
the
beginning
of
session
for
consideration.
F
F
I'm
just
wondering
too.
I
appreciate
senator
lang's
question.
E
Yes,
I
can
I'll
send
I'll,
send
the
committee
a
list
of
the
there.
There
are
state
agencies
that
have
requests.
There
are
some
local
governments
that
have
requests
I'll
lay
those
out
for
the
committee.
F
E
I
guess
I
wouldn't
say
it:
it
takes
priority
over
it
over
over
other
bill.
Jeff
requests.
These
ones
would
just
have
to
be
completed,
drafted
and
introduced
or
pre-filed
with
the
the
senate
or
the
assembly
by
the
third
wednesday
in
november.
E
D
So
so
I
know
that
some
agencies
have
early
bill
drafts
and
they
some
are
dedicated
to
the
senate
and
some
are
dedicated
to
the
assembly,
and
I
think
we
split
them
apart.
So
we
don't
get
backed
up.
So
is
there
maybe
a
chance
for
your
commission
that
you
would
dedicate
one
to
the
senate
and
one
to
the
assembly.
C
C
Thank
you,
senator
ling.
I
think
it's
probably
best
if
we
defer
this
question
to
assemblywoman
summers,
armstrong
I
just
want
to
be
respectful
of.
A
And
I
think
you
know
sometimes
what
I've
seen
in
terms
of
where
they
end
up
whether
they
end
up
as
assembly
bill
senate
bill.
Sometimes
I
see
that-
and
perhaps
you
can
correct
me,
mr
friendly,
but
sometimes
I
see
they
end
up
in
the
as
a
committee
introduction
for
the
committee
that
has
jurisdiction.
So
let's
say
if
this
bill
passes
and
the
commission
on
minority
affairs
had
a
bill
affecting
let's
say,
state
licensing
that
that
might
be
an
assembly,
commerce
or
a
senate
commerce
bill
and
how
they
pick,
which
house
gets
it.
E
Correct
and-
and
it's
it's
actually
fairly
random,
so
we
have
the
the
pre-file
bills
that
they
are
introduced
in
the
name
of
a
committee,
the
committee
of
jurisdiction
for
the
subject
matter
of
the
of
the
bill,
and
there
are
they're
assigned
randomly
to
the
senate
and
assembly
to
kind
of
even
out
the
number
that
is
in
the
senate
and
in
the
assembly.
So
it
it's
it's
a
random
process
of
assigning
which
ones
get
to
the
assembly
and
which
ones
get
to
the
senate.
E
A
Thank
you,
but
thank
you
very
much,
mr
friendly.
Any
additional
follow-up
vice
chair
lane.
No,
no,
I
guess
one
question
I
have
vice
chair
williams
has
been
your
experience,
that
there
have
been,
let's
say,
minority
business
owners
or
other
others
who
have
come
to
the
commission
on
minority
affairs,
seeking
a
change
in
law
and
hoping
that
maybe
they
can
that
the
commission
can
do
it,
but
it
really
needs
to
be
a
legislative
change,
a
change
to
the
nevada.
Vice
statutes,
I
mean.
Have
you
had
that
experience?
A
C
Thank
you,
chair,
maisha
williams,
for
the
record,
so
I
think
the
way
that
that
we've
typically
seen
this
happen
is
that
we
have
commissioners
assigned
to
each
of
the
subcommittees
that
are
working
directly
within
communities,
and
so
it's
less
likely
that
a
an
individual
would
come
directly
to
say
like
the
legislative
chair
and
propose
legislative
changes.
C
Instead,
it's
based
on
the
community-based
interactions
that
we're
seeing
themes
that
we're
hearing
and
then
those
subcommittee
chairs
are
coming
back
to
the
legislative
subcommittee
to
make
suggestions
typically,
also,
legislation
that
we
are
championing
is
impacting
all
minority
groups,
not
subsets
or
singular
issues.
So
there's
kind
of
a
certain
pattern
precedent
that
we've
followed
in
the
past
with
only
two
legislative
measures
to
push
forward.
We
need
to
be
very
selective
and
make
sure
that's
impacting
the
most
people
positively.
A
G
G
Probably
over
a
decade
ago
we
worked
on
kind
of
whittling
down
the
number
of
bill
drafts
because
of
the
workload
during
such
a
short
period
of
time,
and
so
I
think
we
just
have
to
keep
that
in
mind
too,
because
there's
there's
so
many
legislators
who
I
know
would
offer
bill
draft
if
you
need
it
at
least
I
I
believe
so
so.
Thank
you.
A
That's
a
good
point.
Thank
you.
Senator
zebra's
cancer,
any
additional
questions,
members!
No
all
right!
Thank
you
very
much,
thank
you
and
any
anyone
else
in
support
here
in
the
room.
A
H
H
I
A-S-H-A-N-T-I-L-E-W-I-S
and
I
am
the
advocacy
manager
at
three
square
food
bank,
which
is
the
regional
food
bank
in
southern
nevada,
servicing
clark,
lincoln
nye
and
esmeralda
counties.
I
am
calling
today
in
support
of
assembly
bills.
302
three
squares
advocacy
team
has
worked
closely
with
the
nevada
commission
on
minority
affairs.
Members
of
the
commission
have
had
the
opportunity
to
visit
our
facilities
and
collectively,
as
a
group,
we
have
shared
our
short-term
and
long-term
goals
related
to
diversity,
equity
and
inclusion,
especially
in
the
arena
of
food
insecurity,
public
health
and
health
care
disparities.
I
The
commission
does
great
work
and
we
believe
allowing
them
to
utilize.
Their
own
legislative
measures
will
help
to
address
many
of
the
urgent
needs
we
see
at
the
grassroots
level
in
our
community
again.
We
wholeheartedly
support
this
bill
and
urge
the
committee
to
do
so
as
well.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
A
A
A
B
Thank
you,
chairman
orenshall
and
members
of
the
committee.
We
appreciate
you
taking
the
time
this
late
in
the
afternoon
to
to
hear
our
request,
and
I
will
speak
to
senator
sivers
gansard
and
and
confirm
that,
yes,
the
committee
could
ask
others
to
allow
them
to
have
their
bill
drafts,
but
what
we
would
like
to
see
is
that
they
have,
since
they
are
volunteers,
that
they
have
the
opportunity
to
get
their
bills
in
early
and
not
wait
for
the
deadline.
B
I
was
lucky
enough
this
time
to
have
one
bill
at
the
very
last
minute
to
offer,
and
I
was
very
happy
to
do
so,
but
I
think
that
by
the
way
that
they
function
in
their
meeting
schedules
to
be
able
to
allow
to
do
this
in
early
in
the
session
would
be
very
helpful
and
allow
them
the
agency
to
really
work
with
their
board
the
communities
that
they
serve
to
ferret
out,
which
issues
are
the
most
important
and
get
them
presented
as
early
as
possible
in
the
process.
I
thank
you.
A
Thank
you
very
much
assemblywoman
for
presenting
the
bill.
Thank
you
vice,
chair
williams,
thank
you
to
you
know
for
volunteering,
on
the
commission
and
to
the
staff.
We
appreciate
you
presenting
this
measure.
Thank
you
we'll
now
close
the
hearing
on
assembly,
bill
302
and
the
last
item
on
our
agenda
today
is
public
comment
and
there
again
there's
no
one
here
in
the
committee
room,
so
broadcasting.
If
there's
anyone
on
the
phone
lines
who
wishes
to
make
public
comment,
we're
allotting
two
minutes
per
caller.