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NV: Bill allows lawmakers, not gov, to call special sessions

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By Sean Whaley | Nevada News Bureau

CARSON CITY — A proposed constitutional amendment could shift the power to call a special session from the governor to the lawmakers.

Nevada voters rejected a similar proposal in 2006, and they will have a chance to vote on it again in the Nov. 6 general election.

Question 1 would the Legislature, on extraordinary occasions and only with two-thirds support of lawmakers in each house, to call itself into special session. Sessions would be limited to 20 days, but could be convened on a continuous basis, if the extraordinary conditions requirement was met and with two-thirds support from lawmakers.

The phrase “extraordinary occasions” is the sticking point.

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