AGENDA ITEM# 12 SUN VALLEY GENERAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT DATE: 2-3-17 TO: Board of Trustees FROM: Darrin Price – General Manager SUBJECT: Review and discussion regarding the 2017 Legislative Session with possible direction to staff. (for possible action). Every two years the Nevada Legislature meets. 2017 is here and it’s that time again. In 2014, the District cancelled its Lobbying contract with Fred Hillerby. At that time the total expenses for the lobbying contract was $1,650.00 dollars a month year round (as to include committee meetings that can and do meet when the session is closed and networking). In February of 2015, the board unanimously approved the General Manager “to act in the lobbying capacity” for the District. Per this direction I have started to assemble a team to assist me with monitoring, tracking, networking, and attending sessions, committee meetings, and general networking to establish relationships with both legislators and their staff. I registered myself, Jennifer, and Maddy as paid lobbyist for this session. The cost to register is $300.00 dollars per person, a total of $900.00 dollars. As a registered lobbyist you can track 10 bills via NELLIS. NELLIS is the Nevada Electronic Legislative Information System. It allows for PLT: What is Personalized Legislative Tracking (PLT)? · PLT allows you to subscribe to BDRs, bills, and budgets that are of interest to you, and subsequently tag and create notes on your subscriptions. · The advantage of PLT is that you will receive immediate notifications of hearings, a daily status notification, and have access to tailored, exportable reports for the subscriptions you have chosen to track. · PLT is an optional, upgraded feature of the Nevada Electronic Legislative Information System (NELIS) and of the Nevada Legislature website. All of the information is available for free on NELIS. As a reminder to the board, non-lobbyist personal can only contact their representative during the session and a lobbyist may contact any representative during sessions. With this in mind, I registered Jennifer to be able to contact all representatives and their staff either to assist as needed or in my absence be able to carry out business that may need to get done due to timing. Maddy’s registration is due to her incredible history and knowledge of the legislature and of course as possible legal representation as needed. I have purchased the additional bill tracking option to increase our bill tracking from 30 (each paid lobbyist gets 10) to 130. I have also attached to this report the “Scope of Work” that the board approved when we were soliciting a potential lobbyist consultant and the prior Legislative strategy that was discussed at the District’s board meetings. Attached is the initial BDR list we have created for the board’s review along with a contact list of representatives. Staff would be available to answer questions and provide additional information as needed. Respectfully submitted, Darrin Price General Manager Encl: Sun Valley General Improvement District 2017 Legislative BDR / Bill Tracking BDR / Bill Description BDR SponsororRequester 10-339 Revises provisions governing landlords and tenants.; Assemblyman Elliot Anderson 10-41 Revises provisions governing common-interest communities.; Assemblyman Gardner 10-689 Revises provisions governing records relating to eviction.; Assemblywoman Bilbray-Axelrod 110 Revises provisions governing ethics in government.; Assemblywoman Dickman 157 Makes various changes relating to certain professions.; Assemblyman Pickard 15-84 Revises provisions relating to privacy.; Senate Committee on Judiciary 17-573 Revises provisions governing regulation of governmental entities.; Assemblyman Daly 17-573 Revises provisions governing regulation of governmental entities.; Assemblyman Daly 18-106 Revises provisions prohibiting certain discriminatory acts.; Senator Parks 18-14 Enacts provisions from the federal Paycheck Fairness Act and makes Senator Spearman, Senator Cancela certain other changes relating to employment.; 18-243 Makes various changes relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program Department of Administration and the Deferred Compensation Program.; 18-681 Revises provisions relating to common-interest communities.; Senator Woodhouse 19-205 Revises provisions relating to public notices.; Senator Roberson 19-389 Makes various changes to the Nevada Public Records Law.; Attorney General 20-103 Revises provisions governing public administrators.; Assemblywoman Titus 20-376 Revises provisions governing the confidentiality of information contained Attorney General in County Assessors' records.; 20-400 Revises provisions relating to confidential information.; Nevada Supreme Court 211 Authorizes the creation of park, trail and open space districts.; Assemblywoman Joiner 21-323 Revises provisions governing the collection of delinquent municipal utility Nevada League of Cities and Municipalities charges.; 22-433 Makes various changes to regional planning.; Washoe County 22-796 Revises provisions relating to counties.; Assemblyman Daly Sun Valley General Improvement District 2017 Legislative BDR / Bill Tracking BDR / Bill Description BDR SponsororRequester 23-230 Makes various changes to the role, operations and composition of the Office of the Governor Commission on Ethics.; 23-275 Revises provisions relating to employment practices.; Assemblywoman Neal 23-290 Revises provisions governing collective bargaining.; Assemblyman Carrillo 23-33 Revises provisions governing the consideration of the criminal history of Assemblyman Thompson 23-35 Makes various changes relating to collective bargaining.; Assemblyman Wheeler 23-377 Revises provisions governing the acceptance of gifts by certain public Attorney General officers.; 23-428 Revises provisions relating to relations between local governments and State Controller public employees.; 23-429 Revises provisions relating to the Public Employees' Retirement System.; State Controller 23-621 Revises provisions governing relations between local governments and Assemblyman Yeager public employees.; 23-685 Revises provisions relating to collective bargaining.; Senate Committee on Government Affairs 23-85 Makes various changes regarding campaign practices.; Assemblyman Oscarson 24-16 Revises provisions governing elections.; Assemblyman Marchant 24-184 Revises provisions relating to elections.; Assemblywoman Spiegel 24-2 Makes various changes relating to elections.; Secretary of State 24-22 Revises provisions relating to elections.; Senator Ford, Assemblyman Araujo 24-268 Revises provisions relating to elections.; Senator Hardy 24-426 Revises various provisions relating to elections.; Secretary of State 24-45 Designates certain elective offices as nonpartisan offices.; Assemblyman Silberkraus 24-450 Revises provisions relating to elections.; Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections 24-452 Revises provisions relating to elections.; Senator Farley Sun Valley General Improvement District 2017 Legislative BDR / Bill Tracking BDR / Bill Description BDR SponsororRequester 24-491 Makes various changes relating to elections.; Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections 24-521 Revises provisions governing elections.; Senator Settelmeyer 24-522 Makes certain changes relating to elections.; Senator Settelmeyer 24-58 Revises certain provisions governing elections.; Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections 24-749 Revises provisions governing elections.; Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections 24-88 Revises provisions relating to elections.; Assemblyman Hansen 25 Revises provisions governing campaign practices.; Assemblyman Armstrong 269 Revises provisions relating to utilities.; Senator Hardy 269 Revises provisions relating to utilities.; Senator Hardy 27-354 Authorizes certain former state employees to enter into a contract for Legislative Committee on Health Care (NRS 439B.200) services with a using agency within two years of the termination of employment.; 274 Revises provisions governing elections.; Assemblyman Jones 28-192 Revises provisions governing certain boards and commissions.; Assemblywoman Swank 28-564 Revises provisions relating to public works.; Assemblyman Carrillo 28-667 Revises provisions relating to public works.; Senator Manendo 28-747 Revises provisions governing prevailing wage.; Assemblyman Brooks 28-781 Revises provisions governing public works.; Assemblyman Daly 30-356 Revises provisions relating to grants for capital improvements to publicly Legislative Commission's Subcommittee to Study Water (NRS owned water systems.; 218E.200) 31-231 Revises provisions regarding the collection of debts owed to state Office of the Governor agencies.; 31-244 Revises provisions governing the acceptance of gifts and grants by state Department of Administration agencies.; 31-49 Revises provisions governing lobbying.; Assemblyman Gardner Sun Valley General Improvement District 2017 Legislative BDR / Bill Tracking BDR / Bill Description BDR SponsororRequester 31-782 Revises provisions relating to the investment of public money.; Assemblyman Kramer 32-272 Exempts certain property from taxation.; Senator Kieckhefer 32-441 Revises provisions governing the partial abatement of taxes levied on Nevada Association of Counties residential and other property.; 325 Revises provisions relating to taxation.; Senator Hardy 32-647 Revises provisions governing distribution of proceeds of certain taxes to Assemblywoman Titus local governments.; 32-99 Revises