Nevada Assembly

Nevada Assembly is the lower house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada, the upper house being the Nevada Senate. The body consists of 42 members, elected to two-year terms from single-member districts. Each district contained approximately 64,299 people as of the 2010 United States Census.[1] Term limits, limiting assembly members to six 2-year terms (12 years), took effect in 2010. Twelve members of the Nevada Assembly were termed out with the 2010 election serving their last legislative session in 2011.

Nevada Assembly
Nevada Legislature
Type
Type
Term limits
6 terms (12 years)
History
Preceded by78th Nevada Legislature
Leadership
Speaker of the Nevada Assembly
Jason Frierson (D)
since February 6, 2017
Majority Floor Leader
Teresa Benitez-Thompson (D)
since November 9, 2016
Minority Leader
Robin L. Titus (R)
since June 4, 2019
Structure
Seats42
Political groups
Majority
  •      Democratic (29)

Minority

  •      Republican (13)
Length of term
2 years
AuthorityArticle 4, Constitution of Nevada
Salary$146.90/day + per diem
Elections
Last election
November 6, 2018
(42 seats)
Next election
November 3, 2020
(42 seats)
RedistrictingLegislative control
Meeting place
Assembly Chamber
Legislative Building
Carson City, Nevada
Website
Nevada State Assembly

The Nevada Assembly met at the Nevada State Capitol in Carson City until 1971, when a separate Legislative Building was constructed south of the Capitol. The Legislative Building was expanded in 1997 to its current appearance to accommodate the growing Nevada Legislature. Since the 2012 session, Assembly districts have been formed by dividing the 21 Senate districts in half, so that each Assembly district is nested within a Senate district.

Meetings

The Assembly, like the Senate, is composed of citizen legislators, receiving a relatively small ($130) per diem fee for the first 60 days of a given session. This tends to self-selection, with legislative service difficult for those without flexible jobs and/or large outside incomes, such as doctors and lawyers. The Assembly, again like the Senate, meets however long is necessary for the completion of all its business, up to a maximum of 120 days, beginning the first Monday in February of every odd-numbered year. While this is designed to limit the amount of time a legislator is away from their first job, in recent years 120 days has often not been enough time to complete legislative business, and after four straight regular sessions, special sessions had been called to finish up legislative business. This trend ended in 2011, which was not followed by a special session.

Leadership of the Assembly

The Speaker of the Assembly presides over the Assembly in the chief leadership position, controlling the flow of legislation and committee assignments. The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus, followed by confirmation of the full Assembly on passage of a floor vote. Other Assembly leaders, such as the majority and minority leaders, are elected by their respective party caucuses according to each party's strength in the chamber.

Assembly Chamber

The Nevada Assembly convenes in the south chamber of the Legislative Building. The carpet in the Assembly chamber is mainly red, in comparison to the Senate chamber, which is blue. The chamber galleries reflect the same carpet schemes. Many legislative documents and binders are colored red and blue to distinguish them between the Assembly and the Senate. Although the chamber is separated by a center aisle, the Assemblymen are not seated by party. Rather they are seated at the discretion of the Speaker. The Speaker's desk is always the first desk in the front row to the right, if you are looking out at the chamber from the Speaker's rostrum. Above the Speaker is a large gavel, which is engraved with the name of Speaker Joe Dini; the longest serving Speaker of the Nevada Assembly. Above the gavel is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, who was President when Nevada became a State in 1864. To the left of the main door to the chamber is a podium with a Bible, which is changed to different passages by the Assembly Sargeant-at-Arms.

Since 2003, one floor session has always been held in the Old Assembly Chambers in the State Capitol. The session usually begins with a presentation from the State Archivist regarding the history of the chamber, and then legislative business proceeds as usual. Because there are no screens or voting equipment in the old chamber, all business is hand-written on a chalk board, as it would have been done when the Assembly still met in the Capitol.

All joint-meetings and joint-sessions are held in the Assembly chamber, including the State of the State Address, the State of the Judiciary Address, and addresses from Nevada's federal delegation. Unlike in Congress, where the Speaker of the House presides over all joint-meetings and sessions (except when Congress counts the Electoral Votes after a Presidential election), the President of the Senate presides over joint-meetings and sessions instead of the Speaker of the Assembly.

Composition
29 13
Democratic Republican
Affiliation Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total
Democratic Lib Republican Vacant
Begin 77th
February 2013		 27 0 15 42 0
End 77th
November 2014		 25 14 39 3
Begin 78th
February 2015		 17 0 25 42 0
End 78th
November 2016		 1 24 42 0
Begin 79th
February 2017		 27 0 15 42 0
September 22, 2017[2]
 14 41 1
End 79th
November 2018
Begin 80th
February 2019		 29 0 13 42 0
May 4, 2019[3] 28 41 1
Latest voting share 68.3% 31.7%

Leadership of the Assembly

The Speaker of the Assembly presides over the Assembly in the chief leadership position, controlling the flow of legislation and committee assignments. The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus, followed by confirmation of the full Assembly on passage of a floor vote. Other Assembly leaders, such as the majority and minority leaders, are elected by their respective party caucuses according to each party's strength in the chamber.

PositionNamePartyDistrict
SpeakerJason FriersonDemocratic8
Speaker pro temporeSteve YeagerDemocratic9
Majority LeaderTeresa Benitez-ThompsonDemocratic27
Assistant Majority Floor LeaderDaniele Monroe-MorenoDemocratic1
Majority WhipVacant
Assistant Majority WhipWilliam McCurdy IIDemocratic6
Heidi SwankDemocratic16
Minority LeaderRobin L. TitusRepublican38
Co-Deputy Minority Leader (North)Jill TollesRepublican25
Co-Deputy Minority Leader (South)Tom RobertsRepublican13
Minority WhipLisa KrasnerRepublican26
Deputy Minority Whip (North)Vacant
Deputy Minority Whip (South)Chris EdwardsRepublican19

Members
DistrictNamePartyResidenceFirst elected/appointedTerm
1Daniele Monroe-MorenoDemocraticNorth Las Vegas20162nd
2John HambrickRepublicanLas Vegas20086th
3Selena TorresDemocraticLas Vegas20181st
4Connie MunkDemocraticLas Vegas20181st
5Brittney MillerDemocraticLas Vegas20162nd
6William McCurdy IIDemocraticLas Vegas20162nd
7Dina NealDemocraticNorth Las Vegas20105th
8Jason FriersonDemocraticLas Vegas20104th
9Steve YeagerDemocraticLas Vegas20162nd
10Rochelle NguyenDemocraticLas Vegas20181st
11Bea DuranDemocraticNorth Las Vegas2018†1st
12Susie MartinezDemocraticLas Vegas20181st
13Tom RobertsRepublicanLas Vegas20181st
14Maggie CarltonDemocraticSunrise Manor20104th
15Howard WattsDemocraticLas Vegas20181st
16Heidi SwankDemocraticLas Vegas20124th
17Vacant
18Richard CarrilloDemocraticWhitney20105th
19Chris EdwardsRepublicanSunrise Manor20143rd
20Ellen SpiegelDemocraticHenderson20085th
21Ozzie FumoDemocraticLas Vegas20162nd
22Melissa HardyRepublicanHenderson20162nd
23Glen LeavittRepublicanBoulder City20181st
24Sarah PetersDemocraticReno20181st
25Jill TollesRepublicanReno20162nd
26Lisa KrasnerRepublicanReno20162nd
27Teresa Benitez-ThompsonDemocraticReno20105th
28Edgar FloresDemocraticLas Vegas20143rd
29Lesley CohenDemocraticHenderson20123rd
30Greg SmithDemocraticSparks20191st
31Skip DalyDemocraticSparks20104th
32Alexis HansenRepublicanSparks20181st
33John EllisonRepublicanElko20105th
34Shannon Bilbray-AxelrodDemocraticLas Vegas20162nd
35Michelle GorelowDemocraticLas Vegas20181st
36Gregory Hafen IIRepublicanPahrump2018†1st
37Shea BackusDemocraticLas Vegas20181st
38Robin L. TitusRepublicanWellington20143rd
39Jim WheelerRepublicanMinden20124th
40Al KramerRepublicanCarson City20162nd
41Sandra JaureguiDemocraticLas Vegas20162nd
42Alexander AssefaDemocraticLas Vegas20101st

Past composition of the Assembly

See also

References
  1. "Nevada State Assembly - 2011 Districts : Population Report" (PDF). Leg.state.nv.us. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
  2. Republican Paul Anderson (District 13) resigned to take another job.
  3. Democrat Tyrone Thompson (District 17) died.
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