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Introduced Session

—Proposing to amend the Nevada Constitution to add and revise terms relating to persons with certain conditions for whose benefit certain public entities are supported by the State. Legislative Counsel’s Digest: Section 1 of Article 13 of the Nevada Constitution requires that institutions for the benefit of the insane, blind and deaf and dumb be fostered and supported by the State. This joint resolution proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to replace the term “institutions” with “entities” and to revise the description of the persons who benefit from these entities from: (1) “insane” to “persons with significant mental illness”; (2) “blind” to “persons who are blind or visually impaired”; and (3) “deaf and dumb” to “persons who are deaf or hard of hearing.” This joint resolution also proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to add entities for the benefit of persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities to the types of entities that shall be fostered and supported by the State. R ESOLVED BY THE ASSEMBLY AND SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, JOINTLY, That Section 1 of Article 13 of the Nevada Constitution be amended to read as follows: Section. 1. Institutions Entities for the benefit of the Insane, Blind and Deaf and Dumb, persons with significant mental illness, persons who are blind or visually impaired, persons who are deaf or hard of hearing and persons with intellectual disabilities or developmental disabilities, and such other benevolent institutions entities as the public good may require, shall be fostered and supported by the State, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law. And be it further.

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Teresa Benitez-Thompson (D)*,  Joe Hardy (R)*,  Dallas Harris (D)*,  Lisa Krasner (R)*,  Heidi Seevers Gansert (R)*,  Robin Titus (R)*,  Michelle Gorelow (D),  Greg Hafen (R),  Alexis Hansen (R),  Melissa Hardy (R),  Ben Kieckhefer (R),  Andrew Matthews (R),  Rochelle Nguyen (D),  David Orentlicher (D),  Sarah Peters (D),  Julia Ratti (D),  Shondra Summers-Armstrong (D),  Claire Thomas (D), 

File No. 36. (on 05/29/2021)

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