NEVADA ASSEMBLY

The 'Nevada Assembly' is the lower house of the Nevada Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada. The body consists of 42 members from an equal amount of districts, elected to serve two-year terms without term limits. Each member of the Assembly represents around 47,400 people per district. As in neighboring California, the lower house of the legislature is referred to as an "Assembly" rather than the more common "House of Representatives."
The Assembly meets at the Nevada State Capitol in Carson City.
In 2007, Rajan Zed, Hindu chaplain, read the first Hindu opening prayer of Nevada Assembly.

Contents

Meetings

Leadership of the Assembly

Leadership information

Current composition

Current members

See also

External links

Meetings

The Assembly, like the Senate, is composed of "citizen legislators", receiving a relatively small per diem fee for the first 60 days of a given session. This tends to self-select legislators to those with 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 not been enough to complete legislative business, and after the last four regular sessions, special sessions have been called to finish up legislative business.

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.
The current Speaker is Democrat Barbara Buckley of the Clark 8 District (Las Vegas). The Majority Leader is John Oceguera of the Clark 16 District (Las Vegas). The Minority Leader is Republican Garn Mabey of the Clark 2 District (Las Vegas).

Leadership information

Position	Name	Party	Residence	District
Speaker	Barbara Buckley	Democrat	Las Vegas	Clark 8
Speaker pro tempore	Bernie Anderson	Democrat	Sparks	Washoe 31
Majority Leader	John Oceguera	Democrat	Las Vegas	Clark 16
Majority Whip	Sheila Leslie	Democrat	Reno	Washoe 27
Minority Leader	Garn Mabey	Republican	Las Vegas	Clark 2
Minority Whip	Pete Goicoechea	Republican	Eureka	Assembly District 32
Minority Whip	Joe Hardy	Republican	Boulder City	Clark 20
Minority Whip	Valerie E. Weber	Republican	Las Vegas	Clark 5

Current composition

'Affiliation'		'Members'
	Democratic Party	27
	Republican Party	15
'Total'		'42'
'Majority'		'12'

Current members

Name	Party	Location	District
Marilyn Kirkpatrick	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 1
Garn Mabey	Rep	Las Vegas	Clark 2
Peggy Pierce	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 3
Frances Allen	Rep	Las Vegas	Clark 4
Valerie Weber	Rep	Las Vegas	Clark 5
Harvey Munford	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 6
Morse Arberry	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 7
Barbara Buckley	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 8
Richard "Tick" Segerblom	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 9
Joe Hogan	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 10
Ruben Kihuen	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 11
Genie Ohrenschall	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 12
Chad Christensen	Rep	Las Vegas	Clark 13
Ellen Koivisto	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 14
Kathy McClain	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 15
John Oceguera	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 16
Kelvin Atkinson	Dem	North Las Vegas	Clark 17
Mark Manendo	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 18
Jerry Claborn	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 19
Joe Hardy	Rep	Boulder City	Clark 20
Bob Beers	Rep	Henderson	Clark 21
Lynn Stewart	Rep	Henderson	Clark 22
RoseMary Womack	Dem	Henderson	Clark 23
David Bobzien	Dem	Reno	Washoe 24
Heidi Gansert	Rep	Reno	Washoe 25
Ty Cobb	Rep	Reno	Washoe 26
Sheila Leslie	Dem	Reno	Washoe 27
Mo Denis	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 28
Susan Gerhardt	Dem	Henderson	Clark 29
Debbie Smith	Dem	Sparks	Washoe 30
Bernie Anderson	Dem	Sparks	Washoe 31
John Marvel	Rep	Battle Mountain	Lander, Humboldt, Washoe 32
John Carpenter	Rep	Elko	Elko, Humboldt 33
William Horne	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 34
Pete Goicoechea	Rep	Eureka	Churchill, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lyon, Pershing, Washoe, White Pine 35
Ed Goedhart	Rep	Amargosa Valley	Churchill, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Mineral, Nye 36
Marcus Conklin	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 37
Tom Grady	Rep	Yerlington	Carson City, Churchill, Lyon, Storey 38
James Settelmeyer	Rep	Gardnerville	Douglas, Carson City, Washoe 39
Bonnie Parnell	Dem	Carson City	Carson City, Washoe 40
David Parks	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 41
Harry Mortenson	Dem	Las Vegas	Clark 42

★ Notes: Assemblyman Bob Beers of Henderson is not related to Senator Bob Beers of Las Vegas, another member of the Nevada Legislature.

See also

★ Nevada State Capitol

★ Nevada Legislature

★ Nevada Senate

External links

★ Nevada Assembly

★ Members of the Nevada Assembly