Guinn signs 29 more bills into law

Friday, May 30, 2003 | 9:48 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- Gov. Kenny Guinn signed 29 more bills into law Thursday, including bills to give voters more time to register and to allow a central location for voting for the elderly and disabled.

The governor also approved Assembly Bill 396 requiring the Clark County School District to continue a pilot program to use part of its bond money to reconstruct at least 10 existing older schools.

Among other bills signed:

AB541 also says that if the Legislature rejects an initiative petition and instead drafts an alternative, the one from the Legislature must appear on the ballot first. Southern Nevada doctors gathered enough signatures on an initiative petition on medical malpractice to present to the Legislature. The lawmakers rejected it. The Assembly has developed an alternate medical malpractice plan to present to the voters. If that passes the Legislature, it will appear first on the November 2004 ballot to be followed by the doctors' initiative.

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