Nevada SCR 1: Expresses appreciation to persons and organizations who offered their services and assistance during the 31st Special Session of the Nevada Legislature. (BDR R-22)

Bill Text

- 31st Special Session (2020)
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1–Senators Cannizzaro; Brooks,
Cancela, Denis, Dondero Loop, Goicoechea, Hammond,
Hansen, Hardy, Harris, Kieckhefer, Ohrenschall, Parks,
Pickard, Ratti, Scheible, Seevers Gansert, Settelmeyer,
Spearman, Washington and Woodhouse

Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Frierson; Assefa, Backus, Benitez-
Thompson, Bilbray-Axelrod, Carlton, Carrillo, Cohen,
Daly, Douglass-Boone, Duran, Edwards, Ellison, Flores,
Fumo, Gorelow, Hafen, Hambrick, Hansen, Hardy,
Jauregui, Kramer, Krasner, Leavitt, Martinez, McCurdy,
Miller, Monroe-Moreno, Munk, Neal, Nguyen, Peters,
Roberts, Smith, Spiegel, Swank, Titus, Tolles, Torres,
Watts, Wheeler and Yeager

FILE NUMBER..........
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION—Expressing
appreciation to persons and organizations who offered their
services and assistance during the 31st Special Session of the
Nevada Legislature.
WHEREAS, In response to the extraordinary circumstances
resulting from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Governor of the
State of Nevada called the Nevada Legislature into a special session
on July 8, 2020; and
WHEREAS, Knowing that the special session would bring many
individuals into the Legislative Building and the risks posed by the
COVID-19 virus, various persons and entities stepped in to offer
assistance and support to ensure that Legislators, legislative staff,
members of the press and the public remained safe during the
special session; and
WHEREAS, The State Epidemiologist assisted in arranging
testing of legislators and legislative staff located in Carson City,
Nevada for the COVID-19 virus; and
WHEREAS, To carry out that testing, the State Epidemiologist
coordinated with the Nevada National Guard in Carson City to
conduct a testing event for legislative employees and Legislators
before the commencement of the special session; and
WHEREAS, The Nevada National Guard performed nearly 150
tests of legislative employees and Legislators for the COVID-19
virus with the assistance and coordination of the Division of
Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety and the
Carson City Department of Health and Human Services; and

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WHEREAS, Thereafter, the State Epidemiologist arranged for
testing of additional legislative employees and Legislators through
Renown Health, which sent an employee to perform such testing
onsite at the Legislative Building and expedited the laboratory
results; and
WHEREAS, The Nevada National Guard further assisted during
the special session by assisting with health checks of anyone who
wished to enter the Legislative Building and then conducted a
second testing event onsite at the Legislative Building in which
nearly 200 people working in the Legislative Building were tested
for the COVID-19 virus; and
WHEREAS, The State Epidemiologist and the Nevada
Department of Health and Human Services have provided advice
and assistance to the Legislature before and during the special
session and have worked tirelessly to help keep the persons working
within the Legislative Building as safe and informed as possible;
now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, THE
ASSEMBLY CONCURRING, That the members of the 31st Special
Session do hereby express their sincere appreciation to the Nevada
Department of Health and Human Services, the Nevada National
Guard, the Carson City Department of Health and Human Services
and Renown Health for their extraordinary efforts and offers of
assistance during this unprecedented time to help ensure the
Legislature could carry out its business safely; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the members of the 31st Special Session wish
to specifically thank Richard Whitley, Director of the Department of
Health and Human Services; Melissa Peek-Bullock, State
Epidemiologist, and the other employees in her office who assisted
with the needs of the Legislature; Lanita Magee, Operations
Supervisor, Division of Emergency Management of the Department
of Public Safety; Major General Ondra Berry, Adjutant General,
Nevada National Guard; Colonel John Week, Director of the Joint
Staff of the Nevada Guard Joint Operations Center, Nevada
National Guard; the many other members of the Nevada National
Guard who responded at the Legislature; Cari Rioux, Public Health
Preparedness Planner for Carson City Department of Health and
Human Services; and Dawn Ahner, Chief Operating Officer of
Acute Services, Renown Health, and Tim Stephens, Vice President,
Ancillary & Support Services, Renown Health, and the many other
employees of Renown Health who assisted to provide testing at the
Legislative Building and to provide laboratory results; and be it
further

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RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the Senate prepare and
transmit a copy of this resolution to Richard Whitley, Director,
Nevada Department of Health and Human Services; Major General
Ondra Berry, Adjutant General, Nevada National Guard; George
Togliatt