Bipartisan bill helping re-sellers gets first hearing, today
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Randi Thompson, Nevada State Director, 775-830-8407, [email protected]
or Tony Malandra, Regional Media Manager, 415-640-5156, [email protected]
CARSON CITY, Nev., Feb. 27, 2019—A bill that would relieve some small-business owners of a nettlesome paperwork requirement gets its first hearing, today, in the Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor at 1:30 p.m.
According to the Legislative Council, “Existing law requires a secondhand dealer to furnish a daily transcript of the record of his or her transactions for the preceding day to the sheriff of the county or the chief of police of the incorporated city in which the dealer does business, as applicable. Existing law exempts, along with other items, books, periodicals and sound recordings from this reporting requirement. This bill [AB 154] exempts video recordings from the reporting requirement.” [Italics added]
“This measure would bring some badly need sense to the law,” said Randi Thompson, NFIB’s Nevada state director. “If second-hand dealers and thrift stores don’t have to keep records for every back issue of National Geographic, paperback romance novel, or CD of Sinatra hits they sell, they shouldn’t have to keep records on the used DVDs, and in some rare cases, VHSes, they re-sell, either.”
This quirk in the law was brought to NFIB’s attention by NFIB sales representative Doug Harding, who heard of this legal oddity from Zoe Miller, owner of Grassroots Books in Reno. Harding called Thompson, who started rounding up supporters to the cause.
“As a former police officer, I was aware of this statue and agreed that such a simple fix is warranted,” said Assemblyman Tom Roberts, the primary sponsor. “It will help book shops like Zoe’s as well as the hundreds of thrift stores across the state.”
Democratic Majority Whip Michael Sprinkle has joined Republican Assemblymen Tom Roberts, Glen Leavitt, and Al Kramer on the bill to exempt video recordings from the reporting requirement.
“Like most small-business owners, I don’t have compliance officers on staff that can track every state, federal, and local regulation,” said Miller. “The fewer regulations I have to deal with, the more time I can spend with my employees and customers. This little fix in the law may not sound like much to corporate chiefs but for those of us on Main Street, any savings of time and money we can get is always welcome.”
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