SR 6 — Inducts Claire Jesse Clift as an honorary member into the Senate Hall of Fame. (BDR R-1197)

S.R.Senate Resolution No.

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HARRIS , K RASNER , LANGE , NEAL , NGUYEN , O HRENSCHALL , P AZINA, CHEIBLE , PEARMAN , TONE AND TITUS M AY 11, 2023 ____________ Read and Adopted SUMMARY—Inducts Claire Jesse Clift as an honorary member into the Senate Hall of Fame.

(BDR R-1197) ~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;

matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

Clift was born in Reno and raised in Carson City, where she graduated from Carson High School and Western Nevada College and afterward worked for 11 seasons for the United States Forest Service in North Fork, Idaho, where she met herherited husband Jim, a whitewater rafting guide, and learned that one’s survival depends on self-reliance and the ability to make tough decisions;

and W HEREAS , Claire’s state service began in the Nevada Senate as a Committee Secretary for the Senate Committee on Natural Resources in 1987 and 1989, where she learned the legislative process and experienced the in-depth vetting of bills through testimony, discussion and amendments, and after a brief time away, she returned to the Senate as the Media Clerk under the tutelage of then-Secretary of the Senate, Jan Thomas, and in this position - *SR6* – 2 – helped develop and improve computer programs as the liaison for information systems to assist the Legislature as it entered the 21st century;

and W HEREAS , Upon the retirement of her predecessor, Claire Clift was appointed as the Secretary of the Senate, continuing a long-long-ift standing tradition of holding an elected position of public service in her family, served as Secretary of the Senate during 9 regular sessions and 15 special sessions, which included the Senate’s first impeachment proceeding against a state constitutional officer, and with the support of legislative leadership, helped effect statutory changes to employment practices of session staff that affected - 82nd Session (2023) – 2 – salaries, retirement vestment and opportunities for legislative staff to transfer employment to the state’s classified service;

now, therefore, be it R ESOLVED BY THE S ENATE OF THE SSTATE TATE OF NEVADAN EVADA , That, Claire Jesse Clift, for her decades of devoted service to the State of Nevada as Secretary of the Senate, is hereby inducted as an honorary member into the Senate Hall of Fame of the Legislature of the State of Nevada;

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