CARSON CITY -- Incoming Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, on Wednesday announced Assembly leadership assignments and the Democratic members of Assembly Committees for the 2007 legislative session.

"We have an outstanding leadership team to help guide our agenda through the next legislative session," Buckley said. "We are looking forward to a very productive session where we seriously tackle the issues that really matter to the future of our state."

Bernie Anderson, D-Sparks, will be speaker pro tempore; John Oceguera, D-Las Vegas, Assembly majority leader; and Marcus Conklin, D-Las Vegas, assistant majority leader.

Sheila Leslie, D-Reno, will be majority whip, and Debbie Smith, D-Sparks, and William Horne, D-Las Vegas, will serve as assistant whips.

Buckley said that the growth and infrastructure committee from last session will be eliminated and the taxation committee reinstated. She is also forming a select committee on corrections, parole and probation, to be chaired by Assemblyman David Parks, D-Las Vegas. This new committee will examine the Nevada corrections system from both a policy and funding perspective.

Other assignments are Oceguera as chairman of commerce and labor; Bonnie Parnell, D-Carson City, as chairwoman of education; Ellen Koivisto, D-Las Vegas, as chairwoman of elections, procedures and ethics; and Harry Mortenson, D-Las Vegas, as chairman of constitutional amendments.

Marilyn Kirkpatrick, D-North Las Vegas, will serve as chairwoman of government affairs; Leslie will serve as chairwoman of health and human services; Anderson will serve as chairman of judiciary; Jerry Claborn, D-Las Vegas, will be chairman of natural resources, agriculture and mining; Kathy McClain will serve as chairwoman of taxation; Kelvin Atkinson, D-North Las Vegas, will serve as chairman of transportation; and Assemblyman Morse Arberry, D-Las Vegas, will serve as chairman of Ways and Means.