432B.178 - Director of Department of Health and Human Services authorized to create interagency committee to evaluate child welfare system in this State; appointment of members; committee authorized t
432B.178 Director of Department of Health and Human Services authorized to create interagency committee to evaluate child welfare system in this State; appointment of members; committee authorized to request Legislative Counsel to prepare legislative measure; submission of written report.
1. The Director of the Department of Health and Human Services may create an interagency committee to evaluate the child welfare system in this State. Any such evaluation must include, without limitation, a review of state laws to ensure that the state laws comply with federal law and to ensure that the state laws reflect the current practices of each agency which provides child welfare services and others involved in the child welfare system.
2. The Director may appoint as many members to the interagency committee as the Director deems appropriate except that the members of such a committee must include, without limitation, at least one person to represent:
(a) Each agency which provides child welfare services;
(b) The Department of Education;
(c) The juvenile justice system;
(d) Law enforcement; and
(e) Providers of treatment or services for persons in the child welfare system.
3. The interagency committee created pursuant to subsection 1 may directly request the Legislative Counsel and the Legal Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau to prepare one legislative measure for a regular legislative session if it determines that changes in legislation are necessary. Any such request must be submitted to the Legislative Counsel on or before September 1 preceding the commencement of a regular session of the Legislature. Upon completion of the proposed legislation, the Legislative Counsel shall transmit any legislative measure prepared pursuant to this subsection to the appropriate standing committee of the Assembly or Senate within the first week of the next regular legislative session for introduction.
4. The interagency committee created pursuant to subsection 1 shall, on or before January 1 of each odd-numbered year after it is created, submit to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau a written report for transmittal to the Chairs of the Assembly and Senate Standing Committees on Judiciary, the Chair of the Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services and the Chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Education.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 221)