(On Behalf of the Administrative Office of the Courts)
January 27, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Judiciary
SUMMARY--Expands amount of money that juror may donate to agency that provides protective services for children. (BDR 1-789)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to juries; expanding the amount of money that a juror may donate to an agency that provides protective services for children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1 NRS 6.155 is hereby amended to read as follows:
6.155 1. Each board of county commissioners may establish and maintain a program whereby a person may forfeit any money that he is entitled to receive pursuant to [subsection 1 or 2 of] NRS 6.150 for his services [in that county,] and expenses and have that money donated to an agency which provides protective services [which] and that is located in [that county.] the county in which the person is serving as a juror. Any money donated through a program established pursuant to this section must be used only for a program or activity which is designed to prevent the abuse or neglect of a child or to benefit an abused or neglected child.
2. As used in this section:
(a) "Abuse or neglect of a child" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 432B.020.
(b) "Agency which provides protective services" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 432B.030.