Senate Bill No. 54

Senate Bill No. 54-Committee on Human Resources and Facilities

(On Behalf of the Commission on Postsecondary Education)

January 29, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Human Resources and Facilities

SUMMARY--Revises requirements for unaccredited postsecondary educational institutions to award degrees. (BDR 34-403)

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 postsecondary educational institutions; revising the requirements for an unaccredited postsecondary educational institution to award degrees; 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 394.630 is hereby amended to read as follows:
394.630 [No] A person, firm, association, partnership or corporation [may] shall not award, bestow, confer, give, grant, convey or sell to [any other] another person a degree or honorary degree upon which is inscribed, in any language, the word "associate," "bachelor," "baccalaureate," "master," "doctor" or "fellow," or any abbreviation thereof, unless it is a school, academy, institute, community college, junior college, college, university or other educational organization or entity located in the State of Nevada or operating from a place of business in this state that offers courses of instruction or study wherein credits may be earned toward an academic or professional degree in [any] a field of endeavor beyond the secondary school level, and:
1. Is accredited; or
2. Has filed and kept current with appropriate amendments, in the office of the administrator, an affidavit by [the] each president of [the institution] two separate accredited colleges or universities stating that the majority of the course credits offered by the unaccredited institution are generally acceptable or transferable to [at least one college or university that is accredited.] the accredited college or university for which each president represents.
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.