Assembly Bill No. 25–Committee on Health and Human Services

 

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AN ACT relating to children; authorizing an employee of an agency which provides child welfare services to provide maintenance and special services to certain children under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

    Section 1. NRS 432.030 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    432.030  [No]

    1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, an employee

of an agency which provides child welfare services may , if

otherwise qualified, provide maintenance and special services [for

any child except as otherwise provided by specific statute or:

    1.  Upon the request of a child whom the agency which

provides child welfare services determines to be emancipated;

    2.] to any child other than a child who:

    (a) Is included as a client in the caseload of the employee at

the time of the provision of the maintenance or special services; or

    (b) Has been included as a client in the caseload of the

employee within the 3 years immediately preceding the provision

of the maintenance or special services.

    2.  An employee of an agency which provides child welfare

services may provide maintenance and special services to any

child:

    (a) Pursuant to court order or request; or

    [3.] (b) Upon referral of appropriate law enforcement officials

for emergency care.

    Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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