SB 507 — Revises provisions relating to governmental administration. (BDR 18-1252)

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507–COMMITTEE507–C OMMITTEE ON F INANCE M AY 28, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Finance SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to thegovernmental Officeadministration. of Nevada Boards, Commissions and Councils Standards of the Department of Business and Industry.

revising provisions governing technology fees imposed on each compensable trip by a taxicab;

authorizing a transportation network company and a taxicab motor carrier or person who provides electronic hailing services to a taxicab motor carrier to enter into certain agreements;

setting forth certain requirements for a trip resulting from such an agreement;

LegislativeLegExisting Counsel’slaw Digest:creates the Office of Nevada Boards, Commissions and Councils Standards of the Department of Business and Industry and sets forth the powers and duties of the Office.

(NRS 232.8413, 232.8415) Existing law createsprovides, thewith Officecertain ofexceptions, Nevadathat Boards,all Commissionsprofessional and Councilsoccupational Standardslicensing ofboards thecreated Departmentby ofthe BusinessLegislature andare Industryunder and sets forth the powerspurview and duties of the Office.

(NRS 232.8413, 232.8415) ExistingSection law8 provides, with certain exceptions, that all professional and occupational licensing boards created by the bill removes the Commission on Postsecondary Education of the Employment8 of this Security Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation from the purview of the Office.

- *SB507_R1* – 2 – Section 5 of this bill authorizes the Office to:

(1) prescribe a fee to cover the costs incurred by the Office for any service provided by the Office to a professional procedures as the Office may deem appropriate for the billing or collection of such fees from a professional or occupational licensing board tounder whichthe suchpurview aof servicethe isOffice; provided.

Sectionand 5(2) requiresadopt allsuch moneyprocedures collectedas by the Office frommay suchdeem feesappropriate to be - *SB507* – 2 – deposited in the State Treasury for credit to the Officebilling ofor Nevadacollection Boards, Commissions and Councils Standards Account, which is created by section 6 of thiSectionssuch 3fees andfrom 4a ofprofessional thisor billoccupational definelicensing certainboard termsto forwhich thesuch purposesa ofservice theis provisionsprovided. of this bill and the provisions of existing law governing the Office.

Section 5 requires all money collected by the Office from such fees to be deposited in the State Treasury for credit to the Office of Nevada Boards, this bill.s and Councils Standards Account, which is created by section 6 of Sections 3 and 4 of this bill define certain terms for the purposes of the provisions of this bill and the provisions of existing law governing the Office.

Section 7 of this bill makes a conforming change to apply the definitions applicable provisionsto ofexisting sectionsprovisions 2-6.rninggoverning the Department of Business and Industry to the THEprovisions PEOPLEof OFsections THE2-6. STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

to the Nevada Transportation Authority a technology fee in amount set by thend remit Nevada Transportation Authority.

(NRS 706.471) For a certificate holder who is subject to an order of allocation by the Taxicab Authority, the amount of the technology fee is required to be set by the Taxicab Authority and the fee is required to be paid to the Taxicab Authority.

(NRS 706.8826) Section 8.3 of this bill revises provisions of existing law governing such a technology fee to specify that the amount of the fee may be set by the Nevada Transportation Authority or the applicable entity.

as applicable, and the fee must be paid to the appropriate, Existing law sets forth various requirements and restrictions governing the operation of taxicab motor carriers.

(Chapter 706 of NRS) Existing law also sets forth requirements and restrictions governing the operation of transportation network companies.

(Chapter 706A of NRS) Section 8.7 of this bill authorizes a transportation network company to enter into an agreement with a taxicab motor carrier or a person that provides electronic hailing services for a taxicab motor carrier for the carrier to receive from the company connections to potential company in exchange for a fee provided to the company.

Under section 8.7, a trip undertaken by a taxicab motor carrier as the result of a connection provided pursuant to such an agreement is not subject to the provisions of existing law governing transportation network companies.

Rather, section 8.7 provides, with certain exceptions, that such a trip is subject to the provisions of existing law governing taxicab motor carriers.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

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- *SB507_R1* – 4 – (b) A uniform set of standards for investigations, licensing and discipline, including, without limitation, separating the roles and responsibilities for occupational licensure from the roles and responsibilities for occupational discipline;

- *SB507* – 4 – (f) The Board of Applied Behavior Analysis created by NRS 641D.200.

- *SB507_R1* – 5 – (r) The Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors created by NRS 641A.090.

-[(ee)] *SB507*(dd) – 5 – NRS 635.020.d) The State Board of Podiatry created by [(ff)] (ee) The Private Investigator’s Licensing Board created by NRS 648.020.635.020.

[(ff)] (ee) The Private Investigator’s Licensing Board created by NRS 648.020.

8.3.

NRS 706.471 is hereby amended to read as follows:

706.471 1.

Each taxicab motor carrier shall, before commencing the operation defined in NRS 706.126 and annually thereafter, pay to the Nevada Transportation Authority for each taxicab which it operates, including each taxicab it leases pursuant to NRS 706.473, an annual fee of not more than $75 as determined by a regulation of the Nevada Transportation Authority.

2.

The annual fee provided in this section must be paid on or before January 1 of each year.

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The annual fee must be reduced one-twelfth for each month which has elapsed since the beginning of the calendar year in which operation is begun.

4.

In addition to the annual fee provided in subsection 1, each taxicab motor carrier shall: