SB 322 — Revises provisions relating to the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada. (BDR 34-764)

(ReprintedSenate withBill amendmentsNo. adopted on April 15, 2025) FIRST REPRINT S.B.

322322–Senator SENATETaylor BILLJoint NOSponsor: .

322–SENATORAssemblymember TAYLORHansen MCHAPTER.......... ARCH 11, 2025 ____________ JOINT SPONSOR :

ASSEMBLYMEMBER HANSEN ____________ Referred to Committee on Education SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada.

(BDR 34-764) FISCAL NOTE:

Effect on Local Government:

No.

Effect on the State:

Yes.

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matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

LegislativeLegiThe Counsel’sNevada Digest:Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for:

The Nevada Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for:

NRS 396.040) Existing law establishes the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada and imposes upon the BoaInBoard, addition,and existing law requires each member elected or appointed to serve on the boardmembers of trusteesthe ofBoard, a school district to complete a certain amountduties. of training for professional development during their term, which must contain instruction on certain topics relating to the administration of public schools.

(NRS(Chapter 386.327)396 Sectionof NRS) In addition, existing law requires each member elected or appointed to serve on the board of trustees of a school district to complete a certain amount of training for professional development during their term, which must contain instruction on certSection 1 of this bill requires each member of the Board of Regents toto327) complete 6 hours of training for professional development during the first and third year of each term that the member serves on the Board of Regents.

Section 1 provides that the training may include instruction covering various matters relating to the administration of a public system for higher education, including instruction concerning the duties of the Board of Regents and other persons involved in higher education, laws on ethics, laws on public records and meetings, laws governing employment, financial matters and the fiduciary duties of the members of the Board.

Section 1 requires each member of the Board to complete each year that the member is required to complete training, as part of the training requirement,relating eliminationto: of bias and discrimination in higher education.

(1) the Open Meeting Law (Chapter 241 of NRS);

and (2) the -elimination *SB322_R1* – 2 – Existing law authorizes the Board of Regentsbias to employ a Secretary of the Board and requiresdiscrimination thein Secretaryhigher toeducation. perform certain duties.

Existing law authorizes the Board of Regents to employ a Secretary of the Board and requires the Secretary to perform certain duties.

(1) assist the members of the Board failurewith ofcompleting a member of the Board to complete this training onfor anprofessional Internetdevelopment; website maintained by the Board;

(2) post notice of any failure of a member of the Board to complete this training on an Internet website maintained by the Board;

Existing law entitles each member of the Board of Regents to receive a certain salary for each meeting of the Board that he or she attends.

(NRS 396.070) Section provides that each member of the Board is entitled to receive compensation for each 3 hours of training for professional development that the member completesrcompletes outside of a meeting of the Board, subject to a maximum limit of 18 hours for each calendar year, in an amount that is equal to the salary that the member is entitled to receive for each meeting of the Board that the member attends.

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matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

(b) The elimination of bias and discrimination in higher education;

elimination of bias and discrimination in higher (c) Laws relating to public records, including, without limitation, the provisions of chapter 239 of NRS;

- *SB322_R1* – 3 – (h) The existing relationship and interaction between the Board of Regents and the System with the Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of the government of this State;

(j) Information relating to institutional mission differentiation and(k) The fiduciary duties of the members of the Board of Regents, including, without limitation, the provisions of NRS 396.122 and accreditationother standardsapplicable inprovisions higherof education;law;

(k)- The83rd fiduciarySession duties(2025) of– the3 members– of(l) theLaws Boardand ofregulations Regents,relating including,to withoutemployment limitation, the provisions of NRS 396.122 and othercontracts; applicable provisions of law;

(l) Laws and regulations relating to employment and contracts;

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(o) Best practices relating to searches for executive officers in higher education;

Upon completing the training for professional development required pursuant to subsection 1, a member of the Board of Regents must provide evidence of the completion of the training to the Secretary of the Board.

If a member fails to complete thetheng to training required pursuant to subsection 1, or fails to provide evidence of the completion of the training to the Secretary in accordance with this subsection, the Secretary shall:

and -(b) *SB322_R1*Provide –written 4notice –of the noncompliance to the other members of the Board of Regents.

the noncompliance to the other 5.

The amount of compensation for each 3 hours of training must be equal to the salary that each member of the Board of Regents is entitled to receive pursuant to - 83rd Session (2025) – 4 – subsection 1 of NRS 396.070 for each meeting of the Board that the member attends.

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