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3	3	- 82nd Session (2023)
4	4	Senate Bill No. 323–Senators Seevers Gansert; and Hansen
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6	6	CHAPTER..........
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8	8	AN ACT relating to peace officers; requiring the Peace Officers’
9	9	Standards and Training Commission to adopt certain
10	10	regulations concerning the recruitment and selection of
11	11	category III peace officers from other states or the Federal
12	12	Government; and providing other matters properly relating
13	13	thereto.
14	14	Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
15	15	Existing law creates the Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission
16	16	and requires the Commission to adopt regulations establishing minimum standards
17	17	for the certification and decertification, recruitment, selection and training of peace
18	18	officers. (NRS 289.500, 289.510) This bill requires the Commission to adopt
19	19	regulations to establish standards for the reciprocity of a person from another state
20	20	or the Federal Government with a certification or law enforcement training
21	21	equivalent to a category III peace officer.
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23	23	EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
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26	26	THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
27	27	SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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29	29	Section 1. NRS 289.510 is hereby amended to read as follows:
30	30	289.510 1. The Commission:
31	31	(a) Shall meet at the call of the Chair, who must be elected by a
32	32	majority vote of the members of the Commission.
33	33	(b) Shall provide for and encourage the training and education
34	34	of persons whose primary duty is law enforcement to ensure the
35	35	safety of the residents of and visitors to this State.
36	36	(c) Shall adopt regulations establishing minimum standards for
37	37	the certification and decertification, recruitment, selection and
38	38	training of peace officers. The regulations must establish:
39	39	(1) Requirements for evaluations to be conducted during the
40	40	recruitment and selection of peace officers, which must identify
41	41	implicit bias on the part of a peace officer on the basis of race, color,
42	42	religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual
43	43	orientation or gender identity or expression;
44	44	(2) Requirements for basic training for category I, category II
45	45	and category III peace officers and reserve peace officers;
46	46	(3) Standards for programs for the continuing education of
47	47	peace officers, including minimum courses of study and
48	48	requirements concerning attendance, which must require that all
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52	52	- 82nd Session (2023)
53	53	peace officers annually complete not less than 12 hours of
54	54	continuing education in courses that address:
55	55	(I) Racial profiling;
56	56	(II) Mental health, including, without limitation, crisis
57	57	intervention;
58	58	(III) The well-being of officers;
59	59	(IV) Implicit bias recognition;
60	60	(V) De-escalation;
61	61	(VI) Human trafficking; and
62	62	(VII) Firearms.
63	63	(4) Qualifications for instructors of peace officers;
64	64	(5) Requirements for the certification of a course of training;
65	65	[and]
66	66	(6) Standards for an annual behavioral wellness visit for
67	67	peace officers to aid in preserving the emotional and mental health
68	68	of the peace officer and assessing conditions that may affect the
69	69	performance of duties by the peace officer [.] ; and
70	70	(7) Standards for the reciprocity of a person who has been
71	71	certified as a category III peace officer or its equivalent by the
72	72	certifying authority of another state or who has successfully
73	73	completed a federal law enforcement training program that is
74	74	equivalent to a category III peace officer in this State.
75	75	(d) Shall, when necessary, present courses of training and
76	76	continuing education courses for category I, category II and
77	77	category III peace officers and reserve peace officers.
78	78	(e) May make necessary inquiries to determine whether the
79	79	agencies of this State and of the local governments are complying
80	80	with standards set forth in its regulations.
81	81	(f) Shall carry out the duties required of the Commission
82	82	pursuant to NRS 432B.610 and 432B.620.
83	83	(g) May perform any other acts that may be necessary and
84	84	appropriate to the functions of the Commission as set forth in NRS
85	85	289.450 to 289.680, inclusive.
86	86	(h) May enter into an interlocal agreement with an Indian tribe
87	87	to provide training to and certification of persons employed as
88	88	police officers by that Indian tribe.
89	89	(i) Shall develop and approve a standard curriculum of certified
90	90	training programs in crisis intervention, which may be made
91	91	available in an electronic format, and which address specialized
92	92	responses to persons with mental illness and train peace officers to
93	93	identify the signs and symptoms of mental illness, to de-escalate
94	94	situations involving persons who appear to be experiencing a
95	95	behavioral health crisis and, if appropriate, to connect such persons
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100	100	to treatment. A peace officer who completes any program developed
101	101	pursuant to this paragraph must be issued a certificate of
102	102	completion.
103	103	2. Regulations adopted by the Commission:
104	104	(a) Apply to all agencies of this State and of local governments
105	105	in this State that employ persons as peace officers;
106	106	(b) Must require that all peace officers receive training in the
107	107	handling of cases involving abuse or neglect of children or missing
108	108	children;
109	109	(c) Must require that all peace officers receive training in the
110	110	handling of cases involving abuse, neglect, exploitation, isolation
111	111	and abandonment of older persons or vulnerable persons; and
112	112	(d) May require that training be carried on at institutions which
113	113	it approves in those regulations.
114	114	Sec. 2. 1. This section becomes effective upon passage and
115	115	approval.
116	116	2. Section 1 of this act becomes effective:
117	117	(a) Upon passage and approval for the purpose of adopting any
118	118	regulations and performing any other preparatory administrative
119	119	tasks that are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act; and
120	120	(b) On January 1, 2024, for all other purposes.
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