- 82nd Session (2023)
Senate Bill No. 87–Committee on
Legislative Operations and Elections
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AN ACT relating to state employment; authorizing, under certain
circumstances, an appointing authority to appoint without
competition certain persons to fill a position in the classified
service of the Executive Department of State Government;
and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Under existing law, a position in the classified service of the Executive
Department of State Government may be filled without competition only under
certain circumstances. (NRS 284.305) This bill sets forth an additional
circumstance in which a position in the classified service may be filled without
competition. Specifically, this bill authorizes a position in the classified service to
be filled by a person without competition if the person: (1) meets the minimum
qualifications for the position; and (2) has successfully completed at least 900 hours
of service in an AmeriCorps, Youth Conservation Corps or Job Corps program in
this State not more than 2 years before the person applies for the position and such
service in the AmeriCorps, Youth Conservation Corps or Job Corps program, as
applicable, was directly related to the job duties of the position in the classified
service.
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 284 of NRS is hereby amended by adding
thereto a new section to read as follows:
An appointing authority may appoint a person to fill a position
in the classified service without competition if the person:
1. Meets the minimum qualifications for the position; and
2. Has successfully completed at least 900 hours of service in
an AmeriCorps, Youth Conservation Corps or Job Corps program
in this State not more than 2 years before the person applies for
the position in the classified service and such service in the
AmeriCorps, Youth Conservation Corps or Job Corps program, as
applicable, was directly related to the job duties of the position in
the classified service.
Sec. 2. NRS 284.305 is hereby amended to read as follows:
284.305 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2,
positions in the classified service may be filled without competition
only as provided in NRS 284.155, 284.300, 284.307, 284.309,
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284.310, 284.315, 284.320, 284.325, 284.327, 284.330, 284.375 and
284.3775 [.] and section 1 of this act.
2. The Commission may adopt regulations which provide for
filling positions in the classified service without competition in
cases involving:
(a) The appointment of a current employee with a disability to a
position at or below the grade of his or her position if the employee
becomes unable to perform the essential functions of his or her
position with or without reasonable accommodation;
(b) The demotion of a current employee;
(c) The reemployment of a current or former employee who was
or will be adversely affected by layoff, military service,
reclassification or a permanent partial disability arising out of and in
the course of the employment of the current or former employee; or
(d) The reappointment of a current employee.
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