Senate Bill No. 236–Senators Care, Neal, Carlton, Mathews, Schneider, Shaffer, Titus and Wiener

 

Joint Sponsors: Assemblymen Giunchigliani, Koivisto, Angle, Beers, Cegavske, Chowning, Collins, Manendo, McClain, Mortenson, Parks and Tiffany

 

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AN ACT relating to education; requiring certain entities that employ children in the entertainment industry to pay for those children to receive tutoring or other educational or instructional services upon the request of a parent or guardian; 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. Chapter 392 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a

 new section to read as follows:

   1.  Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, if a child is

 exempt from compulsory attendance pursuant to NRS 392.070, 392.100

 or 392.110, and the child is employed to work in the entertainment

 industry pursuant to a written contract for a period of more than 91

 school days, including, without limitation, employment with a motion

 picture company or employment with a production company hired by a

 casino or resort hotel, the entity that employs the child shall, upon the

 request of the parent or legal guardian of the child, pay the costs for the

 child to receive at least 3 hours of tutoring per day for at least 5 days per

 week. In lieu of tutoring, the parent or legal guardian of such a child

 may agree with the entity that employs the child that the entity will pay

 the costs for the child to receive other educational or instructional

 services which are equivalent to tutoring. The provisions of this

 subsection apply during the period of a child’s employment with an

 entity, regardless of whether the child has obtained the appropriate

 exemption from compulsory attendance at the time his contract with the

 entity is under negotiation.

   2.  If such a child is exempt from compulsory attendance pursuant to

 NRS 392.100 or 392.110, the tutoring or other educational or

 instructional services received by the child pursuant to subsection 1 must

 be approved by the board of trustees of the school district in which the

 child resides.

   Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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