Assembly Bill No. 138–Assemblyman Goldwater
(by request)

 

February 14, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Education

 

SUMMARY—Repeals prohibition against pupils carrying or possessing any electronic device used for paging or communication while on school grounds. (BDR 34‑385)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to pupils; repealing the prohibition against pupils carrying or possessing any electronic device used for paging or communication while on school grounds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1.  NRS 392.930 is hereby repealed.

1-2  Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

1-3  TEXT OF REPEALED SECTION

 

1-4  392.930  Carrying or possessing on school grounds

1-5   electronic device for paging or communication; exceptions.

1-6  1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, it is unlawful

1-7   for a pupil in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, while on

1-8   school grounds, to carry or possess a beeper, portable telephone or

1-9   any other similar electronic device designed to page or contact a

1-10   person.

2-1  2.  A pupil may carry or possess a beeper, portable telephone or

2-2  other similar device on school grounds if he is expressly authorized

2-3   in writing to do so by the school administrator.

2-4  3.  As used in this section, “beeper” means a portable electronic

2-5   device which is used to page the person carrying it by emitting an

2-6   audible or a vibrating signal when the device receives a special

2-7   radio signal.

 

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