Assembly Bill No. 509–Committee on Education

 

March 24, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Education

 

SUMMARY—Revises provisions governing review of decision of board of trustees to close or change use of particular school. (BDR 34‑1294)

 

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 public schools; revising provisions governing the review of a decision by the board of trustees of a school district to close a school or change the use of a school; 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 393.085 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  393.085  [1.] Any resident of a school district who is

1-3  aggrieved by a decision of the board of trustees to close or change

1-4  the use of a school under NRS 393.080 may, within 30 days after

1-5  the decision is rendered, make a written request to the board for a

1-6  hearing for reconsideration of the decision. The board shall schedule

1-7  the hearing within 30 days after receiving the request and shall

1-8  publish a notice of the time and place of the hearing in a newspaper

1-9  of general circulation in the county at least 10 days before the

1-10  hearing.

1-11      [2.  Any resident of the school district who is aggrieved by the

1-12  decision of the board of trustees at the reconsideration hearing may,

1-13  within 30 days after that decision is rendered, make a written

1-14  request to the State Board of Education for a hearing to review the

1-15  decision. The State Board of Education shall conduct the hearing in

1-16  the county in which the school is located within 30 days after

2-1  receiving the request and shall publish a notice of the time and place

2-2  of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the county at

2-3  least 10 days before the hearing. The State Board of Education shall

2-4  hear the matter de novo.] The decision of the [State Board of

2-5  Education] board of trustees after its reconsideration hearing is a

2-6  final decision subject to judicial review as provided by law.

2-7  Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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