S.B. 264


    Senate Bill No. 264--Committee on Judiciary

                  March 10, 1995
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        Referred to Committee on Judiciary


SUMMARY--Revises requirements for testing of certain 
          offenders for exposure to human 
          immunodeficiency virus. (BDR 16-506)

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.
              Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.



EXPLANATION--Matter in italics is new; matter in bra
ckets [ ] is material to be omitted.

AN ACT relating to prisoners; revising the requirements for testing of 
        certain offenders for exposure to the human immunodeficiency 
        virus; 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.  NRS 209.511 is hereby amended to 
read as follows:
  209.511  1.  When an offender is released from prison by 
expiration of his term of sentence, by pardon or by parole, 
the director:
  (a) May furnish him with a sum of money not to exceed 
$100, the amount to be based upon the offender's economic 
need as determined by the director.
  (b) Shall give him notice of the provisions of NRS 202.360 
and 207.080 to 207.150, inclusive.
  (c) Shall require him to sign an acknowledgment of the 
notice required in paragraph (b).
  (d) May provide him with clothing suitable for reentering 
society.
  (e) May provide him with the cost of transportation to his 
place of residence anywhere within the continental United 
States, or to the place of his conviction.
  (f) Shall require him to submit to at least one test for 
exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus [.] 
\if the director determines that the offender may have 
been exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus or that the 
offender has engaged in conduct that could result in 
exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus.\\
  2.  The costs authorized in paragraphs (a), (d), (e) and 
(f) of subsection 1 must be paid out of the appropriate 
account within the state general fund for the use of the 
department as other claims against the state are paid.
  Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 
1995.

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