Nevada § 223.920 - Duties of Director

§ 223.920. Duties of Director

The Director of the Office for New Americans created by NRS 223.910 shall ensure that the Office: 1. Serves as the coordinating office for each state agency that is responsible for

a program that provides services to immigrants in this State, including, without limitation,

a program that: (a) Relates to professional licensing, registration, permitting or similar types of

authorization issued by a regulatory body; (b) Connects immigrants to entrepreneurial and other business resources and workforce

development training and programs; and (c) Assists immigrants in areas relating to quality of life, including, without limitation,

education, housing and health care. 2. Reviews and analyzes the policies and programs of state agencies relating to immigrants

and makes recommendations to the Governor on such policies and programs, including,

without limitation, the elimination of duplication in existing state programs. 3. Provides information and assistance relating to issues affecting immigrants to

state agencies, both directly and by serving as a clearinghouse for information received

from state agencies, other departments of the State Government, political subdivisions

of this State, any other state or the Federal Government. 4. Engages in state and federal advocacy and makes recommendations concerning law

and policy affecting immigrants to advance economic and population growth in this

State. 5. Develops sustainable partnerships with community foundations and other nonprofit

and private sector entities that serve immigrant communities in this State. 6. Employs a person to serve as the language access coordinator who: (a) Coordinates with: (1) Each board of county commissioners and each governing body of a city required

to develop a language access plan pursuant to NRS 244.184 or 268.01925 , as applicable; (2) Refugee resettlement agencies in this State to identify gaps in programs provided

by those agencies; and (3) State agencies to assist in efforts to resettle, integrate and assimilate refugees

in this State; (b) Provides oversight, central coordination, consultation and technical assistance

to any state agency, board of county commissioners and governing body of a city in

the implementation of language access plans; (c) Provides any state agency, board of county commissioners and governing body of

a city with a policy manual containing baseline policies and procedures for compliance

with language access plans; (d) Maintains a publicly available roster of language interpreters and translators

in positions that regularly have contact with the public and the languages each interpreter

or translator speaks; (e) Trains any state agency, board of county commissioners and governing body of a

city to effectively recruit and retain language interpreters and translators and to

support the recruitment and retention process; (f) Receives and investigates complaints relating to language access against any state

agency, board of county commissioners or governing body of a city and works with the

Director to resolve such complaints; (g) Implements an annual budget and procurement strategy for expenses related to state

language access plans; and (h) Provides any local government with the demographical information of persons with

limited English proficiency who are constituents of the local government. 7. On or before September 30 of each even-numbered year, submits a report to the Director

of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmittal to the Legislature or, if the Legislature

is not in session, to the Legislative Commission, that sets forth any recommendations

for legislation relating to language access plans of state agencies or local governments. 8. As used in this section, “ person with limited English proficiency ” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 232.0081 .