NRS 432B.178
Director of Department of Health and Human Services authorized to create interagency committee to evaluate child welfare system in this State

  • appointment of members
  • submission of written report.

1.

The Director of the Department of Health and Human Services may create an interagency committee to evaluate the child welfare system in this State. Any such evaluation must include, without limitation, a review of state laws to ensure that the state laws comply with federal law and to ensure that the state laws reflect the current practices of each agency which provides child welfare services and others involved in the child welfare system.

2.

The Director may appoint as many members to the interagency committee as the Director deems appropriate except that the members of such a committee must include, without limitation, at least one person to represent:

(a)

Each agency which provides child welfare services;

(b)

The Department of Education;

(c)

The juvenile justice system;

(d)

Law enforcement; and

(e)

Providers of treatment or services for persons in the child welfare system.

3.

The interagency committee created pursuant to subsection 1 shall, on or before January 1 of each odd-numbered year after it is created, submit to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau a written report for transmittal to the Chairs of the Assembly and Senate Standing Committees on Judiciary, the Chair of the Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services and the Chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Education.
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Source: Section 432B.178 — Director of Department of Health and Human Services authorized to create interagency committee to evaluate child welfare system in this State; appointment of members; submission of written report., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-432B.­html#NRS432BSec178.

432B.010
Definitions. 432B.020
“Abuse or neglect of a child” defined. 432B.030
“Agency which provides child welfare services” defined. 432B.035
“Central Registry” defined. 432B.040
“Child” defined. 432B.042
“Child protective services” defined. 432B.044
“Child welfare services” defined. 432B.050
“Court” defined. 432B.060
“Custodian” defined. 432B.065
“Division of Child and Family Services” defined. 432B.066
“Gender identity or expression” defined. 432B.067
“Indian child” defined. 432B.068
“Indian Child Welfare Act” defined. 432B.069
“Information maintained by an agency which provides child welfare services” defined. 432B.070
“Mental injury” defined. 432B.080
“Parent” defined. 432B.090
“Physical injury” defined. 432B.100
“Sexual abuse” defined. 432B.110
“Sexual exploitation” defined. 432B.121
Definition of when person has “reasonable cause to believe” and when person acts “as soon as reasonably practicable.” 432B.130
Persons responsible for child’s welfare. 432B.135
Child in custody of agency which provides child welfare services deemed homeless in certain circumstances. 432B.140
Negligent treatment or maltreatment. 432B.150
Excessive corporal punishment may constitute abuse or neglect. 432B.153
Presumptions concerning custody and visitation when parent of child is convicted of first degree murder of other parent of child. 432B.157
Presumption concerning custody when court determines that parent or other person seeking custody of child is perpetrator of domestic violence. 432B.159
Presumption concerning custody and visitation when parent or other person seeking custody of child is perpetrator of any act of abduction against the child. 432B.160
Immunity from civil or criminal liability 432B.163
Authority of agency which provides child welfare services to provide services to pupils and staff of school that experiences crisis, emergency or suicide. 432B.165
Authority of agency which provides child welfare services and other entities to provide information to assist in locating a missing child 432B.170
Authority of agency which provides child welfare services to share information with state or local agencies. 432B.172
Agency which provides child welfare services required to treat child in accordance with gender identity or expression 432B.174
Normalcy for Foster Youth Account 432B.175
Availability of data or information regarding fatality or near fatality of child who is subject of report of abuse or neglect 432B.178
Director of Department of Health and Human Services authorized to create interagency committee to evaluate child welfare system in this State 432B.0655
“Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder” defined.
Last Updated

Feb. 5, 2021

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