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INITIATIVE PETITION NO. 1
DECEMBER 11, 2024
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SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to strikes by certain
teachers and licensed educational personnel.
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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 employees; exempting certain teachers
and licensed educational personnel and their employee
organizations, bargaining agents and bargaining units
from the prohibition against public employees engaging
in a strike against a public employer; 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. Chapter
288
of
NRS
(Relations
between
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Governments and Public Employees) is hereby amended to read as
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follows:
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NRS 288.720 Prohibitions on strikes do not apply to certain
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local government employees, employee organizations, bargaining
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agents, and bargaining units.
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1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the provisions of
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NRS 288.700 through NRS 288.715 and any other law prohibiting
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strikes shall not apply to local government employees licensed as
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teachers pursuant to Chapter 391 of the Nevada Revised Statutes
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and their employee organizations, bargaining agents, and
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bargaining units.
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2. As used in this section: “teacher” means a person licensed
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pursuant to chapter 391 of NRS who is classified by the board of
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trustees of a school district:
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(a) As a teacher and who spends at least 50 percent of his or
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her work year providing instruction or discipline to pupils;
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(b) As instructional support staff, who does not hold a
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supervisory position and who spends not more than 50 percent of
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his or her work year providing instruction to pupils. Such
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instructional support staff includes, without limitation, librarians
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and persons who provide instructional support; or
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(c) As school counselors, school nurses and other employees
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who spend at least 50 percent of their work year providing
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emotional support, noninstructional guidance or medical support
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to pupils.
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Section 2. Severability. If any provision of this act, or the
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application therefore to any person, thing or circumstance is held
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invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such
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invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or
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constitutionality of this act as a whole or any provision or
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application of this act which can be given effect without the invalid
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or unconstitutional provision or application, and to this end the
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provisions of this act are declared to be severable.
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Section 4. This act shall become effective if approved by the
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legislature, or upon passage and approval by the voters.
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