SB221 - Revises provisions relating to common-interest communities. (BDR 10-522)

S.B. 221 - *SB221* SENATE BILL NO. 221–SENATORS BUCK AND STONE FEBRUARY 19, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Judiciary SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to common-interest communities. (BDR 10-522) FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No. Effect on the State: No. ~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. AN ACT relating to common-interest communities; providing that certain complaints, documents and information filed with the Real Estate Division of the Department of Business and Industry and certain documents and information relating to such complaints and the investigation thereof are public records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel’s Digest: Existing law requires the Real Estate Division of the Department of Business 1 and Industry to keep confidential, with certain exceptions, a complaint filed with 2 the Division alleging a violation of existing law, all documents and other 3 information filed with the complaint and all documents and other information 4 compiled as a result of an investigation conducted to determine whether to initiate 5 disciplinary action. (NRS 116A.270) Section 1 of this bill provides instead that 6 such a complaint and all such documents and information are public records. 7 Section 2 of this bill makes a conforming change to reflect that such a complaint 8 and all such documents and information are public records and no longer 9 confidential under any circumstances pursuant to section 1. 10 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. NRS 116A.270 is hereby amended to read as 1 follows: 2 116A.270 [1. Except as otherwise provided in this section 3 and NRS 239.0115, a] A complaint filed with the Division alleging 4 a violation of this chapter or chapter 116 or 116B of NRS, all 5 – 2 – - *SB221* documents and other information filed with the complaint and all 1 documents and other information compiled as a result of an 2 investigation conducted to determine whether to initiate disciplinary 3 action are [confidential. 4 2. The Division shall not disclose any information that is 5 confidential pursuant to subsection 1, in whole or in part, to any 6 person, including, without limitation, a person who is the subject of 7 an investigation or complaint, unless and until a formal complaint is 8 filed pursuant to subsection 3 and the disclosure is required pursuant 9 to subsection 3, except that the Division may disclose the 10 information described in subsection 1 as necessary in the course of 11 administering this chapter or to a licensing board or agency or any 12 other governmental agency, including, without limitation, a law 13 enforcement agency, that is investigating a person who holds a 14 certificate or registration issued pursuant to this chapter. 15 3. The formal complaint or other charging documents filed by 16 the Administrator with the Commission to initiate disciplinary 17 action and all documents and other information considered by the 18 Commission or a hearing panel when determining whether to 19 impose discipline are] public records. 20 Sec. 2. NRS 239.010 is hereby amended to read as follows: 21 239.010 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section and 22 NRS 1.4683, 1.4687, 1A.110, 3.2203, 41.0397, 41.071, 49.095, 23 49.293, 62D.420, 62D.440, 62E.516, 62E.620, 62H.025, 62H.030, 24 62H.170, 62H.220, 62H.320, 75A.100, 75A.150, 76.160, 78.152, 25 80.113, 81.850, 82.183, 86.246, 86.54615, 87.515, 87.5413, 26 87A.200, 87A.580, 87A.640, 88.3355, 88.5927, 88.6067, 88A.345, 27 88A.7345, 89.045, 89.251, 90.730, 91.160, 116.757, [116A.270,] 28 116B.880, 118B.026, 119.260, 119.265, 119.267, 119.280, 29 119A.280, 119A.653, 119A.677, 119B.370, 119B.382, 120A.640, 30 120A.690, 125.130, 125B.140, 126.141, 126.161, 126.163, 126.730, 31 127.007, 127.057, 127.130, 127.140, 127.2817, 128.090, 130.312, 32 130.712, 136.050, 159.044, 159A.044, 164.041, 172.075, 172.245, 33 176.01334, 176.01385, 176.015, 176.0625, 176.09129, 176.156, 34 176A.630, 178.39801, 178.4715, 178.5691, 178.5717, 179.495, 35 179A.070, 179A.165, 179D.160, 180.600, 200.3771, 200.3772, 36 200.5095, 200.604, 202.3662, 205.4651, 209.392, 209.3923, 37 209.3925, 209.419, 209.429, 209.521, 211A.140, 213.010, 213.040, 38 213.095, 213.131, 217.105, 217.110, 217.464, 217.475, 218A.350, 39 218E.625, 218F.150, 218G.130, 218G.240, 218G.350, 218G.615, 40 224.240, 226.462, 226.796, 228.270, 228.450, 228.495, 228.570, 41 231.069, 231.1285, 231.1473, 232.1369, 233.190, 237.300, 42 239.0105, 239.0113, 239.014, 239B.026, 239B.030, 239B.040, 43 239B.050, 239C.140, 239C.210, 239C.230, 239C.250, 239C.270, 44 239C.420, 240.007, 241.020, 241.030, 241.039, 242.105, 244.264, 45 – 3 – - 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*SB221* 634A.185, 634B.730, 635.111, 635.158, 636.262, 636.342, 637.085, 1 637.145, 637B.192, 637B.288, 638.087, 638.089, 639.183, 2 639.2485, 639.570, 640.075, 640.152, 640A.185, 640A.220, 3 640B.405, 640B.730, 640C.580, 640C.600, 640C.620, 640C.745, 4 640C.760, 640D.135, 640D.190, 640E.225, 640E.340, 641.090, 5 641.221, 641.2215, 641A.191, 641A.217, 641A.262, 641B.170, 6 641B.281, 641B.282, 641C.455, 641C.760, 641D.260, 641D.320, 7 642.524, 643.189, 644A.870, 645.180, 645.625, 645A.050, 8 645A.082, 645B.060, 645B.092, 645C.220, 645C.225, 645D.130, 9 645D.135, 645G.510, 645H.320, 645H.330, 647.0945, 647.0947, 10 648.033, 648.197, 649.065, 649.067, 652.126, 652.228, 653.900, 11 654.110, 656.105, 657A.510, 661.115, 665.130, 665.133, 669.275, 12 669.285, 669A.310, 670B.680, 671.365, 671.415, 673.450, 673.480, 13 675.380, 676A.340, 676A.370, 677.243, 678A.470, 678C.710, 14 678C.800, 679B.122, 679B.124, 679B.152, 679B.159, 679B.190, 15 679B.285, 679B.690, 680A.270, 681A.440, 681B.260, 681B.410, 16 681B.540, 683A.0873, 685A.077, 686A.289, 686B.170, 686C.306, 17 687A.060, 687A.115, 687B.404, 687C.010, 688C.230, 688C.480, 18 688C.490, 689A.696, 692A.117, 692C.190, 692C.3507, 692C.3536, 19 692C.3538, 692C.354, 692C.420, 693A.480, 693A.615, 696B.550, 20 696C.120, 703.196, 704B.325, 706.1725, 706A.230, 710.159, 21 711.600, sections 35, 38 and 41 of chapter 478, Statutes of Nevada 22 2011 and section 2 of chapter 391, Statutes of Nevada 2013 and 23 unless otherwise declared by law to be confidential, all public books 24 and public records of a governmental entity must be open at all 25 times during office hours to inspection by any person, and may be 26 fully copied or an abstract or memorandum may be prepared from 27 those public books and public records. Any such copies, abstracts or 28 memoranda may be used to supply the general public with copies, 29 abstracts or memoranda of the records or may be used in any other 30 way to the advantage of the governmental entity or of the general 31 public. This section does not supersede or in any manner affect the 32 federal laws governing copyrights or enlarge, diminish or affect in 33 any other manner the rights of a person in any written book or 34 record which is copyrighted pursuant to federal law. 35 2. A governmental entity may not reject a book or record 36 which is copyrighted solely because it is copyrighted. 37 3. A governmental entity that has legal custody or control of a 38 public book or record shall not deny a request made pursuant to 39 subsection 1 to inspect or copy or receive a copy of a public book or 40 record on the basis that the requested public book or record contains 41 information that is confidential if the governmental entity can 42 redact, delete, conceal or separate, including, without limitation, 43 electronically, the confidential information from the information 44 – 5 – - *SB221* included in the public book or record that is not otherwise 1 confidential. 2 4. If requested, a governmental entity shall provide a copy of a 3 public record in an electronic format by means of an electronic 4 medium. Nothing in this subsection requires a governmental entity 5 to provide a copy of a public record in an electronic format or by 6 means of an electronic medium if: 7 (a) The public record: 8 (1) Was not created or prepared in an electronic format; and 9 (2) Is not available in an electronic format; or 10 (b) Providing the public record in an electronic format or by 11 means of an electronic medium would: 12 (1) Give access to proprietary software; or 13 (2) Require the production of information that is confidential 14 and that cannot be redacted, deleted, concealed or separated from 15 information that is not otherwise confidential. 16 5. An officer, employee or agent of a governmental entity who 17 has legal custody or control of a public record: 18 (a) Shall not refuse to provide a copy of that public record in the 19 medium that is requested because the officer, employee or agent has 20 already prepared or would prefer to provide the copy in a different 21 medium. 22 (b) Except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.030, shall, upon 23 request, prepare the copy of the public record and shall not require 24 the person who has requested the copy to prepare the copy himself 25 or herself. 26 H