Existing law creates the Office of Minority Health and Equity within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Nevada Commission on Minority Affairs of the Department of Business and Industry and the Office for New Americans in the Office of the Governor to study and work on issues affecting minorities and immigrants. (NRS 223.910, 232.474, 232.852, 232.860) Existing law also requires each state agency, to the extent practicable, to designate a diversity and inclusion liaison and sets forth the duties of such a liaison. (NRS 232.0085) Existing law further requires the Office of Minority Health and Equity, the Nevada Commission on Minority Affairs and the Office for New Americans to collaborate to facilitate a meeting between diversity and inclusion liaisons and representatives of various minority groups at least once each year. (NRS 232.0087) This bill revises the required number of those meetings from one to three each year.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 232.0087
BDR: 232.0087