Existing law creates the Office of Nevada Boards, Commissions and Councils Standards of the Department of Business and Industry and sets forth the powers and duties of the Office. (NRS 232.8413, 232.8415) Existing law provides, with certain exceptions, that all professional and occupational licensing boards created by the Legislature are under the purview of the Office. (NRS 232.8415) Section 8 of this bill removes the Commission on Postsecondary Education of the Employment Security Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation from the purview of the Office. Section 5 of this bill authorizes the Office to: (1) prescribe a fee to cover the costs incurred by the Office for any service provided by the Office to a professional or occupational licensing board under the purview of the Office; and (2) adopt such procedures as the Office may deem appropriate for the billing or collection of such fees from a professional or occupational licensing board to which such a service is provided. Section 5 requires all money collected by the Office from such fees to be deposited in the State Treasury for credit to the Office of Nevada Boards, Commissions and Councils Standards Account, which is created by section 6 of this bill. Sections 3 and 4 of this bill define certain terms for the purposes of the provisions of this bill and the provisions of existing law governing the Office. Section 2 of this bill makes the definitions in sections 3 and 4 apply to the provisions of this bill and the provisions of existing law governing the Office. Section 7 of this bill makes a conforming change to apply the definitions applicable to existing provisions governing the Department of Business and Industry to the provisions of sections 2-6. Existing law requires certain taxicab motor carriers to charge, collect and remit to the Nevada Transportation Authority a technology fee in amount set by the Nevada Transportation Authority. (NRS 706.471) For a certificate holder who is subject to an order of allocation by the Taxicab Authority, the amount of the technology fee is required to be set by the Taxicab Authority and the fee is required to be paid to the Taxicab Authority. (NRS 706.8826) Section 8.3 of this bill revises provisions of existing law governing such a technology fee to specify that the amount of the fee may be set by the Nevada Transportation Authority or the Taxicab Authority, as applicable, and the fee must be paid to the appropriate, applicable entity. Existing law sets forth various requirements and restrictions governing the operation of taxicab motor carriers. (Chapter 706 of NRS) Existing law also sets forth requirements and restrictions governing the operation of transportation network companies. (Chapter 706A of NRS) Section 8.7 of this bill authorizes a transportation network company to enter into an agreement with a taxicab motor carrier or a person that provides electronic hailing services for a taxicab motor carrier for the carrier to receive from the company connections to potential passengers through the digital network or software application services of the company in exchange for a fee provided to the company. Under section 8.7, a trip undertaken by a taxicab motor carrier as the result of a connection provided pursuant to such an agreement is not subject to the provisions of existing law governing transportation network companies. Rather, section 8.7 provides, with certain exceptions, that such a trip is subject to the provisions of existing law governing taxicab motor carriers.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 232.505, 232.8415
Reprint 1: 232.505, 232.8415, 706.471