Existing law provides requirements and procedures for collective bargaining between the Executive Department of State Government and certain state employees, including a procedure for the designation of a labor organization as the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit of such state employees. (NRS 288.400-288.630) Existing law establishes the Merit Award Program to provide awards to certain state employees who propose suggestions that would reduce, eliminate or avoid state expenditures or improve the operation of the State Government (Chapter 285 of NRS). Under existing law, the controlling authority of the Program is the Merit Award Board. The Board is required to be composed of five members, including two persons who are members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees or its successor. (NRS 285.030) Section 1 of this bill expands the qualifications for those two positions on the Board to include a member of any labor organization that is designated as the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit. Section 1 requires the Administrator of the Division of Human Resource Management of the Department of Administration to appoint those members from a list of names submitted by such labor organizations that are designated as exclusive representatives of bargaining units.