Nevada AB 502: Makes a supplemental appropriation to the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services for an unanticipated revenue shortfall and an increase in operating costs. (BDR S-1104)

Bill Text

- 83rd Session (2025)
Assembly Bill No. 502–Committee
on Government Affairs

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AN ACT relating to public works; revising provisions relating to the
compliance of a contractor or subcontractor with certain
requirements relating to apprentices on a public work;
revising requirements relating to identifying numbers for
public works; revising provisions relating to the imposition
of penalties for certain violations; revising provisions relating
to the period within which a person is disqualified from being
awarded a contract for a public work in certain
circumstances; revising provisions relating to the
investigation of certain possible violations; creating the
Public Works Compliance Division within the Office of
Labor Commissioner and prescribing its duties; providing a
penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law sets forth the requirements for the State and its political
subdivisions to award a contract for the new construction, repair or reconstruction
of specified projects that are financed in whole or in part from public money,
known as public works. (Chapter 338 of NRS) Existing law creates the Office of
Labor Commissioner and requires the Labor Commissioner to enforce specified
provisions relating to employment on public works. (NRS 338.010-338.130,
607.010) Existing law requires contractors or subcontractors engaged on public
works to use apprentices for a certain percentage of the total hours performed on a
public work, depending on certain conditions related to the public work, and to
report certain information regarding the public works for the previous year to the
Labor Commissioner, except identifying information about a public work or an
apprentice or employee. Existing law further requires a contractor or subcontractor
on a public work to maintain and provide to the Labor Commissioner any
supporting documentation to show that the contractor or subcontractor made a good
faith effort to comply with the apprenticeship requirement. Such a good faith effort
includes submitting to an apprenticeship program a request for an apprentice: (1)
not earlier than 10 days before the contractor or subcontractor is scheduled to begin
work on the public work; and (2) if a contractor or subcontractor does not work
continuously on a public work, not earlier than 10 days before the contractor or
subcontractor is scheduled to resume work on the public work. (NRS 338.01165)
Section 1 of this bill increases the 10-day time limitation on requesting an
apprentice to 30 days. Section 1 also removes the exception for not reporting
identifying information about a public work, thereby requiring the reporting of such
information to the Labor Commissioner.
Existing law, in part, requires a public body that undertakes a public work to:
(1) request an identifying number with a designation of the work and include the
number in any advertisement or other type of solicitation; and (2) report to the
Labor Commissioner the award of a contract within 10 days after the award and
subsequently report the completion of the work under the contract. (NRS 338.013)
Section 2 of this bill requires that a public body request such an identifying number
not less than 3 business days before any advertisement or other type of solicitation

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for the public work is published or made, as applicable. Section 2 also authorizes a
penalty for each calendar day or portion thereof that a public body is not in
compliance with the reporting requirements.
Under existing law, if an administrative penalty is imposed against a person for
a violation of certain provisions relating to public works, the Labor Commissioner
is authorized to prohibit the person from being awarded a contract for a public
work: (1) for the first offense, for a period of 3 years after the date of the imposition
of the administrative penalty; and (2) for the second or subsequent offense, for a
period of 5 years after the date of the imposition of the administrative penalty.
(NRS 338.017) Section 4 of this bill revises the duration of the period of the
disqualification as follows: (1) for the first offense, for a period of up to 180 days
after the date of the imposition of the administrative penalty; (2) for the second
offense, for a period of up to 3 years but not less than 180 days after the date of the
imposition of the administrative penalty; (3) for the third offense, for a period of up
to 5 years but not less than 3 years after the date of the imposition of the
administrative penalty; and (4) for the fourth or subsequent offense, for a period of
not less than 5 years after the date of the imposition of the administrative penalty.
Existing law requires any public body awarding a contract for a public work to
investigate possible violations of certain laws relating to public works and
determine whether a violation has been committed and inform the Labor
Commissioner of any such vi