2020 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 389 - Academics and Textbooks
NRS 389.064 - Instruction in personal safety of children; exception; report; required background checks of volunteers; acceptance of grants, gifts and donations. [Effective July 1, 2020.]

1. The board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school shall ensure that instruction in the personal safety of children, based on the standards developed by the Department pursuant to NRS 389.031, be implemented as part of a course of study in health prescribed pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection 3 of NRS 389.018.

2. The school district and the charter school, in accordance with the recommendations provided by the Department pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 389.031, shall determine, for the instruction required by subsection 1:

(a) The content of and materials to be used to provide the instruction; and

(b) The grade levels in which the instruction will be provided.

3. A person who provides the instruction required by subsection 1 must be:

(a) A licensed teacher;

(b) An employee of the school district with special knowledge or training in the teaching of the personal safety of children;

(c) An employee of an agency which has as its primary purpose the teaching of the personal safety of children;

(d) An employee of a law enforcement agency; or

(e) A volunteer of an agency which has as its primary purpose the teaching of the personal safety of children and who meets the requirements of subsection 8.

4. The school district and the charter school shall develop a procedure for the notification of the parent or guardian of each pupil to whom the instruction required by subsection 1 is to be provided. The procedure must inform the parent or guardian that:

(a) The parent or guardian may submit a written request that the pupil be excused from some or all of the instruction, except when the instruction is included in a course which is required for graduation; and

(b) All instructional materials to be used in the instruction required by subsection 1 are available for inspection by the parent or guardian at reasonable times and locations before the instruction is provided.

5. A pupil whose parent or guardian submits a written request pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 4 must be excused from such instruction without any penalty as to credits or academic standing.

6. The school district and the charter school shall consider the recommendations developed by the Department pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 389.031 and, to the extent money is available for this purpose, develop and implement:

(a) A training plan to ensure that all school employees receive training as to the teaching of the personal safety of children;

(b) Educational materials and information to be distributed to parents, guardians or other caretakers of pupils regarding the teaching of the personal safety of children; and

(c) Policies and procedures for the referral of a child who has reported or experienced an incident that did or could have threatened his or her personal safety, and his or her family or guardian, if appropriate, to various services, including, without limitation, counseling or any other available services or resources.

7. On or before August 1 of each year, each board of trustees and each governing body shall report to the Department for the preceding year:

(a) The grade levels in which the instruction required by subsection 1 was conducted;

(b) The curriculum content and materials distributed and utilized for the instruction required by subsection 1;

(c) The person, persons or agency utilized to provide the instruction required by subsection 1; and

(d) The number of reports or disclosures by pupils of incidents that did or could have threatened their personal safety during the preceding school year.

8. An agency which has as its primary purpose the teaching of the personal safety of children, before allowing any volunteer of the agency to provide instruction pursuant to paragraph (e) of subsection 3, must ensure that the volunteer has successfully completed:

(a) A national background check, which must include, without limitation, a report of the criminal history of the volunteer from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History;

(b) A child abuse and neglect screening through the Statewide Central Registry for the Collection of Information Concerning the Abuse or Neglect of a Child established pursuant to NRS 432.100; and

(c) Adequate and appropriate training specific to providing instruction regarding the personal safety of children.

9. An agency which has as its primary purpose the teaching of the personal safety of children shall, upon request from a school district or charter school and to the extent allowed by federal law, make available to the school district or charter school documentation of the agency’s conclusions regarding a volunteer’s successful completion of the requirements of subsection 8.

10. A board of trustees of a school district and a governing body of a charter school may apply for and accept grants, gifts, donations, bequests or devises from any public or private source to carry out the provisions of this section.

11. As used in this section, "personal safety of children" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 389.031.

(Added to NRS by 2015, 1328, effective July 1, 2020)