Section 223.920 - Duties of DirectorThe Director of the Office for New Americans created by NRS 223.910 shall ensure that the Office:
1. Serves as the coordinating office for each state agency that is responsible for a program that provides services to immigrants in this State, including, without limitation, a program that: (a) Relates to professional licensing, registration, permitting or similar types of authorization issued by a regulatory body;(b) Connects immigrants to entrepreneurial and other business resources and workforce development training and programs; and(c) Assists immigrants in areas relating to quality of life, including, without limitation, education, housing and health care.2. Reviews and analyzes the policies and programs of state agencies relating to immigrants and makes recommendations to the Governor on such policies and programs, including, without limitation, the elimination of duplication in existing state programs.3. Provides information and assistance relating to issues affecting immigrants to state agencies, both directly and by serving as a clearinghouse for information received from state agencies, other departments of the State Government, political subdivisions of this State, any other state or the Federal Government.4. Engages in state and federal advocacy and makes recommendations concerning law and policy affecting immigrants to advance economic and population growth in this State.5. Develops sustainable partnerships with community foundations and other nonprofit and private sector entities that serve immigrant communities in this State.6. Employs a person to serve as the language access coordinator who:(a) Coordinates with: (1) Each board of county commissioners and each governing body of a city required to develop a language access plan pursuant to NRS 244.184 or 268.01925, as applicable;(2) Refugee resettlement agencies in this State to identify gaps in programs provided by those agencies; and(3) State agencies to assist in efforts to resettle, integrate and assimilate refugees in this State;(b) Provides oversight, central coordination, consultation and technical assistance to any state agency, board of county commissioners and governing body of a city in the implementation of language access plans;(c) Provides any state agency, board of county commissioners and governing body of a city with a policy manual containing baseline policies and procedures for compliance with language access plans;(d) Maintains a publicly available roster of language interpreters and translators in positions that regularly have contact with the public and the languages each interpreter or translator speaks;(e) Trains any state agency, board of county commissioners and governing body of a city to effectively recruit and retain language interpreters and translators and to support the recruitment and retention process;(f) Receives and investigates complaints relating to language access against any state agency, board of county commissioners or governing body of a city and works with the Director to resolve such complaints;(g) Implements an annual budget and procurement strategy for expenses related to state language access plans; and(h) Provides any local government with the demographical information of persons with limited English proficiency who are constituents of the local government.7. On or before September 30 of each even-numbered year, submits a report to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmittal to the Legislature or, if the Legislature is not in session, to the Legislative Commission, that sets forth any recommendations for legislation relating to language access plans of state agencies or local governments.8. As used in this section, "person with limited English proficiency" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 232.0081.Added to NRS by 2019, 4362; A 2023, 2942Amended by 2023, Ch. 477,§4, eff. 10/1/2023.Added by 2019, Ch. 630,§4, eff. 10/1/2019.