1. Except as otherwise provided in a supported decision-making agreement and subsection 2, a supporter may do all of the following:
(a) Assist the principal in understanding information, options, responsibilities and consequences of the principal’s life decisions, including, without limitation, decisions relating to the principal’s affairs or supportive services.
(b) Help the principal access, obtain and understand any information that is relevant to any given life decision, including, without limitation, medical, psychological, financial or educational decisions, or any treatment records or records necessary to manage the principal’s affairs or support services.
(c) Assist the principal in finding, obtaining, making appointments for and implementing the principal’s support services or plans for support services.
(d) Help the principal monitor information about the principal’s affairs or support services, including, without limitation, keeping track of future necessary or recommended services.
(e) Ascertain the wishes and decisions of the principal, assist in communicating those wishes and decisions to other persons, and advocate to ensure that the wishes and decisions of the principal are implemented.
2. A supporter is prohibited from doing any of the following:
(a) Exerting undue influence upon, or making decisions on behalf of, the principal.
(b) Obtaining, without the consent of the principal, information that is not reasonably related to matters with which the supporter is authorized to assist the principal pursuant to the supported decision-making agreement.
(c) Using, without the consent of the principal, information acquired for a purpose other than assisting the principal to make a decision pursuant to the supported decision-making agreement.
3. A supporter shall act with the care, competence and diligence ordinarily exercised by persons in similar circumstances, with due regard to the supporter’s possession or lack of special skills or expertise.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 462)
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