The 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. Coordinates with:

(a) Refugee resettlement agencies in this State to identify gaps in programs provided by those agencies; and

(b) State agencies to assist in efforts to resettle, integrate and assimilate refugees in this State.

(Added to NRS by 2019, 4362)