1. The Statewide Council for the Coordination of the Regional Training Programs, consisting of nine members, is hereby created. The membership of the Council consists of:

(a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction or his or her designee.

(b) One member, who is not a Legislator, appointed by the Majority Leader of the Senate.

(c) One member, who is not a Legislator, appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.

(d) One member who is a teacher appointed by the Governor from a list of nominees submitted by the Nevada State Education Association.

(e) One member who is an administrator at a public school employed to provide administrative services at the school level and not to provide administrative services at the district level, appointed by the Governor from a list of nominees submitted by the Nevada Association of School Administrators.

(f) One member appointed by the Governor.

(g) Three members, each of whom is a superintendent of schools, or his or her designee, appointed by the governing body of each regional training program to represent the school districts served by the regional training program.

2. In making the appointments pursuant to paragraphs (b) to (g), inclusive, of subsection 1, the appointing authorities shall consider whether the appointments provide a geographical balance between urban and rural areas of this State and represent the cultural diversity of this State.

3. The Statewide Council shall elect a Chair from among its members.

4. After the initial terms, the appointed members of the Statewide Council serve a term of 2 years, commencing on July 1 of the year of appointment. A member may not be appointed to serve more than 3 consecutive terms.

5. A vacancy on the Statewide Council must be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.

6. Members of the Statewide Council serve without salary for their service on the Council. The members who are appointed by the Majority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly are entitled to receive the per diem allowance and travel expenses provided for state officers and employees generally for each day or portion of a day during which a member attends a meeting of the Statewide Council or is otherwise engaged in the work of the Statewide Council. The per diem allowance and travel expenses for the members who are appointed by the Majority Leader of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly must be paid from the Legislative Fund. To the extent that money is appropriated for this purpose, all other members of the Statewide Council are entitled to receive the per diem allowance and travel expenses provided for state officers and employees generally for each day or portion of a day during which a member attends a meeting of the Statewide Council or is otherwise engaged in the work of the Statewide Council. The per diem allowance and travel expenses for such members must be paid by the Department.

7. Any costs associated with employing a substitute teacher while a member of the Statewide Council who is a teacher attends a meeting of the Statewide Council must be:

(a) Paid by the school district or charter school that employs the member; or

(b) Reimbursed to the school district or charter school that employs the member by the organization that submitted the name of the member to the Governor for appointment pursuant to paragraph (d), (e), (f) or (g) of subsection 1.

8. The Department shall provide administrative support to the Statewide Council.

9. The governing bodies of the regional training programs may mutually agree to expend a portion of their respective budgets to pay for any administrative support of the Statewide Council that is required in addition to that provided pursuant to subsection 8.

(Added to NRS by 2001 Special Session, 177; A 2003, 2796; 2005, 1657; 2009, 1362; 2011, 1982; 2013, 1692; 2017, 2128) — (Substituted in revision for NRS 391.516)