Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
3 instruments in Nevada. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsMakes the federal disability determination, shown by a VA or DoD certificate, sufficient for every state and local veteran benefit.
Added NRS 417.0187. Notwithstanding any provision of state law to the contrary, for the purpose of determining eligibility for any benefit, program or assistance provided by the State or a local government to a veteran, or a business owned or operated by a veteran, with a service-connected disability, the veteran is deemed to be a veteran with a service-connected disability to the extent determined by the Federal Government, and a certificate from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or the Department of Defense indicating the service-connected disability and its total percentage or compensation is sufficient evidence both of the disability and of its extent. The section is cross-referenced expressly by NRS 502.072 for hunting and fishing licences, by NRS 482.377 for disabled veteran licence plates, and by the chapter 284 definition of a veteran with a service-connected disability used in the state employment interview quota. Tracked because it binds county assessors and the Department of Motor Vehicles as well as state agencies, because the phrase "or compensation" is the only route by which individual unemployability reaches any Nevada veteran benefit given that no benefit section mentions it, and because it sits in unresolved tension with NRS 361.091, subsection 7, which directs that a property tax exemption be based on "the total of those combined percentages" where more than one permanent service-connected disability is documented. One provision points at the VA combined rating and the other reads as arithmetic addition, and the difference is a whole exemption tier.
Added NRS 482.0962, which defines "qualifying service-connected disability" for licence plate purposes as a service-connected disability rated at 100 percent; more than one service-connected disability "the combined ratings of which add up to at least 100 percent"; or a service-connected disability of any rating that constitutes or includes a permanent disability qualifying the person for a special plate under NRS 482.384, the walking disability section. The second limb is arithmetic addition, which the VA combined rating formula never performs because it applies each successive disability to the remaining unimpaired portion of the person. The third limb dispenses with percentages altogether. Tracked because the same drafting idiom appears in NRS 361.091, subsection 7 for the property tax exemption, which bases the exemption on "the total of those combined percentages, not to exceed 100 percent", and the two provisions together suggest a deliberate Nevada approach rather than a drafting slip. A veteran whose VA letter shows a combined rating below the threshold may still qualify once the separate percentages are added, and neither the Department of Motor Vehicles nor any county assessor publishes guidance resolving the point against NRS 417.0187, which deems the disability to be as the Federal Government determined it.
NRS 417.147, subsection 2 requires the Director, with the advice of the Nevada Veterans Services Commission, to recommend to the State Board of Examiners on or before April 1 of each calendar year a schedule of rates to be charged for occupancy of rooms at each veterans home for the following fiscal year. The Board establishes the schedule and "is not bound to follow the recommendations of the Director". Subsection 1(b) separately leaves the management, maintenance and operation of the homes, including admission criteria, to rules, policies and procedures the Director establishes, and the section states no service, discharge, disability or residency test for admission. Tracked because no figure for the cost of a Nevada veterans home appears anywhere in statute, the figure changes every fiscal year on a decision taken each spring by a body composed of the Governor, the Secretary of State and the Attorney General rather than by the veterans department, and the rate is set per home so the southern and northern homes can differ. Any published cost or eligibility figure for a Nevada veterans home is administrative and must be confirmed with the home. The gift accounts in NRS 417.145, fed by tax exemptions donated under NRS 361.0905 and NRS 371.1035 up to a combined $2,000,000 per account per fiscal year, sit alongside the operating account and are subject to an annual report of expenditures.
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