Nev. Rev. Stat. § 218E.090
Rules and privileges governing certain state employees who testify on their own behalf; required disclosures; unlawful for state agency to take certain actions because of such testimony
Nevada · Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 218E — Legislative Investigations and Hearings; Legislative Commission and Other Committees · Status: effective
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- Nev. Rev. Stat. § 218E.090, Rules and privileges governing certain state employees who testify on their own behalf; required disclosures; unlawful for state agency to take certain actions because of such testimony, Nevada, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2091409
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1. An employee of a state agency who testifies before a House or committee on the employee’s own behalf and not on behalf of the state agency shall, before commencing such testimony, state that fact clearly on the record.
2. It is unlawful for a state agency which is the employer of an employee who complies with subsection 1 and testifies or seeks to testify before a House or committee on the employee’s own behalf to:
(a) Deprive the employee of employment with the state agency or to take any reprisal or retaliatory action against the employee as a consequence of the testimony or potential testimony;
(b) Threaten the employee that the testimony or potential testimony will result in the termination of employment with the state agency or in any reprisal or retaliatory action against the employee; or
(c) Directly or indirectly intimidate, threaten, coerce, command or influence or attempt to intimidate, threaten, coerce, command or influence the employee in an effort to interfere with or prevent the testimony of the employee.
3. It is unlawful for a state agency to:
(a) Deprive or threaten to deprive an employee of employment with the state agency;
(b) Take or threaten to take any reprisal or retaliatory action against the employee; or
(c) Directly or indirectly intimidate, threaten, coerce, command or influence or attempt to intimidate, threaten, coerce, command or influence the employee,
Ê in an attempt to affect the behavior of another employee who is testifying or seeks to testify before a House or committee on the other employee’s own behalf.
4. The provisions of this section do not apply to an employee in the classified service who has not completed the employee’s probationary period.
5. For the purposes of this section:
(a) “Reprisal or retaliatory action” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 281.611.
(b) “State agency” means an agency, bureau, board, commission, department, division, officer, employee or agent or any other unit of the Executive Department.