‘Volunteer’ means any person who, without compensation, works at, assists with or oversees any activity or event conducted or sponsored by a public school during or outside of school hours. The term:

1.  Includes, without limitation, a coach, assistant coach, director of in-school or extracurricular activities and chaperone of an overnight trip.

2.  Does not include a student who is enrolled at an institution of higher education and is:

(a) Taking a course which requires the student to be present in the classroom of the public school on a limited basis to observe and to be observed in the classroom; and

(b) Under direct supervision of a teacher or his or her professor at all times while in the classroom.

1.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 391.105, each applicant for employment pursuant to NRS 391.100 or employee, except a teacher or other person licensed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or volunteer who is likely to have unsupervised contact with pupils, must, before beginning his or her employment or service as a volunteer and at least once every 5 years thereafter, submit to the school district:

(a) A full set of the applicant’s, employee’s or volunteer’s fingerprints and written permission authorizing the school district to forward the fingerprints to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for its report on the criminal history of the applicant, employee or volunteer and for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its report on the criminal history of the applicant, employee or volunteer; and

(b) Written authorization for the board of trustees of the school district to obtain any information concerning the applicant, employee or volunteer that may be available from the Statewide Central Registry and any equivalent registry maintained by a governmental entity in a jurisdiction in which the applicant, employee or volunteer has resided within the immediately preceding 5 years.

2.  In conducting an investigation into the background of an applicant, employee or volunteer, a school district may cooperate with any appropriate law enforcement agency to obtain information relating to the criminal history of the applicant, employee or volunteer, including, without limitation, any record of warrants for the arrest of or applications for protective orders against the applicant, employee or volunteer.

3.  The board of trustees of a school district may use a substantiated report of the abuse or neglect of a child, as defined in NRS 392.281, or a violation of NRS 201.540, 201.560, 392.4633 or 394.366 obtained from the Statewide Central Registry or an equivalent registry maintained by a governmental agency in another jurisdiction:

(a) When making determinations concerning assignments, requiring retraining, imposing discipline, hiring, accepting a volunteer or termination; and

(b) In any proceedings to which the report is relevant, including, without limitation, an action for trespass or a restraining order.

4.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, the board of trustees of a school district shall not require a licensed teacher or other person licensed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction pursuant to NRS 391.033 who has taken a leave of absence from employment authorized by the school district, including, without limitation:

(a) Sick leave;

(b) Sabbatical leave;

(c) Personal leave;

(d) Leave for attendance at a regular or special session of the Legislature of this State if the employee is a member thereof;

(e) Maternity leave; and

(f) Leave permitted by the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., to submit a set of his or her fingerprints as a condition of return to or continued employment with the school district if the employee is in good standing when the employee began the leave.

5.  A board of trustees of a school district may ask the Superintendent of Public Instruction to require a person licensed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction pursuant to NRS 391.033 who has taken a leave of absence from employment authorized by the school district to submit a set of his or her fingerprints as a condition of return to or continued employment with the school district if the board of trustees has probable cause to believe that the person has committed a felony or an offense involving moral turpitude during the period of his or her leave of absence.

6.  The board of trustees of a school district:

(a) May accept any gifts, grants and donations to carry out the provisions of subsections 1 and 2 and NRS 391.105.

(b) May not be held liable for damages resulting from any action of the board of trustees authorized by subsection 2 or 3 or NRS 391.105.