NV SB306

Public and private inpatient psychiatric treatment facilities must establish discharge procedures prohibiting the discharge of children with emotional disturbances to temporary facilities

Division of Child and Family Services must establish a task force to develop recommendations for housing and services programs for children discharged from treatment facilities, division facilities, or juvenile detention who cannot return home due to health or safety risks; recommendations due to Joint Interim Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by July 1 of each even-numbered year

Definition of "child with an emotional disturbance" expanded to explicitly include children with severe emotional disturbances

Division facility names updated to reflect current operations: Northern Nevada Child and Adolescent Services, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility North, and Southern Nevada Child and Adolescent Services

Enhanced assault and battery penalties extended to cover state and local government employees whose jobs require public interaction and performance of child welfare services, child protective services, or tasks with comparable dangers