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  Assembly Bill 426

Appendix C - Nevada Assembly Bill 426

Assembly Bill No. 426-Assemblymen Pierce, Arberry, Atkinson, Hogan, Horne, Kihuen, Kirkpatrick, Koivisto, Leslie, McClain, Mortenson, Munford, Oceguera, Ohrenschall and Segerblom

        Joint Sponsors: Senators Parks, Copening and Wiener

CHAPTER

        AN ACT relating to recycling; requiring the Division of Environmental Protection of the State         Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to conduct a study concerning         programs for reusing and recycling computers and other electronics; and providing other         matters properly relating thereto.

Legislative Counsel's Digest:
This bill requires the Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to conduct a study concerning programs for reusing and recycling computers and other electronics. The study must include an inventory of any programs for donating or recycling computers and other electronics in this State and surrounding states and an evaluation of those programs. This bill also requires the Administrator of the Division to submit a report setting forth the results of the study and at least one recommendation for legislation to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmission to the 76th Session of the Nevada Legislature.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

        Sections 1-33. (Deleted by amendment.)
        Sec. 34. 1. The Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall, within the limits of available money, conduct or cause to be conducted a study concerning programs for reusing and recycling computers and other electronics.
        2. The study must include, without limitation:
        (a) An inventory of any programs for donating or recycling computers and other electronics in this State and surrounding states; and
        (b) An evaluation of those programs and their effectiveness, including, without limitation, an assessment of the environmental effect of those programs.
        3. The Administrator of the Division shall submit a report setting forth the results of the study and at least one recommendation for legislation to carry out a program for reusing and recycling computers and other electronics in this State to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmission to the 76th Session of the Nevada Legislature.
        Sec. 35. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2009.

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