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good afternoon everyone welcome to the first meeting of the assembly committee on commerce and labor for the 81st legislative session madam secretary please call the roll assemblywoman carlton here assemblywoman considine assemblywoman dickman here assemblywoman duran here assemblyman flores assemblyman fryerson here assembly woman hardy here assembly woman kasama here assembly woman martinez present assemblywoman marzola here assemblyman o'neill here assemblywoman tolls here chair howdigy here thank you secretary um please mark assemblywoman considine present when you can hear her i know we can visually see her and she's present um it looks like we have all members present so we have a quorum today we have introductions some light housekeeping adoption of our committee policies a presentation by our committee staff and also the department of business and industry and before we start our committee business i would like to take a few minutes to have every member of our committee introduce themselves and i would like to start with our speaker speaker fryerson thank you madam chair um my name is jason fryer fryerson assimilator for distribute uh speaker of the assembly and i am in my uh fifth term um and uh oh by the way my district i always forget to do this is in the southwest part of las vegas um but i have the pleasure of having spent 10 years living in northern nevada so i uh see the whole state as as as my folks so please be here ready to help thank you speaker next our vice chair assemblywoman carlton thank you madam chair very much um assemblywoman maggie carlton assembly district 14 far east side of the valley i have served on the committee of commerce and labor in both houses since 1999 it has been my one constant committee thank you mr speaker for assigning me to this community again um and i look forward to working with miss haudegee and and all the other members of the committee to address all the great stuff that comes to commerce and labor you learn a lot on this committee it's it's a great committee to be on thank you thank you vice chair carlton um assemblywoman told thank you madam chair and congratulations it's wonderful to be back here on commerce and labor for our third uh term together we were freshmen together and many of you i've also had a chance to serve with these last two terms looking forward to this third one and i represent assembly district 25. which is mostly west reno all the way to the california border and my husband and i are small business owners and i also teach and many current business owners and future business owners and and am interested of course we're impacted by all the things that we talk about in this committee in every aspect of our lives so i look forward to serving with you all thanks assemblywoman martinez thank you chair i'm assemblywoman martinez and this is my second term i'm really excited to be on this committee um i'm on the east side i always say eastside is the best side and um it's just an honor to be serving for for my constituents assemblywoman hardy okay there we go hi i'm melissa hardy um i represent assembly district 22 which is in the um green valley ranch anthem area of henderson this is my second legislative session and also this will be my second time being on commerce and labor i'm looking forward to working with all the returning members that i served with last time as well as the new people on this committee my husband and i were small business owners for over 15 years and so i have a great understanding and passion for small business owners and i'm just excited to be here and participate in the work that we're going to do for our state and for our employees employers and businesses in our state so thank you thank you assemblyman o'neill sorry about that madam chair i had trouble on muting i'm pk o'neil um representing assembly district 40 which is all of carson city in the southeast part of washoe county up to the story county line i served once prior in 2015 and i was lucky enough at that time to be on commerce and labor i am happy to be back and i do appreciate coming back to commerce and labor because as you've all said i understand how busy we are but i also know the impact that we have for the quality of life of our families and businesses in the economy here in nevada so chair i look forward to working with you and i thank you very much for this time thank you assemblyman flores thank you madam chair uh i represent assembly district 28 that's northeast area in southern nevada las vegas and i am just humbled to be here amongst all of you i look forward to working on this committee so the first time i have an opportunity to sit on this committee and i've been a member of the nevada state legislature since 2015. i look forward to working with all of you thank you assemblyman assemblywoman duran thank you madam chair my name is b duran i represent district 11 which is downtown las vegas and part of the east side next to mr flores um this is i was appointed in 2018 and this is my first time on commerce and labor and i look forward to getting things done and working with everybody on this committee thank you thank you assemblywoman assemblywoman thank you madam chair elaine marzola i represent assembly district 21. um i have part of henderson and some of las vegas this is my first time um serving and so i'm really excited i am grateful to be in the commerce and labor committee i am an attorney by trade i do own my own law firm for the last two years have definitely learned the ups and downs of owning your own business and the ups and downs after covet hit so i'm really excited about the work that we are about to do thank you thank you assemblywoman dickman thank you madam chair um my name is jill dickman i represent district 31 which is about half of sparks and the north valleys of reno i was first elected in 2014 served in the 2015 session but i did not have the pleasure of serving on commerce and labor and um i'm very excited about being on commerce and labor because i have owned and operated small businesses for let's just say 30 plus years so i think we're going to get a lot of good things done and i'm grateful to be on this committee thank you thank you assemblywoman kasama thank you chair hardagee for having me on the on the committee here i'm very excited to join i was listening to everybody and kind of looking back and realized that i've probably been self-employed since my early 20s and so i employ people i have off and on through the years was a cpa for for 20 some years as well so um certainly have been around the business world um most of my life and looking forward to helping with all the great things for the state of nevada and however i can help everybody and i look forward to learning from all the seasoned people that are here and uh look forward to getting going on the session thank you and assemblywoman considine do we have you with audio yes can you hear me yes welcome thank you so much apologize for um not being on um initially i am assemblywoman consonant i represent assembly district 18 which is on the south east a las vegas a little bit of henderson i have though the wetlands in my district and it's an incredibly diverse district and i'm so honored to to represent the folks on the southeast side i by trade am an attorney as well and my entire legal career i've spent with the legal aid center so i am very interested and very happy to be on on this committee and i look forward to learning so much and learning from you all thank you thank you assemblywoman and thank you to all members of the committee i look forward to serving with you this legislative session um to everyone listening in i'm assemblywoman sandra hauergi proudly representing nevada's 41st assembly district this is my third session here at the legislature and i'm humbled to have the opportunity to chair this committee i've have i have spent my career in housing both in the public and private side and commerce and labor is important to me because it's the engine that drives our state we cover issues from banking to lending institutions communications regulation and licensing of occupations consumer protection worker protections and some of the most important issues to nevadans like minimum wage my goals for this session are to run a committee that is fair and respectful to everyone and to give thoughtful and just consideration to every bill scheduled for a hearing i look forward to working with everyone as we shape the policies and laws of our state next i would like to introduce our committee staff we certainly could not do the work or be successful without their support our committee manager is terry mcbride she is an anthropologist and has worked with nevada's tribes to preserve their traditional places for almost two decades this is her first year working for the assembly she has worked as a paralegal in the legal division of the lcb before julie axelson is one of our three committee secretaries this is her fourth legislative session with the assembly she worked with the judiciary committee for two sessions and this is her second session with commerce and labor she has two master's degrees european history and academic advising although she does not have a lot of time for hobbies since having two children she likes going to the ocean and spending time on the beach with her family next this is the first legislative session on staff for louis madrid he was born in france but raised his entire life in nevada his forever home he graduated magna laude from the university of nevada reno with political science and sociology degrees he is an avowed cat lover and avid consumer of all kinds of content from books tv shows and movies our third committee secretary paris smallwood received her bachelor of science in neuroscience from unr she is currently working on her master's in clinical mental health counseling from unr this is her first a legislative session in her free time she enjoys going out to eat and spending time with her loved ones cheryl williams will be our committee assistant this is her eighth session working for the assembly she is a double native nevadan from the people of the pyramid lake paiute tribe her interests are cowboys horses and rodeos this is the first legislative session for joe casey who is working as my attache he previously served as a legislative analyst for a women's health care organization during the 2019 session and stayed up until the morning hours watching both legislative special sessions in the 2020 summer as an advisory of a state senate campaign joe holds a degree in political science from the university of oregon he also races cars and is a high performance driving instructor margie pasloff thomas will be our committee policy analyst she has been with the research division of the lcb since 1998 and this is her 12th regular legislative session this is her fifth session as the policy analyst for commerce and labor she has also served as the policy analyst for committees such as growth and infrastructure energy and transportation she has a master's degree in public policy and administration from baylor university and a bachelor's degree from the university of san diego finally our committee council sam quest has been with the lcb since august 2018 originally from illinois he graduated from illinois state university in 2015 and the university of illinois college of law in 2018. from 2008 to 2012 he served in the united states navy as a cryptologic technician aboard the uss pickney he lives in reno with his wife faith and their two dogs thank you to the staff for all that you do and will do to support this committee throughout the session with that let us get started before we start i would like to make a few housekeeping announcements please make sure to members and everyone listening and those testifying to read all notices and comply with deadline requests on the agenda this includes submitting all exhibit written testimony and proposed amendments by noon on the business day before our scheduled meeting you may submit public comments in writing either in addition to testifying or in lieu thereof please remember to unmute yourself before speaking and to immediately mute yourself right after we will always be courteous and respectful in this committee even when we disagree on matters our first official order of business is going to be the adoption of the committee policies which are posted on the legislature's website these policies are fairly standard and similar to those approved in other committees they serve to complement the assembly standing rules and the joint standing rules that we adopted on monday in the full assembly today we have two sets of committee policies one is for when we begin to meet in person the second for our virtual meetings i would like to take a moment just to highlight the new items in our virtual policies one members of the committee are asked to log on to the zoom committee 15 minutes prior to the committee starting to ensure your technology is operational and to allow for a punctual start time i do plan on getting the assembly committee started as close to 1 30 as possible committee members staff and any testifiers on the zoom meeting should mute their microphone when not speaking excuse me members are expected to keep their cameras on unless they need to step away from their computer for non-committee-related business and again should be muted unless they are speaking this will ensure we have a quorum at all times we will be conducting all votes via roll call vote to help ensure we accurately are recording members votes when answering please answer with a yes or a no instead of a yay or an a to help the committee secretaries accurately count your vote the zoom chat will be reserved strictly for questions relating to a bill that is currently being heard the zoom chat is public to committee members all staff all presenters and all persons who are testifying that day during virtual committee meetings members should give their full attention to those persons testifying either by zoom or teleconference and limit their use of electronic communications devices to legislative matters only any member who votes affirmative affirmatively to pass a bill or adopt an amendment in committee is encouraged to advise the chair of any change in his or her vote before the vote on the assembly floor the assumption will be if you vote yes on a bill in committee that you will also vote yes on the floor if at any time that changes i encourage you to please let the chair know are there any questions committee members okay if not i will take a motion to adopt the committee policies for the assembly committee on commerce and labor so moved madam chair i have a motion from vice chair carlton do i have a second second second members if you would um please announce yourself when speaking that'll help me and the committee secretary i had a second from assemblywoman martinez thank you assemblywoman martinez i have a second from assemblywoman martinez any discussion committee secretary will you please take a roll call vote assemblywoman carlton yes assemblywoman considine yes assemblywoman dickman yes assemblywoman duran yes assemblyman flores yes assemblyman fryerson yes assemblywoman hardy yes assemblywoman kasama yes assemblywoman martinez yes assemblywoman marzola yes assemblyman o'neill yes assemblywoman tolls yes chair howdy yes motion carries our next order of business is a presentation by our policy analyst margie thomas thank you ma'am chair i'm margie thomas with the research division of the lcb and i will be your committee policy analyst this session a copy of the committee brief is on nellis so i was just going to briefly speak about that the commerce and labor committee was the third busiest policy committee during the 2019 session and as the chair noted this committee considers a wide range of issues affecting commerce and labor such as banks financial institutions insurance labor and industrial relations businesses occupations professions and trade practice and regulations as well as numerous other issues several of these issues will be considered this session on page three of the committee brief there is information on the relevant audits performed by the legislative auditor during the 2019-2020 interim as well as an overview of the sunset subcommittee of the legislative commission many of the sunset subcommittee's recommendations are considered by the committee also nevada regulates more than 50 occupational and professional licensing groups many potential bills relate to occupational and professional licensing i would like to point out that most of these boards are required to submit reports of disciplinary actions and regulatory activities to the lcb if you would like a copy of any of these reports please let me know the state and local directory is also available on the legislative website and the directory contains current contact information for state and local government agencies if you have difficulty finding that on the website please let me know and finally as your central nonpartisan staff please feel free to contact me if you have any questions on issues related to topics that come before the committee thank you thank you miss thomas committee members do you have any questions for our policy analyst okay i'm just gonna switch to gallery view to see if i see anyone raising their hands okay seeing um no questions thank you miss thomas we appreciate your your brief and look forward to working with you this session our next order of business is a presentation an overview of the department of business and industry and i believe we have director reynolds on with us to provide the presentation director reynolds yes thanks uh chair hallergy i appreciate this opportunity to address you in the the committee hopefully today i'll end up with having everyone have a little bit better understanding of the department of business and industry our mission in business industry is to protect the public through fair and consistent consumer advocacy and regulation while encouraging business development uh within nevada and i know lisa is going to get our powerpoint up here shortly go to slide three thank you business and industry consists of the director's office and 11 agencies insurance industrial relations housing real estate mortgage lending financial institutions taxi authority the nevada transportation authority employee management relations board and the labor commissioner as well as the attorney for injured workers to really understand the department of business industry uh broken it up into kind of four quadrants to understand the functions within that we deal with within our agencies the first is commerce and capital regulations which deals with financial institutions insurance mortgage lending real estate which also includes common interest communities taxi cab authority and the nevada transportation authority under community development and small business uh under our office of business finance and planning marcia marcel scheer is our deputy director there and he deals directly with small businesses we handle private activity bonds as a conduit issuer for the state we also handle housing programs mortgage assistance and bonds for affordable housing as well as weatherization grants in addition to that we oversee the it's called the new market jobs act but we call it the new markets tax credit program that we have within our office karen schnag is our management analyst that handles that program under labor and workforce protection the office of labor commissioner is within the department of business industry the employee management relations board which deals with the basically the public side state local government employees issues industrial relations which handles workers comp it handles five different uh different sections mechanical osha mine safety and scats also the attorney for injured workers under advocacy and advancement within our director's office down in las vegas houses the office of consumer affairs we have the commission on minority fairs and the ombudsman for minority affairs which is mary and laura hickerson we also have the housing advocate may worthy thomas does an outstanding job as the housing advocate for settling issues with housing for everything from seniors to people that have housing difficulties within the state our hoa ombudsman is charvez foger in the real estate division which deals with common interest communities within the state over 500 000 people in the state of nevada are within hoas so this is a significant function that we have to deal with also consumer affairs in insurance we have a consumer unit within our insurance division that handles a considerable amount of consumer issues for people that have insurance issues whether it be warranties health insurance policies on liability it handles a wide variety of consumer issues with insurance next slide please the department demographics we have currently 674 current approved ftes within the department and our 11 different agencies we have 25 policy making boards commissions and advisory council committees we have 51 board members that are within those policy making boards and we have 15 offices throughout the state i would also indicate to you that we are primarily a fee-funded department we have two agencies that come out of the general fund one is the office of labor commissioner and the other one which is half of that is real estate the other half is the common interest community side which is funded by a door fee on on hoas but generally we are funded by licensing fees we issue in the department about 264 000 licenses for different occupational licensing within and business licensing within the state of nevada how does our governor's budget recommended i'm going to go through this rather quickly this is a very high level but the governor's recommended budget for fiscal year 22 23 was 216 million eight hundred and uh thirty nine thousand four hundred and forty three dollars uh the legislatively approved budget uh the in the previous fiscal year was two hundred and nineteen million two hundred ninety seven thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars so that uh has resulted in a vinyl decrease of uh two million four hundred fifty eight thousand five hundred thirty seven dollars so we've taken a significant hit to our budget what does the industry director's office do we provide direct support to the department's 11 divisions we have a centralized fiscal unit that handles budget collections payroll human resources and i.t technology the financial institutions and mortgage lending divisions handle licensing for those two entities we administer provisions of law development of regulations and policy within our agencies we assist with economic development initiatives and coordinate programs to encourage growth and retention of business we work very closely with the governor's office of economic development we also provide advocacy and protection for consumers and minority affairs we provide constituent services we literally get you know hundreds of calls a week for constituents regarding different issues within our 11 different agencies we provide as the conduit issuer for private activity industrial revenue and charter school bonds we also as i indicated administer the new market jobs act our office of business finance and planning which is our uh office in las vegas that the deputy director marcel shearer oversees works with small business and economic development uh and we've been doing this for years we basically leverage the success and longevity of local owned small business and resource source providers we engage local business resource community through various outreach efforts we work very closely with all the chambers within the state we conduct quarterly roundtable uh business meetings at the state business center i think we're doing them virtually now but we had about 80 some people on our last call for our small business roundtable we educate we work with to advocate for small business and entrepreneurs through outreach activities and educational programs we bring in the federal dol department of labor small business administration we have our local labor commissioner we work with different business sectors score to provide outreach and educational activities for small business we also publish the nevada business advocate newsletter and weekly business industry news we provide resources and tools for online uh through our website to engage local business communities and provide a networking platform for them we have what's commonly known as the roadmap but it's an interactive guide to starting and growing a business in nevada with 375 links to be able to look at uh how to start a business within the state but also you can drill down into local government and look at their licensing requirements uh not only on a state level but a local government level we provide access to capital we also as i indicated have conduit issuer private activity industrial revenue and charter school bonds the new market tax credits we work with goed which the opportunity zones are under them but we work with them on opportunity zones within our state we innovate we conduct programs shop small nevada we also work to promote national business small business week we also assist small business with both federal and state uh business programs we were very instrumental in helping people with their ppp loans and the pence grants program we took over a thousand calls on the pets program to be able to help people with applications for grants on that next slide this one seems to get hung up consumer affairs unit the consumer affairs unit is located in our director's office and we have an office both in carson city and one in las vegas it's a small unit only consists now of approximately five people but we do collaborate and work with the fight fraud task force we have a coalition of governmental agencies and private organizations that we work with we share current fraud trends prevention tips and resources we also work with the federal trade commission and perform workshops with them we have developed relationships with other states around the united states and their attorney general's offices we investigate we look at internet-based business in nevada travel and tour agencies vacation clubs we work from home scams door-to-door sales product purchases i.e like furniture cosmetics kiosks hotel motel home repairs and then also we go out and we work with the nevada consumer affairs annual fraud prevention fair both in reno in las vegas we get out and we spend time talking to the general public but we also talk to senior groups we talk to those targeted groups that are most susceptible to consumer fraud we do out work outreach workshops both in online now and we've done quite a few of those already we litigate we mediate and we have hearings to work with people that have have fraud issues and and bringing those businesses in that have defrauded customers we work very closely with the attorney general's office and they feel that it's available to prosecute they will take the case if not uh we try to get the parties together to mediate a solution or have a hearing and try to get the facts and figure out what we can do for the consumer on that this is a breakdown of the types of how our complaints come in most of them come by phone or internet but we get complaints from the fight fraud task force our community partners the governor's office attorney general's office in person and by email but generally about almost uh 80 percent of our complaints come in via internet or the phone and the next slide gives us a breakdown of the types of things that we see coming in the staff handles about a little over 200 complaints a month between 250 and 300 complaints a month and out of that you can see what the breakdown of those are this is pretty representative of what we've had in the past the consumer affairs unit we'll have it's every it was discontinued in fiscal year 12 it was reestablished in fy14 it's been sunsetting every uh biennium and we're trying to get the sunset taken out so i'll just mention that so you'll see a bdr on that the financial institutions division under commerce and capital regulation fid handles three basic areas they handle depository institutions banks credit unions and saving loan thrift companies industrial loan corporations they handle fiduciary institutions which are retail trust and family trust companies they also regulate the non-depository business side uh which we have which is basically payday lenders high interest lenders title loans we have three private professional guardians collection agencies 101 money transmitters 68 installment lenders 8 consumer litigation funding companies and 32 uniform debt managers we do that with a staff of about 30 examiners and we perform examinations basically an average of about 1.6 per week so very busy we investigate possible violations that take necessary disciplinary enforcement actions we also promote maintain the public's trust and confidence in the state financial system through regulatory activities and and public outreach and during the covet times we were working with the financial institutions to make sure that they would be open and people were concerned about whether they could go to the bank get their money those type of things and so we worked very closely with the banks fdic did not regulate anything with covid so the banking community really relied on us as to how they could operate to keep them open we also facilitate proposals to form de novo depository financial institutions new institutions encourage consideration by national and out-of-state chartered institutions to convert relocate to nevada we've had both a bank and a credit union and we have additional credit unions coming into nevada which is good news typically nevada has been very underbanked we're also working to facilitate the establishment fast-growing retail and family trust companies that bring in good paying and white-collar jobs and to our state a good example of that is charles schwab a couple years ago came into nevada and they have their corporate headquarters located within our state nevada housing division nevada housing division has several homeowner programs down payment assistance they do that for veterans teachers people that first time home buyers they work to help finance multi-family development for affordable housing and preservation of affordable housing units we have our weatherization program assistance that helps people both in the cold climates and hot climates we have oversight of manufactured housing and licensing of structures manufactured structures within the state we administer federal funding for housing we also have housing database reporting we have a rental finding program that we use that people can check in and find what is available for rent to rent we also have housing advocacy and we work with groups to help people that are have housing issues current activities we're working with home is possible down payment assistance to low and middle income home buyers special programs for teachers and veterans as i as i mentioned we have six developments completed using the four percent low income housing tax credit program 10 million dollars in tax credits allocated for the nine percent uh tax credit program uh through these combined programs we have uh this last year created about 750 affordable housing units just in the last year uh we had 962 people were assisted through the weatherization program and we have the annual administration of over about 13 million in in federal grants for construction preservation of affordable housing weatherization assistance rental assistance housing and neighborhood stabilization that also includes homeless division of insurance works to protect consumers and ensure solvency of our our insurance programs they regulate a 18.8 billion dollar nevada industry they monitor and ensure solvency of character carriers as i mentioned uh we promote compliance to provide an adequate and competitive market to ensure consumers are treated fairly we also license educate individuals interacting with consumers in nevada's insurance market the division regulates about 197 000 licensees 1500 authorized traditional insurance companies and 2200 other licensed insurance related entities under our consumer services i mentioned we have consumer offices in carso city and las vegas incorporated within the division during fiscal year 2019 and 2020 we responded to over 26 000 consumer inquiries and recovered 11.6 million for nevada consumers so fairly significant uh i won't get into this but there will be three bdrs that will be presented by the department of insurance maurice lending division the mortgage lending division administers four different licensing areas they oversee escrow agencies and escrow agents under nrs they oversee mortgage companies and mortgage loan originators also mortgage servicer and covered service companies uh legislature allowed us to regulate mortgage servicers and license them within the state a few years back and that's been really an excellent smooth running program we also have a registration program for credit service organizations under nrs 598. the real estate division uh there's two sides to the real estate division uh the first side is really uh what we typical is real estate licenses uh we have uh builders and developers that we work with approving subdivision maps we work with the time share industry appraisers industry auditors and inspection of structures we also on them the ombudsman side we have education and training for our community managers and hoas we have hoa registration mediation compliance and alternative dispute resolution so we work with homeowners that have disputes with their hoa and we try to engage them in an alternative dispute resolution which saves money on both sides so we did have one piece of proposed legislation which has been withdrawn so i won't get into that taxicab authority this is basically just in clark county we deal with driver permitting vehicle inspection enforcement the industry has right now about 3 500 medallions out 16 cab companies we have 6 000 plus active drivers and we have seen a complete uh really uh drop in uh taxi rides pre-coped we have about 15.8 million rides uh fiscal year 20 we saw about 10 million so clark county taxi rides continue to decline to the point of about 60 percent since the introduction of transportation network companies still we think that taxis remain in central mode of front line transportation through covet and we saw really a pretty heavy bump during uh the holiday season and new year's season of use of taxis which is also very good we're still seeing when we see increases in airport traffic we see fairly good increases in taxi traffic to that taxis route still we feel remain the most quick and efficient way to move large uh sums of people hopefully we'll have events coming back and be able to sports events and that will pick up the industry with the advent of autonomous vehicles coming into the mass market we're going to have to be looking at how that's going to affect taxis but we know that we will see autonomous vehicles because they're basically doing testing in our market right now so we expect to see them in the next five years working uh really along the strip the nevada taxi cab authority handles taxis everywhere else but clark county so they handle the rest of the state but they also handle within the state charter buses limos movers tow cars tour buses emergency non-emergency medical transfers employee van pools airport transport vehicles special services warehouse permits transportation network companies uber lyft and autonomous vehicles statewide as well as like i said all taxi cabs outside of clark county the transportation authority does they process driver permits they administer new carrier applications they oversee administrative enforcement hearings they have audit and inspections of existing carriers and enforcement of nevada laws active carriers now and this this fluctuates dramatically so i'm not going to rely totally on these numbers but uh active carriers is about 947 tnc driver count and that fluctuates by the day actually uh hundred and 15 three and non-tnc driver count is uh five thousand uh six hundred and thirty two so depending on the time of the week uh during events those figures can go up or down and change considerably the basic difference between the nevada transportation authority is they are a statewide uh organization that really enforces the uh and regulates the applications and their applicants with that the taxi authority is more of an enforcement entity with peace officers that are out patrolling and basically enforcing the industry out on the street so a little different type of mission between the two they both licensed drivers but the enforcement areas are are different office of labor commissioner major responsibilities is to enforce private sector employment laws uh minimum wage and overtime break some lunches deductions employment practices employment of minors they oversee prevailing wage and public works projects they issue public works project numbers so they can follow and make sure that prevailing wage is followed on those projects they calculate prevailing wage they enforce and investigate potential violations they pose penalties and if need be disqualification of contractors that have not over had a track record of not following a law they also license and regulate private employment agencies and temporary staffing agencies uh they work with silver flume on online applications and licensure just to give you some statistics uh wage claims complaints uh they saw 8764 uh claims for wages they collected 2.1 million and another 465 000 in penalties all their penalties go straight to the general fund they don't go back into the agency prevailing wage claims there were 178 uh prevailing wage claims uh the wages collected for that were 729 471 dollars and they assessed uh 140 908 uh public works project numbers issued were uh 1573 uh administrative penalties and fines these are general were 423 470 dollars and uh you know private employment agencies uh license 384 of them employee management relations board the board acts as an administrative court resolving disputes under over unfair labor practice allegations the scope of bargaining units and which employee organizations if any is to represent given employees for example they in the state government they basically oversaw the unionization and the certification of bargaining units for 18 500 state employees they had 190 local governments 155 employee organizations and four labor organizations 258 bargaining units so there's almost 90 000 local government employees uh involved in that so between the state and local government there's well over a hundred thousand uh government employees that they work with on their collective bargaining agreements they use a five member hearings appeals board or panel board members so they can break now thank you to the legislature to break up into hearing panels to hear cases and settlement conferences they have a staff of three full-time people very small staff one of our smallest agencies just to note the employee management relations board does not resolve grievances they are resolved through the typical uh collective bargaining process and each of the more of their bargaining agreements so the board continues to meet virtually uh during the pandemic meeting twice a month for up to three days the agency is currently holding hearings cases scheduled through march with no cases waiting for hearing dates so they are very they're current they have implemented the law establishing collective bargaining for state employees including setting up bargaining units rulings on representation petitions and amending its administrative rules all on schedule recently held its first two hearings involving unlayered unfair labor practices at the state level and all of our agencies decisions are now include the legislative council bureau's nevada law library on a cd the vision of industrial uh relations uh includes five different areas uh the nevada occupational healthy and health and safety administration osha the safety consultation and training section which is commonly known as scats they work with businesses on safety training and consultation the mechanical compliance section which is for the safe operation of boilers elevators and escalators within the state of nevada mine safety and training they work this is uh basically works with local training for for minds they also work with the military in terms of their mountain warfare group on tunnel safety but this is totally uh work with safety we work hand-in-hand with the federal mine safety but uh well the mind safety group is not a sighting group they're they're basically an education and training group uh we do work with the federal indies and investigating uh mining accidents and so we're usually first on the scene because of our proximity when there is a mining accident the last area is workers compensation ensuring care for injured workers so the division has been active as you know enforcing osha standards the governor's covet directives uh we've been reviewing copic safety plans for events throughout the state and uh and athletic and children's sports we've conducted all safety training online we've continued the recognition safety and health achievement programs and voluntary protection programs safety excellent programs even through an online basis over the last year we're using a new elevator permit database to focus on compliance efforts to make sure that all of our elevators escalators and boilers are actually up to date in their permit and we're developing a strategic vision for the future of the workers compensation claims which in regulatory data system which we call cards which keeps track of workers compensation claims within the state the attorney for general attorney for injured workers this is a really kind of a unique uh in terms of for nevada and one that works very well the office provides legal representation to injured workers seeking workers compensation benefits we provide general and procedural information to the public regarding the workers compensation system in nevada we represent injured workers in over a thousand cases a year uh we provide the initial administrative appeals hearing and we did 792 of that uh the appeals to district court we had 16 uh the appeals to the nevada supreme court we had six uh decision and settlement wins we had 442 of those so uh in aiw represents 25 to 30 of all claimants seeking benefits at the appeals level those claimants have the option to be though to go with us or to hire a private attorney so we handle really in a significant uh number of cases in this area and we have a fairly large staff of attorneys to be able to represent claimants within this area and that is concludes our presentation and available for questions so that's a very quick overview of the department of business and industry and i thank you for this opportunity to present thank you director reynolds um committee members do you have any questions for director reynolds i'm gonna switch to gallery view so i can see if there's any hands okay i'm vice chair carlton thank you very much madam chair so uh mr reynolds nice to see you thank you very much for this presentation i always forget how big a shop you have so um it's great that you put all this out there in the housing division you were talking about the i think the affordable housing area and you said something about 1700 units i was wondering where are those units located there uh the majority of them they're located throughout the state uh they're mostly in the urban areas uh probably about 70 percent of the units are in clark county uh and the balance are in the reno sparks and uh carson quad cities area we are seeing some traction of getting some affordable housing units uh within the rural areas uh lately that has been been difficult um not because we haven't been willing to to work and we've set aside money to do that but because they're just uh trying to get the demand and builders to go in and be able to participate in that and thank you very much man i'm sure if i could uh ask that maybe we get a list of those i'm i'm just curious i'd like to know where they are i've had multiple constituents reach out and then my work in the nonprofit world about helping people try to find more affordable housing so if we would have some indication of where they are we might be able to assist folks and i also just wanted to compliment you on your your labor commissioner i think she's doing a fantastic job you look at the numbers of the money that she's gotten back for workers that have been put in a terrible position of not being paid by their employer being paid correctly to be able to make sure that our our constituents get taken care of i wanted to congratulate you on all of her hard work so thank you very much thank you um thank you uh uh simon carlton i will tell you that steve aycroft is on the call and we have a breakdown of our projects uh for affordable housing and the communities are in the number of units uh that have been constructed in the number and projects that are also in the queue that are uh they're actually currently being approved and or constructed so we'll provide you that list thank you and director reynolds if you could provide that to our committee secretary so she could share it with every member um of the committee i know i'd like to see that list as well yes thank you vice chair is that are you good okay perfect um assembly woman told thank you madam chair i have a couple questions one about the consumer affairs unit and then some about the um transportation and tax capacities with your permission yes please proceed director reynolds thank you good to see you and i would love to say i've had a few really great interactions with some of your um your chiefs and various departments and appreciate their work and appreciate them getting back to me with answers to questions that i've had in the past so thanks for this presentation um in your consumer affairs unit um i find that of particular interest caring for elderly um parents who have been targeted quite um at quite a volume uh certainly the senior fraud is a massive issue and i um i just had two quick questions one looking at your issue topic report one of the ones that really stood out to me was that you found in 2020 985 cases of informational fraud i'm just curious or um or is that just information is that informational fraud or is that informational inquiries among consumer affairs could you just help unpack that it's it's a little bit of both so it's um basically where somebody will call up and and get false information on a topic and um where it's information about you know a program or something that's not real uh but it's also um we deal with um basically uh scams where somebody will call up and say uh how would you like to participate in this activity or put money down on this or whatever so we get a lot of um basically people that call us back and they've had phone calls you know and luckily they do call us and that they have been offered a deal or offered some kind of informational program and ask them to put money down and so they check with us on those but that's that's a kind of that's a very common thing um having dealt with senior parents uh that's something that i don't you know trying to get once they kind of bridge that and i start calling people they call all the time and i used to deal with that with my parents too and it's very frustrating but i will tell you that we hold specific we go out to different senior communities and to different senior housing communities and provide seminars directly to them for doing that virtually now but to get people so they're aware of what types of scams or what to do and who to call to verify to say is this real and so we get a lot of those types of requests and we and then we categorize under information requests so that's why they're so big got it thank you and um and any information you can share with this committee um that we can share with our constituents would be helpful i i did notice that you can sign up for alerts but those were just the ftc alerts um just generic if there's some other email lists i know or those loved ones in my life email is a major form of communication often in all caps and so anything that we could do to maybe provide some good factual information for them to be helpful um that's something erhaps we can partner with you and getting good information out so we'd be happy to do that and then my second set of questions just has to do with the taxi cab authority and the transportation um authority and i it seems like there's quite a bit of crossover um and so i was just wondering have you calculated out if there would be savings to consolidate those two so that it wasn't you know just clark county for taxis and then the rest of the state and then all these other forms of transportation um has there ever been a really deep dive look into what consolidating those two agencies would you know would profit for state i will tell you that we have done a pretty good analysis of what it would take to to consolidate the two agencies and i will tell you that from a paper perspective um you know it would make it makes good sense to do that uh in in reality in terms of the cultures of both the taxi industry versus the uh tnc uber lyft and uh the type of activities that we see within the nta versus the ta it's probably going to be very difficult there's a lot of different there's a lot of turf between both to be able to deal with that and i'd be real honest with you to tell you that uh this is something that if you're going to to look at that i would suggest looking at it over the biennium uh and come up with some firm recommendations to have before the legislature be and then have the different groups weigh in on that because this will not be easy can it be done yes i think it can be done we've looked at structures we've looked at other states and how they they do that so it is possible but i think there's a lot of moving parts to it and i think it's something that ought to take some time to be able to look at uh it's not something that we can just pick up and do but i think it can be done if done right and over a period of time and get buy-in from different stakeholders thank you i appreciate that honesty of that answer and nice chair carlton's nodding her head [Laughter] and i'm sure a lot of institutional knowledge on that topic but um i i one thing you did say triggered just one last question if i may madam chair go ahead yes thank you and um it was in regards to one is more oriented um versus the other and i just um perhaps if you could direct us to how we divvy up enforcement what are the different roles of who who does inspections and so forth um between the two agencies and just how many positions and breakdowns that um i'd just like to better understand it i i know i've had this conversation in the past with a cons you know constituent up here in washoe county so of course that was under nta um i know not quite as much about the tax cap authority since that is in clark county so i just i'd just love to understand better so that we could i have a better statewide view well certainly we can put together kind of a position of what the and i've done that for the governor's office so i'd be happy to provide that to you that into the committee that has a breakdown of the functions of each uh entity each agency and how they're broken down and how they perform uh and do kind of a side-by-side comparison of how each uh functions and i think that'll be very helpful thank you appreciate that if you could direct your reynolds again share that with the secretary so she um gives that to every member of the committee i think it'd be helpful for everyone yes happy to do that thank you and assemblyman o'neil i know you had some questions as well regarding the taxicab authority i'm not sure if director reynolds answered them but if you're i'm ready to proceed go ahead thank you madam chair first i want to thank director reynolds it was really an interesting presentation i never realized just how big a footprint business and industry had in our state but dovetailing in with assemblyman tolls question on the taxi cab authority i did 40 years in law enforcement and not clark county let available handle clark county and then let your nta handle the inter-county activities regulations and enforcements uh assemblyman o'deal that that's a good that's a good point of topic and that is something that um you know has been looked at uh you know there's we've been uh working with taxi cab authorities since the 70s uh and so there's a long history of that but you know there isn't there is a valid argument to say that because it just involves clark county this should be a function that should reside with the county and i think years ago i think that um it was fairly politicized and the casino properties wanted to take it and put it into a state regulatory office so that there was probably more equal enforcement in terms of what they would see in terms of operation of that so uh i think your vice chair could probably give you some more chapter verse on that she's very familiar with the issues but you know having i've lived in elko reno sparks and in las vegas and so very familiar with the operations of of uh how they operate within the different entities and i will tell you that it probably had a lot to do with the the tourism entertainment industries and how uh they were operated within the state and taking that function putting it on a state level to have more equal administration and regulation i appreciate your answer director reynolds and thank you for the time manager thank you committee members any other questions okay i have a couple of questions director reynolds um regarding the housing i know you had mentioned on slide 15 we talked a little bit about the um six developments completed using the four percent low income housing tax credit program and then that there was 10 million dollars in tax credit tax credits reserved for the 9 program have any 9 developments been completed are you uh yes they have i've got steve a croft on the line and steve can actually go through although steve is our housing administrator so steve if you want to unmute and come in and and mr a croft as well um so if you just let us know how many developments have been used using the nine percent um litec tax credit just because it's my understanding the only that only the nine percent program requires wrap around services correct the four percent does not mr across i think you just have to unmute yourself star 6. perfect thank you thank you for the question howdy steve across nevada housing division administrator for the record um i don't have the list in front of me i think probably the best way to provide you the list of properties that were in the nine percent realm is to attach that to the previously requested list of properties uh in the four percent round so we can we can get you all that information and you will see exactly uh where they're located and to your point um the four percent uh bond projects don't necessarily pencil with those wrap around services in involved so yes they are they are uh much more predominant in the nine percent tax credit program and i hope that answers the questions and just i just just for clarification because i remember from the affordable housing interim committee meeting is it a requirement for the nine percent to have wraparound services are are those required to have them um stevia crop again for the record no it is not however because that program is competitive they can get additional points for their approval if they include those services okay perfect yes and then if you would just provide the information so that we could get a list of where all of the um developments are for both the four percent and nine percent throughout the state thank you thank you okay that was actually um the last question i had so let me just do a double check committee members any final questions okay seeing none thank you so much director reynolds and um to all of the division heads who are on with us as well for your time and for the presentation thank you very much we appreciate uh being able to present that and i will get the information out to your committee thank you thank you okay perfect our last order of business committee is public comment um we can give a couple of minutes to those who are watching online if they would like to call in and give public comment i would like to remind everyone that we limit public comment to two minutes so broadcast do we have anyone currently waiting for public comment uh yes madam chair we have two oh uh not anymore we had two callers but they left the call okay then let's just wait uh a minute to see if anyone calls in sounds good okay thank you broadcast has anyone i'm called in for public comments chair the public line is open and working but there are no callers at this time okay thank you then committee members that concludes our business for the day a reminder 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