1. The Board of Regents may, in response to a state of emergency or declaration of disaster proclaimed by the Governor or the Legislature pursuant to NRS 414.070, temporarily waive or modify the requirements to be eligible for a Millennium Scholarship set forth in paragraph (f) of subsection 1 of NRS 396.930 and NRS 396.934. Such a waiver or modification may waive or modify, without limitation, the minimum grade point average for one or more semesters of enrollment, the minimum number of credits in which a student must be enrolled or any other requirement deemed appropriate by the Board of Regents.
2. The Board of Regents may adopt any procedures necessary to implement a temporary waiver or modification made pursuant to subsection 1 to the requirements to be eligible for a Millennium Scholarship.
3. A temporary waiver or modification made pursuant to subsection 1 may remain in effect for as long as the Board of Regents, in its discretion, determines is necessary to address the impact of the state of emergency or declaration of disaster on students who receive or are otherwise eligible to receive a Millennium Scholarship.
4. The Board of Regents shall:
(a) Within 45 days after a temporary waiver or modification made pursuant to subsection 1 becomes effective, submit a report on such a temporary waiver or modification and the impact of the waiver or modification on students to the Governor and to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmittal to the Legislature or, if the Legislature is not in session, to the Legislative Committee on Education; and
(b) Select a person to appear on behalf of the Board of Regents before the appropriate committees of the Legislature or, if the Legislature is not in session, the Legislative Committee on Education, at the next practicable opportunity after a temporary waiver or modification made pursuant to subsection 1 becomes effective.
(Added to NRS by 2020, 31st Special Session, 6; R 2020, 31st Special Session, 11, effective July 1, 2021)