NRS287.045. Persons eligible to participate in Program; limited affiliation period. [Effective January 1, 2014.]

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, every state officer or employee is eligible to participate in the Program on the first day of the month following the completion of 90 days of full-time employment.

      2.  Professional employees of the Nevada System of Higher Education who have annual employment contracts are eligible to participate in the Program on:

      (a) The effective dates of their respective employment contracts, if those dates are on the first day of a month; or

      (b) The first day of the month following the effective dates of their respective employment contracts, if those dates are not on the first day of a month.

      3.  Every officer or employee who is employed by a participating local governmental agency on a permanent and full-time basis on the date on which the participating local governmental agency enters into an agreement to participate in the Program pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1 of NRS 287.025, and every officer or employee who commences employment with that participating local governmental agency after that date, is eligible to participate in the Program on the first day of the month following the completion of 90 days of full-time employment, unless that officer or employee is excluded pursuant to sub-subparagraph (III) of subparagraph (2) of paragraph (h) of subsection 2 of NRS 287.043.

      4.  Every member of the Senate and Assembly is eligible to participate in the Program on the first day of the month following the 90th day after the member’s initial term of office begins.

      5.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections 1, 3 and 4, if the Board does not, pursuant to NRS 689B.580, elect to exclude the Program from compliance with NRS 689B.340 to 689B.580, inclusive, and if the coverage under the Program is provided by a health maintenance organization authorized to transact insurance in this State pursuant to chapter 695C of NRS, any affiliation period imposed by the Program may not exceed the statutory limit for an affiliation period set forth in NRS 689B.500.

      (Added to NRS by 1963, 1320; A 1965, 124, 1026; 1967, 1581; 1969, 466, 1428; 1981, 222; 1985, 622; 1989, 1966; 1993, 385, 876; 1995, 1958; 1997, 2961; 1999, 3034; 2001, 216, 954, 1926; 2001 Special Session, 96; 2003, 3254, 3269; 2007, 2879; 2009, 1592; 2013, 3657, effective January 1, 2014)