1. The Board shall appoint a panel to review an investigation or informal hearing conducted pursuant to NRS 631.363. Such a panel must consist of:

(a) If the subject of the investigation or informal hearing is a holder of a license to practice dental hygiene, one member of the Board who is a holder of a license to practice dentistry, one member of the Board who is a holder of a license to practice dental hygiene and one holder of a license to practice dental hygiene who is not a member of the Board and is not the subject of the investigation or informal hearing.

(b) If the subject of the investigation or informal hearing is a holder of a license to practice dentistry or any other person not described in paragraph (a), one member of the Board who is a holder of a license to practice dentistry, one member of the Board who is a holder of a license to practice dental hygiene and one holder of a license to practice dentistry who is not a member of the Board and is not the subject of the investigation or informal hearing.

2. A review panel appointed pursuant to subsection 1 shall, in conducting a review of an investigation or informal hearing conducted pursuant to NRS 631.363, review and consider, without limitation:

(a) All files and records collected or produced by the investigator;

(b) Any written findings of fact and conclusions prepared by the investigator; and

(c) Any other information deemed necessary by the review panel.

3. The investigator who conducted the investigation or informal hearing pursuant to NRS 631.363 shall not participate in a review conducted pursuant to subsection 1.

4. Before the Board takes any action or makes any disposition relating to a complaint, the review panel appointed pursuant to subsection 1 to conduct a review of the investigation or informal hearing relating to the complaint shall present to the Board its findings and recommendation relating to the investigation or informal hearing, and the Board shall review and consider those findings and recommendations.

5. Meetings held by a review panel appointed pursuant to subsection 1 are not subject to the provisions of chapter 241 of NRS.

(Added to NRS by 2017, 988)