The Board is authorized and empowered to:

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1.  Design, establish, and operate the Nevada Employee Savings Trust Program;

2.  Enter into contracts necessary or desirable for the administration of the Program, including, without limitation, contracts with one or more other states to:

(a) Provide for the administration of all or part of the Program by another state;

(b) Administer all or part of the qualified employee savings trust program of another state; or

(c) Jointly administer the Program with the qualified employee savings trust program of one or more other states;

3.  Hire, retain and terminate third party service providers as the Board deems necessary or desirable for the Program, including, without limitation, nonprofit organizations, consultants, investment managers or advisers, trustees, custodians, insurance companies, record keepers, administrators, actuaries, counsel, auditors and other professionals;

4.  Determine, without limitation, the:

(a) Types of Individual Retirement Accounts to be offered;

(b) Default contribution rate; and

(c) Process for automatic escalation of participant contributions;

5.  Develop an option for participants to convert contributions into fixed lifetime income streams;

6.  Develop and implement an outreach plan to gain input and disseminate information regarding the Program and retirement and financial education in general to employees, employers and other constituents in this State;

7.  Determine the number of days during which a covered employer must make the Program available to a covered employee upon first becoming a covered employer or covered employee;

8.  Determine the number of days, which must not be less than 90 days, after the Program is first made available to a covered employee during which the covered employee may exercise the employee’s right to opt out of the Program without penalty; and

9.  Adopt regulations, rules and procedures for the establishment and operation of the Program and to take such other actions necessary or desirable to establish and operate the Program.