218E.085  Privilege regarding defamatory matter; unlawful for person to misrepresent facts when testifying or communicating to Legislator.

1.  A witness is absolutely privileged to publish defamatory matter as part of a legislative proceeding in which the witness is testifying or in communications to a Legislator preliminary to the proceeding, if the matter has some relation to the proceeding.

2.  It is unlawful to misrepresent any fact knowingly when testifying or otherwise communicating to a Legislator.

(Added to NRS by 1993, 2849)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.5345)