1. If a program is established by the Department pursuant to NRS 213.300, the Director shall, by appropriate means of classification and selection, determine which of the offenders, during the last 6 months’ confinement, are suitable for the program, excluding those sentenced to life imprisonment who are not eligible for parole and those imprisoned for violations of chapter 201 of NRS who have not been certified by the designated board as eligible for parole.
2. The Director shall then select the names of those offenders the Director determines to be eligible for the program, and the Director shall refer the names of those offenders to the Chair of the State Board of Parole Commissioners for release into the program and, if appropriate, for residential confinement or other appropriate supervision as determined by the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Public Safety.