NevadaSB8883rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET

AN ACT relating to offenders; prohibiting the Director of the Department of Corrections from taking certain actions relating to certain debts upon the release of an offender from prison; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Judiciary

Signed by Governor

BDR 16-491

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Faster Medicaid and Medicare enrollment at release

Beginning July 1, 2025, if you may qualify for Medicaid and are allowed to apply, the DOC completes your Medicaid application. The DOC must do this no more than 90 days before your scheduled release when early applications are allowed, or immediately at release when required. If you are eligible for Medicare, the DOC completes your Medicare enrollment paperwork when you are released.

DOC stops medical debt collection after release

Beginning July 1, 2025, when you leave prison by sentence end, pardon, or parole, the Nevada DOC cannot collect your outstanding medical debt or report it to credit bureaus. If you later return to custody, the DOC may resume collection while you are in custody. The same ban also applies to people who were released before July 1, 2025.

Help at release: travel, meds, $100

Beginning July 1, 2025, at release the DOC gives you clothing for reentry and pays to get you to your home in the continental U.S. or to your place of conviction. The DOC requires at least one HIV exposure test. The DOC provides a 30-day supply of any prescription you were taking in custody. The Director may also give up to $100 in cash based on economic need. Before release, the DOC may offer optional mediation with your family or friends who support you. The State General Fund pays for these items when not already covered by other laws.

Pre-release job programs to find work

Beginning July 1, 2025, up to three months before your projected release, the DOC may offer job-focused reentry programs if space is available. You must be found eligible under the Nevada Risk Assessment System and be enrolled in reentry programming. Programs can be in facilities or in the community and may include bonding help to enter the workplace.

New ID help and tighter DMV rules

Beginning July 1, 2025, the DOC must give you a DOC photo ID on request and help you get a driver’s license or state ID if you ask and are eligible, or if you lack an ID. A DOC ID must state whether your full legal name and age were verified with original or certified documents. You can use a DOC ID that shows this verification as proof of name and age for a Nevada ID at the DMV. The DMV will set rules listing which documents prove identity and age and will set criteria for out-of-state and foreign applicants based on their purpose in the U.S. Starting July 1, 2025, the DMV will not accept consular ID cards as proof of name or age for a state ID.

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Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Senate Committee on Judiciary

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 53 • No: 7

House vote 5/31/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)

Yes: 39 • No: 0

Senate vote 5/21/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 14 • No: 7

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 492.

    6/11/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    6/10/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    6/4/2025legislature
  4. Assembly Amendment No. 878 concurred in. To enrollment.

    6/1/2025Senate
  5. In Senate.

    6/1/2025Senate
  6. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 39, Nays: None, Excused: 3.) To Senate.

    5/31/2025House
  7. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.

    5/31/2025House
  8. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 878.) To printer.

    5/30/2025House
  9. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/29/2025House
  10. Read second time.

    5/28/2025House
  11. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/28/2025House
  12. From committee: Do pass.

    5/28/2025House
  13. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.

    5/22/2025House
  14. In Assembly.

    5/22/2025House
  15. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 14, Nays: 7.) To Assembly.

    5/21/2025Senate
  16. Placed on General File.

    5/20/2025Senate
  17. From committee: Do pass.

    5/20/2025Senate
  18. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.

    4/15/2025Senate
  19. Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.

    4/14/2025Senate
  20. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 6.)

    4/14/2025Senate
  21. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    4/14/2025Senate
  22. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/10/2025Senate
  23. Read first time. To committee.

    2/3/2025Senate
  24. From printer.

    1/10/2025Senate
  25. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.

    1/7/2025Senate

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