NevadaAB22083rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET

AN ACT relating to identification cards; authorizing the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a program to issue identification cards to Nevada residents who are experiencing homelessness; requiring an applicant for an identification card to attest to certain facts and provide certain information providing for the change of the full legal name on an identification card under certain circumstances; providing for the expiration of an identification card issued by the Department; prohibiting certain conduct related to an identification card; authorizing certain local governments to accept an identification card issued by the Department for certain purposes; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Linda F. Hunt (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

BDR 38-671

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

6 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 3 mixed.

Free Nevada ID for homeless residents

The law creates a program to issue free photo IDs to Nevada residents experiencing homelessness. To qualify, you must have lived in Nevada for at least 6 months, be age 10 or older, and not hold any valid driver’s license or state ID. You must sign a sworn statement that you are experiencing homelessness and have no other state ID. You must show original or certified documents to prove your full legal name and age, or the card will state that these were not verified. The card looks like a DMV ID but is clearly different and does not allow you to drive.

Funding and start date for DHHS IDs

DHHS may accept gifts, grants, and donations to run the program, and the money carries forward to the next year. Agencies may adopt rules and do prep work now. All other parts of this law take effect January 1, 2026.

Extra rules for certain offenders' IDs

DHHS cannot issue or renew this ID for registered sex offenders or people convicted of crimes against children until it gets proof of compliance with chapter 179D. If not in compliance, DHHS does not issue or renew and tells the person to contact the Central Repository. For these offenders, any DHHS ID expires on the first anniversary of the birthday nearest the issue or renewal date. The Central Repository shares compliance information with DHHS as quickly as possible.

Criminal penalties for DHHS ID misuse

It is a misdemeanor to forge, alter, or knowingly possess a forged DHHS ID. It is also a misdemeanor to refuse to surrender a card when ordered, lend your card, use another person’s card, or keep someone else’s card more than 10 days.

Keeping and using your DHHS ID

Your DHHS ID stays valid until it expires, unless your information changes or you get a driver’s license or another state ID. It stays valid even if you are no longer homeless, but you must surrender it if you get another license or ID. The Department sets the expiration date, not later than the eighth anniversary of the birthday nearest the issue or renewal date. You may renew any time before it expires and get a free name change on request with proper documents. If you lose the card, you can get a duplicate; if you later find the original, you must return it. Local governments may accept this card to prove who you are, but it does not by itself grant benefits.

Privacy for DHHS ID and records access

Personal information in DHHS ID applications and files is confidential and not a public record. Government must redact confidential parts and provide records in electronic form when requested, unless the record is not electronic or the confidential parts cannot be removed. These public‑records updates take effect January 1, 2026.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Linda F. Hunt

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 63 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/31/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 21 • No: 0

House vote • 5/27/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)

Yes: 42 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 371.

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

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

    6/4/2025legislature
  4. In Assembly. To enrollment.

    6/1/2025House
  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.

    5/31/2025Senate
  6. Read second time.

    5/30/2025Senate
  7. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/30/2025Senate
  8. From committee: Do pass.

    5/30/2025Senate
  9. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Finance. To committee.

    5/28/2025Senate
  10. In Senate.

    5/28/2025Senate
  11. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

    5/27/2025House
  12. Placed on General File.

    5/27/2025House
  13. Withdrawn from Committee on Ways and Means.

    5/27/2025House
  14. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.

    4/17/2025House
  15. To printer.

    4/16/2025House
  16. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective.

    4/16/2025House
  17. Taken from General File.

    4/16/2025House
  18. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 424.)

    4/16/2025House
  19. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/15/2025House
  20. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    2/25/2025House
  21. From printer. To committee.

    2/6/2025House
  22. To printer.

    2/4/2025House
  23. Read first time.

    2/4/2025House
  24. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.

    2/3/2025House
  25. Prefiled.

    2/3/2025House

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