NevadaAB5083rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET

AN ACT relating to public safety; authorizing a board of county commissioners to establish an electronic database containing information concerning victims of mass casualty incidents; setting forth certain requirements for such an electronic database; exempting certain persons from civil liability related to such an electronic database, under certain circumstances; providing for the confidentiality of information contained in such an electronic database; requiring a hospital and an independent center for emergency medical care in a county in which such an electronic database is established to report to the database certain information concerning a victim of a mass casualty incident; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

Signed by Governor

BDR 20-466

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

County database to find and help victims

A county board may set up an electronic list of people hurt in a mass‑casualty event. The board decides who can use it and how hospitals report to it. The county must keep the data private, follow HIPAA and state data‑security laws, and use strong security, access limits, and audits. Data can be used only to find, identify, and support victims. After all victims are identified and reunited, the county deletes the data unless a victim gives written permission to keep it for long‑term help. These records are not public under the state public‑records law.

Limited lawsuits over county victim database

A county and its workers are immune from civil lawsuits for database mistakes, unless they acted with willful misconduct, gross negligence, or bad faith.

Hospitals report victims within 24 hours

If a county has this database, hospitals and independent emergency centers must report a victim’s name, birth date, and key traits within 24 hours of registering the patient, if known. They must tag the medical record with a special mass‑casualty ID. Before discharge, staff ask about long‑term support and get written permission to keep the person’s info for that help. Hospitals and centers are protected from civil suits for good‑faith reports and for any later unauthorized access. Not following these reporting rules does not trigger chapter 449 penalties, and state regulators fold the rules into facility licensing and oversight.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 62 • No: 0

Senate vote 5/19/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 20 • No: 0

House vote 4/22/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)

Yes: 42 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 16.

    5/27/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    5/26/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/23/2025legislature
  4. In Assembly. To enrollment.

    5/20/2025House
  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.

    5/19/2025Senate
  6. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/16/2025Senate
  7. Read second time.

    5/15/2025Senate
  8. From committee: Do pass.

    5/12/2025Senate
  9. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.

    4/28/2025Senate
  10. In Senate.

    4/28/2025Senate
  11. To Senate.

    4/25/2025House
  12. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/25/2025House
  13. To printer.

    4/22/2025House
  14. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.)

    4/22/2025House
  15. Dispensed with reprinting.

    4/21/2025House
  16. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 193.)

    4/21/2025House
  17. Placed on Second Reading File.

    4/21/2025House
  18. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/21/2025House
  19. Read first time. To committee.

    2/4/2025House
  20. From printer.

    11/22/2024House
  21. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.

    11/19/2024House

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