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Yes: 62 • No: 1
NevadaAB52083rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET
AN ACT relating to adoption; requiring background investigations of certain persons who operate or provide services to children at a child-placing agency; authorizing the disclosure of information from the State Register for Adoptions to certain persons without the consent of the natural parent under extenuating circumstances; authorizing certain persons to attend an adoption hearing by a remote-technology system under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services
Signed by Governor
BDR 11-356
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.
Clearer adoption petitions and remote hearings
Adoption petitions must say you followed the listed laws, note if the child is an Indian child, and state there are no known signs of trafficking, exploitation, or abuse. Courts cannot enter an adoption order unless these rules are met. Prospective parents who live in another state may attend the hearing by phone or video when the child is in agency custody and a supervising‑agency representative also appears remotely. The court provides call‑in or video instructions, and appearances happen at the agency office or the parents’ home. Orders entered between July 1, 1963, and July 1, 1965, remain valid. The law also clarifies key terms like “child‑placing agency,” who counts as a “person,” and what it means to arrange or recommend a placement.
Privacy and contact rules for adoptions
The state may share info from the Adoption Register with close relatives only when both names are in the Register and the natural parent consents in writing, or when the state finds extenuating circumstances. Anyone listed can ask in writing to be removed. The state must remove the name right away and may not release information that identifies that person.
Stronger background checks at adoption agencies
Child‑placing agencies and their staff must pass background checks. Applicants, licensees, employees, volunteers, and contractors must give fingerprints and allow the state to send them to the Central Repository and the FBI. The state re‑checks each person at least every 5 years. The Division may charge you the fingerprint and criminal‑history fees. The Division will set rules for what child maltreatment bars someone from child‑serving work. If you worked or were licensed without a post‑Oct 1, 2020 check, you must submit fingerprints and documents by Oct 1, 2025. You may keep working while results are pending.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/23/2025
Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
House vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 41 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
Chapter 307.
6/6/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/5/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
5/29/2025legislatureSenate Amendment No. 675 concurred in. To enrollment.
5/27/2025HouseIn Assembly.
5/26/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
5/23/2025SenateFrom printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint.
5/23/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 675.) To printer.
5/22/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/22/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/22/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.
4/29/2025SenateIn Senate.
4/28/2025SenateTo Senate.
4/25/2025HouseFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
4/25/2025HouseTo printer.
4/22/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.)
4/22/2025HouseDispensed with reprinting.
4/21/2025HouseRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 458.)
4/21/2025HousePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/21/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/21/2025HouseFrom printer. To committee.
3/25/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.
3/24/2025House
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