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

4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.

Remote adoption hearings allowed

If you live in another state, or the child is in a licensed agency’s custody, you may join the adoption hearing by phone or video. A supervising agency representative must also appear remotely. The court will place the call to a known number or give video instructions. The agency decides if you join from its office or from your home.

Stricter checks for child-placing workers

The law requires checks for every applicant and worker at a child-placing agency who serves children. You must give fingerprints to the State Repository so it can get FBI records. The Repository can request FBI background information for these checks. The state re-checks you at least every 5 years. You may be billed the actual fees from local police, the Repository, and the FBI. If you worked there on the law’s effective date and lacked a check after October 1, 2020, you must submit documents and fingerprints by October 1, 2025. You can keep working while results are pending.

Stricter steps and old adoptions upheld

A court cannot enter an adoption order unless you follow all listed Nevada adoption laws. This includes completing the statutes named in the law before finalization. Adoption orders entered after July 1, 1963 and before July 1, 1965 remain valid, even if they did not meet every listed law.

More access to adoption registry

The Division may share identifying information between an adopted person and a relative within the third degree only if both are listed in the State Register. Release happens with the natural parent’s written consent, or when the Division finds extenuating circumstances. An adopted person may limit release to certain relatives.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 62 • No: 1

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

  1. Chapter 307.

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

    6/5/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/29/2025legislature
  4. Senate Amendment No. 675 concurred in. To enrollment.

    5/27/2025House
  5. In Assembly.

    5/26/2025House
  6. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.

    5/23/2025Senate
  7. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint.

    5/23/2025Senate
  8. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 675.) To printer.

    5/22/2025Senate
  9. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/22/2025Senate
  10. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/22/2025Senate
  11. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.

    4/29/2025Senate
  12. In Senate.

    4/28/2025Senate
  13. To Senate.

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

    4/25/2025House
  15. To printer.

    4/22/2025House
  16. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.)

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

    4/21/2025House
  18. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 458.)

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

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

    4/21/2025House
  21. From printer. To committee.

    3/25/2025House
  22. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.

    3/24/2025House

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