NevadaAB54183rd Regular Session (2025)House

AN ACT relating to postconviction proceedings; revising provisions relating to the payment of necessary costs and expenses associated with certain proceedings based upon a postconviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

Signed by Governor

BDR 3-1153

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

State pays costs for indigent habeas cases

Beginning July 1, 2025, Nevada pays key costs when an indigent person files a postconviction habeas corpus petition that is not dismissed right away. The Department of Indigent Defense Services pays court costs, stenographer fees, printing, and reasonable pay for appointed lawyers in the trial and reviewing courts. If that budget runs out, the state’s Reserve for Statutory Contingency Account covers the rest. Appointed counsel’s fees and expenses in these habeas cases are paid the same way, with limited exceptions in state law. This applies after the court finds the person indigent and shifts these payments from counties to the state.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 62 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/30/2025

Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)

Yes: 21 • No: 0

House vote • 5/26/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (As Introduced)

Yes: 41 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 282.

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

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

    6/2/2025legislature
  4. In Assembly. To enrollment.

    5/31/2025House
  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.

    5/30/2025Senate
  6. Read second time.

    5/29/2025Senate
  7. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/29/2025Senate
  8. From committee: Do pass.

    5/29/2025Senate
  9. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.

    5/26/2025Senate
  10. In Senate.

    5/26/2025Senate
  11. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Senate.

    5/26/2025House
  12. Read second time.

    5/23/2025House
  13. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/23/2025House
  14. From committee: Do pass.

    5/23/2025House
  15. From printer. To committee.

    4/1/2025House
  16. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. To printer.

    3/31/2025House

Bill Text

  • As Enrolled

  • As Introduced

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