NevadaSB12083rd Regular Session (2025)Senate

AN ACT relating to the administration of justice; prohibiting a payment plan from requiring a defendant to pay interest or any fee charged specifically for entering into the payment plan; prohibiting a court from ordering a defendant for whom an attorney is appointed at public expense to pay any part of the expenses incurred in providing the defendant with an attorney; repealing provisions that authorize the recoupment of certain expenses incurred by a county or city or the State for the provision of indigent defense services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: MelanieChief Majority Whip Scheible (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

BDR 1-711

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

No bills for your public defender

If the court appoints a lawyer because you are indigent, it cannot make you repay those costs. The law repeals the old rules that let governments seek payback for indigent defense. Large counties lose authority tied to those repealed sections to centralize court billing and collections. The public records law is updated to remove a citation to a repealed section.

No interest on court payment plans

If you use a court payment plan, the court cannot charge interest or a fee just for the plan. This ban does not apply to restitution you owe. The rule applies to any payment plan with a court.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • MelanieChief Majority Whip Scheible

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 63 • No: 0

House vote 5/22/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)

Yes: 42 • No: 0

Senate vote 4/15/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 21 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Approved by the Governor. Chapter 163.

    5/30/2025legislature
  2. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/27/2025legislature
  3. To enrollment.

    5/23/2025Senate
  4. In Senate.

    5/22/2025Senate
  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

    5/22/2025House
  6. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/21/2025House
  7. Read second time.

    5/20/2025House
  8. From committee: Do pass.

    5/19/2025House
  9. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.

    4/16/2025House
  10. In Assembly.

    4/16/2025House
  11. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.

    4/15/2025Senate
  12. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/15/2025Senate
  13. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 15.) To printer.

    4/14/2025Senate
  14. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/10/2025Senate
  15. Read first time. To committee.

    2/3/2025Senate
  16. From printer.

    1/30/2025Senate
  17. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.

    1/28/2025Senate

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