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NevadaSB17783rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET
AN ACT relating to education; authorizing a principal to assign a homeless pupil or a pupil in foster care to a temporary alternative placement under certain circumstances; revising the requirement for the principal of a school to consult with certain persons before determining that a homeless pupil or a pupil in foster care is a habitual disciplinary problem; revising the procedure for the suspension of homeless pupils or pupils in foster care and the procedure for determining whether homelessness or placement in foster care is a factor in the behavior of certain pupils; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: James Ohrenschall (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
BDR 34-942
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
Extra checks for homeless and foster students
Beginning July 1, 2025, if a student is removed for more than 1 day, the principal must contact the homeless liaison or a school counselor to see if the student is homeless. Before calling a student age 11 or older a “habitual disciplinary problem,” the principal must meet with the homeless liaison or the student’s educational decision maker and confirm that homelessness or foster care was not a factor, and the school must have been told of that status. When the school is on notice that a student is homeless or in foster care, the student may be suspended up to 5 days only if the behavior is an ongoing threat and homelessness or foster care was not a factor after review. Within 10 school days of such a suspension, the principal must meet with the educational decision maker (or surrogate) and a foster‑youth advocate to decide if the behavior was caused by homelessness or foster care; if so, the suspension is removed and the school must provide supports or may use a temporary alternative placement for up to 45 days in certain cases.
Plans to keep removed students learning
Beginning July 1, 2025, every public school must, by August 1 each year, have a plan to support any student removed from school for more than 2 days. The plan must offer in-person learning, name where services happen, and explain how the student finishes missed work. It must also include positive behavior help, trauma‑informed support, and referrals. Schools must submit the plan each year to the district or charter board, the State Board of Education, and the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education.
Guardrails on temporary alternative placements
Starting July 1, 2025, if a student stays in a temporary alternative placement for more than 21 school days, the principal must create a transition plan before it ends. The plan must name the return school and include targeted, research‑based supports, and be developed with the homeless liaison or the student’s educational decision maker and a school contact. A principal may keep a student in this placement beyond 45 days only when it is needed for safety and after a meeting with the liaison or decision maker before day 45. During any placement that goes past 45 days, the school must provide targeted interventions, and if an educational decision maker exists, must notify them about the right to a special education evaluation. If the school proceeds under the standard suspension or expulsion rules for serious offenses, the principal cannot use a temporary alternative placement and must follow those suspension or expulsion procedures instead.
When these school rules start
The law takes effect July 1, 2025. Schools, districts, and families follow these rules starting on that date.
Local budgets for new school-discipline costs
Effective July 1, 2025, Nevada’s local‑government budgeting rule in NRS 354.599 does not apply to extra costs caused by this law. Local governments may treat these new expenses differently when they budget.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
James Ohrenschall
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/23/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 15 • No: 6
Actions Timeline
Chapter 259.
6/6/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/5/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
5/29/2025legislatureAssembly Amendment No. 618 concurred in. To enrollment.
5/27/2025SenateIn Senate.
5/23/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
5/23/2025HouseFrom printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.
5/23/2025HouseRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 618.) To printer.
5/22/2025HousePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/22/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/22/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.
4/28/2025HouseIn Assembly.
4/28/2025HouseTo Assembly.
4/28/2025SenateFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
4/25/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 15, Nays: 6.) To printer.
4/22/2025SenateReprinting dispensed with.
4/21/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 274.)
4/21/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/21/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/21/2025SenateRead first time. To committee.
2/5/2025SenateFrom printer.
2/5/2025SenateTo printer.
2/4/2025SenatePrefiled. Referred to Committee on Education.
2/3/2025Senate
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