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NevadaSB28483rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET
AN ACT relating to child welfare; requiring an agency which provides child welfare services to take certain measures to facilitate the payment of certain benefits to which a child in the custody of the agency is entitled; revising the manner in which an agency which provides child welfare services is required to maintain and use certain benefits and awards received on behalf of such a child; requiring an agency which provides child welfare services to provide certain training and information to certain children and other persons interested in the welfare of the child; requiring an agency which provides child welfare services to report certain information to a court; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: MelanieChief Majority Whip Scheible (Democratic), Nicole J.Majority Leader Cannizzaro (Democratic), Rochelle T. Nguyen (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
BDR 38-747
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Bill Overview
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4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Close old child-welfare trust funds
On or before January 1, 2026, the state and counties with 100,000 or more people must close all Trust Fund for Child Welfare accounts. If the state is the child’s representative payee, it deposits that money into the child’s account; otherwise it sends the money out under the act’s transfer rules. The prior statute creating the trust fund is repealed. Limits in NRS 354.599 do not apply to extra local costs to carry out this act.
Protect and track a child's benefit money
Beginning January 1, 2026, when the agency is the payee, it must hold the child’s money in a protected account, like a special needs trust, pooled trust, or ABLE account. The agency cannot use the child’s funds to repay any government for care; money is spent only for the child’s needs that are not covered by the agency or health insurance. The agency does an accounting at least every six months and gives it to the child, parents with rights, any guardian, the child’s lawyer, and the court; it also trains any new payee and requires six-month accountings from them. The agency checks for a more suitable payee and, when it stops being payee, moves the balance to the new payee, to a parent or guardian if the child is under 18 and not emancipated, or to the child if 18 or emancipated. Youth age 14+ get financial counseling, and between 18 and 12 months before the 18th birthday the agency helps the child plan to keep benefits and receive them directly or through a new payee.
Secure Social Security and VA benefits for kids
Beginning January 1, 2026, the child-welfare agency checks within 60 days and each year if a child can get federal benefits. If the child is eligible but not paid, the agency applies and, if needed, appeals a denial when it is in the child’s best interest. The agency talks with the child, non-terminated parents, and the child’s lawyer to pick a suitable representative payee, and applies to be payee if none exists. It tells the child, parents with rights, the guardian, and the child’s lawyer about any benefit or payee applications, decisions, and appeals. “Federal benefits” here means Social Security or Veterans Affairs benefits.
Child care aid program is exempt
Beginning January 1, 2026, the Program for Child Care and Development is not covered by these new child-benefit rules. Families in that program do not get the new notices, protected accounts, or court reporting tied to federal benefit money, and the program does not have to follow them.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
MelanieChief Majority Whip Scheible
Democratic • Senate
Nicole J.Majority Leader Cannizzaro
Democratic • Senate
Rochelle T. Nguyen
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Angela D. Taylor
Democratic • Senate
Edgar Flores
Democratic • Senate
FabianDeputy Majority Whip Doñate
Democratic • Senate
James Ohrenschall
Democratic • Senate
MarilynPresident pro Tempore Dondero Loop
Democratic • Senate
Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford
Democratic • Senate
SkipDeputy Majority Whip Daly
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 40 • No: 2
Senate vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 14 • No: 7
Actions Timeline
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 192.
5/31/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
5/27/2025legislatureTo enrollment.
5/23/2025SenateIn Senate.
5/22/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 2.) To Senate.
5/22/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/21/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/20/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/19/2025HouseRead second time.
5/16/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass.
5/15/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. 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. (Yeas: 14, Nays: 7.) To printer.
4/22/2025SenateReprinting dispensed with.
4/21/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 354.)
4/21/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/21/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/21/2025SenateFrom printer. To committee.
3/6/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.
3/5/2025Senate
Bill Text
As Enrolled
As Introduced
Reprint 1
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