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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: Melanie Scheible (Democratic), Nicole J. Cannizzaro (Democratic), Rochelle T. Nguyen (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
BDR 38-747
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Bill Overview
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5 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
Agencies must secure kids' federal benefits
Beginning January 1, 2026, the agency checks within 60 days and every year if each child can get federal benefits like Social Security or VA. If a child is eligible but not getting benefits, the agency applies for them. When benefits are at issue, the agency asks the child, any parent whose rights are not ended, and the child’s lawyer to find a suitable representative payee. If no one is suitable, the agency applies to be the payee. The agency tells the child, parent or guardian, and the child’s lawyer about any application, decision, or appeal. If a claim is denied, the agency consults the child’s lawyer and appeals when that is in the child’s best interest.
Help teens keep benefits at 18
Beginning January 1, 2026, the agency helps youth keep benefits as they reach adulthood. Between 18 and 12 months before the 18th birthday, the agency explains how to stay eligible, get benefits directly, or choose a new payee. It also explains how other benefits can change the payment amount. The agency helps the youth complete the needed steps.
Protect and track kids' benefit money
Beginning January 1, 2026, if the agency is the payee, it must use an account that does not harm benefit eligibility. Options include a special needs trust, a pooled special needs trust, or an ABLE account. The agency deposits the child’s benefits and awards into that account and manages it to preserve eligibility. The agency cannot use the child’s money to pay or repay the government for the child’s care. It may spend only for the child’s interests and for costs not covered by the agency or the child’s health insurance. At least every six months, the agency must provide an accounting to the child, any parent whose rights are not ended, any guardian, the child’s lawyer, and the court when required. While it is payee, the agency regularly checks if someone else is suitable to serve, helps that person apply, trains them, and requires six‑month accountings and records for court reports. If the agency stops being payee, it must transfer any remaining funds per the funding rules, or give them to the new payee, the parent or guardian if the child is under 18 and not emancipated, or to the child if 18 or emancipated. The agency must also train staff who do this work on how to set up, monitor, and use these accounts.
End state child-welfare trust funds
Beginning January 1, 2026, the law repeals the rule that sent a child’s benefits and awards to state or county child‑welfare trust funds to pay for services. Child benefits are no longer required to be deposited into those trust funds.
Administrative carve-outs and local cost rule
The Program for Child Care and Development is excluded from these new custody and benefit rules starting January 1, 2026. Also, upon enactment, the state’s usual local spending limit does not apply to extra local government costs from this act.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Melanie Scheible
Democratic • Senate
Nicole J. Cannizzaro
Democratic • Senate
Rochelle T. Nguyen
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Angela D. Taylor
Democratic • Senate
Edgar Flores
Democratic • Senate
Fabian Doñate
Democratic • Senate
James Ohrenschall
Democratic • Senate
Marilyn Dondero Loop
Democratic • Senate
Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford
Democratic • Senate
Skip 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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