NevadaSB32383rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET

AN ACT relating to offenders; providing for the establishment of a program to provide telephone calls free of charge between certain offenders and the families of such offenders; revising provisions relating to charges for audio and video calls made by or to offenders; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Melanie Scheible (Democratic), Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford (Democratic)

Failed

BDR 16-709

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Call cost limits for incarcerated people

Beginning July 1, 2025, Nevada’s Department of Corrections cannot charge incarcerated people more than its actual cost for audio or video calls. Calls covered by the free-call program cannot trigger repayment deductions. Any communications-provider contract the Department enters must require compliance with the federal rule for returning deposited account money. This requirement uses 47 C.F.R. § 64.6130 as it existed on January 1, 2025.

Free family calls at Florence McClure

Beginning July 1, 2025, the law permanently provides one free 15-minute family phone call each day for people in Nevada state custody assigned to Florence McClure Women’s Correctional Center. The Department of Corrections runs the program and can set rules; calls cannot violate legal or court-ordered contact bans. The state provides $246,046 for fiscal year 2025–2026 and $253,602 for fiscal year 2026–2027. Unspent funding cannot carry forward after June 30 of each fiscal year. Remaining money must return to the State General Fund by September 18, 2026, and September 17, 2027, respectively.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

  • Melanie Scheible

    Democratic • Senate

  • Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Angela D. Taylor

    Democratic • Senate

  • Fabian Doñate

    Democratic • Senate

  • Rochelle T. Nguyen

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 20 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 20 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. (No further action taken.)

    6/3/2025House
  2. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.

    5/30/2025House
  3. Taken from General File.

    5/30/2025House
  4. Read second time.

    5/30/2025House
  5. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/30/2025House
  6. From committee: Do pass.

    5/30/2025House
  7. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.

    5/26/2025House
  8. In Assembly.

    5/26/2025House
  9. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Assembly.

    5/26/2025Senate
  10. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To printer.

    5/26/2025Senate
  11. Reprinting dispensed with.

    5/26/2025Senate
  12. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 788.)

    5/26/2025Senate
  13. Placed on General File.

    5/26/2025Senate
  14. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/26/2025Senate
  15. Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To committee.

    4/3/2025Senate
  16. Read second time.

    4/3/2025Senate
  17. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    4/3/2025Senate
  18. From committee: Do pass.

    4/1/2025Senate
  19. From printer. To committee.

    3/12/2025Senate
  20. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.

    3/11/2025Senate

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