NevadaSB37283rd Regular Session (2025)Senate

AN ACT relating to the care of children; revising provisions relating to the circumstances under which a person is not considered to have abused or neglected a child or to have injured, harmed or threatened the health or welfare of a child; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: John C. Steinbeck (Republican)

Signed by Governor

BDR 38-662

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Parents protected when seeking mental health help

You are not found to have abused or neglected a child just for two actions tied to behavioral health: seeking to admit the child to a mental health hospital or facility when the child’s needs put family safety at risk, or bringing into your home a biological, foster, or adoptive child with such needs. Courts also cannot treat those facts alone as “injury” to end parental rights. Prosecutors cannot use those facts alone to file criminal child abuse or neglect charges. This protection applies only when those acts are the sole reason for the claim.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • John C. Steinbeck

    Republican • 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 (As Introduced)

Yes: 42 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/22/2025

Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)

Yes: 21 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Approved by the Governor. Chapter 205.

    5/31/2025legislature
  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. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/20/2025House
  8. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/19/2025House
  9. Read second time.

    5/16/2025House
  10. From committee: Do pass.

    5/15/2025House
  11. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.

    4/24/2025House
  12. In Assembly.

    4/24/2025House
  13. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.

    4/22/2025Senate
  14. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    4/21/2025Senate
  15. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    4/18/2025Senate
  16. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    4/17/2025Senate
  17. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    4/16/2025Senate
  18. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    4/15/2025Senate
  19. Read second time.

    4/14/2025Senate
  20. Placed on Second Reading File.

    4/14/2025Senate
  21. From committee: Do pass.

    4/14/2025Senate
  22. From printer. To committee.

    3/18/2025Senate
  23. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.

    3/17/2025Senate

Bill Text

  • As Enrolled

  • As Introduced

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