NevadaSB483rd Regular Session (2025)Senate

AN ACT relating to adoption; authorizing certain caseworkers to attest to a consent to a specific adoption under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Judiciary

Signed by Governor

BDR 11-294

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Some adoption consents need a professional witness

The law keeps the two-witness rule for a consent to a specific adoption. Starting July 1, 2025, if neither you nor your spouse is related to the child within the third degree of consanguinity, at least one witness must be a social worker or caseworker. That worker must be employed by a Nevada child welfare agency, a Nevada-licensed adoption agency, a similar state or county agency in another state, or an adoption agency authorized in another state when the natural parent lives there. The same rule applies to consents signed in Nevada or signed elsewhere for use in a Nevada adoption. Other consent requirements remain, including written and signed consent, a real-property-style acknowledgment, naming the adopters, and the Indian child notice and duty to update.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Senate Committee on Judiciary

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 62 • No: 0

House vote • 5/19/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (As Introduced)

Yes: 42 • No: 0

Senate vote • 3/20/2025

Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)

Yes: 20 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 31.

    5/27/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    5/26/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/23/2025legislature
  4. In Senate. To enrollment.

    5/19/2025Senate
  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

    5/19/2025House
  6. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/16/2025House
  7. Read second time.

    5/15/2025House
  8. From committee: Do pass.

    5/14/2025House
  9. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.

    3/24/2025House
  10. In Assembly.

    3/24/2025House
  11. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.

    3/20/2025Senate
  12. Read second time.

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

    3/17/2025Senate
  14. Read first time. To committee.

    2/3/2025Senate
  15. From printer.

    10/23/2024Senate
  16. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.

    10/8/2024Senate

Bill Text

  • As Enrolled

  • As Introduced

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