NevadaSB43283rd Regular Session (2025)Senate

AN ACT relating to privacy; granting courts discretion to close family law proceedings or portions thereof under certain circumstances; revising provisions concerning the accessibility of court records in family law proceedings; repealing an unconstitutional provision relating to the closure of certain divorce proceedings; prohibiting the public posting or display of the personal identifying information of another person under certain circumstances; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Judiciary

Signed by Governor

BDR 11-1020

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Felony for posting private data

It is a crime to willfully post or display someone else’s personal identifying information to the public, without consent, when a law or court rule requires it to stay private. A violation is a category D felony under Nevada law. Posting means making the information available to the general public.

Privacy and records rules in family court

Family law cases are open to the public by default. A judge may close all or part only to protect a compelling interest, after written findings and weighing each child’s best interest. When closed, only the parties, their lawyers and staff, and approved witnesses, guardians, or close relatives may stay. Recordings and transcripts of closed parts are confidential, cannot be shared, and must be taken down at once if posted. The law lists records that are open (summons, pleadings, orders, judgments) and those that are not (financial forms, medical and custody reports, sealed items). Courts may seal or later unseal other records for good cause, and this framework replaces older divorce‑record rules.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Senate Committee on Judiciary

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 63 • No: 0

House vote • 5/28/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)

Yes: 42 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/21/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 21 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 505.

    6/11/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    6/10/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    6/6/2025legislature
  4. To enrollment.

    6/4/2025Senate
  5. Assembly Amendment No. 791 concurred in.

    6/2/2025Senate
  6. In Senate.

    5/29/2025Senate
  7. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

    5/28/2025House
  8. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.

    5/28/2025House
  9. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 791.) To printer.

    5/27/2025House
  10. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/27/2025House
  11. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/27/2025House
  12. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.

    5/22/2025House
  13. In Assembly.

    5/22/2025House
  14. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.

    5/21/2025Senate
  15. Placed on General File.

    5/20/2025Senate
  16. From committee: Do pass.

    5/20/2025Senate
  17. To committee.

    4/16/2025Senate
  18. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/16/2025Senate
  19. Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.

    4/15/2025Senate
  20. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 341.)

    4/15/2025Senate
  21. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    4/15/2025Senate
  22. Placed on Second Reading File.

    4/14/2025Senate
  23. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

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

    3/26/2025Senate
  25. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.

    3/24/2025Senate

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