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NevadaSB45783rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET
AN ACT relating to public safety; revising provisions relating to assault, battery, stalking, pornography involving minors, domestic violence, and driving under the influence of alcohol or a prohibited substance; requiring a compliance hearing after the issuance of certain orders to relinquish firearms; establishing certain unlawful acts related to certain theft offenses involving property damage; revising provisions relating to offenders; establishing provisions related to the creation of corridors and the adjudication and reporting of certain offenses committed within such corridors; making various changes related to juvenile justice; prohibiting the construction of certain findings relating to actions for wrongful conviction; revising provisions relating to the sealing of records and specialty court programs; revising provisions relating to pretrial release; revising provisions relating to opioid use disorder; making appropriations; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Judiciary
Failed
BDR 15-1038
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26 provisions identified: 15 benefits, 7 costs, 4 mixed.
Broader domestic violence protections for families
Domestic violence protections cover an appointed custodian or legal guardian of the alleged offender’s minor child. The law also covers kidnapping and attempts or requests to commit acts that count as domestic violence.
Broader restricted license options for children
Juvenile courts may order a restricted license when license suspension or delay is not in the child’s best interest. Courts must send the order to the motor vehicles department within 5 days. For listed substance and alcohol offenses, this replaces the hardship test. For tobacco offenses, it replaces previous limits on allowed driving purposes.
Sealed records after wrongful conviction relief
When a court grants a wrongful-conviction judgment and enters a certificate of innocence, it must seal the conviction records. Prior Nevada convictions do not block this relief. Records held by parties about the wrongful-conviction lawsuit must remain confidential.
More addiction treatment in Nevada lockups
State prisons and local jails must offer voluntary medication treatment for eligible people with substance use disorders when money is available. State prison programs also need Board approval; participants must have a disorder medication can treat and meet reasonable participation requirements. People receiving treatment immediately before incarceration are eligible to continue it. Treatment cannot be denied or ended, and participants cannot be disciplined, because of a positive drug test or rule infraction. Officials must work with Nevada's health department on opioid treatment.
Device limits for certain parolees
The Parole Board generally must ban computer and electronic-device ownership or use after convictions for listed offenses. These include electronic stalking, child sexual-image offenses, and computer-assisted child luring. The Board may omit the ban for listed law-enforcement, training, or employment uses. It may also impose bans for other offenses involving computers, systems, or networks.
Graffiti tools bring juvenile license penalties
A child found delinquent for unlawfully carrying a graffiti tool faces a 1-to-2-year license suspension or delayed issuance. This adds that offense to the existing license penalties for graffiti and property defacement. The court may allow a restricted license when suspension is not in the child’s best interest.
Some abuse charges block automatic sealing
The covered automatic record-sealing rules exclude people charged with specified child-abuse or child-neglect offenses. They also exclude specified abuse offenses involving older or vulnerable people. Discharge, dismissal, or setting aside a conviction does not provide automatic sealing through these rules.
Juvenile battery hearings and mental-health safeguards
A child held for battery against a school employee or child welfare professional cannot be released before a required detention hearing. This applies after at least two qualifying battery custody incidents in the prior year, with informal supervision or a delinquency petition. The court must order a professional mental-health evaluation if none was ordered in the prior year. Detention lasts no more than 14 days or until evaluation completion, whichever comes first; home supervision may replace detention. Home supervision may include electronic monitoring, and evaluation statements and evidence derived from them generally cannot prove a crime or delinquent act.
Another reentry option for some offenders
Nevada's corrections director may create an alternative program to help offenders return to the community. The director may place and supervise offenders whom the Parole Board did not place after the director requested placement. The law does not require the program or guarantee anyone a place.
Limited driving access for eligible juveniles
A juvenile court may order a restricted driver's license for a child whose suspension falls under the covered juvenile provisions. The court must find that limited driving is in the child's best interest; approval is not guaranteed. Courts must send juvenile restricted-license orders to the Department of Motor Vehicles within five days.
More reentry service options for offenders
Nevada’s corrections department may create an alternative correctional program to help eligible offenders return to the community. Its Director may contract for needed housing, treatment, life-skills training, and job training for covered program participants. The Director must provide needed and appropriate referrals, including family services, self-help groups, and permanent housing resources. The law does not require the new program or guarantee every service to every participant.
Courts check firearm surrender compliance
Courts must schedule compliance hearings for the covered orders to surrender, sell, or transfer firearms. This includes covered domestic violence protection orders. Hearings generally occur 2 to 5 business days after the order, or within 1 business day after release from custody. Courts may cancel hearings after receiving the required affidavit or documentation, or issuing the related search warrant.
More assault protections for frontline workers
Enhanced assault and battery penalties cover more hospitality workers and public employees doing child protection or comparable dangerous work. Battery protections also reach qualifying civilian law-enforcement employees and volunteers. Qualifying resort, arena, stadium, and convention-center workers are covered while traveling within designated corridors. Job, duty, identification, and location requirements apply, and the accused must know or have reason to know the worker’s protected status.
More staffing options for release hearings
Prosecutors may handle pretrial release hearings across jurisdictions using the law’s approval or deputizing process. District-attorney staff serving outside their county need approval from their employing district attorney. In counties under 100,000 residents, designated city attorneys may serve their surrounding county for these hearings. Public defenders may arrange cross-county representation through interlocal agreements. Prosecutors and defense attorneys may receive stipends for weekend or holiday service or availability.
Separate charges for each depicted child
Knowing and willful possession of a covered sexual image counts as a separate offense for each depicted person under 16. The rule applies to possession for any purpose. A single visual presentation showing multiple children can therefore support multiple offenses.
Stronger stalking protections online and offline
Stalking covers two or more acts over time, in person or electronically, showing a continuing purpose toward one person. Willful or malicious conduct without lawful authority must cause both reasonable and actual fear or distress. This includes fear for a current or former dating partner’s immediate safety. Social media communications and account access are covered acts. Electronic publication, display, or distribution that substantially raises the victim’s risk of harm can qualify as felony stalking.
Easier access to peer recovery resources
Nevada’s health department must make the required information about peer recovery support services available. People providing or supervising legally qualifying peer recovery services are exempt from the listed professional licensing requirements. Those include psychologist, social-worker, and alcohol-and-drug counselor licenses for this work.
Opioid treatment coordination and training priorities
Creators of prisoner medication-assisted treatment programs must work with Nevada’s health department when programs address opioid use disorder. The statewide assessment guiding Fund for a Resilient Nevada spending must prioritize resources for criminal-justice training. Training covers trauma-informed practices and medication-assisted treatment. These provisions do not set a new funding amount.
Courts and prisons get implementation funding
The law provides courts $919,080 for fiscal year 2025–2026 and $948,695 for fiscal year 2026–2027. Corrections receives $2.242145 million and $2.915779 million for those years, respectively. The money comes from the State General Fund through the Interim Finance Committee to carry out the law. Uncommitted money cannot be committed after June 30 of the relevant fiscal year. Unspent funds must return by September 18, 2026, and September 17, 2027, respectively, and cannot be spent afterward.
Innocence awards do not establish wrongdoing
An innocence certificate or wrongful-conviction award does not itself establish wrongdoing by the people specified in the law. It also does not itself establish that probable cause was absent in the listed situations. The rule does not decide other claims or findings.
Longer sentences for deadly impaired driving
The law raises prison terms for impaired driving or boating that causes another person's death. With no prior qualifying offense, this category B felony carries 2–25 years in prison and a $2,000–$5,000 fine. With one or two prior qualifying offenses, the prison term is 5–25 years, with the same fine. Causing substantial bodily harm carries 2–20 years and a $2,000–$5,000 fine, with no suspended sentence or probation. These rules cover specified alcohol, drug, and chemical-use conditions while driving or controlling a vehicle, powered boat, or sailing boat underway.
Marijuana driving limits cover more felonies
Blood-level limits for marijuana or its byproducts apply to additional specified felony offenses involving driving or operating a vessel. The prohibition applies when the person’s blood reaches the amount specified by law.
Retail theft damage triggers felony charges
Intentionally damaging a retail establishment during a covered theft is a category C felony when theft and damage total at least $750. The threshold can be reached by the theft value, the damage value, or both combined.
Cash bail pays restitution before fines
At sentencing, remaining cash bail from someone other than a surety goes first toward restitution after notice and depositor consent. Remaining money goes toward fines and costs. Any surplus returns to the depositor unless they direct in writing that someone else receive it.
Interlock deadline and driving privilege rules
Drivers ordered to install an ignition interlock device must do so within 14 days after the order. For orders under Nevada’s court sentencing interlock law, the motor vehicles department must issue an interlock driving privilege. It must first receive the order and the driver’s proof of compliance.
Corridor bans with a diversion option
Counties with at least 700,000 residents must designate public safety corridors by ordinance and post understandable maps online. A first corridor misdemeanor within two years can bring an entry ban of up to one year. A second or later offense within two years requires a ban of at least one year, subject to local exemptions or conditions. Bans can accompany release, sentencing, suspended sentences, or deferred decisions on guilt. Justice courts may create corridor misdemeanor programs and may lift bans after successful completion of required diversion.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Senate Committee on Judiciary
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/2/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 20 • No: 1
House vote • 6/2/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 36 • No: 6
Actions Timeline
From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.
6/4/2025HouseTo printer.
6/3/2025House(No further action taken.)
6/3/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 36, Nays: 6.)
6/2/2025HouseDispensed with reprinting.
6/2/2025HouseRead third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 1002.)
6/2/2025HouseDeclared an emergency measure under the Constitution.
6/2/2025HouseRead first time.
6/2/2025HouseIn Assembly.
6/2/2025HouseFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Assembly.
6/2/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: 1.) To printer.
6/2/2025SenateDeclared an emergency measure under the Constitution.
6/2/2025SenateReprinting dispensed with.
6/2/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 986.)
6/2/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
6/2/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
6/2/2025SenateFrom printer. To committee.
4/8/2025SenateWaiver granted effective: March 20, 2025.
4/7/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.
4/7/2025Senate
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