NevadaSB6683rd Regular Session (2025)Senate

AN ACT relating to writs of habeas corpus; revising provisions governing the county in which an offender must file a postconviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the computation of time the offender has served; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Judiciary

Signed by Governor

BDR 3-441

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Where to file time served challenges

The law sets where to file a habeas petition that challenges how your time served was calculated. If you are incarcerated in Nevada, file in the district court for the county where you are held. If you were released and live in Nevada, file in the district court for your home county. If you are incarcerated or living outside Nevada, file in the First Judicial District Court in Carson City. If you file in the wrong county, the clerk keeps your original received date and must transfer it to the correct court. Petitions filed before the law took effect stay under the old rules. Challenges to the validity of your conviction or sentence still go to the county where you were convicted.

No mixing conviction and time served claims

You cannot use one petition to challenge both your conviction or sentence and how time served was computed. The court will hear the part that challenges the conviction or sentence. It will dismiss the time-served part without prejudice, so you can refile it on its own. This rule applies now.

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 • 3/27/2025

Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)

Yes: 20 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 48.

    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.

    3/31/2025House
  10. In Assembly.

    3/31/2025House
  11. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.

    3/27/2025Senate
  12. Read second time.

    3/26/2025Senate
  13. From committee: Do pass.

    3/24/2025Senate
  14. Read first time. To committee.

    2/3/2025Senate
  15. From printer.

    11/26/2024Senate
  16. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.

    11/20/2024Senate

Bill Text

  • As Enrolled

  • As Introduced

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