All Roll Calls
Yes: 53 • No: 7
NevadaSB8883rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET
AN ACT relating to offenders; prohibiting the Director of the Department of Corrections from taking certain actions relating to certain debts upon the release of an offender from prison; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Judiciary
Signed by Governor
BDR 16-491
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
No prison medical debt collection after release
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Nevada Department of Corrections cannot collect or try to collect medical debt you owe to the Department after you are released by serving your sentence, pardon, or parole. The Department also cannot report that debt to credit bureaus after your release. If you return to DOC custody later, it can try to collect while you are back in prison. The rule also covers people who were released before July 1, 2025.
Prison ID accepted for Nevada ID
Beginning July 1, 2025, a DOC photo ID must show if your full legal name and age were verified using original or certified records. When it shows this, the Nevada DMV must accept the DOC ID as proof of your name and age to get a Nevada ID. This reduces paperwork and helps you get state ID faster after release.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Senate Committee on Judiciary
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/31/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 39 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/21/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 14 • No: 7
Actions Timeline
Chapter 492.
6/11/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/10/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
6/4/2025legislatureAssembly Amendment No. 878 concurred in. To enrollment.
6/1/2025SenateIn Senate.
6/1/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 39, Nays: None, Excused: 3.) To Senate.
5/31/2025HouseFrom printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.
5/31/2025HouseRead third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 878.) To printer.
5/30/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/29/2025HouseRead second time.
5/28/2025HousePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/28/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass.
5/28/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.
5/22/2025HouseIn Assembly.
5/22/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 14, Nays: 7.) To Assembly.
5/21/2025SenatePlaced on General File.
5/20/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass.
5/20/2025SenateFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
4/15/2025SenateTaken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.
4/14/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 6.)
4/14/2025SenateNotice of eligibility for exemption.
4/14/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/10/2025SenateRead first time. To committee.
2/3/2025SenateFrom printer.
1/10/2025SenatePrefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.
1/7/2025Senate
Bill Text
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