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NRS 432B.219 Categorical grants for adoption assistance programs; determination of amount; restrictions on use; nonreversion. 1. The Division of Child and Family Services shall provide a categorical grant to each agency which provides child welfare services for each fiscal year f…

NRS 432B.220 Persons required to make report; when and to whom reports are required; any person may make report; report and written findings if reasonable cause to believe death of child caused by abuse or neglect; certain persons and entities required to inform reporters of duty…

NRS 432B.225 Attorney prohibited from reporting abuse or neglect of child in certain circumstances. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of NRS 432B.220, an attorney shall not make a report of the abuse or neglect of a child if the attorney acquired knowledge of the abuse or neglect…

NRS 432B.230 Authorized methods of making report; contents. 1. A person may make a report pursuant to NRS 432B.220 by telephone or, in light of all the surrounding facts and circumstances which are known or which reasonably should be known to the person at the time, by any other …

NRS 432B.240 Penalty for failure to make report. Any person who knowingly and willfully violates the provisions of NRS 432B.220 is guilty of: 1. For the first violation, a misdemeanor. 2. For each subsequent violation, a gross misdemeanor. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1373; A 2013, 108…

NRS 432B.250 Persons required to report prohibited from invoking certain privileges. Any person who is required to make a report pursuant to NRS 432B.220 may not invoke any of the privileges set forth in chapter 49 of NRS: 1. For failure to make a report pursuant to NRS 432B.220;…

NRS 432B.255 Admissibility of evidence. In any proceeding resulting from a report made or action taken pursuant to the provisions of NRS 432B.220, 432B.230 or 432B.340 or in any proceeding where such report or the contents thereof is sought to be introduced in evidence, such repo…

NRS 432B.260 Action upon receipt of report; agency which provides child welfare services required to inform person named in report of allegation of abuse or neglect if report is investigated. 1. Upon the receipt of a report concerning the possible abuse or neglect of a child, an …

NRS 432B.270 Interview of child and sibling of child concerning possible abuse or neglect; photographs, X-rays and medical tests. 1. A designee of an agency investigating a report of abuse or neglect of a child may, without the consent of and outside the presence of any person re…

NRS 432B.280 Confidentiality of information maintained by an agency which provides child welfare services; exceptions; penalty. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.0115, 432B.165, 432B.175 and 439.597 and except as otherwise authorized or required pursuant to NRS 432B.290,…

NRS 432B.290 Maintenance of information by agency which provides child welfare services; authorized release of such information; penalty; fee for release of information; rules, policies or regulations. 1. Information maintained by an agency which provides child welfare services m…

NRS 432B.300 Determinations to be made from investigation of report. If an agency which provides child welfare services determines that an investigation of a report concerning the possible abuse or neglect of a child is warranted pursuant to NRS 432B.260, the agency shall determi…

NRS 432B.305 Assignment of disposition to report. 1. An agency which provides child welfare services shall, upon determining that an investigation is not warranted or upon the conclusion of an investigation of a report concerning the possible abuse or neglect of a child, assign o…

NRS 432B.310 Report to Central Registry of abuse or neglect required upon completion of investigation; prohibition against reporting certain information. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6 of NRS 432B.260, the agency investigating a report of abuse or neglect of a ch…

NRS 432B.315 Written notification to person responsible for child’s welfare of assignment of disposition of substantiated to report and authority to request administrative appeal. If an agency which provides child welfare services assigns a disposition of substantiated to a repor…

NRS 432B.317 Administrative appeal of substantiation of report; hearing. 1. A person to whom a written notification is sent pursuant to NRS 432B.315 may request an administrative appeal of the substantiation of the report and the agency’s intention to place the person’s name in t…

NRS 432B.320 Waiver of full investigation of report. 1. An agency which provides child welfare services may waive a full investigation of a report of abuse or neglect of a child made by another agency or a person if, after assessing the circumstances, it is satisfied that: (a) Th…

NRS 432B.322 Inapplicability of provisions to certain reports, investigations or information. The provisions of NRS 432B.220 to 432B.322, inclusive, do not apply to any report submitted, investigation performed or information maintained under the provisions of NRS 392.275 to 392.…

NRS 432B.325 County whose population is 100,000 or more to provide child protective services in county; county whose population is less than 100,000 to provide such services in certain circumstances. 1. Each county whose population is 100,000 or more shall provide child protectiv…

NRS 432B.326 Payment of assessment for provision of child protective services by county whose population is less than 100,000; exemption. 1. Unless an exemption is approved pursuant to subsection 4, each county whose population is less than 100,000 shall pay an assessment each fi…

NRS 432B.327 Division of Child and Family Services to submit certain reports concerning budgets for child protective services to Governor and certain counties and any reports required by Legislative Commission. The Division of Child and Family Services shall submit: 1. A report o…

NRS 432B.330 Circumstances under which child is or may be in need of protection. 1. A child is in need of protection if: (a) The child has been abandoned by a person responsible for the welfare of the child; (b) The child has been subjected to abuse or neglect by a person respons…

NRS 432B.340 Determination that child needs protection but is not in imminent danger and does not need to be placed in protective custody. 1. If the agency which provides child welfare services determines that a child needs protection, but is not in imminent danger from abuse or …

NRS 432B.350 Teams for protection of child. An agency which provides child welfare services may organize one or more teams for protection of a child to assist the agency in the evaluation and investigation of reports of abuse or neglect of a child, diagnosis and treatment of abus…

NRS 432B.360 Voluntary placement of child with agency or institution; regulations. 1. A parent or guardian of a child who is in need of protection may place the child with a public agency authorized to care for children or a private institution or agency licensed by the Departmen…

NRS 432B.370 Determination that child is not in need of protection. If an agency which provides child welfare services determines that there is no reasonable cause to believe that a child is in need of protection, it shall proceed no further in that matter. (Added to NRS by 1985,…

NRS 432B.380 Referral of case to district attorney for criminal prosecution; recommendation to file petition. If the agency which provides child welfare services determines that further action is necessary to protect a child who is in need of protection, as well as any other chil…

NRS 432B.390 Placement of child in protective custody. [Effective until the date on which the 35th state ratifies and enters into the version of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children set forth in NRS 127F.030.] 1. An agent or officer of a law enforcement agency, an …

NRS 432B.3903 Agency which provides child welfare services or designee authorized to request issuance of warrant to place child in protective custody if child needs protection but threat is not imminent. 1. An agency which provides child welfare services or its designee may reque…

NRS 432B.3905 Limitations on transfer to and placement in child care institution of child placed in protective custody who is under 6 years of age; notice; written plan. 1. An employee of an agency which provides child welfare services or its designee, an agent or officer of a la…

NRS 432B.391 Agency which provides child welfare services or designee authorized to conduct preliminary Federal Bureau of Investigation name-based check of background of certain adult residents of home in which child will be placed in emergency situation; person investigated to s…

NRS 432B.393 Agency which provides child welfare services required to make reasonable efforts to preserve and reunify family of child to prevent or eliminate need for removal from home before placement in foster care and to make safe return to home possible; exceptions; determini…

NRS 432B.394 Agency which provides child welfare services required to provide or deny consent required for child in custody of agency to receive certain medical care within certain time after receiving recommendation for care; agency to make reasonable efforts to obtain consent o…

NRS 432B.396 Establishment of panel to evaluate extent to which agencies which provide child welfare services are effectively discharging their responsibilities; regulations; civil penalties. The Division of Child and Family Services shall: 1. Establish a panel comprised of volun…

NRS 432B.397 Inquiry to determine whether there is reason to know that child is Indian child; report to court; training regarding requirements of Indian Child Welfare Act. 1. The agency which provides child welfare services for a child that is taken into custody pursuant to this …

NRS 432B.400 Temporary detention of child by physician or person in charge of hospital or similar institution. A physician treating a child or a person in charge of a hospital or similar institution may hold a child for no more than 24 hours if there is reasonable cause to believ…

NRS 432B.401 Definitions. As used in NRS 432B.401 to 432B.4019, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 432B.4012, 432B.4014 and 432B.4016 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2021, 536)

NRS 432B.4012 “Children’s advocacy center” defined. “Children’s advocacy center” means a public or private entity that provides an environment friendly to children where multidisciplinary teams work to: 1. Investigate and help children recover from abuse and neglect; and 2. Hold …

NRS 432B.4014 “Multidisciplinary team” defined. “Multidisciplinary team” means a team of different types of professionals convened by a children’s advocacy center to respond to the abuse or neglect of a child or develop standards pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 432B.4018. Such a …

NRS 432B.4016 “Provider of health care” defined. “Provider of health care” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031. (Added to NRS by 2021, 536)

NRS 432B.4018 Requirements for operation; convening of multidisciplinary team to develop standards for acceptance of cases; access to services; immunity from liability for employee, officer or member of multidisciplinary team; confidentiality and disclosure of information maintai…

NRS 432B.4019 Account to Support Children’s Advocacy Centers: Creation; administration; use; gifts, grants and donations; nonreversion. 1. The Account to Support Children’s Advocacy Centers is hereby created in the State General Fund. The Division of Child and Family Services sha…

NRS 432B.403 Purpose of organizing. The purpose of organizing multidisciplinary teams to review the deaths of children pursuant to NRS 432B.403 to 432B.4095, inclusive, is to: 1. Review the records of selected cases of deaths of children under 18 years of age in this State; 2. Re…

NRS 432B.405 Appointment; circumstances for organization. 1. The director or other authorized representative of an agency which provides child welfare services: (a) May provisionally appoint and organize one or more multidisciplinary teams to review the death of a child; (b) Shal…

NRS 432B.406 Composition. 1. A multidisciplinary team to review the death of a child that is organized by an agency which provides child welfare services pursuant to NRS 432B.405 must include, insofar as possible: (a) A representative of any law enforcement agency that is involve…

NRS 432B.407 Access to information; sharing of certain information; subpoena to obtain information; use of data collected; confidentiality of information. 1. A multidisciplinary team to review the death of a child is entitled to access to: (a) All investigative information of law…