Title 38

NRS 432B.040 “Child” defined. “Child” means a person under the age of 18 years or, if in school, until graduation from high school. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1369; A 2011, 252; 2021, 2729; 2023, 2064)

NRS 432B.042 “Child protective services” defined. “Child protective services” means services for the protection of children, including, without limitation, investigations of abuse or neglect and assessments. The term does not include foster care services or services related to ad…

NRS 432B.044 “Child welfare services” defined. “Child welfare services” includes, without limitation: 1. Child protective services; 2. Foster care services, including, without limitation, maintenance and special services, as defined in NRS 432.010; and 3. Services related to adop…

NRS 432B.050 “Court” defined. “Court” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 62A.180. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1369; A 1991, 2186; 2003, 1149)

NRS 432B.060 “Custodian” defined. “Custodian” means a person or a governmental organization, other than a parent or legal guardian, who has been awarded legal custody of a child. The term does not include a person or governmental organization who continues to provide services to …

NRS 432B.065 “Division of Child and Family Services” defined. “Division of Child and Family Services” means the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Human Services. (Added to NRS by 1993, 2705)

NRS 432B.0655 “Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder” defined. “Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder” means a continuum of birth defects caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. The term includes, without limitation, fetal alcohol syndrome. (Added to NRS by 2017, 1382)

NRS 432B.0657 “Fictive kin” defined. “Fictive kin” means a person who is not related by blood to a child but who has a significant emotional and positive relationship with the child. (Added to NRS by 2021, 1558)

NRS 432B.067 “Indian child” defined. “Indian child” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 125E.080. (Added to NRS by 1995, 786; A 2023, 2258)

NRS 432B.068 “Indian Child Welfare Act” defined. “Indian Child Welfare Act” means the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (25 U.S.C. §§ 1901 et seq.). (Added to NRS by 1995, 786)

NRS 432B.069 “Information maintained by an agency which provides child welfare services” defined. “Information maintained by an agency which provides child welfare services” means data or information concerning reports and investigations made pursuant to this chapter, including, …

NRS 432B.0695 “Judicial officer” defined. “Judicial officer” means a person who is appointed by a court to act as a judicial officer of the court. (Added to NRS by 2025, 2181)

NRS 432B.070 “Mental injury” defined. “Mental injury” means an injury to the intellectual or psychological capacity or the emotional condition of a child as evidenced by an observable and substantial impairment of the ability of the child to function within a normal range of perf…

NRS 432B.080 “Parent” defined. “Parent” means a natural or adoptive parent whose parental rights have not been terminated. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1369)

NRS 432B.090 “Physical injury” defined. “Physical injury” includes, without limitation: 1. A sprain or dislocation; 2. Damage to cartilage; 3. A fracture of a bone or the skull; 4. An intracranial hemorrhage or injury to another internal organ; 5. A burn or scalding; 6. A cut, la…

NRS 432B.095 “Qualified residential treatment program” defined. “Qualified residential treatment program” has the meaning ascribed to it in 42 U.S.C. § 672(k)(4). (Added to NRS by 2023, 2325)

NRS 432B.100 “Sexual abuse” defined. “Sexual abuse” includes acts upon a child constituting: 1. Incest under NRS 201.180; 2. Lewdness with a child under NRS 201.230; 3. Sado-masochistic abuse under NRS 201.262; 4. Sexual assault under NRS 200.366; 5. Statutory sexual seduction un…

NRS 432B.110 “Sexual exploitation” defined. “Sexual exploitation” includes forcing, allowing or encouraging a child: 1. To solicit for or engage in prostitution; 2. To view a pornographic film or literature; and 3. To engage in: (a) Filming, photographing or recording on videotap…

NRS 432B.121 Definition of when person has “reasonable cause to believe” and when person acts “as soon as reasonably practicable.” For the purposes of this chapter, a person: 1. Has “reasonable cause to believe” if, in light of all the surrounding facts and circumstances which ar…

NRS 432B.130 Persons responsible for child’s welfare. A person is responsible for a child’s welfare under the provisions of this chapter if the person is the child’s parent, guardian, a stepparent with whom the child lives, an adult person continually or regularly found in the sa…

NRS 432B.140 Negligent treatment or maltreatment. Negligent treatment or maltreatment of a child occurs if a child has been subjected to harmful behavior that is terrorizing, degrading, painful or emotionally traumatic, has been abandoned, is without proper care, control or super…

NRS 432B.150 Excessive corporal punishment may constitute abuse or neglect. Excessive corporal punishment may result in physical or mental injury constituting abuse or neglect of a child under the provisions of this chapter. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1370)

NRS 432B.153 Presumptions concerning custody and visitation when parent of child is convicted of first degree murder of other parent of child. 1. The conviction of the parent of a child for murder of the first degree of the other parent of the child creates a rebuttable presumpti…

NRS 432B.157 Presumption concerning custody when court determines that parent or other person seeking custody of child is perpetrator of domestic violence. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 125C.210 and 432B.153, a determination by the court after an evidentiary hearing and …

NRS 432B.159 Presumption concerning custody and visitation when parent or other person seeking custody of child is perpetrator of any act of abduction against the child. 1. A determination by the court after an evidentiary hearing and finding by clear and convincing evidence that…

NRS 432B.160 Immunity from civil or criminal liability; presumption; attorney’s fees. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, immunity from civil or criminal liability extends to every person who in good faith: (a) Makes a report pursuant to NRS 432B.220; (b) Conducts an…

NRS 432B.163 Authority of agency which provides child welfare services to provide services to pupils and staff of school that experiences crisis, emergency or suicide. 1. If a public school or private school within the jurisdiction of an agency which provides child welfare servic…

NRS 432B.165 Authority of agency which provides child welfare services, children’s advocacy center and other entities to provide information to assist in locating a missing child; information not confidential; report of information received concerning missing child who is in cust…

NRS 432B.170 Authority of agency which provides child welfare services to share information with state or local agencies. Nothing in the provisions of this chapter or NRS 432.097 to 432.130, inclusive, prohibits an agency which provides child welfare services from sharing informa…

NRS 432B.172 Agency which provides child welfare services required to treat child in accordance with gender identity or expression; regulations concerning placement of child. 1. An agency which provides child welfare services shall treat each child to whom the agency provides ser…

NRS 432B.174 Normalcy for Foster Youth Account: Creation; use; gifts, grants and donations; nonreversion. 1. The Normalcy for Foster Youth Account is hereby created in the State General Fund. 2. The interest and income earned on the money in the Account, after deducting any appli…

NRS 432B.175 Availability of data or information regarding fatality or near fatality of child who is subject of report of abuse or neglect; limitation on disclosure; regulations. 1. Data or information concerning reports and investigations thereof made pursuant to this chapter mu…

NRS 432B.178 Interagency committee to evaluate child welfare system in this State: Authority of Director of Department of Human Services to create; appointment of members; duties; biennial report. 1. The Director of the Department of Human Services may create an interagency commi…

NRS 432B.180 Duties of Division of Child and Family Services. The Division of Child and Family Services shall: 1. Administer any money granted to the State by the Federal Government. 2. Request appropriations from the Legislature in amounts sufficient to: (a) Provide block grants…

NRS 432B.185 Nonreversion of certain money appropriated to Division of Child and Family Services for adoption assistance program. The portion of any money remaining at the end of a fiscal year from an appropriation to the Division of Child and Family Services for its adoption ass…

NRS 432B.190 Regulations to be adopted by Division of Child and Family Services. The Division of Child and Family Services shall, in consultation with each agency which provides child welfare services, adopt: 1. Regulations establishing reasonable and uniform standards for: (a) C…

NRS 432B.195 Agency which provides child welfare services required to provide training to certain employees concerning rights of certain persons responsible for child’s welfare and working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning children; employees not required o…

NRS 432B.197 Agency which provides child welfare services required to establish policies to ensure that children in custody of agency have access to and safe administration of clinically appropriate psychotropic medication. Each agency which provides child welfare services shall …

NRS 432B.198 Employment with agency which provides child welfare services: Background investigation required; periodic additional investigations. 1. An agency which provides child welfare services shall secure from appropriate law enforcement agencies information on the backgroun…

NRS 432B.199 Employment with agency which provides child welfare services: Termination of employee charged with or convicted of certain crimes; correction of information. 1. If the report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation forwarded to an agency which provides child welfare…

NRS 432B.200 Toll-free telephone number for reports of abuse or neglect; design and distribution of informational poster. 1. The Division of Child and Family Services shall establish and maintain a center with a toll-free telephone number to receive reports of abuse or neglect of…

NRS 432B.210 State, political subdivisions and agencies required to cooperate with agencies which provide child welfare services. An agency which provides child welfare services must receive from the State, any of its political subdivisions or any agency of either, any cooperatio…

NRS 432B.215 Acquisition and use of information concerning probationers and parolees. 1. An agency which provides child welfare services may request the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Public Safety to provide information concerning a probationer or parolee …

NRS 432B.2155 Corrective action or corrective action plan: Notification by Division of Child and Family Services; requirement of agency which provides child welfare services to carry out or develop; approval of plan by Division; consequences of failing to carry out action or plan…

NRS 432B.216 Biennial improvement plan: Agency which provides child welfare services required to submit; solicitation of input; contents; submission of annual data related to plan. 1. Each agency which provides child welfare services shall submit an improvement plan to the Divisi…

NRS 432B.2165 Incentive payment program: Administration by Division of Child and Family Services; application by certain agencies which provide child welfare services for incentive payment; approval or denial of application. 1. The Division of Child and Family Services shall admi…