Title 38

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…

NRS 432B.217 Incentive payment program: Application for incentive payment in subsequent years; approval or denial of application; amount of subsequent incentive payment awarded. 1. Each year following the award of an incentive payment pursuant to NRS 432B.2165, the agency which p…

NRS 432B.2175 Incentive payment program: Agency awarded incentive payment required to submit report to Division of Child and Family Services demonstrating percentage of goal achieved. 1. On or before September 1 of the year following the year in which an agency which provides chi…

NRS 432B.218 Annual report to Governor and Legislature by Division of Child and Family Services concerning achievement by certain agencies which provide child welfare services of specific performance targets in improvement plans and specific goals established to receive incentive…

NRS 432B.2185 Block grant awarded to agency which provides child welfare services in county whose population is 100,000 or more; amount and use of block grant. 1. The Division of Child and Family Services shall award a block grant to each agency which provides child welfare servi…

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…