AB 369 Nevada Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions governing certain orders for protection against domestic violence. (BDR 3-824)

AB 369 updates Nevada law to improve enforcement of out-of-state domestic violence protection orders. It expands the evidence law enforcement can use to verify such orders - allowing hard copies, digital images, and statements from both the protected person and the respondent - and requires officers to notify respondents and attempt service if they cannot confirm the order was properly delivered. This affects Nevada law enforcement officers, domestic violence victims, and alleged abusers when enforcing orders from other states, territories, or tribes. The bill ensures consistency with Nevada’s own protection order enforcement procedures while adding safeguards for due process. It does not change the requirement that out-of-state orders must be valid under their issuing jurisdiction’s laws.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Mar 6, 2025 Signed Jun 3, 2025
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Reprint 1 As Enrolled · 4 edits · Jun 3, 2025
MODERATE
This bill updates Nevada's laws on enforcing domestic violence orders from other states to improve safety and clarity for law enforcement. It clarifies exactly what documents an officer can use to prove an order is real, such as digital images or database records, and adds a safety step requiring officers to notify the accused person and attempt to serve them the order before enforcing it if the officer cannot confirm the person was already notified.
Scope change
The bill applies to all domestic violence orders issued by courts in other states, territories, or tribes that are being enforced in Nevada.
ENFORCEMENT

Law enforcement officers are now authorized to rely on digital images of orders and statements from the accused person as valid evidence when enforcing out-of-state orders.

A new requirement mandates that officers must provide notice and attempt to serve the order on the accused person before enforcing it, if they cannot confirm the person was already notified.

REQUIREMENT

The criteria for determining if an out-of-state order is authentic on its face were expanded to include file-stamped copies and authorized signatures or stamps.

New rules specify that mutual orders (where both parties filed petitions) should not be enforced against the applicant unless the court finds domestic violence occurred on both sides.

Floor votes · Senate May 22, 2025 · Assembly Apr 17, 2025

How they voted

200
Passed
Total votes 20
May 22, 2025
D Democratic12
12 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican8
8 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
16
Key actions
7
Committee
3
Jun 3, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 251.
executive
May 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
Senate Amendment No. 607 concurred in. To enrollment.
lower
May 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.
upper
May 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 607.) Reprinting dispensed with.
upper
Apr 17, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
lower
Apr 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass.
lower
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
From printer. To committee.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Legislator
Party
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Photo of Shea Backus
Shea Backus
DDemocratic
NV
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