AB 90 Nevada Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to juvenile justice. (BDR 5-497)

AB 90 expands the definition of "detention facility" to include regional facilities focused on treating and rehabilitating children, ensuring these centers must now provide the same juvenile justice rights as local and state facilities. It requires juvenile courts to make two specific findings before sending a child to a regional facility: that community alternatives were exhausted or failed, and that the child poses a public safety risk based on a risk assessment, prior offenses, and offense seriousness. This directly affects children placed in regional treatment facilities and juvenile courts making custody decisions. The bill updates existing requirements to cover these regional centers uniformly, without adding new costs to state or local governments.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Jan 6, 2025 Signed May 28, 2025
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As Introduced As Enrolled · 2 edits · May 28, 2025
MINOR
This bill expands Nevada's Juvenile Justice Bill of Rights to include children detained in regional treatment and rehabilitation facilities, previously only covering local and state detention facilities. It also requires juvenile courts to make specific findings before committing a child to a regional facility, ensuring courts consider community alternatives and public safety risks.
Scope change
The bill's scope was expanded to include regional facilities for the treatment and rehabilitation of children, which were previously excluded from the Juvenile Justice Bill of Rights protections.
DEFINITION

Expanded the legal definition of 'detention facility' to include regional facilities for the treatment and rehabilitation of children, alongside existing local and state facilities.

REQUIREMENT

Added new requirements for juvenile courts to make specific findings before committing a child to a regional facility, including verifying that community alternatives are unavailable or ineffective and assessing public safety risk.

Floor votes · Assembly Apr 16, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
14
Key actions
6
Committee
2
May 28, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 51.
executive
May 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
In Assembly. To enrollment.
lower
May 19, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 12, Nays: 8, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.
upper
May 15, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass.
upper
Apr 16, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 27, Nays: 15.) To Senate.
lower
Apr 10, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass.
lower
Jan 6, 2025
Introduced
Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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