SB 177 Nevada Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to education. (BDR 34-942)

SB 177 revises school disciplinary procedures for homeless students and those in foster care. It requires principals to hold meetings (not just consult) with relevant parties before suspending these students, and mandates that for suspensions exceeding 5 days, they must assess whether homelessness or foster care status caused the behavior. If so, principals must either end the suspension with support services or place the student in temporary alternative education (up to 45 days, extendable for safety). The bill also requires schools to create annual plans for students removed from classrooms, including academic support and behavioral interventions to prevent disengagement. This law, approved by the Governor on June 5, 2025, aims to reduce punitive actions tied to students' unstable living situations.

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

Assembly Passage

May 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Signed Jun 5, 2025

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Reprint 2 → As Enrolled · 6 edits · Jun 5, 2025

MODERATE

This bill streamlines disciplinary procedures for homeless students and those in foster care by allowing principals to suspend them for up to five days without proving that their housing status caused the behavior. It also changes the pre-suspension requirement from a consultation to a mandatory meeting with parents and other stakeholders, and expands the ability to extend temporary alternative placements beyond 45 days for safety reasons.

Scope change

The bill applies specifically to public schools in Nevada and targets students identified as homeless or in foster care.

REQUIREMENT

Changed the pre-suspension process for homeless and foster care students from a 'consultation' to a mandatory 'meeting' that must include the educational decision maker for foster care students.

Removed the legal presumption that homelessness or foster care status was not a factor in a student's behavior for suspensions of five days or less, allowing immediate suspension without this specific inquiry.

Authorized principals to extend temporary alternative placements beyond 45 days if necessary for safety, provided a specific meeting is held first.

Required a transition planning meeting if a student remains in a temporary alternative placement for more than 21 days.

TIMELINE

Added a requirement for principals to hold a meeting within 10 school days of suspension to determine if housing status influenced the behavior.

ENFORCEMENT

Added a requirement for principals to provide a written explanation of the removal reason to the student and offer them an opportunity to respond.

Floor votes · Assembly May 23, 2025

How they voted

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

Full legislative history

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Committee

Jun 5, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by the Governor.

executive

May 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

Assembly Amendment No. 618 concurred in. To enrollment.

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May 23, 2025

Upper · Passed

From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. In Senate.

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May 22, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 618.) To printer.

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Apr 22, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 15, Nays: 6.) To printer.

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Apr 21, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 274.) Reprinting dispensed with.

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Feb 3, 2025

Introduced

Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Education.

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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors