2025 Regular SessionNevada Legislature

AB227: Revises provisions governing adoption. (BDR 11-928)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to adoption; repealing, reenacting, revising, reorganizing and establishing certain provisions relating to the adoption of children through agency adoptions, identified adoptions, close-family adoptions, confirmatory adoptions, readoptions and adoptions of children placed in the custody of agencies which provide child welfare services under certain circumstances; revising various provisions relating to the adoption of adults; requiring the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt various regulations; directing the Legislative Counsel to make various organizational changes concerning the placement of certain compacts for adoption in the Nevada Revised Statutes; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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Bill History

2/3/2025
Prefiled.
Assembly
2/3/2025
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
Assembly
2/4/2025
Read first time.
Assembly
2/4/2025
To printer.
Assembly
2/6/2025
From printer. To committee.
Assembly
2/25/2025
Notice of eligibility for exemption.
Assembly
4/21/2025
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Assembly
4/21/2025
Placed on Second Reading File.
Assembly
4/21/2025
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 225.)
Assembly
4/21/2025
Dispensed with reprinting.
Assembly
4/22/2025
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.)
Assembly
4/22/2025
To printer.
Assembly
4/25/2025
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
Assembly
4/25/2025
To Senate.
Assembly

Amendments

Assembly Amendment 225

Assembly Amendment 225

Adopted

Roll Call Votes

Assembly Final Passage
4/22/2025
41
Yea
1
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Introduced(2/3/2025)
Chamber
Assembly

Sponsors

Democrat: 1

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/1/19701068.7 KB
Amended
Bill Text1/1/19701027.7 KB