Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB321: Revises provisions relating to offenders. (BDR 16-1015)
Status: Chaptered, May 30, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to offenders; authorizing the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish a transitional housing program for certain offenders to develop skills and training relating to forestry management and conservation; requiring the State Forester Firewarden to establish a hiring program to appoint certain former offenders to firefighting positions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto…
From the enrolled text, May 22, 2025:
AN ACT relating to offenders; authorizing the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish a transitional housing program for certain offenders to develop skills and training relating to forestry management and conservation; requiring the State Forester Firewarden to establish a hiring program to appoint certain former offenders to firefighting positions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Under existing law, the Director of the Department of Corrections is authorized to enter into one or more contracts with one or more public or private entities to provide certain services to offenders, including transitional housing. (NRS 209.4889) Section 4.5 of this bill authorizes the Director to establish, in coordination with the Division of Forestry of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, a transitional housing program to provide training in forestry management and conservation for certain offenders who: (1) are committed to the custody of the Department and eligible for assignment to an institution or facility of minimum security; and (2) have previously been denied parole solely due to a lack of other available transitional housing. Under existing law, the State Forester Firewarden, in cooperation with the Department of Corrections, is required to establish and carry out a program for operating conservation camps in this State which may use offenders who meet certain requirements to perform certain …
Sponsors
- Jovan Jackson (D, 6) · primary sponsor
- Reuben D'Silva (D, 28) · primary sponsor
- Cecelia González (D, 16) · primary sponsor
- Philip O’Neill (R, 40) · primary sponsor
- Joe Dalia (D, 29)
- Hanadi Nadeem (D, 34)
- David Orentlicher (D, 20)
- Erica Roth (D, 24)
Latest actions
- : Approved by the Governor. Chapter 137.
- : Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
- : In Assembly. To enrollment.
- : Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
- : Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- : Read second time.
- : From committee: Do pass.
- : Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.
- : From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. To Senate. In Senate.
- : From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 541.) Dispensed with reprinting. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To printer.
Votes
- Senate (2nd Reprint) (May 21, 2025): 21 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Assembly (2nd Reprint) (April 22, 2025): 42 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is AB321?
- AB321 is a bill in the Nevada Legislature (83rd Legislature (2025)): Revises provisions relating to offenders. (BDR 16-1015).
- What does AB321 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to offenders; authorizing the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish a transitional housing program for certain offenders to develop skills and training relating to forestry management and conservation; requiring the State Forester Firewarden to establish a hiring program to appoint certain former offenders to firefighting positions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto…
- What is the status of AB321?
- Chaptered as of May 30, 2025. Latest action: Approved by the Governor. Chapter 137. (May 30, 2025).
- Who sponsored AB321?
- Jovan Jackson (D, 6), with 7 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for AB321?
- On the Nevada Legislature website: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12410/Overview
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