Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB344: Revises provisions relating to the judiciary. (BDR 38-155)
Status: Chaptered, June 6, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to judiciary; replacing the term "master" with "judicial officer" when used to refer to judicial officers who perform certain duties; prescribing a procedure for the transfer of child welfare proceedings to a different court within this State; requiring the appointment of an attorney to represent certain parties during a child welfare proceeding in certain circumstances; revising the compensation that an appointed attorney in certain proceedings is entitled to receive; and providing other matters properly relating thereto…
From the enrolled text, May 31, 2025:
AN ACT relating to judiciary; replacing the term "master" with "judicial officer" when used to refer to judicial officers who perform certain duties; prescribing a procedure for the transfer of child welfare proceedings to a different court within this State; requiring the appointment of an attorney to represent certain parties during a child welfare proceeding in certain circumstances; revising the compensation that an appointed attorney in certain proceedings is entitled to receive; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law authorizes the appointment of a master or special master to perform certain limited duties in certain proceedings, including family law, juvenile justice and traffic proceedings and certain proceedings in a justice or municipal court. (NRS 3.2201, 3.405, 4.357, 5.0245, 33.019, 62B.020, 62B.030, 126.111, 129.080, 159A.0615, 425.381, 432B.455) Sections 3-24, 31-35, 40, 42-47, 52-63, 65, 66, 69-71 and 79 of this bill replace the term "master" with the term "judicial officer" when used to refer to a judicial official who performs those duties. Sections 1, 26, and 67 of this bill define the term "judicial officer" for certain purposes and sections 2, 28, and 68 of this bill establish the applicability of those definitions. Sections 32, 42, 43, 46-48, and 70 of this bill authorize a court to designate a different title to a person appointed as …
Sponsors
- (D, 21) · primary sponsor