Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB416: Revises provisions concerning access to certain library materials. (BDR 34-925)
Status: Signed into law, June 11, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to education; prohibiting the board of trustees of a school district, the governing body of a charter school, a school employee or a volunteer and certain persons affiliated with a public library from limiting access to library materials under certain circumstances; authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada to adopt a policy containing such a prohibition; prohibiting certain actions against certain persons which are intended to limit access to library materials; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto…
From the enrolled text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT relating to education; prohibiting the board of trustees of a school district, the governing body of a charter school, a school employee or a volunteer and certain persons affiliated with a public library from limiting access to library materials under certain circumstances; authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada to adopt a policy containing such a prohibition; prohibiting certain actions against certain persons which are intended to limit access to library materials; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law authorizes a district attorney or city attorney to file a complaint in the district court to have an item or material declared obscene and to enjoin owner and possessor of the item or material from selling, renting, exhibiting, reproducing, manufacturing or distributing it. (NRS 201.241) For these purposes, "obscenity" is defined in existing law as any item, material or performance which: (1) an average person applying contemporary community standards would find, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest; (2) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary artistic, political or scientific value; and (3) depicts or describes in a patently offensive way certain sexual acts, excretory functions, sadism or masochism or lewdly exhibits the genitals. (NRS 201.235) Section 2 of this bill: (1) prohibits the board of trustees of …