Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB501: Authorizes certain pupils to receive academic credit for completing certain outdoor recreational activities. (BDR 34-1142)
Status: Chaptered, May 30, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to education; authorizing the approval of academic credit for outdoor recreational activities under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law prescribes certain courses of study required for a pupil to be promoted to high school or to graduate from high school. (NRS 390.600, 392.033) Existing law requires that a pupil be allowed to apply not more than one credit towards the number of credits required for graduation from high school if the pupil completes certain approved projects…
From the enrolled text, May 23, 2025:
AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the approval of academic credit for outdoor recreational activities under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law prescribes certain courses of study required for a pupil to be promoted to high school or to graduate from high school. (NRS 390.600, 392.033) Existing law requires that a pupil be allowed to apply not more than one credit towards the number of credits required for graduation from high school if the pupil completes certain approved projects. (NRS 389.165) This bill authorizes the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school to authorize a pupil enrolled in junior high or middle school or high school to receive credit toward the number of credits required for the pupil to be promoted to high school or to graduate from high school, as applicable, for completing certain approved outdoor recreational activities outside of school hours. EXPLANATION - Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Chapter 389 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows: 1. The board of trustees of a school …