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AB 55 Nevada Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to motor vehicle crashes. (BDR 43-250)

AB 55 updates Nevada’s motor vehicle crash investigation rules to improve data collection. It affects coroners, police officers, and state agencies like the Department of Public Safety and Department of Motor Vehicles. Key changes include: removing the 8-hour deadline for drawing blood samples from crash victims (now only requiring analysis of alcohol and commonly misused substances), requiring coroners to report test results to the DMV upon receipt (instead of within 30 days), and mandating police to submit crash reports electronically within 10 days of the crash or death. These changes streamline reporting while expanding the scope of substances tested in fatal crash investigations.
Issues: ✓ TransportationSupports TransportationUpdates motor vehicle crash investigation rules to improve data collection and safety protocols, aligning with enhancing transportation safety standards per bill summary.92% confidence
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2024
Committee Review
May 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Nov 20, 2024 Signed May 26, 2025
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Reprint 1 → As Enrolled · 5 edits · May 26, 2025
MODERATE
This bill updates Nevada's laws regarding crash investigations by requiring blood tests for deceased victims to include checks for commonly misused substances, not just alcohol. It also extends the time window for drawing these blood samples and changes the deadline for reporting results to the Department of Public Safety. Additionally, the bill mandates that all crash reports be submitted electronically within 10 days of the crash or death, rather than after the investigation is complete.
Scope change
The bill expands the scope of blood testing to include misused substances and clarifies that the central repository for crash data must be maintained in collaboration with the Department of Transportation.
REQUIREMENT

Blood samples from deceased crash victims must now be analyzed for commonly misused substances in addition to alcohol.

The central repository for crash data must now be maintained in collaboration with the Department of Transportation.

TIMELINE

The requirement to draw blood samples within 8 hours of a crash was removed, allowing for a longer window.

The deadline for coroners to report blood test findings changed from 30 days after death to 'upon receipt' of the findings.

Crash reports must now be submitted via an electronic system within 10 days of the crash or death, replacing the previous requirement to submit within 10 days of the investigation.

Floor votes · Assembly Apr 18, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
15
Key actions
6
Committee
2
May 26, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
executive
May 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
In Assembly. To enrollment.
lower
May 19, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.
upper
May 15, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass.
upper
Apr 18, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 39, Nays: None, Excused: 3.) To printer.
lower
Apr 16, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
lower
Nov 20, 2024
Introduced
Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

No sponsor information available.