Revises provisions relating to child welfare. (BDR 38-747)
SB 284 requires child welfare agencies to actively apply for federal benefits (like Social Security or VA payments) on behalf of eligible children in their care and manage those funds properly. Agencies must establish dedicated accounts for these benefits, provide financial counseling to children aged 14+, and prevent using children’s benefits to cover their own care costs. The bill mandates regular financial reporting to courts and ensures proper transfer of funds when a child leaves care or a new representative payee takes over. It directly affects children in foster care or custody, their families, and state/local child welfare agencies across Nevada.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Mar 5, 2025
Signed May 31, 2025
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MODERATE
This bill transitions child welfare funding from a centralized state or county trust fund to a personal account system managed by a designated representative payee. It mandates that agencies apply for federal benefits on behalf of children, establish individual accounts for those funds, and strictly prohibit using the money to pay for the child's care. The legislation also introduces new requirements for financial counseling, periodic accounting, and training for anyone managing these funds.
Scope change
The bill expands the agency's role from merely holding funds in a general trust to actively managing individual accounts and applying for federal benefits. It also extends financial counseling requirements to children aged 14 and older.
REQUIREMENT
Agencies must now actively apply for federal benefits (Social Security or VA) on behalf of eligible children in their custody.
A strict prohibition was added preventing agencies from using a child's benefits to pay for the child's own care costs.
New mandates require agencies to establish individual accounts, provide financial counseling to children 14+, and conduct semi-annual accountings of funds.
Agencies must now submit documentation regarding the accounting of federal benefits to the overseeing court.
FISCAL
The previous requirement to deposit all child benefits into a centralized State Treasury or county trust fund has been repealed.
TIMELINE
A specific deadline was set to close all existing trust fund accounts by January 1, 2026.
Floor votes · Assembly May 22, 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
7
Committee
3
May 31, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 192.
executive
May 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
To enrollment.
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May 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 2.) To Senate.
In Senate.
upper
May 15, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass.
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Apr 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 14, Nays: 7.) To printer.
upper
Apr 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Placed on Second Reading File.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 354.)
Reprinting dispensed with.
upper
Mar 6, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To committee.
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3 primary · 6 co-sponsors
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