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(Reprinted with amendments adopted on April 18, 2025)
FIRST REPRINT S.B. 281
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SENATE BILL NO. 281–SENATOR NGUYEN
MARCH 5, 2025
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Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to foster care.
(BDR S-144)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State: No.
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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to foster care; requiring an allocation from the
Fund for a Resilient Nevada for a program for certain
young adults; and providing other matters properly
relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law: (1) creates the Fund for a Resilient Nevada to hold the proceeds 1
of certain litigation by the State concerning the manufacture, distribution, sale or 2
marketing of opioids; and (2) provides for the use of the money in the Fund for 3
statewide projects and distribution as grants to address the impacts of opioid use 4
disorder and other substance use disorders. (NRS 433.732-433.740) Existing law 5
requires the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to 6
administer the Fund. (NRS 433.732) Section 3 of this bill requires the Director to 7
make an allocation of $2,500,000 from the Fund to the Division of Child and 8
Family Services of the Department for use during the 2025-2027 biennium for a 9
program to support persons who are 18 years of age and older but less than 23 years 10
of age and are transitioning from foster care to independent living. 11
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. (Deleted by amendment.) 1
Sec. 2. (Deleted by amendment.) 2
Sec. 3. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the 3
contrary, the Director of the Department of Health and Human 4
Services shall allocate $2,500,000 of the money in the Fund for a 5
Resilient Nevada created by NRS 433.732 to the Division of Child 6
and Family Services of the Department for use during the 7
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2025-2027 biennium for a program to support persons who are 18 1
years of age and older but less than 23 years of age and are 2
transitioning from foster care to independent living. 3
2. The Division shall grant money from the allocation made 4
pursuant to subsection 1 to an agency which provides child welfare 5
services, as defined in NRS 432B.030, to carry out such a program. 6
Sec. 4. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2025. 7
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