Nevada law sets public-safety rules for crimes, schools and corrections

Courts may apply the stated offenses, penalties and sentencing rules to covered conduct. The provisions cover assault and battery, stalking, child sexual abuse material, theft-related property damage, domestic violence, and impaired driving or boating. Assault or battery penalties depend on the victim, the offender’s status, the use of a weapon, bodily harm, strangulation and what the defendant knew. Stalking requires a qualifying course of conduct and actual fear or distress, and includes conduct carried out in person or electronically. The theft-related offense applies when intentional damage to a retail establishment occurs during a theft and the combined value reaches at least $750. Impaired-driving or boating penalties for causing death depend in part on prior qualifying convictions. These provisions take effect on January 1, 2026.

County and school officials, courts and juvenile courts must or may follow the stated corridor, school-access, reporting and juvenile-case rules. The corridor rules apply in counties with populations of at least 700,000; school rules apply to public schools and districts; juvenile rules apply to children meeting the listed custody and prior-offense conditions. A covered county must designate one or more crime corridors by ordinance. A person with a first misdemeanor offense in a corridor may be barred from that corridor for up to 1 year; a person with a second or later offense within 2 years must be barred for at least 1 year, subject to stated ordinance exceptions. Schools generally may not give covered law enforcement officers access or protected student information without a lawful order, warrant or subpoena, with exceptions for emergencies and other listed purposes. A qualifying child must receive a detention hearing and, when required, a mental-health evaluation; statements made during the evaluation generally may not be used to prove the delinquent act. The provisions take effect on January 1, 2026; corridor restrictions depend on a county ordinance and apply to offenses occurring within the stated 2-year period.

The Corrections Director may create an alternative reentry program, and correctional facilities must follow the stated treatment, parole, credit and reporting rules. The provisions cover state and local correctional programs, incarcerated people with substance use disorders, offenders in the alternative program, parole decisions and specified sentence-credit calculations. The alternative program requires the offender’s suitability and voluntary agreement, and the Director must report on its operation each year. Opioid-treatment programs must involve the Department of Human Services; participation is voluntary, and treatment decisions must be made by the treating physician and the participant. A participant may waive parole eligibility while in the alternative program, but the waiver is rescinded if the participant is removed for violating program terms. The supplied appropriations support court and Department of Corrections implementation, subject to the listed fiscal-year spending and reversion limits. The act takes effect on January 1, 2026; the revised sentence-credit method is otherwise scheduled for July 1, 2027, with listed preparatory work allowed earlier.