NevadaNevada law pauses prison medical debt collection after release
Nevada law bars the corrections director from collecting department medical debt after a person leaves prison, unless that person returns to custody.
What it does
When someone leaves prison, the corrections director must stop collecting medical debt owed to the department and may not report it to a consumer reporting agency. Collection efforts may resume if the person returns to custody.
Argument forPeople leaving prison could avoid collection efforts and credit reporting for medical debt they owe to the corrections department while they are out of custody.
Argument againstIf someone returns to prison, the director may resume collection efforts, so the debt could still affect them while they are in custody.
More detail
The corrections director must not collect department medical debt from a person upon release or report information about that debt to a consumer reporting agency. This applies to people released when their prison sentence ends, or by pardon or parole. If the person returns to the department's custody, the director may continue collection efforts while the person is in custody. The law took effect July 1, 2025. It also applies to people released before that date.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Jun 11Chapter 492.Latest
- Jun 10Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- Jun 4Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 1In Senate. Assembly Amendment No. 878 concurred in. To enrollment.Major
- May 31From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 39, Nays: None, Excused: 3.) To Senate.Passed House
- Vote recorded Assembly (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- May 30Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 878.) To printer.Minor
- May 29Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- May 28From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.Minor
- May 22In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.Minor
- May 21Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 14, Nays: 7.) To Assembly.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- May 20From committee: Do pass. Placed on General File.Minor
- Apr 15From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- Apr 14Notice of eligibility for exemption. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 6.) Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.Minor
- Apr 10From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.Minor
- Feb 3Read first time. To committee.Minor
- Jan 10From printer.
- Jan 7Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.Introduced
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