NevadaNevada law sets aside money for crime victims and survivors
The law allows compensation officers to consider payments for some victims’ property damage and sets aside money for victim aid and survivor support.
What it does
A person who is a crime victim under either of two laws with added penalties is included in the definition of a victim for compensation purposes.
A compensation officer may order up to $1,000 per incident for a qualifying victim’s property damaged during the crime.
The law sets aside $60,000 for hate crime victim aid and $40,000 for survivors of crimes prosecuted by the Attorney General over two fiscal years, plus $200,000 for trafficking victim programs.
Argument forThe funding could help hate crime victims and survivors of crimes prosecuted by the Attorney General get aid and support.
Argument againstVictims whose property repairs cost more than $1,000 per incident may still have to pay the remaining amount themselves.
More detail
The law’s definition of a victim includes a person who is a victim of a crime with an additional or enhanced penalty under the listed laws. The listed laws are NRS 193.1675, which provides an additional penalty, and NRS 207.185, which provides an enhanced penalty.
A compensation officer may order payment for a victim’s damaged property. The victim must be covered by the listed laws that provide an additional or enhanced penalty for a crime. The property must belong to the victim and have been damaged during the crime. Payment may not exceed $1,000 for each incident.
The law sets aside money for victim aid, survivor support, and human trafficking programs. The money goes to the crime victims’ compensation fund, the Attorney General’s office, and the state account for human trafficking victims. The victim compensation money must provide aid to hate crime victims. The Attorney General’s office money must support survivors of crimes prosecuted by that office. The human trafficking account may use its money only for programs or services for trafficking victims. The $60,000 and $40,000 cover fiscal years 2025–2026 and 2026–2027. The $200,000 appropriation has no fiscal year stated here.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2025
- Jun 9Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo. Chapter 439.Became Law
- Jun 5Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 4To enrollment.Major
- Jun 3In Senate.
- Jun 2Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 38, Nays: 4.) To Senate.Passed House
- Vote recorded Assembly (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 1From committee: Do pass. Placed on General File. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.Minor
- May 30From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.Minor
- May 28From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.Minor
- May 27From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 843.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 18, Nays: 2, Excused: 1.) To printer.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 23From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- Apr 21Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 335.) Notice of eligibility for exemption. Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.Minor
- Apr 18From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File.Minor
- Feb 3Read first time. To committee.Minor
- 2024
- Nov 26From printer.
- Nov 20Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.Introduced
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