Nevada AB 542: Revises provisions relating to offenders. (BDR S-1132)

Bill Text

- 83rd Session (2025)
Assembly Bill No. 542–Committee on Ways and Means

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AN ACT relating to offenders; extending the reversion date of the
appropriation made by the 81st Session of the Nevada
Legislature to the Department of Corrections for certain costs
related to the Nevada Offender Tracking Information System;
revising provisions governing credits earned by an offender
which reduce the term of imprisonment of the offender; and
providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
During the 2021 Legislative Session, the Legislature appropriated $1,436,720
to the Department of Corrections for the reintegration of the Offender Sentence
Management System into the Nevada Offender Tracking Information System. Any
remaining balance of that appropriation was required to be reverted to the State
General Fund on or before September 15, 2023. (Chapter 463, Statutes of Nevada
2021, at page 2875) During the 2023 Legislative Session, the Legislature extended
the reversion date to on or before September 19, 2025. (Section 84 of chapter 209,
Statutes of Nevada 2023, at page 1257) Section 2 of this bill extends the reversion
date to on or before September 17, 2027.
Existing law allows an offender to earn certain credits to reduce his or her
sentence of imprisonment. (NRS 209.432-209.453) During the 2023 Legislative
Session, the Legislature enacted Senate Bill No. 413, which established a revised
method for awarding credits to reduce the sentence of an offender that applied to an
offender sentenced to a crime committed: (1) on or after July 1, 2025; or (2) before
July 1, 2025, if the offender elected to be subject to the revised method. (Chapter
394, Statutes of Nevada 2023, at page 2308) Section 7 of this bill delays the
implementation of the revised method to July 1, 2026. Under section 3 of this bill,
the revised method for awarding credits to reduce the sentence of an offender
applies to an offender sentenced to a crime committed: (1) on or after July 1, 2026;
or (2) before July 1, 2026, if the offender elects to be subject to the revised method.
Section 3 also: (1) permits an offender to earn additional credit for engaging in
exceptional meritorious service; (2) requires the Department to provide an offender
with certain information before the offender elects to be subject to the revised
method; and (3) makes various other changes relating to the revised method.
Sections 4-6 make conforming changes to reflect the change of date in section 3.

EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. (Deleted by amendment.)
Sec. 2. Section 2 of chapter 463, Statutes of Nevada 2021, as
amended by chapter 209, Statutes of Nevada 2023, at page 1257, is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the State
General Fund to the Department of Corrections the sum of

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- 83rd Session (2025)
$1,436,720 for the reintegration of the Offender Sentence
Management System into the Nevada Offender Tracking
Information System.
2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by
subsection 1 must not be committed for expenditure after
June 30, [2025,] 2027, by the entity to which the
appropriation is made or any entity to which money from the
appropriation is granted or otherwise transferred in any
manner, and any portion of the appropriated money
remaining must not be spent for any purpose after
September [19, 2025,] 17, 2027, by either the entity to which
the money was appropriated or the entity to which the money
was subsequently granted or transferred, and must be reverted
to the State General Fund on or before September [19,
2025.] 17, 2027.
Sec. 3. Section 1 of chapter 394, Statutes of Nevada 2023, at
page 2310, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 209 of NRS is hereby amended by
adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. [Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, an]
An offender [who complies with the programming and
placement identified in the risk and needs assessment
administered pursuant to NRS 209.341, as determined by the
Director,] must be allowed credit against the minimum term
or minimum aggregate term, as applicable, of his or her
sentence for good behavior in an amount of days that is
equivalent to 35 percent of the minimum term or minimum
aggregate term, as applicable, of the sentence of the offender.
[Any] In addition to this credit , the Director may allow not
more than 90 days of credit each year for an offender who
engages in exceptional meritorious service. Credit allowed
pursuant to this subsection [may reduce the minimum term or
the minimum aggregate term imposed by the sentence, as
applicable, by not more than 58 percent. Credit] must be
allowed only for the period the offender is actually
incarcerated pursuant to his or her