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SB111 • 2025

Revises provisions relating to crimes against public decency and good morals. (BDR 15-94)

AN ACT relating to crimes; prohibiting certain persons from selling, offering for sale or purchasing child remains; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to crimes; prohibiting certain persons from selling, offering for sale or purchasing child remains; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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Sponsor
View 1 Primary Sponsors Close Primary Sponsors Senator Carrie Ann Buck
Last action
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Revises provisions relating to crimes against public decency and good morals. (BDR 15-94)

Revises provisions relating to crimes against public decency and good morals.

What This Bill Does

  • Revises provisions relating to crimes against public decency and good morals.
  • (BDR 15-94)

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Bill History

  1. 2025-01-23 Nevada Electronic Legislative Information System

    (Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.) (See full list below)

Official Summary Text

Revises provisions relating to crimes against public decency and good morals. (BDR 15-94)

Current Bill Text

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S.B. 111

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SENATE BILL NO. 111–SENATOR BUCK

PREFILED JANUARY 23, 2025
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Referred to Committee on Judiciary

SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to crimes against public
decency and good morals. (BDR 15-94)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: Increases or Newly
Provides for Term of Imprisonment in County or City
Jail or Detention Facility.
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 crimes; prohibiting certain persons from
selling, offering for sale or purchasing child remains ;
providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly
relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law creates various crimes against public decency and good morals 1
and provides penalties to be imposed upon persons who commit su ch crimes. 2
(Chapter 201 of NRS) This bill: (1) prohibits a person from selling, offering for sale 3
or purchasing child remains except under certain circumstances ; and (2) provides 4
that a person who violates this prohibition is guilty of a misdemeanor. 5

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

Section 1. Chapter 201 of NRS is hereby amended by adding 1
thereto a new section to read as follows: 2
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall 3
not sell, offer for sale or purchase child remains. 4
2. The provisions of sub section 1 do not apply to the sale or 5
purchase of child remains by a hospital, a ccredited medical 6
school, dental school or institution of higher education if the sale 7
or purchase is related to education, research or a similar purpose. 8
3. A person who violates the provisions of subsection 1 is 9
guilty of a misdemeanor. 10

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4. As used in this section: 1
(a) “Child” means a person who is less than 18 years of age. 2
(b) “Child remains” means the body of a deceased child, or 3
part of the body which has been removed from a living child, in 4
any stage of decomposition. 5
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2025. 6

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