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- 83rd Session (2025)
Senate Bill No. 347–Senators Scheible,
Cannizzaro; Dondero Loop and Pazina
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AN ACT relating to public safety; establishing procedures
governing the confiscation and return of firearms involving
persons placed on a mental health crisis hold; and providing
other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law provides that an officer authorized to make arrests in this State and
certain providers of health care who, based on personal observation of a person,
have probable cause to believe that the person is in a mental health crisis, may
place the person on a mental health crisis hold. (NRS 433A.160) Under existing
law, a mental health crisis hold is the detention of a person alleged to be a person in
a mental health crisis for transport, assessment, evaluation, intervention and
treatment, which generally may last not more than 72 hours. (NRS 433A.0175,
433A.150)
Existing law also authorizes an officer who has probable cause to believe that a
person poses a risk of causing a self-inflicted injury or a personal injury to another
person by possessing or purchasing a firearm to file an application for an order for
protection against high -risk behavior. (NRS 33.560) Under existing law, an order
for protection against high-risk behavior, among other things, requires the person to
surrender any firearm possessed or controlled by the person and prohibits the
person from possessing or controlling a firearm while th e order is in effect .
(NRS 33.590)
This bill authorizes an officer to immediately confiscate a firearm that is on the
person or in the immediate vicinity of a person placed on a mental health crisis hold
and requires the officer, at the time that the firearm is confiscated, to provide the
person with a receipt which describes the firearm and a notice which sets forth the
procedures governing the return of the firearm.
This bill requires the law enforcement agency retaining custody of the
confiscated firearm to, upon the release of the person from treatment, return the
firearm to the person unless: (1) an officer of the law enforcement agency files a
verified application for an order for protection against high-risk behavior; or (2) the
person is prohibited by law from owning, possessing or having custody or control
of the firearm.
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. Chapter 433A of NRS is hereby amended by
adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. An officer authorized to make arrests in the State of
Nevada may immediately confiscate any firearm found to be on
the person or in the immediate vicinity of a person placed on a
mental health crisis hold pursuant to NRS 433A.160.
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2. If an officer confiscates a firearm from a person placed on
a mental health crisis hold pursuant to subsection 1, the officer
shall immediately provide the person with:
(a) A receipt which includes a description of the firearm; and
(b) A notice describing the procedures set forth in this section
for the return of the firearm.
3. Upon the release of the person from treatment, the law
enforcement agency retaining custody of th e confiscated firearm
shall make the firearm available for return to the person unless:
(a) An officer of t he law enforcement agency files a verified
application for an order for protection against high -risk behavior
pursuant to NRS 33.560; or
(b) The pe rson is prohibited from owning, possessing or
having under his or her custody or control any firearm pursuant
to NRS 202.360.
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2025.
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