housing insecurity

Assembly Bill 135 (2023)

Revises provisions relating to homelessness. (BDR 40-324)

AN ACT relating to homelessness; revising the process for persons who are homeless to apply for a certified or official copy of a birth certificate; revising certain information required to be included on an identification card issued to a pupil; requiring the Nevada Housing Crisis Response System to assist persons in crisis who are applying for a state identification card; revising requirements for the issuance of a state identification card to certain homeless children and youth; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Section 9 effective June 10, 2023. Sections 1 to 3, inclusive, 7, and 8 of this act effective on October 1, 2023. Sections 4, 5, and 6 of this act effective on January 1, 2026.

Primary Sponsor: Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

A longer description and the full text of the bill are available on the Nevada Legislature’s website here: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bill/9785/Overview.

Source: The information in this post is excerpted as quotes from the Nevada Legislature’s website.