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NV AB298

Bill

Status

Failed

4/12/2025

Primary Sponsor

Education

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Origin

Assembly

83rd Legislature (2025)

AI Summary

  • Requires every public school, including charter schools, to employ a full-time school counselor and provide a comprehensive school counseling program, removing the previous condition that limited this requirement to "the extent that money is available"

  • Mandates that school safety teams must include a school counselor, school psychologist, or social worker, eliminating the prior exception for schools that did not employ such personnel full-time

  • Requires SafeVoice Program notification teams to include a school counselor, psychologist, or social worker regardless of whether the school previously employed one full-time

  • Contains an unfunded mandate for local governments, with fiscal impacts expected for both local government and the state

  • Becomes effective July 1, 2025

Legislative Description

Revises provisions relating to school counselors. (BDR 34-532)

Last Action

(Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)

4/12/2025

Committee Referrals

Education2/27/2025

Full Bill Text

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