NV AB520

Division of Child and Family Services must conduct background investigations on all child-placing agency license applicants, employees, volunteers, and independent contractors, with investigations repeated every 5 years and requiring fingerprint submission to the FBI.

Courts cannot enter adoption orders if the facilitating child-placing agency failed to comply with background check requirements, and any such orders are declared void.

Division may release information from the State Register for Adoptions to adopted persons and relatives without natural parent consent when extenuating circumstances exist.

Prospective adoptive parents residing out-of-state may attend adoption hearings via videoconference or other remote-technology systems, not just telephone.

Current child-placing agency personnel who have not had a background investigation since October 1, 2020, must submit required documentation by October 1, 2025.