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NV SB236

Bill

Status

Failed

4/12/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jeff Stone

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Origin

Senate

83rd Legislature (2025)

AI Summary

  • Defines "squatter" as a person who enters property without permission and occupies it without title or right, and explicitly excludes squatters from the legal definition of "tenant" for property possession proceedings

  • Reduces the timeframe for unlawful occupants to contest a lockout from 21 calendar days to 5 calendar days, and similarly reduces the property owner's obligation to store the occupant's personal property from 21 days to 5 days

  • Expands the crime of unlawful occupancy to apply to any dwelling where a person resides without owner permission, removing the previous requirement that the dwelling be "uninhabited or vacant"

  • Unlawful occupancy is punishable as a gross misdemeanor, escalating to a category D felony upon a third or subsequent conviction

Legislative Description

Revises provisions relating to real property. (BDR 3-222)

Last Action

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

4/12/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary2/25/2025

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