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Read. Follow. Verify.Nevada Authorizes Immediate License Holds for Educators Accused of Grooming or Sexual Impropriety
Last action · April 12, 2025: (Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)
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What This Bill Proposed
Senate Bill 59 prohibits licensed educational personnel from engaging in or with pupils, authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to place an immediate on an educator's license pending disciplinary proceedings, and removes the authority to issue provisional licenses while awaiting criminal history reports.
Changes disciplinary and licensing procedures for public school educators across Nevada by allowing state officials to suspend a license's mobility or status immediately when an educator faces arrest or employment suspension for alleged misconduct involving student safety.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Teachers and Educational Personnel
Subject to new prohibitions against grooming and sexual impropriety, immediate administrative license holds upon arrest or suspension, and restrictions on moving to other school districts while under a hold.
School Districts and Charter Schools
Notified by the Department of Education when an administrative hold is placed on an employee, and given discretion whether to retain the employee during the hold period.
Pupils
Protected by explicit prohibitions against educator grooming and sexual misconduct, with statutory clarification that pupil consent is not a defense in disciplinary proceedings.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can an educator continue teaching while under an administrative hold?
What constitutes grooming under this bill?
How long can an administrative hold remain in effect?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in Senate committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Apr 12, 2025(Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)
- Feb 3, 2025IntroducedRead first time. To committee.
- Nov 26, 2024From printer.
- Nov 20, 2024IntroducedPrefiled. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Full breakdown
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Discoveries
Patterns POLISCOPE noticed across the record. These are observations to investigate, not conclusions.
Creation of Non-Disciplinary Administrative Holds
The bill introduces a distinct administrative hold status that restricts professional mobility across school districts without being officially recorded as a permanent disciplinary action.
Connected Entities
Sources
www.leg.state.nv.us
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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