SB 201 — Prohibits certain restrictions on the display of religious or cultural items under certain circumstances. (BDR 10-122)

(ReprintedSenate withBill amendmentsNo. adopted on April 17, 2025) FIRST REPRINT S.B.

201201–Senators SENATEPazina, BILLNeal, NO.Flores, Scheible, Krasner;

201–SCannizzaro, ENATORSCruz-Crawford, PAZINA,Daly, NDoñate, EAL,Dondero FLoop, LORES,Ellison, SCHEIBLE,Lange, KNguyen, RASNEROhrenschall, ;Rogich, Steinbeck, Stone and Taylor Joint Sponsors:

CAssemblymembers ANNIZZARORoth, ,Nguyen; CRUZ -CRAWFORD , DALY , D OÑATE , D ONDERO LOOP, E LLISON, L ANGE, NGUYEN , OHRENSCHALL , ROGICH, TEINBECK , TONE AND TAYLOR F EBRUARY 12, 2025 ____________ JOINT SPONSORS :

SSEMBLYMEMBERSand ROTHGallant ,CHAPTER.......... N GUYEN ;AND G ALLANT ____________ Referred to Committee on Judiciary SUMMARY—Prohibits certain restrictions on the display of religious items under certain circumstances.

(BDRAN 10-122)ACT FISCALrelating NOTE:to religious and cultural expression;

EEffectprohibiting a unit-owners’ association, a unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit or a landlord from imposing certain restrictions on the State:display of religious or cultural items;

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AN ACT relating to religious freedom;

prohibiting a unit-owners’ association, a unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit or a landlord from imposing certain restrictions on the display of religious items;

Existing law requires the unit-owners’ association of a common-interest community to adopt bylaws and authorizes an association to amend bylaws and ofadopt thisrules billand restricts,regulations withconcerning certain exceptions, an association or unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit from prohibiting a unit’s owner or occupant of a unit from engaging in the displaycommunity. of religious items.

(NRS 116.3102) Section 1 rents or leases his or her unit from prohibiting a unit’s owner or occupant of a unit from engaging in the display of religious or cultural items.

For the purposes of these restrictions, sections 1 and 1.3 define “display of religiouson items”a tounit mean, in general, an item or combination of items made from dwelling, as applicable, because of sincerely held religious beliefs.ameor ofcultural abeliefs, unitpractices or -traditions. *SB201_R1* – 2 – THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 or 3, the executive board of an association or a unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit shall not and the governing documents of an association or rental agreement must not prohibit a unit’s owner or an occupant of a unit from engaging in the display of religious or cultural items within such physical portion of the common-interestcommon- interest community as that owner or occupant has a right to occupy and use exclusively.

(a) Apply to a display of religious or cultural items that:

(1)- Has83rd aSession total(2025) size– that2 is– greater than 36 by 12 square inches or that exceeds the size of the door on which or whosewhosere frame on which the display of religious or cultural items is displayed or affixed;

(2) ThreatensHas thea health,total safetysize that is greater than 36 by 12 square inches that is immediately adjacent or welfareaffixed ofto the public;entry of a unit;

(3) HindersThreatens the openinghealth, safety or closingwelfare of anythe entrypublic; door;

(4) ViolatesHinders anythe federal,opening state or localclosing law;of any entry door;

(5) PromotesViolates discriminationany federal, state or discriminatorylocal beliefs;law;

or (6) ContainsPromotes graphics,discriminatory languagebehavior; or any display that is obscene or otherwise illegal.

(b) Preclude an association or a(7) unit’sContains ownergraphics, wholanguage rents or leasesany hisdisplay or her unit from adopting, and do not preclude the governing documents of an association or a rental agreement from setting forth, rules that reasonablyis restrictobscene the placement and manner of the display of religious items by a unit’s owner or anotherwise occupantillegal. of a unit.

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AfterIf, following receipt of such written notice, the workunit’s isowner completed,or occupant consents to the -removal *SB201_R1*of –the 3display –of religious or cultural items or fails, within a reasonable period, to respond to the written notice, then the association or unit’s owner may association or unit’s owner shall returnstore the displayitem ofor religious items towith The respect and in accordance with the entryappropriate doorreligious or doorframe.cultural practice, tradition or custom and document compliance with this paragraph.

(b)After Require the unit’swork owneris orcompleted, anthe occupantassociation ofor theunit’s unitowner toshall removereturn athe display of religious or cultural items onto the entry door or doorframe duringwithin the72 timehours after the work is beingcompleted. performed in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.

An(b) associationRequire orthe unit’s owner shall, before requiring a unit’s owner or an occupant of athe unit to temporarily remove a display of religious or cultural items pursuanton tothe thisentry paragraph,door provideor written- notice83rd toSession the(2025) affected– unit’s3 owner– oraccordance occupant.with the provisions of this paragraph.

AfterAn theassociation workor isunit’s completed,owner theshall, before requiring a unit’s owner or occupant mustof bea permittedunit to returntemporarily theremove a display of religious or cultural items pursuant to this paragraph, provide written notice of at least days before the entrywork dooris performed, except in an emergency, to the affected unit’s owner or doorframe.occupant.

After the work is completed, the unit’s owner or occupant must be permitted to return the display of religious or cultural items to the entry door or doorframe within 72 hours after the work is completed.

(a) “Display of religious or cultural items” means an item displayed or combinationaffixed in or on a unit because of items:sincerely held religious or cultural beliefs, practices or traditions.

(1)between Madea ofunit’s wood,owner metal,and glass,another plastic,person cloth,for fabricthe oruse paper;andent occupancy of a unit.

and (2) Displayed or affixed on any entry door or doorframe of a unit because of sincerely held religious beliefs.