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SenateSession Bill(83rd) A SB201 16 Amendment No.
201–Senators16 Pazina,Senate Neal,Amendment Flores,to Scheible,Senate Krasner;Bill No.
Cannizzaro,201 Cruz-Crawford,(BDR Daly,10-122) Doñate,Proposed Donderoby: Loop, Ellison, Lange, Nguyen, Ohrenschall, Rogich, Steinbeck, Stone and Taylor Joint Sponsors:
AssemblymembersSenate Roth,Committee Nguyen;on Judiciary Amends:
andSummary: Gallant CHAPTER..........
ANYes ACTTitle: relating to religious and cultural expression;
prohibitingYes aPreamble: 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 or cultural items;
No Joint Sponsorship:
No Digest:
Yes ASSEMBLY ACTION Initial and Dat| SENATE ACTION Initial and Date Adopted Lost | Adopted Lost Concurred In Not | Concurred In Not Receded Not | Receded Not EXPLANATION:
Matter in (1) blue bold italics is new language in the original bill;
(2) variations of green bold underlining is language proposed to be added in this amendment;
(3) red strikethrough is deleted language in the original bill;
(4) purple double strikethrough is language proposed to be deleted in this amendment;
(5) orange double underlining is deleted language in the original bill proposed to be retained in this amendment.
BAW - Date:
4/16/2025 S.B.
No.
201—Prohibits certain restrictions on the display of religious items in common-interest communities.
(BDR 10-122) Page 1 of 8 *A_SB201_16* Senate Amendment No.
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201–SENATORS P AZINA, NEAL, FLORES, SCHEIBLE, KRASNER;
CANNIZZARO , RUZ -CRAWFORD , DALY, OÑATE , DONDERO LOOP , ANGE, NGUYEN , OHRENSCHALL , OGICH, TEINBECK , TONE AND TAYLOR FEBRUARY 12, 2025 _______________ JOINTS PONSORS:
ASSEMBLYMEMBERS ROTH , N GUYEN;AND G ALLANT _______________ Referred to Committee on Judiciary SUMMARY—Prohibits certain restrictions on the display of religious items [in common-interest communities.] under certain circumstances.
(BDR 10-122) FISCAL NOTE:
Effect on Local Government:
No.
Effect on the State:
No.
~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to [common-interest communities;] religious freedom;
prohibiting a unit-owners’ association , [or] 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 adopt rules and regulations concerning the community.
(NRS 116.3102) [This] Section 1 of this bill restricts, with 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 display of religious or cultural items.
[This bill defines] For the purposes of these restrictions, sections 1 and 1.3 define “display of religious items” to mean, in general, an item or combination of items made from certain materials and displayed or affixed on an entry door or doorframe of a unit or dwelling, as applicable, because of sincerely held religious orbeliefs. cultural beliefs, practices or traditions.
EXPLANATIONSenate –Amendment MatterNo. in bolded italics is new;
matter16 between brackets [omitted material] is material to beSenate omitted.Bill No.
201 Page 4 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-common-interest 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) 83rdHas Sessiona (2025)total –size 2that –is greater than 36 by 12 square inches or that exceeds the size of the door on which or whoserewhose frame on which the display of religious or cultural items is displayed or affixed;
(2) HasThreatens athe totalhealth, sizesafety that is greater than 36 by 12 square inches that is immediately adjacent or affixedwelfare toof the entrypublic; of a unit;
(3) ThreatensHinders the health,opening safety or welfareclosing of theany public;entry door;
(4) HindersViolates theany openingfederal, state or closinglocal oflaw; any entry door;
(5) ViolatesPromotes anydiscrimination federal, state or localdiscriminatory law;beliefs;
or (6) PromotesContains discriminatorygraphics, behavior;language or any display that is obscene or otherwise illegal.
(b) Preclude an association or (7)a Containsunit’s graphics,owner languagewho rents or anyleases displayhis or her unit from adopting, and do not preclude the governing documents of an association or a rental agreement from setting forth, rules that isreasonably obscenerestrict the placement and manner of the display of religious items by a unit’s owner or otherwisean illegal.occupant of a unit.
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(b)After Requirethe work is completed, the unit’s owner or an occupant ofmust thebe unitpermitted to removereturn athe display of religious or cultural items onto the entry door or -doorframe.] 83rdin Session (2025) – 3 – accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.
An association or unit’s owner shall, before requiring a unit’s owner or occupant of a unit to temporarily remove a display of religious or cultural items pursuant to this [subsection,] paragraph, provide written notice of at least days before the work is performed, except in an emergency, to the affected unit’s owner or 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 doorframedoorframe. within 72 hours after the work is completed.
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(a) “Display of religious or cultural items” means an item displayed or affixedcombination in or on a unit because of sincerelyitems: held religious or cultural beliefs, practices or traditions.
between(1) aMade unit’sof ownerwood, andmetal, anotherglass, personplastic, forcloth, thefabric useor andentpaper; occupancy of a unit.
and (2) Displayed or affixed on any entry door or doorframe of a unit because of sincerely held religious beliefs.
(b) “Rental agreement” means an oral or written agreement between a unit’s owner and another person for the use and occupancy of a unit.
Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 or 3, a landlord or an agent or employee of a landlord shall not, and the rental agreement must not, prohibit a tenant from engaging in the display of religious or cultural items on the entry door or doorframe of the dwelling or otherwise in or on the dwelling.
(a) Apply to a display of religious or cultural items that:
(1) Has a total size that is greater than 36 by 12 square inches or that exceeds the size of the door on which or whose frame on which the display of religious or cultural items is displayed or affixed;
inches(2) thatThreatens isthe immediatelyhealth, adjacentsafety or affixedwelfare toof the entrypublic; of a dwelling;
(3) ThreatensHinders the health,opening safety or welfareclosing of theany public;entry door;
(4) HindersViolates theany openingfederal, state or closinglocal oflaw; any entry door;
(5) ViolatesPromotes anydiscrimination federal, state or localdiscriminatory law;beliefs;
or (6) PromotesContains discriminatorygraphics, behavior;language or any display that is obscene or otherwise illegal.
or(b) (7)Preclude Containsa graphics,landlord languageor an agent or anyemployee displayof a landlord from adopting policies that isreasonably obscenerestrict orthe otherwiseplacement illegal.and manner of the display of religious items by a tenant.
- 83rd Session (2025) – 4 – from adopting policies that reasonably restrict the placement and manner of the display of religious or cultural items by a tenant.
(a) Remove a display of religious or cultural items on the entry door or doorframe during the time the work is being performed in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.
A landlord or an agent or employee of a landlord shall, before temporarily removing a display of religious or cultural items pursuant to this paragraph, provide written notice at least 7 days before the work is performed, except in an emergency, to the tenant.
If, following receipt of such written notice, the tenant consents to the removal of the display of religious or cultural items or fails, within a reasonable period, to respond to the written notice, then the landlord or the agent or employee of the landlord may temporarily agentremove orthe employeedisplay of a landlord shall store the item or items withn respect and in accordance with the appropriate religious oritems. cultural practice, tradition or custom and document compliance with this paragraph.
After the work is completed, the landlord or the agent or employee of the landlord shall return the display of religious or cultural items to the entry door or doorframedoorframe. within hours after the work is completed.
(b) Require the tenant to remove a display of religious or cultural items on the entry door or doorframe during the time the work is being performed in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph.
A landlord or an agent or employee of a landlord shall, before requiring a tenant to temporarily remove a display of religious or cultural items pursuant to this paragraph, provide written notice at least 7 days before the work is performed, except in an emergency, to the tenant.
After the work is completed, the culturaltenant itemsmust tobe thepermitted entryto doorreturn orthe doorframedisplay withinof 72religious hoursitems afterto the workentry isdoor completed.or doorframe.
As used in this section, “display of religious or cultural items” means an item displayed or affixedcombination in or on the dwelling because of sincerelyitems: held religious or cultural beliefs, practices or traditions.
-(a) 83rdMade Sessionof (2025)wood, –metal, 5glass, –plastic, follows:1.7.cloth, fabric or paper;
NRSand 118A.200Senate isAmendment herebyNo. amended to read as 118A.200 1.
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1.7.
NRS 118A.200 is hereby amended to read as follows:
118A.200 1.
required.es(e) Fees which are required and the purposes for which they are (f)required. Deposits which are required and the conditions for their refund.
(f) Deposits which are required and the conditions for their refund.
(1) A nuisance.
(o) Information regarding the right of the tenant to engage in the display of religious or cultural items, as set forth in section 1.3 of this act.
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In addition to the provisions required by subsection 3, any written rental agreement for a single-family residence which is not signed by an authorized agent of the landlord who at the time of signing holds a permit to engage in property management pursuant to chapter 645 of NRS must contain a disclosure at the top of the first page of the agreement, in a font size at least two times larger than any other font size in the agreement, which states that:
(1)Senate IsAmendment notarizedNo. or is signed by an authorized agent of the landlord who at the time of signing holds a permit to engage in property management pursuant to chapter 645 of NRS;
16 to Senate Bill No.
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dishonored(c) checksNo arecharges paidfor bypartial theor tenant.mentslate payments of rent or for (d)dishonored Otherchecks thanare normalpaid wear,by the premisestenant. will be returned in the same condition as when the tenancy began.
(d) Other than normal wear, the premises will be returned in the same condition as when the tenancy began.
Any provision contained in [a] the governing [document] documents of an association or in a rental agreement or policy of a unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit [that] or in a rental agreement or policy of a landlord which is in effect on July 1, 2025, - 83rd Session (2025) – 7 – and which is contrary to the provisions of this act is void and unenforceable.
On or before October 1, 2025, each [executive board of an association and] unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit and each landlord shall review and amend the policies of the unit’s owner or landlord, as applicable, as nec4.sarAnecessary unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit or a landlord shall review any rental agreement that is in effect on July 1, 2025, to ensure compliance with the provisions of this act.act .
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(a) In the case of an executive board of an association, the governing documents of the association.
(b) In the case of a unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit, the policies of the unit’s owner.
3.] 4.
A unit’s owner who rents or leases his or her unit or a landlord shall review any rental agreement that is in effect on July 1, 2025, to ensure compliance with the provisions of this act.
[4.] 5.
(e) “Rental agreement” [has the meaning ascribed to it in section 1 of this act.] means an oral or written agreement between a unit’s owner and another person for the use and occupancy of a unit or between a landlord and a tenant for the use and occupancy of a dwelling as defined in NRS 118A.080, as applicable.
(f)Senate “Unit”Amendment hasNo. the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 116.093.
(g)16 “Unit’s owner” has the meaning ascribed to itSenate inBill NRSNo. 116.095.
201 Page 8 [(e)] (f) “Unit” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 116.093.
[(f)] (g) “Unit’s owner” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 116.095.
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