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AB 55

Revises provisions relating to motor vehicle crashes. (BDR 43-250)

2025 Regular Session

Expands toxicology testing for crash victims and modernizes reporting with a central DPS/NDOT crash data repository to improve statewide crash data accuracy.

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Bill Summary · AB 55

AB 55 — Revises provisions relating to motor vehicle crashes (BDR 43-250) — Summary

Status: Chapter 17 (enacted)
Introduced: Dec 2, 2024 — Effective date: July 1, 2025
Sponsor: Assembly Committee on Judiciary (on behalf of the Office of Traffic Safety, Dept. of Public Safety)

Purpose

To improve statewide crash data collection and analysis by (1) expanding toxicology testing of persons who die as a result of motor vehicle crashes, and (2) clarifying and modernizing crash-reporting procedures and the central crash-data repository.

Key provisions

  • Toxicology of deceased crash victims (NRS 484C.170)

    • Requires coroners/other public officials to cause a blood sample to be drawn from any decedent whose death resulted from a motor vehicle crash and to have that sample analyzed for:
    • Blood alcohol concentration; and
    • The presence and concentration of substances “commonly misused,” as determined by the coroner or other public official (replaces the prior term “prohibited substances”).
    • Removes the prior statutorily fixed deadlines:
    • Eliminates the requirement that the blood be drawn within 8 hours of the crash.
    • Eliminates the requirement to report toxicology findings within 30 days; instead requires reporting to the Department upon receipt of the findings.
    • Toxicology analyses are acceptable only if performed by laboratories licensed for that purpose.
    • Findings of examinations are public record.

  • Crash reporting and central repository (NRS 484E.110 & 484E.120)

    • Requires police officers to submit crash reports through the Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) electronic crash reporting system within 10 days after:
    • the date of the crash; or
    • the date of death when a death resulted from the crash.
    • DPS must record the collected data in a central repository to track crash data electronically statewide; repository to be created/maintained by DPS in collaboration with the Department of Transportation (NDOT).
    • DPS shall prescribe the crash-report form and make it available to law enforcement and other appropriate persons.
    • Reports and data submitted are not privileged or confidential; DPS transmits reports to the Department of Motor Vehicles as soon as practicable.

Who is affected

  • Coroners/medical examiners and forensic laboratories (toxicology testing practices and reporting).
  • Law enforcement agencies and officers (timelines and required use of the electronic reporting system).
  • Department of Public Safety (managing the electronic reporting system, central repository, and form prescription).
  • Nevada Department of Transportation and Department of Motor Vehicles (as data stakeholders/recipients).
  • Local governments/counties (potential fiscal impacts for testing, reporting, and system integration).

Fiscal and procedural notes

  • Committee reports note the bill “may have fiscal impact” on local government and an effect on the State.
  • The act modernizes reporting timelines and data workflows; by making toxicology results public and tying reporting to receipt of lab findings, it is intended to improve the accuracy and completeness of crash-related impairment data available for traffic safety analysis and policymaking.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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