Termination of employment or contract of employee, employee of temporary employment service or independent contractor of facility, hospital, agency, program or home who has been convicted of certain crime; period in which to correct information regarding conviction; liability of facility, hospital, agency, program or home.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 449.125
in effect1. Upon receiving information from the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History pursuant to NRS 449.123 , or evidence from any other source, that an employee, employee of a temporary employment service or independent contractor of a facility, hospital, agency, program or home:
(a) Has been convicted of a crime listed in paragraph (a) of subsection 1 of NRS 449.174 ; or
(b) Has had a substantiated report of abuse or neglect made against him or her, if he or she is employed at a facility, hospital, agency, program or home that provides residential services to children, a psychiatric hospital that provides inpatient services to children or a psychiatric residential treatment facility,
Ê the administrator of, or the person licensed to operate, the facility, hospital, agency, program or home shall terminate the employment or contract of that person or notify the temporary employment service that its employee is prohibited from providing services for the facility, hospital, agency, program or home after allowing the person time to correct the information as required pursuant to subsection 2.
2. If an employee, employee of a temporary employment service or independent contractor believes that the information provided by the Central Repository is incorrect, the employee, employee of the temporary employment service or independent contractor may immediately inform the facility, hospital, agency, program or home or temporary employment service. The facility, hospital, agency, program, home or temporary employment service that is so informed shall give the employee, employee of the temporary employment service or independent contractor a reasonable amount of time of not less than 30 days to correct the information received from the Central Repository before terminating the employment or contract of the person pursuant to subsection 1.
3. A facility, hospital, agency, program or home that has complied with NRS 449.123 may not be held civilly or criminally liable based solely upon the ground that the facility, hospital, agency, program or home allowed an employee, employee of a temporary employment service or independent contractor to work:
(a) Before it received the information concerning the employee, employee of the temporary employment service or independent contractor from the Central Repository, except that an employee, employee of the temporary employment service or independent contractor shall not have contact with a child without supervision before such information is received;
(b) During the period required pursuant to subsection 2 to allow the employee, employee of the temporary employment service or independent contractor to correct that information, except that an employee, employee of the temporary employment service or independent contractor shall not have contact with a child without supervision during such period;
(c) Based on the information received from the Central Repository, if the information received from the Central Repository was inaccurate; or
(d) Any combination thereof.
Ê A facility, hospital, agency, program or home may be held liable for any other conduct determined to be negligent or unlawful.
Source: NV Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-449.htmlFetched: 10/4/2026