---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires an agency which provides child welfare services to adopt a plan for the recruitment and retention of foster homes. (BDR 38-1061)"
description: "AN ACT relating to child welfare; requiring each agency which provides child welfare services to adopt a plan for the recruitment and retention of foster homes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "AB 298"
citation: "Nevada AB 298 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UNFUNDED MANDATES", "CHILD WELFARE SERVICES", "AGENCIES WHICH PROVIDE", "CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT", "INTERNET", "FOSTER CARE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Assemblywoman Shea Backus"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-18T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-05T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e2cf852-9428-4c60-baba-43b2142f6e3c"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/6549/Overview"
source_hash: "f1e75a9ce9c4e82f8fa71dc6b7aeb2aa8f790d06cb5e3930a7b7ea8a12aad970"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nv"]
---

# Nevada AB 298 (80) — Requires an agency which provides child welfare services to adopt a plan for the recruitment and retention of foster homes. (BDR 38-1061)

AN ACT relating to child welfare; requiring each agency which provides child welfare services to adopt a plan for the recruitment and retention of foster homes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB298.pdf)
2. **Amendment 417** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_AB298_417.pdf)
3. **Amendment 856** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_AB298_R1_856.pdf)
4. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB298_R1.pdf)
5. **Reprint 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB298_R2.pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB298_EN.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Assemblywoman Shea Backus — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-03-18T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2019-04-22T07:00:00+00:00** Notice of eligibility for exemption. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 417.) Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.
- **2019-04-23T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- **2019-05-07T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass, as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-08T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 40, Nays: None, Excused: 1, Vacant: 1.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-09T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.
- **2019-05-21T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-22T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 856.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2019-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
- **2019-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
- **2019-05-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment No. 856 concurred in. To enrollment.
- **2019-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** Chapter 351.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e2cf852-9428-4c60-baba-43b2142f6e3c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).