Nevada Nursing Home Camera Laws: Henry's Law Explained

Nevada's Henry's Law gives a skilled nursing patient the right to install a monitoring camera in their room under NRS 449A.180 through 449A.188, with mandatory facility approval, a roommate consent-and-waiver process, and the strongest tampering penalties of any state in this comparison.

Information last verified on 2026-08-14.

This page covers Nevada's Henry's Law: the request-and-waiver process, who pays, the penalties for interference, and the 2025 expansion to additional facility types. For Nevada's general recording-consent law, see Nevada Recording Laws. See the Nursing Home Camera Laws by State hub for how every state approaches this issue, and the existing 50-state statute comparison table for a side-by-side look at every enacted law.

Does Nevada Law Allow Cameras in Nursing Home Rooms?

Yes, in a facility for skilled nursing. Nevada's Henry's Law, originally Assembly Bill 202 (2023) and codified at NRS 449A.170 through 449A.192, lets a patient or their representative request installation of an "electronic communication device" in the patient's room. A representative can act for a patient, including a roommate who is also a patient, if they are a court-appointed guardian with specific authority over the decision or hold a health care power of attorney under NRS 162A.700 through 162A.870 that specifically delegates it.

The Waiver-and-Release Request Process

Nevada's model works differently from most peer states. Under NRS 449A.182, the patient or representative submits a request, either on a facility-prescribed form or a written request meeting the statute's content requirements. The request must state the device's type, function and expected use, list contact information for anyone besides the patient authorized to view or listen to the footage, and include an agreement to waive the patient's own privacy right and release the facility from liability connected to the device's use.

If there is a roommate, the request must also include the roommate's or the roommate's representative's written consent, plus the roommate's own privacy waiver and liability release. The facility "shall approve" any request that meets these requirements, meaning approval is mandatory, not discretionary, once the paperwork is complete.

If the roommate refuses, the facility must make reasonable attempts to accommodate the patient, which can include moving either the patient or the roommate to different living quarters, with the consent of whichever person is moved. Consent can be withdrawn at any time in writing, by the patient, the representative, or a consenting roommate or the roommate's representative, and the facility must remove the device within 24 hours of a written revocation.

Who Pays and What the Device Must Do

The patient or representative is solely responsible for choosing the device and for its purchase, installation, maintenance and removal costs, except electricity, an obligation that continues even after the patient is discharged. The device must be capable of being disabled or turned off, and, if it captures video, must have a fixed viewpoint where practicable and avoid capturing bathing, dressing or toileting.

Who May View the Footage, and the Retaliation Ban

Under NRS 449A.186, a person other than the requesting patient or representative may not intentionally obstruct, tamper with or destroy the device or its recordings, or view or listen to its output, unless they are a law enforcement investigator, an investigator from the Aging and Disability Services Division or the Division of Public and Behavioral Health, the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, or an attorney representing the patient or roommate. The patient or representative may separately authorize anyone else in writing.

The same section bars a facility for skilled nursing from denying admission to, discharging, or otherwise discriminating or retaliating against a patient because of a decision to request installation and use of the device.

Penalties: The Strongest in This Comparison

NRS 449A.188 sets civil penalties well above what most peer states impose. An individual who violates the tampering or unauthorized-viewing ban faces a civil penalty up to $5,000 for a first offense, and up to $10,000 per violation plus a misdemeanor charge for a second or subsequent offense. A facility, or any person or entity operating one, that violates the tampering ban or the retaliation ban faces a civil penalty up to $10,000 for a first offense, and up to $20,000 per violation plus a misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense, on top of any separate disciplinary action Nevada's health-facility licensing law allows. The Attorney General or a district attorney may recover these penalties in a civil action.

No signage or courtroom-admissibility clause was found in the original 2023 law's text.

The 2025 Expansion: Assembly Bill 368

Assembly Bill 368, effective October 1, 2025, extended the same framework beyond skilled nursing. News coverage and bill-tracking sources describe the expansion as reaching a facility for intermediate care, a home for individual residential care, a senior living community, long-term care hospital units, group residential facilities, and supported living arrangement services. Multiple sources describe the same roommate-consent mechanic, the same retaliation ban, and the same private-rooms-only scope carrying over to these newly covered facility types, rather than a separate consent regime. The exact new NRS section numbers created or amended for these facility types were not independently confirmed from the official bill text this session, since leg.state.nv.us was unreachable throughout (see the note below); a reader or facility should confirm current section numbers directly with the Nevada Aging and Disability Services Division before relying on a specific citation for the expansion.

Using Camera Footage as Evidence of Abuse or Neglect

Camera footage that appears to document abuse or neglect can support a report to the Nevada Aging and Disability Services Division, the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, or a civil claim against a facility. Footage alone is rarely dispositive; it is typically reviewed together with the resident's medical and care records, staffing history and the facility's compliance record.

Audio Recording and Nevada's General Consent Law

Nevada's general recording-consent law is a hybrid: an in-person conversation, the kind a bedside camera would normally pick up, needs only one party's consent under NRS 200.650. It is telephone and cellphone calls that need every participant's consent, under NRS 200.620 as the Nevada Supreme Court construed it in Lane v. Allstate Ins. Co., 114 Nev. 1176 (1998), with recording a call without all-party consent a category D felony. That distinction cuts in a family's favor for an in-room camera: a device that captures an in-person conversation involving the patient is covered by the one-party rule, not the stricter all-party one. See Nevada Recording Laws for the state's general framework, which applies to any recording made outside Henry's Law's own request-and-waiver process.

Getting Help

The State Long-Term Care Ombudsman is authorized under Henry's Law to view or listen to device footage as part of investigating a complaint, and is a practical first stop for a family navigating a request, a facility's refusal, or a suspected abuse or neglect situation.

Related Resources

• Nursing Home Camera Laws by State is the hub page for this cluster, covering every state's regime at a glance.
• The 50-State Nursing Home Camera Law Comparison covers the full 18-state comparison and how Nevada's waiver-and-release model compares to its peers.
• Nevada Recording Laws covers the state's general consent framework for recordings made outside Henry's Law.
• Nevada Power of Attorney Laws covers how a representative gets authority to request monitoring on a patient's behalf.
• Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect covers how an abuse or neglect claim works once evidence, including camera footage, is in hand.
• Surveillance Camera Laws by State covers the general legal framework for security cameras outside a nursing home setting.

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Last updated: 2026-08-14.