Nevada / State / 2017 Regular Session, as amended

Nev. Rev. Stat. § 417.121 (added to NRS by 2017, amended 2019 and 2025) Required outreach and discharge upgrade assistance for LGBT veterans, without a discharge condition

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Signed 2017-05-22

Added NRS 417.121, which obliges the Director of the Department of Veterans Services to conduct outreach to, and provide assistance designed for the unique needs of, veterans and members of the military who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender and their spouses and dependents, including assistance in applying for an upgrade to the character of the veteran’s discharge or a change in the narrative reason for the veteran’s discharge, and to make informational materials on both processes available to agencies, resource centres and programmes serving veterans in the state. Subsection 2 defines veteran for the section as a resident of this State who meets the qualifications of subsection 1 of NRS 417.005, and pointedly does not import subsection 2 of that definition, which requires separation under conditions other than dishonorable. Tracked because that omission makes this the only provision in the Nevada file open to a veteran with an other than honorable, bad conduct or dishonorable discharge, which is the population the section exists to help, and because no published summary of Nevada veteran benefits records that the discharge condition is absent. The section names two distinct remedies that are often conflated: a change in the character of service, which unlocks benefits, and a change in the narrative reason, which removes the stated ground from a record that may already show honorable service. The section was amended in 2019 and again in 2025.