Nevada Nursing Home Camera Laws: Henry's Law Explained

Nevada's Henry's Law gives a patient in a covered long-term care facility the right to install a monitoring camera in their room under NRS 449A.170 through 449A.192, with mandatory facility approval, a roommate consent-and-waiver process, a posted-notice requirement, and the strongest tampering penalties of any state in this comparison.

Information last verified on 2026-08-31.

This page covers Nevada's Henry's Law: the request-and-waiver process, who pays, the posted-notice duty, 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 "covered facility." 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.

NRS 449A.171 defines a covered facility as a facility for intermediate care, a facility for skilled nursing, a home for individual residential care, a unit for the provision of long-term care in a hospital, a residential facility for groups, or a unit in a senior living community for the provision of assisted living services, including a senior living community that provides only assisted living services.

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 covered 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 representative of a law enforcement agency conducting an investigation, a representative of the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Human Services or the Health Care Purchasing and Compliance Division of the Nevada Health Authority conducting an investigation, the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, or an attorney representing the patient or roommate and acting within the scope of that representation. The patient or representative may separately authorize anyone else in writing.

Those same people may also temporarily disable or turn the device off, and NRS 449A.186(4) requires whoever does so to make sure its functions are turned back on before leaving the patient's living quarters.

The same section bars a covered facility 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 covered 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.

Posted Notice, Staff Duties, and the Law Enforcement Exception

NRS 449A.190 requires a covered facility to post a notice in a conspicuous place at the entrance to the living quarters of a patient which contain an electronic communication device, stating that such a device is in use in those living quarters. The same section bars an employee of the facility from refusing to enter those living quarters, or failing to perform any of the employee's duties, on the grounds that a device is in use.

Nevada's Aging and Disability Services Division carries the same requirement in its administrative policy manual, adding operational detail a facility can be held to: the notice must be printed in a large, legible font meeting accessibility standards for signage, posted at eye level, and maintained in good condition or replaced if it is damaged or removed.

Two limits sit at the end of the act. NRS 449A.192(1) lets the State Board of Health adopt regulations necessary to carry out NRS 449A.170 to 449A.192. NRS 449A.192(2) provides that none of those sections apply where an electronic communication device is installed by a law enforcement agency and used solely for a legitimate law enforcement purpose, so a police-installed camera sits outside the request, consent, notice and penalty framework entirely.

Nothing in NRS 449A.170 to 449A.192 addresses whether footage is admissible in court. The act creates the right to record, the duty to post notice and penalties for interference, and leaves evidentiary questions to Nevada's general rules of evidence.

The 2025 Expansion: Assembly Bill 368

Assembly Bill 368 (2025) extended the same framework beyond skilled nursing, and it did so inside the existing citation range rather than by building a separate regime. The 2025 Legislature added the "covered facility" definition at NRS 449A.171, along with supporting definitions at NRS 449A.1715 for a facility for intermediate care, NRS 449A.175 for a home for individual residential care, and NRS 449A.179 for a senior living community. It then amended NRS 449A.170, 449A.180, 449A.182, 449A.184, 449A.186, 449A.188, 449A.190 and 449A.192 so that "covered facility" is the operative term throughout the act.

The practical effect is that the request-and-waiver mechanic, the roommate consent and withdrawal rules, the cost allocation, the retaliation ban, the posted-notice duty and the penalty schedule all now reach the newly covered facility types on identical terms, rather than under a separate consent regime.

Supported living arrangements for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are not on the NRS 449A.171 list. Nevada's Aging and Disability Services Division addresses them separately in its own administrative policy, which applies parallel device, consent, notice and anti-retaliation requirements to provider-operated supported living arrangements under NRS 435 as well as to covered facilities under NRS 449A. That policy took effect December 8, 2025.

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: 2026-08-31.