1. An agency which provides child welfare services shall treat each child to whom the agency provides services in all respects in accordance with the child’s gender identity or expression.
2. The Division of Child and Family Services shall adopt regulations establishing protocols to ensure that each child in the custody of an agency which provides child welfare services is placed in a manner that is appropriate for the gender identity or expression of the child. Such regulations must be adopted in consultation with:
(a) Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning children who are currently residing in foster homes, facilities for the detention of children, child care facilities, mental health facilities or who have resided in such settings;
(b) Representatives of each agency which provides child welfare services in this State;
(c) Representatives of state and local facilities for the detention of children;
(d) Representatives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning persons;
(e) Attorneys, including, without limitation, attorneys who regularly represent children in child welfare or criminal proceedings;
(f) Representatives of juvenile courts and family courts;
(g) Advocates of children; and
(h) Any other person deemed appropriate by the Division of Child and Family Services.
3. An agency which provides child welfare services shall:
(a) Follow the protocols prescribed in the regulations adopted pursuant to subsection 2 before placing a child in an out-of-home placement; and
(b) Ensure that an out-of-home placement into which a child is placed follows the protocols prescribed in the regulations adopted pursuant to subsection 2 when placing the child within the facility.
4. As used in this section:
(a) "Child care facility" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 432A.024.
(b) "Foster home" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 424.014.
(c) "Out-of-home placement" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 432.548.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 26)