The SMS Coach, Justin H. Mueller

Nevada SMS Marketing and A2P Messaging Rules

A plain-language, source-linked guide to Nevada authorities relevant to SMS, MMS, telemarketing, privacy, consent, and do-not-call issues.

2reviewed source records
2express text-message sources
0fact-dependent sources
0related or unresolved sources

What the sources say

The Nevada sources reviewed for this page include 2 sources that expressly cover text messaging. Other sources may apply only to particular activities or provide related context. Federal law, carrier policy, and sender-registration requirements may still apply alongside state law.

Authorities and official sources

Each entry explains what the source says, where its limits are, and what it does not establish.

State law · Current

NRS § 598.0918

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How this authority relates to messaging

The reviewed source expressly applies to a particular type of text message or a specific messaging issue.

What the source establishes

  • Nevada expressly covers deceptive practices during text solicitations.

Limits and important context

  • AG enforcement.
  • Current NRS page.
  • It does not create a general text-consent or comprehensive text-DNC regime.

Official and supporting sources

  1. § 598.0918
Source and review details
Jurisdiction
Nevada
Source type
State law
Current status
Current

Official agency guidance · Current

Nevada consumer health data law

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How this authority relates to messaging

The reviewed source expressly applies to a particular type of text message or a specific messaging issue.

What the source establishes

  • Requires a privacy policy; prohibits collection except with affirmative voluntary consent or where necessary for a requested product or service; requires separate consent for sharing; gives consumers rights to confirm, obtain third-party-sale/share lists, stop collection/sharing/sale, and delete; requires security policies and limits employee/processor access. It also bans geofencing within 1,750 feet of health-care facilities for tracking, collecting health data, or sending health-related notifications, messages, or ads.

Limits and important context

  • Applies to “regulated entities” handling “consumer health data” in Nevada, with detailed definitions covering health condition/status data, reproductive or sexual health care, related biometric/genetic data, and certain health-indicative precise geolocation. Material whenever messaging programs collect or infer health status, collect consent for health-related messaging, or use geolocation to infer health-care seeking behavior. Violations are deceptive trade practices; the statute states there is no private right of action. Nevada statutory text in NRS chapter 603A. NRS 603A.400–.550; 1,750-foot geofence rule; effective March 31, 2024; no private right of action.

Consent standard stated in the source

  • affirmative voluntary consent

Facts that may change the result

  • Does the program collect, infer, share, or use Nevada consumer health data?

Official and supporting sources

  1. NRS: CHAPTER 603A - SECURITY AND PRIVACY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Source and review details
Jurisdiction
Nevada
Source type
Official agency guidance
Current status
Current

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