Governor Lombardo has signed a bill requiring businesses offering inflatable devices, to meet specific safety requirements.
Assembly Bill 198, or Lizzy's Law, was named after 9-year-old Lizzy Hammond who died in a bounce house after wind blew the structure into Reno power lines back in 2019.
In a statement on Facebook, the Lizzy Hammond Foundation says, "We’re incredibly grateful to Assemblywoman Tracy Brown-May, lobbyist Elliot Malin, and every single supporter, volunteer, and advocate who helped make this possible.
The legislation will take effect on January 1, 2026.
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
The Nevada Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor held a meeting on Wednesday to discuss Assembly Bill 198, also known as Lizzy's Law.
This bill will require businesses offering inflatable devices, such as bounce houses and water slides, to meet specific safety requirements.
This comes after 9-year-old Lizzy Hammond died in a bounce house after the wind picked it up and blew it into power lines back in 2019.
Lizzy's Law requires business operators to be licensed, insured, and training the people that are renting the inflatable devices to operate them appropriately.
"After that incident we learned that it's due to no regulations, no state laws, and lack of proper operation that the guy really wasn't setting things up correctly," said Wendy Hammond, Lizzy's mother. "So, then that led us to work towards asking for a law to be created statewide."
It requires operators and renters to monitor wind speeds and stop using their inflatables if they exceed the manufacturer recommendations or 20 miles an hour. However, the committee has recommended to bring down the max wind speed to be 15 miles per hour, especially since the bounce house Lizzy was in blew over at 17 miles per hour without being secured to the ground.
The bill also requires stakes and weights of at least 75 pounds to be use at all times.
"The purpose of this is that we learned that 40% of inflatable devices are installed on solid surfaces such as parking lots and using stakes is unrealistic," said Elliot Malin, representative for Lizzy Hammond Foundation. "We don't want to force them to drill into a parking lot."
"The whole idea is to give enough time for kids to get out of the bounce house. That's really the premise," said Mitch Hammond, Lizzy's father.
Assemblywoman Tracy Bown-May says Clark County already holds all these requirements. If the bill is passed, then it will take effect statewide January of 2026.
