All Roll Calls
Yes: 51 • No: 12
Sponsored By: Reuben D'Silva (Democratic), Selena Torres-Fossett (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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The Teachers and Leaders Council includes four teachers appointed by the Governor from six nominees for each seat. Each list has three nominees from the main teacher group in the large district and three from the main teacher group in the other districts. The Governor also appoints one licensed support professional (counselor, psychologist, speech-language pathologist, audiologist, or social worker who is not an administrator) from a similar six-person list. Nominees reflect the State’s geographic balance. This gives teachers and licensed support staff a clear voice on the council.
The State Board of Education keeps one member elected from each congressional district and one member appointed by the Governor. Two other Governor appointees must come from nominees put forward by the Senate Majority Leader and the Assembly Speaker. The Governor must also appoint one public school teacher from six nominees split between the main teacher group in the large district and the main teacher group in the other districts, while considering geographic balance. A nonvoting student is appointed from a nominee by the Nevada Association of Student Councils, and that student’s term runs June 1 to May 31. Elected members serve four-year terms (up to three terms). Governor-appointed voting members serve two-year terms and stay until successors are named. Vacancies are filled using the same process, and elected-seat vacancies are filled by a temporary appointee from that district until the next general election.
The law defines who sits on the statewide council that coordinates regional training programs. It includes one non-legislator appointed by the Senate Majority Leader, one non-legislator appointed by the Assembly Speaker, and a public school teacher the Governor appoints from six nominees split between the main teacher groups in the large district and the other districts. Appointing authorities consider geographic and cultural diversity. When a teacher member attends council business, the school district or charter school pays for a substitute teacher or is reimbursed by the organization that nominated the member. This sets both membership rules and who covers meeting-related substitute costs.
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Reuben D'Silva
Democratic • House
Selena Torres-Fossett
Democratic • House
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
All Roll Calls
Yes: 51 • No: 12
Senate vote • 5/21/2025
Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)
Yes: 19 • No: 2
House vote • 4/16/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (As Introduced)
Yes: 32 • No: 10
Chapter 118.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
In Assembly. To enrollment.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 19, Nays: 2.) To Assembly.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Read second time.
From committee: Do pass.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.
In Senate.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 32, Nays: 10.) To Senate.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Read second time.
Placed on Second Reading File for next legislative day.
Taken from Second Reading File.
From committee: Do pass.
As Enrolled
As Introduced
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AB12 — AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; revising requirements for obtaining judicial review of a decision of the Board of Review concerning a claim for unemployment benefits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB460 — AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing plans to improve academic achievement; providing for the waiver of certain reporting requirements; revising provisions governing the annual report of accountability for a school district; revising the duties of the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education; providing for the impaneling of a Public Education Oversight Board; revising provisions governing boards of trustees of certain school districts; establishing certain measures for the designation of focus and priority school districts, sponsors of charter schools and public schools; revising provisions governing the Commission on School Funding; revising provisions governing the Early Childhood Literacy and Readiness Account; revising provisions governing prekindergarten programs; revising provisions governing assessments used to assess the literacy of certain pupils; revising provisions governing membership of the State Public Charter School Authority; revising provisions governing the formation of charter schools, the termination and amendment of charter contracts and the employment of teachers by charter schools; revising provisions governing the Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship Program; revising certain provisions governing instruction in English language arts; creating the Commission on Recruitment and Retention; revising provisions relating to the Commission on Professional Standards in Education; revising provisions governing background investigations of applicants for certain licenses; establishing requirements governing the hiring of a superintendent of schools; revising provisions governing certain evaluations; requiring the creation of a differential pay scale for certain teachers and administrators; creating the Education Service Center; establishing certain requirements for the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada; creating certain accounts and programs concerning teacher apprenticeships; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB81 — AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to create and conduct certain surveys of public school employees; revising provisions governing the reimbursement of certain hospitals or other facilities that provide educational services; revising terminology related to services provided to certain students; revising various reporting requirements relating to education; revising provisions governing the authority of the State Board of Education; revising provisions governing the ratios of pupils to licensed teachers; eliminating certain audits of empowerment schools; revising provisions governing the licensure of administrators; repealing provisions governing the Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship Program and the Incentivizing Pathways to Teaching Grant Program; revising provisions governing certain scholarship and grant programs for students in education and related fields of study; requiring the Department to create a program of block grants for such scholarship and grant programs; eliminating provisions requiring the Department to recommend that a minimum amount be spent by public schools on textbooks and other instructional supplies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB494 — AN ACT relating to state government; creating the Nevada Health Authority; creating certain divisions and offices within the Authority; providing for the appointment of officers and the employment of staff for the Authority; establishing requirements governing procurement by the Authority; creating the Nevada Health Authority Gift Fund; prescribing the duties of the Authority and its divisions and officers; transferring to the Authority the responsibility for operating various programs and administering various provisions; revising the name of certain agencies; revising certain terminology; eliminating the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services; revising provisions governing the operation of the Public Employees' Benefits Program and Medicaid; requiring certain reporting on the costs of health insurance for retired state employees; authorizing the Authority to require the reporting of certain information on the cost of certain prescription drugs; revising the membership and duties of the Board of Directors of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange; providing for a study of opportunities for the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to directly contract with certain providers of health care; providing for a study of and the development of a plan to transfer certain additional functions to the Authority; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
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