All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
NevadaAB10483rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET
AN ACT relating to water; requiring the State Engineer to retire certain groundwater rights; revising provisions relating to temporary permits to appropriate groundwater; creating the Nevada Conservation and Recreation Program; creating the Account for Retiring Water Rights; establishing the Nevada Voluntary Water Rights Retirement Program; requiring the Director of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to purchase certain water rights with money from the Account for the purpose of retiring those water rights; revising provisions relating to the program to provide grants of money to pay certain costs related to water conservation and capital improvements to water systems; revising provisions relating to a program to pay the costs for property owners to connect to a community sewerage disposal system under certain circumstances; revising certain legislative declarations relating to clean water and water pollution; authorizing the State Environmental Commission to establish a water quality standard variance; revising provisions relating to an irrigation water efficiency monitoring program established by the Southern Nevada Water Authority; revising provisions relating to membership on the Advisory Committee for the Management of Groundwater in the Las Vegas Valley Groundwater Basin; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Natural Resources
Signed by Governor
BDR 48-383
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Southern Nevada help with water hookups
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Southern Nevada Water Authority may pay at least 50% and up to 85% of local and regional connection fees and needed construction to connect you to public water. This help is for owners with domestic wells or revocable‑permit wells who are ordered by the State Engineer to connect. The program sets the final share within the 50%–85% range.
Septic-to-sewer help with annual fee
A district board of health may offer a voluntary program that pays 100% of the cost to abandon a septic system and connect to community sewer if your property is served by a municipal water system. The board may, by a two‑thirds vote, set a voluntary annual fee to fund the help, capped at the largest local system’s annual sewer rate. You are eligible only in years you pay the fee or after you pay past balances.
Stricter rules for wells near public water
The State Engineer issues revocable groundwater permits only when a public water supplier cannot furnish water. If revocable permits exist in your area and your property is within 1,250 feet of a public service line, the State Engineer must deny new groundwater uses and may limit or prohibit domestic wells. In basins named as depleted, the State Engineer may deny new uses, limit well depth, stop new domestic wells where public water is available, and require dedication or relinquishment of rights with parcel maps. A recorded notice warns that a permit can be revoked and you may have to connect at your own cost; after revocation, you have 730 days to connect. Home well repairs can be blocked only if the property line is within 180 feet of a public source and the work needs a drilling rig. Temporary permits that were valid before July 1, 2025 become revocable permits. The State Engineer may exempt public housing authorities for good cause.
Grants for water systems and connections
State grants may pay connection fees and required construction to connect domestic or revocable‑permit wells that existed on or before October 1, 1999 in basins the State Engineer says are depleted. Grants may also pay to permanently retire groundwater rights. Grants go to public agencies or qualifying nonprofit water providers, who then pay the costs. Each recipient must provide a local match between 15% and 75% of project cost; the Board sets the share using customers’ median household income and other factors, with a preference for systems serving fewer than 6,000 people. For certain grants, only the Lincoln County Water District and publicly owned community or nontransient systems that existed on January 1, 1995 can receive funds.
State buys and retires groundwater rights
The law creates a state program to buy or accept donations of decreed or certificated groundwater rights and retire them forever. The State Engineer records each purchased or donated right as retired and must reject any application that tries to change or reinstate a retired right. The Director may act only when money is in the Account for Retiring Water Rights, and stops accepting applications and donations after June 30, 2035. Beginning July 1, 2025, the program can buy rights statewide for listed conservation purposes. The Account in the State General Fund holds money for purchases, administration, and matching funds.
One-year notice for irrigation monitoring
Starting July 1, 2025, the Southern Nevada Water Authority must give at least one year’s notice before starting an irrigation‑efficiency monitoring program. The notice goes to owners of parcels not used only as a single‑family home that have 20,000 square feet or more of turf.
Limits on man-made lakes in large counties
In counties with 700,000 or more people, local governments may ban or limit use of water or treated wastewater in man‑made lakes or streams. This does not apply to water kept for flood control, peak demand, sewage treatment, mining reclamation, or to bodies of water in federal or state public recreation facilities.
Time-limited water quality variances allowed
Starting July 1, 2025, the State Environmental Commission may set a time‑limited water‑quality variance. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must review or approve it. Any variance must reflect the highest attainable condition during its term and set temporary uses and pollutant limits.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Assembly Committee on Natural Resources
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/22/2025
Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
House vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chapter 226.
6/3/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/3/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
5/29/2025legislatureSenate Amendment No. 628 concurred in. To enrollment.
5/26/2025HouseIn Assembly.
5/23/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
5/22/2025SenateFrom printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint.
5/22/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 628.) To printer.
5/20/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/20/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/20/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To committee.
4/28/2025SenateIn Senate.
4/28/2025SenateTo Senate.
4/25/2025HouseFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
4/25/2025HouseTo printer.
4/22/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.)
4/22/2025HouseDispensed with reprinting.
4/21/2025HouseRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 523.)
4/21/2025HousePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/21/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/21/2025HouseNotice of eligibility for exemption.
2/18/2025HouseRead first time. To committee.
2/4/2025HouseFrom printer.
1/22/2025HousePrefiled. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To printer.
1/17/2025House
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