# Nevada AB104: 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.

Nevada AB104, 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., is a 83rd Regular Session (2025) House bill sponsored by Assembly Committee on Natural Resources; status signed, last action 2025-06-03 (Chapter 226.); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Nevada AB104
- State: Nevada
- Session: 83rd Regular Session (2025)
- Title: 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.
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-01-17
- Last action: 2025-06-03, Chapter 226.
- Sponsor: Assembly Committee on Natural Resources
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: BDR 48-383
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 2 (63 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 8

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Southern Nevada help with water hookups: benefit, high. 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…
- One-year notice for irrigation monitoring: benefit, low. 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.
- Stricter rules for wells near public water: cost, medium. 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 domest…
- Limits on man-made lakes in large counties: cost, low. 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 recre…
- Septic-to-sewer help with annual fee: mixed, high. 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 large…
- Grants for water systems and connections: mixed, medium. 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 qualif…
- State buys and retires groundwater rights: mixed, medium. 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…
- Time-limited water quality variances allowed: mixed, low. 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 and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-05-22 | Senate | Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint) | pass | 21 | 0 |   |
| 2025-04-22 | House | Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint) | pass | 42 | 0 |   |

## Actions (24)

- 2025-06-03: Chapter 226. (legislature)
- 2025-06-03: Approved by the Governor. (legislature)
- 2025-05-29: Enrolled and delivered to Governor. (legislature)
- 2025-05-26: Senate Amendment No. 628 concurred in. To enrollment. (House)
- 2025-05-23: In Assembly. (House)
- 2025-05-22: Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. (Senate)
- 2025-05-22: From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 628.) To printer. (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: Placed on Second Reading File. (Senate)
- 2025-05-20: From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Senate)
- 2025-04-28: Read first time. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To committee. (Senate)
- 2025-04-28: In Senate. (Senate)
- 2025-04-25: To Senate. (House)
- 2025-04-25: From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. (House)
- 2025-04-22: To printer. (House)
- 2025-04-22: Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) (House)
- 2025-04-21: Dispensed with reprinting. (House)
- 2025-04-21: Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 523.) (House)
- 2025-04-21: Placed on Second Reading File. (House)
- 2025-04-21: From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (House)
- 2025-02-18: Notice of eligibility for exemption. (House)
- 2025-02-04: Read first time. To committee. (House)
- 2025-01-22: From printer. (House)
- 2025-01-17: Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To printer. (House)

## Bill text

- As Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB104_EN.pdf)
- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB104.pdf)
- Reprint 1: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB104_R1.pdf)
- Reprint 2: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB104_R2.pdf)

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## Sources
- [As Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB104_EN.pdf)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB104.pdf)
- [Reprint 1 (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB104_R1.pdf)
- [Reprint 2 (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB104_R2.pdf)

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