NevadaAB13383rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET

AN ACT relating to public financial administration; revising the hours the office of the county treasurer is required to be kept open; requiring certain money from the sale of property for delinquent taxes to be accounted for separately in a county general fund and used to pay for the acquisition and improvement of technology used in the office of the county treasurer; revising the contents of a notice of delinquent taxes; revising provisions relating to certain property held in trust by a county treasurer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Bert K. Gurr (Republican)

Signed by Governor

BDR 20-537

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

Caps fees to claim tax-sale proceeds

The law caps “finder” or recovery fees at 10% of the remaining excess proceeds from a tax sale. The cap applies when a natural person signs a written agreement for help to locate or recover the money. A person with a power of attorney or assignment who files the claim may also charge no more than 10%. This lowers the cut taken from your proceeds.

Longer hours for county treasurer and offices

County offices must be open at least 40 hours each week, as ordered and recorded by the county board. The county treasurer’s office and its branches cannot close before 5 p.m. on business days. The board may keep them open later than 5 p.m. This improves access to pay taxes and handle county business.

Unclaimed proceeds split and tech fund

If no one claims excess proceeds within 1 year after the deed is recorded, 5% of the remaining money goes into a county treasurer technology account and the rest goes to the county general fund. Money in the tech account can only pay for technology in the treasurer’s office. The balance carries forward each year, interest stays in the account, and it cannot replace other funding. By July 1 each year, the treasurer must report planned spending. After 3 years, half of any unspent balance is treated as dormant and may be transferred by the board.

Court handles fights over sale proceeds

If more than one person files for the same excess proceeds and the treasurer cannot decide who should get the money, the treasurer must seek a court ruling after mediation fails. The treasurer no longer decides these disputes in an administrative hearing. This adds a formal court step but uses a neutral judge when claims clash.

Deadlines now at close of business

Key tax-sale timing rules now use “the close of business,” not 5 p.m. A certificate to the county treasurer on the first Monday in June is due by close of business. The cutoff to reconvey property is the close of business on the third business day before the sale. This can shift the exact cutoff time based on posted office hours.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Bert K. Gurr

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Danielle Gallant

    Republican • House

  • Rich DeLong

    Republican • House

  • Selena Torres-Fossett

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 63 • No: 0

Senate vote 5/23/2025

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

  1. Chapter 229.

    6/3/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    6/3/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/29/2025legislature
  4. Senate Amendment No. 621 concurred in. To enrollment.

    5/27/2025House
  5. In Assembly.

    5/26/2025House
  6. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.

    5/23/2025Senate
  7. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint.

    5/23/2025Senate
  8. To printer.

    5/22/2025Senate
  9. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/22/2025Senate
  10. Reprinting dispensed with.

    5/21/2025Senate
  11. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 621.)

    5/21/2025Senate
  12. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/21/2025Senate
  13. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/21/2025Senate
  14. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Revenue and Economic Development. To committee.

    4/23/2025Senate
  15. In Senate.

    4/23/2025Senate
  16. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

    4/22/2025House
  17. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/22/2025House
  18. To printer.

    4/21/2025House
  19. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 278.)

    4/21/2025House
  20. Placed on Second Reading File.

    4/21/2025House
  21. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/21/2025House
  22. Read first time. To committee.

    2/4/2025House
  23. From printer.

    1/30/2025House
  24. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.

    1/28/2025House

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