NevadaAB14583rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET

AN ACT relating to veterans; prohibiting, with certain exceptions, a person from providing certain services related to veterans' benefits under certain circumstances; requiring the Division of Human Resource Management of the Department of Administration to develop certain programs for the hiring and mentoring of veterans; requiring the Administrator of the Division to employ a Veterans Coordinator; revising the persons who are eligible to receive, free of charge, an annual permit for entering all state parks and recreational areas to include the family members of certain veterans; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Ken Gray (Republican), Reuben D'Silva (Democratic), Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford (Democratic), Roberta Lange (Democratic)

Failed

BDR 37-77

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

State job help for veteran families

Nevada must offer state job help to veterans and spouses of veterans or servicemembers. The program matches applicants with suitable jobs and helps with online profiles, applications, and the hiring process. Servicemembers include active Armed Forces members, National Guard and reserve members, and commissioned Public Health Service and NOAA officers. The program does not guarantee a job or pay applicants. Nevada’s human resources division must employ a Veterans Coordinator under state classified-service rules to oversee hiring, mentoring, and related support. The Coordinator must report hiring-program progress to the Interagency Council on Veterans Affairs by November 30 each year. Beginning October 1, 2025, a qualified incumbent Coordinator can stay, subject to classified-service transfer, promotion, demotion, and discharge rules.

Workplace mentoring for Nevada state veterans

Nevada must offer state-employed veterans mentoring, professional development, networking, and recognition activities, plus outreach to recruit veterans. Each state agency employing a veteran must work with the Veterans Coordinator to name at least one employee mentor. Mentors do not need military experience and receive no extra pay for this role. The program must hold quarterly meetings on veteran resources and services, open to all state employees. The Coordinator must report program progress to the Interagency Council on Veterans Affairs by November 30 each year.

Free park access expands, but eligibility shifts

Nevada residents discharged from the Armed Forces qualify for a free annual permit for all state parks and recreation areas. The law removes the exclusion for dishonorable discharges. Nevada residents also qualify as the widow, widower, parent, or adult child of someone killed in the line of duty while on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. The law removes the separate permit eligibility based on Indian tribe membership.

Veterans gain protections; paid helpers face limits

The law limits paid help with claims before the federal veterans and defense departments or Nevada’s veterans department. Helpers without federal veterans department recognition or accreditation cannot prepare, present, pursue, advise on, or otherwise assist with claims when that activity violates federal representation rules. Help is exempt when the helper neither requests nor accepts payment or donations. The ban also does not apply where federal law overrides state law. Nevada’s Attorney General can recover up to $10,000 per violation of the ban and other covered laws. Penalty money goes to the Gift Account for Veterans, not directly to the person harmed. People harmed by the ban’s violation or other covered consumer fraud can sue without relying on a contract claim. Those who win can receive damages, court-ordered relief, costs, and reasonable lawyer fees.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

  • Ken Gray

    Republican • House

  • Reuben D'Silva

    Democratic • House

  • Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford

    Democratic • Senate

  • Roberta Lange

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Bert K. Gurr

    Republican • House

  • Heidi Kasama

    Republican • House

  • Jill Dickman

    Republican • House

  • Jovan A. Jackson

    Democratic • House

  • Linda F. Hunt

    Democratic • House

  • PK O’Neill

    Republican • House

  • Venicia Considine

    Democratic • House

  • Venise Karris

    Democratic • House

  • Edgar Flores

    Democratic • Senate

  • Lori Rogich

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

Actions Timeline

  1. (No further action taken.)

    6/3/2025House
  2. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.

    4/15/2025House
  3. To printer.

    4/14/2025House
  4. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective.

    4/14/2025House
  5. Taken from General File.

    4/14/2025House
  6. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 70.)

    4/14/2025House
  7. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/10/2025House
  8. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    2/23/2025House
  9. Read first time. To committee.

    2/4/2025House
  10. From printer.

    1/31/2025House
  11. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.

    1/29/2025House

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