NevadaAB16583rd Regular Session (2025)House

AN ACT relating to outdoor education; establishing the Outdoor Education Council within the Division of Outdoor Recreation of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; prescribing the membership and duties of the Council; requiring the Council to establish and administer a program to award designations relating to outdoor education; authorizing the Council to adopt certain regulations relating to the program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

Signed by Governor

BDR 35-633

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Standards, training, and awards for school outdoor learning

The Council runs a voluntary school designation program for outdoor learning. It also names one teacher as Outdoor Educator of the Year; the award is nonmonetary. The Council creates voluntary standards, including interdisciplinary lessons and climate-resilient living schoolyards (outdoor areas used for hands-on learning). It offers or finds training and gives technical help first to schools with the least access to nature and those serving underserved communities. The Council can adopt rules to run the program and works to line up federal funds, grants, gifts, and donations; the Division provides support when possible.

State Outdoor Education Council for Schools

The law creates the Outdoor Education Council inside the state Division of Outdoor Recreation. It has 10 voting members and 1 nonvoting student, with three-year terms and one possible reappointment. Members are unpaid, and a majority is a quorum. One nature-education member must mainly serve a historically underserved community. Any state employee on the Council is freed from regular duties to attend, with no loss of pay.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 62 • No: 1

Senate vote • 5/31/2025

Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint)

Yes: 21 • No: 0

House vote • 5/28/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)

Yes: 41 • No: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 370.

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

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

    6/4/2025legislature
  4. In Assembly. To enrollment.

    6/1/2025House
  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.

    5/31/2025Senate
  6. Read second time.

    5/30/2025Senate
  7. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/30/2025Senate
  8. From committee: Do pass.

    5/30/2025Senate
  9. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To committee.

    5/29/2025Senate
  10. In Senate.

    5/29/2025Senate
  11. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.) To Senate.

    5/28/2025House
  12. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.

    5/28/2025House
  13. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 838.) To printer.

    5/27/2025House
  14. Placed on General File.

    5/27/2025House
  15. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/27/2025House
  16. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.

    4/15/2025House
  17. To printer.

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

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

    4/14/2025House
  20. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 86.)

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

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

    2/18/2025House
  23. Read first time. To committee.

    2/4/2025House
  24. From printer.

    2/2/2025House
  25. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To printer.

    1/31/2025House

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