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NevadaAB18483rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET
AN ACT relating to interscholastic activities; prohibiting the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association from retaliating against a school or person for certain activities; prohibiting athletic recruitment; revising provisions governing certain hearings and appeals conducted by the Association; revising provisions governing the eligibility of pupils who transfer schools to participate and practice in a sanctioned sport or other interscholastic activity or event; revising requirements relating to the adoption of regulations by the Association; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Angela D. Taylor (Democratic), Natha C.Assistant Majority Whip Anderson (Democratic), Edgar Flores (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
BDR 34-186
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Bill Overview
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5 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.
Quicker eligibility and waivers for transfers
Beginning July 1, 2025, many students can play and practice right away after changing schools. Military family transfers, first-time lottery transfers, and first-time transfers before 10th grade all get immediate eligibility. Incoming 9th graders are also immediately eligible (public in-zone and private school). These do not apply if the move was due to athletic recruitment. A student or parent can request a waiver for other transfers; if the NIAA does not act within 30 days, it is deemed approved. The NIAA must approve waivers for listed reasons, including court orders; assault or bullying likely to continue; cut programs or teams; child-welfare moves; homelessness; certain military discharges with return; nondisciplinary board-required transfers; documented mental health needs; immediate family financial hardship (not loss of private-school scholarships); and school closures. Bullying-based waivers must include proof of substantiated incidents. The same transfer rules apply to public and private member schools, and schools or districts cannot add stricter limits than NIAA rules. The Executive Director can approve waivers without a hearing if evidence shows eligibility, and any appeal must get a hearing within 60 days.
Schools face strict ban on athlete recruiting
Beginning July 1, 2025, schools and people tied to a school cannot recruit student athletes. Anyone can file a complaint with the NIAA; it investigates and holds a hearing if the complaint is not meritless. If recruitment is found, penalties escalate: first time means school probation and the coach or staff is suspended for the rest of the season and the next full season; second time means at least one school year; third time means dismissal and at least two years banned from coaching. A student who transferred because of recruitment cannot practice or play for that school. The law defines both “athletic recruitment” and “social media” to guide enforcement.
Faster appeals and public case summaries
Beginning July 1, 2025, the NIAA Executive Director must appoint a hearing officer and hold an appeal hearing within 30 days, unless section 4 sets another timeline. The hearing officer must issue a written decision with facts, issues, analysis, and a conclusion, and serve all parties. A student or school may appeal to the school district within 30 days; the district can affirm, change, or reverse the decision. The NIAA must post a redacted summary of each decision online within 10 days; minors cannot be identified, and the summary is a public record.
Rules for homeschoolers and spirit squads
Beginning July 1, 2025, homeschooled students may join school activities if a current notice of intent is on file with their resident district. The NIAA must set safety standards for spirit squad events that follow national rules and must set coach qualifications. When changing rules that affect homeschoolers, the NIAA must consult the Northern and Southern Nevada Homeschool Advisory Councils and consider their input.
Tighter NIAA rulemaking and court limits
Beginning July 1, 2025, the NIAA must follow formal rulemaking to adopt or change policies; any action that skips these steps is void. The NIAA must also use regulations to create or reclassify conferences, classes, regions, or leagues. The NIAA must update all rules to match this law by July 1, 2026, using state agency rulemaking. The NIAA may not retaliate against schools or people for speaking to lawmakers or public bodies; this protection applies now for adopting regulations and on July 1, 2025 for other actions. Courts cannot pause NIAA, hearing-officer, or school-district decisions while a case is pending.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Angela D. Taylor
Democratic • Senate
Natha C.Assistant Majority Whip Anderson
Democratic • House
Edgar Flores
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Gregory S.Assistant Minority Floor Leader North Koenig
Republican • House
Joe Dalia
Democratic • House
PK O’Neill
Republican • House
Reuben D'Silva
Democratic • House
Rich DeLong
Republican • House
Selena Torres-Fossett
Democratic • House
Carrie Ann Buck
Republican • Senate
Dina Neal
Democratic • Senate
LisaMinority Whip Krasner
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/21/2025
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 261.
6/6/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/5/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
6/1/2025legislatureSenate Amendment No. 615 concurred in. To enrollment.
5/29/2025HouseIn Assembly.
5/22/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
5/21/2025SenateTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/20/2025SenateFrom printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint.
5/20/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 615.) To printer.
5/19/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/19/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/19/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Education. 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. 162.)
4/21/2025HousePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/21/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/21/2025HouseFrom printer. To committee.
2/5/2025HouseTo printer.
2/4/2025HouseRead first time.
2/4/2025HouseReferred to Committee on Education.
2/3/2025House
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