NevadaAB28683rd Regular Session (2025)House

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing one or more institutions of higher education within the Nevada System of Higher Education to establish a pilot program to assess the competency of applicants for a license to teach through the use of alternative assessment methods; requiring certain regulations adopted by the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to authorize an applicant for a license to teach to be exempt from requirements to pass a competency test in various subjects if the applicant completes the pilot program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Cecelia González (Democratic), Selena Torres-Fossett (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

BDR 34-836

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Pilot path to Nevada teaching license

State colleges can run a pilot that uses alternative ways to show you can teach. You can join if you apply for a Nevada teaching license and have a provisional license, an emergency substitute license, or a substitute endorsement (early childhood to grade 12). Each year the pilot may enroll up to 100 people and assign up to 25 mentors with at least 5 years of Nevada public school teaching. Training includes at least 10 professional development sessions, plus monthly mentor meetings. You get credit only after two back‑to‑back evaluations rated effective or highly effective. The pilot studies fairness and alignment with state standards and collects data to guide next steps.

Test waiver and 24 month extension for pilot teachers

If you are picked for the pilot, the Education Department gives you 24 more months from selection to meet any provisional‑license deadline tied to passing a competency test. If you hold a provisional license and finish the pilot successfully, the Department removes the requirement to pass the principles and methods of teaching test from your license. State rules also let any applicant who completes the pilot skip that principles and methods test when applying for an initial license.

Annual reports and 2029 sunset for pilot

Each college that runs the pilot must send a report by July 1 each year with participant details, training results, and early findings. Within six months after the pilot ends, the college must give the Education Department a plan to make the program permanent and the success measures used. The pilot authority ends July 1, 2029, unless lawmakers renew it.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

  • Cecelia González

    Democratic • House

  • Selena Torres-Fossett

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 63 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/31/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 21 • No: 0

House vote • 5/28/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)

Yes: 42 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 372.

    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 Education. To committee.

    5/29/2025Senate
  10. In Senate.

    5/29/2025Senate
  11. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

    5/28/2025House
  12. Placed on General File.

    5/28/2025House
  13. From committee: Do pass, as amended.

    5/28/2025House
  14. To committee.

    4/24/2025House
  15. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/24/2025House
  16. To printer.

    4/21/2025House
  17. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective.

    4/21/2025House
  18. Taken from General File.

    4/21/2025House
  19. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 160.)

    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. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    3/2/2025House
  23. From printer. To committee.

    2/26/2025House
  24. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.

    2/25/2025House

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