All Roll Calls
Yes: 60 • No: 2
Sponsored By: Howard Watts (Democratic), Reuben D'Silva (Democratic), Selena Torres-Fossett (Democratic), Carrie Ann Buck (Republican), Fabian Doñate (Democratic), Rochelle T. Nguyen (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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6 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Starting October 1, 2025, every district must ensure all licensed teachers get training on English language acquisition. The Department of Education provides guidance on this training. Teachers must submit proof they completed the training by October 1, 2030. Proof is a condition to keep employment after that date.
Starting October 1, 2025, a pupil labeled a newcomer can stay in high school up to 10 extra semesters or until age 21, whichever comes first. The state breaks out EL data into newcomers, short‑term, and long‑term groups. Newcomer test and achievement data cannot lower a school, district, or employee rating. The Department provides EL rights in the five most common non‑English languages in each district, and schools post them online.
Starting October 1, 2025, each district superintendent appoints an administrator with EL experience to support English learners. Districts may buy Department‑approved literacy assessments that can include tools to build English skills. The Department, working with these administrators, monitors how districts carry out EL policies and plans.
Beginning October 1, 2025, the State Board sets and reviews statewide goals and timelines to raise student achievement. Principals must create annual school improvement plans with staff and the district EL administrator. Plans must improve school climate and close gaps for groups like English learners. If 10% or more of students are ELs, closing EL gaps is the main goal with numeric targets, timelines, actions, and monitoring. Principals submit plans by the Department’s deadline.
The Department creates an English Learner Advisory Council during the 2025–2026 interim. It has 12 named members, may include one charter‑school appointee, and serves without pay. The Council must submit a report by October 31, 2026 and may request one bill for the 2027 session. Starting October 1, 2025, the Department may adopt rules to carry out the new EL laws. Also starting October 1, 2025, extra local‑government costs tied to this act are exempt from NRS 354.599.
Effective October 1, 2025, the law removes a rule that let some EL pupils attend a school outside their zone. It also removes the parent right to transfer when a school is on a corrective action plan. Parents still may transfer a pupil if the school has no EL program. The corrective action statute (NRS 388.408) is repealed.
Howard Watts
Democratic • House
Reuben D'Silva
Democratic • House
Selena Torres-Fossett
Democratic • House
Carrie Ann Buck
Republican • Senate
Fabian Doñate
Democratic • Senate
Rochelle T. Nguyen
Democratic • Senate
Angela D. Taylor
Democratic • Senate
Cinthia Zermeño Moore
Democratic • House
Gregory S. Koenig
Republican • House
Joe Dalia
Democratic • House
All Roll Calls
Yes: 60 • No: 2
Senate vote • 5/31/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 19 • No: 2
House vote • 5/26/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 41 • No: 0
Chapter 419.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
In Assembly. To enrollment.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 19, Nays: 2.) To Assembly.
Read second time.
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Do pass.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.
In Senate.
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Senate.
Placed on General File.
From committee: Do pass, as amended.
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
To printer.
Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective.
Taken from General File.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 167.)
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Notice of eligibility for exemption.
From printer. To committee.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.
As Enrolled
As Introduced
Reprint 1
AB259, AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain actions related to pricing and reimbursement for certain drugs; creating a cause of action for violating such prohibitions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB188, AN ACT relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program; requiring the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to report certain information relating to the costs of health insurance for certain retirees; revising provisions relating to the subsidy paid for certain health and welfare benefits for certain state employees who have retired with state service; revising requirements for certain retired public officers and employees to reinstate insurance under the Program; revising provisions relating to certain subsidies paid to the Program for the 2025-2027 biennium; requiring the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Government Affairs to conduct an interim study on the Program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB217, AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting a governmental entity from substantially burdening certain activity relating to assisted reproduction under certain circumstances; authorizing a person whose engagement in such activity has been so burdened to assert the violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding; authorizing a court to award damages against a governmental entity that substantially burdens such activity in certain circumstances; providing certain immunity from civil and criminal liability and administrative sanctions for certain persons and entities involved in the provision of assisted reproduction; providing that a fertilized egg or human embryo that exists before implantation in a human uterus is not a person for legal purposes; requiring certain health insurers to authorize a pregnant person to enroll in a health plan during a specified period; requiring certain public and private health insurers to provide certain coverage for the treatment of infertility and fertility preservation; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB499, AN ACT relating to elections; requiring, with certain exceptions, a registered voter show photo identification to vote in person; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles, under certain circumstances, to issue identification cards at no charge; requiring the Secretary of State to issue digital identification cards; requiring a county clerk in certain counties to establish a certain number of locations for a voter to return his or her mail ballot to a mail ballot drop box during the period between the last day for early voting and the day before the date of the general election; authorizing a county clerk in certain counties to establish such locations; authorizing a person, under certain circumstances, to return a mail ballot to a mail ballot drop box established at such a location on behalf of a voter; requiring the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a voter services portal on the Internet website of the Office of the Secretary of State; requiring the county clerk to include certain information relating to the voter services portal on any communication to a registered voter; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles to submit electronically to the Secretary of State certain information relating to each person who has a driver's license or identification card issued by the Department; requiring the Secretary of State to include certain information received from the Department in the centralized, top-down database that is established by the Secretary of State for purposes of creating the statewide voter registration list; requiring certain information to be included on the return envelope for a mail ballot; revising provisions relating to curing mail ballots; requiring mail ballot drop boxes to be monitored and secured; providing that certain information on the statewide voter registration list relating to a voter is confidential and not a public record; making various other changes relating to elections; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB397, AN ACT relating to higher education; revising provisions governing certain waivers of fees provided by the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada; revising the criteria of eligibility for a waiver of fees by the Board of Regents for certain persons who are or were unaccompanied for a certain period of time; revising the criteria of eligibility for a waiver of fees by the Board of Regents for certain Native American students; providing for the continuity of waivers previously provided for certain Native American students; repealing certain provisions requiring the Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education to cause to be analyzed certain natural materials upon the request of a resident of this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB301, AN ACT relating to community development; requiring certain records to be maintained by the board of trustees of certain general improvement districts; increasing the compensation of the board of trustees of certain general improvement districts; requiring a general improvement district created for acquiring television maintenance facilities to report certain information annually to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the district is located; exempting certain general improvement districts from an annual publication of certain notices of budget adoption and filing; revising provisions governing the procedure for applying for transferable tax credits for affordable housing and the transfer of such tax credits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.