All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services
Signed by Governor
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3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
A business that is both Nevada-based and owned and operated by a veteran with a service-connected disability gets a combined 10% bid preference. For goods, the state treats your price as 10% lower when comparing bids. For services, your proposal score counts as 10% higher. The business must be a responsive and responsible bidder or proposer. This preference does not apply to contracts that use federal money unless allowed by federal law, or to multistate procurements.
Nevada repeals its reciprocity rule that adjusted bids from out-of-state firms. Out-of-state bidders no longer face that penalty in Nevada. Nevada businesses also lose that matching protection against favored out-of-state rivals. State agencies compare bids without using the old inverse preference.
State bid and proposal ads now state which preferences apply, including Nevada-based and veteran-owned preferences. Ads no longer mention the repealed out-of-state inverse preference. Notices are published in at least one Nevada newspaper and on the Purchasing Division website. This helps businesses know the rules before they bid.
Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services
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All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/31/2025
Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
House vote • 5/27/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (As Introduced)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Chapter 373.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
In Assembly. To enrollment.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
Read second time.
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Do pass.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Finance. To committee.
In Senate.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
Placed on General File.
From committee: Do pass.
Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To committee.
Taken from General File.
Read second time.
From committee: Do pass.
Notice of eligibility for exemption.
From printer. To committee.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.
As Enrolled
As Introduced
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.