NevadaAB38683rd Regular Session (2025)House

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the Board of Trustees of the Washoe County School District to establish and administer a pilot program during the 2025-2026 school year to use an alternative assessment to assess the literacy of pupils enrolled in an elementary school if the alternative assessment satisfies certain criteria; requiring the Department of Education to award a grant to the Washoe County School District in an amount equal to the savings to the Department for not administering the statewide assessment to pupils enrolled in the School District; requiring a report concerning the program to be submitted to the Department and the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Heather Goulding (Democratic)

Failed

BDR S-828

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

Reading help and testing for Nevada children

Nevada school districts and charter schools must submit elementary literacy plans for state approval and make required revisions. Plans must provide intensive reading help, including regular small-group sessions, for children behind in reading. Instruction must target sound awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and understanding what they read. Plans must also support English learners and cooperation between literacy specialists and classroom teachers. Children must reach statewide reading proficiency or an equivalent level set by the approved plan. Plans must set procedures for reliable, standards-based reading tests at elementary grade levels as needed. State rules must cover kindergarten development checks within the first 45 days of school and reporting reading-test results. Schools must use a state-prescribed reading test if their plan lacks a valid, reliable, standards-based assessment.

Grants help schools fund alternative reading tests

Nevada must give grants to districts and charter schools using reading tests other than the statewide test. The state must have a way to convert their results into equivalent statewide scores. Grants equal each recipient’s proportional share of state savings from not administering the statewide test. The grant cannot exceed the statewide test’s per-pupil cost; the law sets no fixed dollar amount. Money helps cover alternative testing costs and goes to schools, not directly to families.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Heather Goulding

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

  • Linda F. Hunt

    Democratic • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 61 • No: 0

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Final Passage - Senate (4th Reprint)

Yes: 21 • No: 0

House vote • 5/31/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)

Yes: 40 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. (No further action taken.)

    6/3/2025House
  2. Senate Amendment No. 968 not concurred in.

    6/2/2025House
  3. In Assembly.

    6/2/2025House
  4. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Fourth reprint. To Assembly.

    6/2/2025Senate
  5. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.

    6/2/2025Senate
  6. Reprinting dispensed with.

    6/2/2025Senate
  7. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 968.)

    6/2/2025Senate
  8. Read second time.

    6/1/2025Senate
  9. Placed on Second Reading File.

    6/1/2025Senate
  10. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    6/1/2025Senate
  11. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.

    5/31/2025Senate
  12. In Senate.

    5/31/2025Senate
  13. To Senate.

    5/31/2025House
  14. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Third reprint.

    5/31/2025House
  15. To printer.

    5/31/2025House
  16. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 40, Nays: None, Excused: 2.)

    5/31/2025House
  17. Dispensed with reprinting.

    5/31/2025House
  18. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 935.)

    5/31/2025House
  19. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/30/2025House
  20. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.

    5/30/2025House
  21. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 867.) To printer.

    5/30/2025House
  22. Placed on General File.

    5/30/2025House
  23. Taken from Chief Clerk's desk.

    5/30/2025House
  24. Placed on Chief Clerk's desk.

    5/29/2025House
  25. Taken from General File.

    5/29/2025House

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