NevadaAB38983rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing the submission of data and metrics on the performance and progress of pupils; revising provisions governing the automated system of accountability information for Nevada; requiring the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education to review and make recommendations concerning reports on pupil achievement and the financial accountability of school districts; requiring the Commission to create a framework for such reports and collaborate with the Department of Education to create a centralized repository of such reports; revising requirements for publishing a list of expenditures of county school districts; revising provisions governing the ratios of pupils to licensed teachers; removing the requirement for a school district to prepare a summary of certain fiscal reports; repealing the requirement for the Department to recommend a minimum amount to be spent by public schools on textbooks and other instructional supplies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Selena Torres-Fossett (Democratic)

Failed

BDR 34-1056

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Yearly class-size checks for elementary schools

Beginning July 1, 2025, Nevada measures covered class-size ratios by school year, not by quarter. Core-class limits remain 16 pupils per licensed teacher in kindergarten and grades 1–2, and 18 in grade 3. An approved alternative class-size reduction plan can apply instead. Districts must request a variance for the next school year when a covered elementary school exceeds its limit. By August 1, districts must report the prior school year’s enrollment and ratios to the Department of Education. The State Board reports prior-year variance requests to the Interim Finance Committee each year. Charter schools and distance-education programs are exempt.

Standard school records and accessible reports

Nevada’s Superintendent of Public Instruction must set a statewide electronic pupil-record system, including standard software that every school district must adopt. The system covers collecting, checking, keeping, and transferring pupil data. The education commission must create a framework for reports on pupil achievement and school finances. It must work with the Department of Education to make those reports easy to find online. The framework must help users see pupil skills, growth, and achievement gaps and provide information they can act on.

Yearly checks on school funding results

Nevada’s education commission must review each year how Pupil-Centered Funding Plan money is used to improve pupil performance and progress. It reports findings and recommendations to state officials and lawmakers. Districts and charter schools do not need to resend data already reported to the Superintendent or Department of Education. The Governor can direct corrective action only with legislative approval. When the Legislature is not in session, the Interim Finance Committee must approve that action.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Selena Torres-Fossett

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

Actions Timeline

  1. (No further action taken.)

    6/3/2025House
  2. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.

    4/22/2025House
  3. To printer.

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

    4/17/2025House
  5. Taken from General File.

    4/17/2025House
  6. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 164.)

    4/17/2025House
  7. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/16/2025House
  8. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    3/26/2025House
  9. From printer. To committee.

    3/12/2025House
  10. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.

    3/11/2025House

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