All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Lisa K. Cole (Republican)
Signed by Governor
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Starting July 1, 2025, the Department sets rules for when public agencies may use registered drones. Allowed public purposes include fire services, emergency medical help, protecting critical facilities, and search and rescue. The rules also allow scheduled building or fire-code inspections but ban taking photos, images, or recordings during those inspections. Any media taken in violation cannot be used in court or other proceedings (except for the inspection itself) and cannot be used to create reasonable suspicion or probable cause.
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Department of Public Safety sets up a public registry of drones used by Nevada public agencies, if money is available. Agencies must file a form for each drone with the agency name, operator contact, drone ID, and how it will be used. The Department posts this information online. Each year, on or before February 1, the Department also sends a report on agency drone use to the Legislative Counsel Bureau for the Legislature, or to the Legislative Commission when the Legislature is not in session.
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Department creates two lists: (1) countries, businesses, and entities that agencies may not buy drones or related services from, and (2) drones, equipment, or services agencies may not buy, use, or operate. These lists must include entities named by the U.S. Secretary of Defense under the FY2021 defense law (Section 1260H) and updates, any drones or gear they make or sell, items already barred by Nevada’s Chief Information Officer, and any others the Department adds. An agency may buy from a listed vendor only if all drone data stays stored and maintained only in the United States, no third party can access it, the agency verifies the vendor’s policies before buying, and the purchase follows all federal law, including federal-fund limits. The law defines a “third party” to include foreign-based or foreign-organized persons or companies, but not a U.S. government entity. Agencies are encouraged, within Nevada procurement rules, to prioritize U.S.-made drones and gear.
Lisa K. Cole
Republican • House
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/23/2025
Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
House vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Chapter 317.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
Senate Amendment No. 599 concurred in. To enrollment.
In Assembly.
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 599.) To printer.
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To committee.
In Senate.
To Senate.
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
To printer.
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.)
Dispensed with reprinting.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 411.)
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
From printer. To committee.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To printer.
As Enrolled
As Introduced
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Reprint 2
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.
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.
AB409, AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles, under certain circumstances, to issue a special license plate honoring certain veterans; authorizing the combination of personalized prestige license plates and certain special license plates associated with military service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.