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NevadaAB49983rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET
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.
Sponsored By: Steve Yeager (Democratic)
Vetoed
BDR 24-998
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Nevada voters need photo ID
Starting with the 2026 primary, Nevada requires photo ID for in-person voting, including early voting and city elections, subject to legal exceptions. Accepted IDs include Nevada licenses and state IDs, government and school IDs, passports, military and tribal IDs, Nevada concealed-firearm permits, and state-issued digital voter IDs. IDs must be current or expired less than four years; voters 70 or older have no expiration limit. Voters still sign the roster or a signature card, but routine signature matching no longer replaces photo ID. Election officers use photo ID to verify voters whose physical limitations prevent signing.
Mail ballot fixes have ID conditions
County and city clerks check mail ballots for signatures and identifying numbers. A verified signature is enough; if it cannot be verified, a verified number is enough. Missing, improperly provided, or unverifiable information can be fixed with a signature, number, or applicable confirmation by 5 p.m. on the sixth day after the election. A reasonable question about whether your signature matches requires photo ID to establish your identity. Clerks must offer phone help through at least 7 p.m. on evenings and weekends during ballot-fixing periods.
Clerks must contact affected mail voters
When a mail ballot needs fixing, the county clerk must contact the voter as soon as possible. The clerk must call if a phone number is available and use email or text when the matching contact information was provided. In counties under 100,000 people, city clerks can agree to have the Secretary of State send texts and receive ballot-fixing information.
Free digital voter IDs start later
The law creates free digital ID cards for registered Nevada voters who request them. The Secretary of State is not required to issue them until January 1, 2028. The Secretary sets application and issuance rules. The motor vehicle department must provide requested information, but cannot share information about driver authorization card holders for this purpose.
Free IDs for voters facing hardship
Registered Nevada voters without accepted photo ID can get a free state ID by applying and stating they face financial hardship. The Department of Motor Vehicles cannot require proof of hardship. Beginning October 1, 2025, the listed state ID fees do not apply to these cards. Beginning July 1, 2025, the law provides $548,528 to cover the department's free-card costs, not cash payments to households.
More secure places for ballot returns
From the day after early voting ends through the day before a general election, larger counties must provide drop-box locations. Counties with at least 700,000 people need at least 10 locations; those with 100,000 to under 700,000 need at least five. Required locations must open seven to 12 hours daily at early-voting or Election Day polling sites; smaller counties choose their numbers and hours. You can ask an authorized person to mail your ballot or deliver it to the clerk or an eligible drop box. County and city clerks must secure covered boxes when unavailable, and the Secretary of State must set monitoring and security rules.
Online portal helps Nevada voters
The Secretary of State must run an online voter services portal. Voters can check registration details and voter ID numbers, print update forms, view sample ballots, and find voting and ballot-return locations. The portal also lets voters check provisional ballots. County voter communications, mail-ballot return envelopes, and ballot instructions must include scannable codes linking to the portal.
Extra proof for challenged Nevada voters
If a challenge questions your identity, taking the required oath is not enough: you must show photo ID to receive a ballot. An identified adult witness cannot replace photo ID. At the next election after a clerk cancels your registration by affidavit, you must show photo ID and satisfactory residence proof. Your actual address must match the voting roster.
Mail voters must add identifying numbers
Starting with the 2026 primary, mail voters must write an identifying number on their return envelope, including for city elections. Use the last four digits of your Nevada driver's license number. Without that license, use the last four digits of your Social Security number; without either, use your voter ID number. Envelopes must provide space for the number, and city ballot instructions must explain the requirement. Legal exceptions apply, including those in Nevada's military and overseas voting law.
Easier registration but first-vote affirmation
Clerks cannot reject automatic voter registration information solely because it lacks an electronic signature copy. They must obtain the missing signature through a method allowed by law. The law removes the signature-to-ID comparison for the covered in-person voting process. Voters registered through the specified automatic-registration provisions must sign an eligibility statement under penalty of perjury the first time they vote. This applies to in-person and mail voting, unless the statement was already given to the county clerk.
Voter data sharing adds privacy protections
The motor vehicle department must regularly send license and ID information electronically to the Secretary of State for voter matching. Shared information includes names, birth dates, identifying numbers, addresses, contact details, sex, citizenship status, and veteran status. The Secretary must promptly add matched information to the statewide database and identify registered voters without motor vehicle department licenses or IDs. Driver authorization card information is excluded. Voter information received through the covered transfers is confidential and is not a public record.
Voters without ID can vote provisionally
If you lack photo ID but declare you are registered and eligible locally, you can cast a provisional ballot. For it to count, you must give the county or city clerk photo ID by 5 p.m. Friday after Election Day. The required affirmation form must explain this deadline.
Clearer rules for counting voters' marks
Beginning October 1, 2025, a partly darkened voting space counts when it shows voter intent and is not conclusively an error. On ballots using this method, other writing or marks—including crosses, checks, tears, and scratches—cannot count as votes. The Secretary of State must set statewide standards for other voting methods and can add standards for darkening-space ballots.
Election outreach funding and local costs
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Secretary of State receives $3.2 million for education about photo ID, mail-envelope numbers, and free IDs. The Secretary can also use remaining money previously set aside for the statewide voter database and election management system. Election officials must clearly post photo-ID instructions at every polling place on Election Day. Extra local-government expenses related to this law are exempt from the state local-fiscal-impact rule in NRS 354.599. The exemption sets no spending amount and requires no specific local expense.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Steve Yeager
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/2/2025
Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 16 • No: 5
House vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 30 • No: 12
Actions Timeline
Vetoed by the Governor.
6/12/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
6/6/2025legislatureSenate Amendment No. 1000 concurred in. To enrollment.
6/2/2025HouseIn Assembly.
6/2/2025HouseFrom printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.
6/2/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 16, Nays: 5.) To printer.
6/2/2025SenateReprinting dispensed with.
6/2/2025SenateRead third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 1000.)
6/2/2025SenatePlaced on General File.
6/2/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
6/2/2025SenateTaken from General File. Re-refer to Committee on Finance. To committee.
5/23/2025SenateRead second time.
5/22/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/22/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass.
5/22/2025SenateWaiver granted effective: May 13, 2025.
5/15/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To committee.
4/29/2025SenateIn Senate.
4/28/2025SenateTo Senate.
4/25/2025HouseFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
4/25/2025HouseTo printer.
4/22/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 30, Nays: 12.)
4/22/2025HouseDispensed with reprinting.
4/21/2025HouseRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 386.)
4/21/2025HousePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/21/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/21/2025House
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