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NevadaAB55383rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET
AN ACT relating to emergency management; transferring the Division of Emergency Management and its powers and duties from the Office of the Military to the Office of the Governor; renaming the Division of Emergency Management to the Office of Emergency Management; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Ways and Means
Signed by Governor
BDR 18-1126
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Bill Overview
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19 provisions identified: 14 benefits, 0 costs, 5 mixed.
Emergency management under Governor’s Office
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Office of Emergency Management sits in the Governor’s Office. The Governor appoints the Chief, who serves at the Governor’s direction and has peace officer powers. In an emergency, the Governor can order the Office to take charge of the state communications system. The Office and its Chief are the State’s leads for interstate emergency compacts. Several statutes are repealed to complete this move.
Join and prepare for state mutual aid
Beginning July 1, 2025, the state runs a Nevada Intrastate Mutual Aid System. Public agencies take part unless they file a withdrawal resolution; tribes may opt in by resolution. Agencies must train, plan, and send an annual list of people and equipment. A mutual aid committee advises the Chief and meets at least yearly. The Office keeps a statewide inventory and coordinates help when it is needed.
Grants for homeowners after disasters
The Office runs a revolving account to give grants to people who own and live in homes damaged by a disaster. The Chief may ask to move money from the Disaster Relief Account into this account. The revolving account cannot be more than 25% of the Disaster Relief Account balance. This provides direct help to repair or replace owner‑occupied homes.
Faster state help after school crises
When a crisis, emergency needing immediate action, or a suicide happens at a public school, the principal must contact local agencies, including state mental health providers. Local agencies may notify the state Office of Emergency Management through the local emergency manager, if one exists, or directly. If the Office gets notice and the Governor or a representative decides state help is needed, the Office coordinates resources and provides support and counseling. To prepare, the Health and Human Services Department must review its behavioral health emergency plan each year and send it to the Office by December 31.
Paid leave for emergency radio techs
Public employees who are emergency communications technicians can be relieved from regular work for up to 15 working days each year to help in a disaster or emergency. This happens when the Office or a local emergency management agency requests it and the employer approves. They keep their regular pay during those days.
Pay and injury benefits for Civil Air Patrol
Beginning July 1, 2025, Nevada Wing Civil Air Patrol members on state‑authorized missions or training are treated as state employees during that time. They earn $600 per month for each month they participate. They also get worker‑injury benefits under state law if hurt during the mission or training.
Emergency management moved to Governor’s Office
Beginning July 1, 2025, the state moves the Division of Emergency Management into the Governor’s Office and renames it the Office of Emergency Management. The Office reports to the Governor and takes over all powers and duties of the former Division. The law also clarifies that, in chapter 239C, “Office” means this Office of Emergency Management.
New emergency planning guide and tribal council
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Office of Emergency Management must publish a written guide to help prepare required emergency response plans. The Office reviews the guide yearly, posts it online by January 15, and provides it on request. The law also creates a Tribal Emergency Coordinating Council with up to 27 tribal members, two‑year terms, quarterly meetings, and an annual report due by January 31.
Stronger oversight of homeland security grants
The Chief of Emergency Management is a nonvoting member of the Homeland Security Commission. The Commission reviews grant use guided by the statewide plan, and the Office provides guidance and briefings. State, local, and tribal recipients of certain federal terrorism funds must report to the Commission within 60 days, unless the Office awarded the money under its rules. State, local, and tribal governments must adopt the required national incident management system and send proof; the Office reports quarterly on adoption. The Resilience Advisory Committee is updated, staffed by the Office, and reviews emergency‑related grants; the Chief may hire classified staff to support this work.
Broadcasters help plan for emergencies
Beginning July 1, 2025, broadcasters must work with the Office and the Nevada Broadcasters Association to build coordinated emergency plans. This helps get warnings and safety information to the public more quickly during disasters.
Faster emergency funding during disasters
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Office manages the Emergency Assistance Account. With approval, it can allocate up to $250,000 of the remaining balance for equipment and training. The Office may set reimbursement rules and recover unpaid amounts with interest. During a declared emergency, the Director of Finance may advance State General Fund money to this Account, which must be repaid when replacement funds arrive.
How local and tribal grants work
The Office can assess damages and report to decide if an event is a disaster. Local governments may request state grants or loans within 18 months of that decision, unless the Chief extends the deadline. The Attorney General may make agreements so tribes can receive grants or loans, with the Office running those awards. The Office may accept donations to the Disaster Relief Account, and state transfers pause when the Account’s quarter‑end balance is over 0.75% of certain appropriations.
Faster approval for volunteer health workers
Beginning July 1, 2025, during a declared emergency the Office may set who may volunteer, where, what services they can give, and for how long. The Office must offer expedited provisional registration to speed help. The Office may incorporate volunteer health workers into the State’s emergency workforce under interstate compacts.
Schools must consult and submit safety plans
The statewide school safety committee includes a representative from the Office of Emergency Management. School planning committees must consult local emergency managers, or the state Office if none exists. Updated school plans go to the board by August 1, and the board submits them to the Office by August 15 each year. The Office reports by January 1 each year on school compliance and may audit plans.
Resort hotels must file emergency plans
Beginning July 1, 2025, each resort hotel must keep an emergency plan and file new or changed plans within 3 days with local fire, local police, and the Office. Each year by November 1, a hotel must file a revised plan or certify the current one is up to date. Filed plans are confidential with limited exceptions. These rules improve safety planning but add duties for hotels.
Local governments must file emergency plans
When a local government adopts or changes its emergency plan, it must file it within 10 days with the Office and each response agency. Each year, it must review the plan and file a revised plan or a written certification by December 31. These steps keep plans current but add filing work for local staff.
Rules to request and repay mutual aid
Beginning July 1, 2025, agencies must document mutual aid requests and send them to the Office within 24 hours. Helping agencies must give notice to seek reimbursement within 10 business days and file a final request within 60 days. Requesting agencies must repay reasonable documented costs. If a dispute lasts 90 days, parties may use arbitration. The Office helps but is not liable for payments.
Utilities must file secure emergency plans
Utilities and new electric providers must submit a vulnerability assessment and emergency response plan to the Office and review and refile each year by December 31. State agencies compile the list of who must file by June 30 each year. These filings are confidential and must be kept secure. Knowingly disclosing them with bad intent can be a crime, including a felony.
Stronger school safety planning; some reviews closed
The Education Department must create a model school crisis and safety plan and update it every year with help from the state emergency office and public safety agencies. Each year it also runs a school safety conference with those partners, and districts must send people. In counties under 100,000 that have no full‑time emergency manager and no school police, school boards must consult the state emergency office’s Chief on new builds, expansions, renovations, or site purchases. When the state office reviews school emergency plans, those review meetings are not open to the public.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Assembly Committee on Ways and Means
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/29/2025
Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)
Yes: 20 • No: 0
House vote • 5/26/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (As Introduced)
Yes: 40 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
Chapter 279.
6/6/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/5/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
6/1/2025legislatureIn Assembly. To enrollment.
5/30/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.
5/29/2025SenateRead second time.
5/28/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/28/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass.
5/28/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To committee.
5/26/2025SenateIn Senate.
5/26/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 1, Excused: 1.) To Senate.
5/26/2025HousePlaced on General File.
5/26/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass.
5/26/2025HouseTo committee.
5/19/2025HouseRereferred to Committee on Ways and Means.
5/19/2025HouseTaken from General File.
5/19/2025HouseRead second time.
5/19/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass.
5/16/2025HouseFrom printer. To committee.
5/6/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.
5/5/2025House
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