NevadaAB7083rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET

AN ACT relating to energy; authorizing the board of county commissioners of a county to require applicants for a partial abatement of certain taxes imposed on certain renewable energy facilities to reimburse the county for costs incurred by the county to participate in the preparation of a federal environmental impact statement; authorizing the Director of the Office of Energy within the Office of the Governor to condition approval of such a partial abatement on compliance with the requirement to pay such a reimbursement; prohibiting a county from taking certain actions with respect to a renewable energy facility that the county has approved or recommended approval for a partial abatement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

Signed by Governor

BDR 58-454

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.

Renewable projects pay county review costs, $50K cap

Starting July 1, 2025, if your renewable project is on federal land and you seek a partial tax abatement, the county can require you to repay its real costs to take part in a federal environmental impact statement. The repayment is capped at $50,000 and must match the county’s documented administrative and operating costs. The county can require prepayment, then settle up later: you pay any shortfall or get a refund of any overpayment. These rules apply per facility, including needed ancillary structures. The law expires June 30, 2049.

Faster, fairer county decisions on energy abatements

Starting July 1, 2025, counties face firm limits on denying renewable energy abatement requests. They can deny only if local service costs exceed projected tax revenue, or if job and investment benefits do not outweigh the projected tax loss. Counties cannot force you to buy or build items not directly needed to construct or run the facility. If a county chooses to review an application, it must decide within 30 days after getting it from the state; no action means approval. The state energy director still must approve the abatement using existing tests, in consultation with economic development officials. These rules expire June 30, 2049.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 62 • No: 0

Senate vote 5/19/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 20 • No: 0

House vote 4/22/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)

Yes: 42 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 19.

    5/27/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    5/26/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/23/2025legislature
  4. In Assembly. To enrollment.

    5/20/2025House
  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.

    5/19/2025Senate
  6. Read second time.

    5/16/2025Senate
  7. From committee: Do pass.

    5/15/2025Senate
  8. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To committee.

    4/28/2025Senate
  9. In Senate.

    4/28/2025Senate
  10. To Senate.

    4/25/2025House
  11. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/25/2025House
  12. To printer.

    4/22/2025House
  13. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.)

    4/22/2025House
  14. Dispensed with reprinting.

    4/21/2025House
  15. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 538.)

    4/21/2025House
  16. Placed on Second Reading File.

    4/21/2025House
  17. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/21/2025House
  18. Read first time. To committee.

    2/4/2025House
  19. From printer.

    11/26/2024House
  20. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Revenue. To printer.

    11/20/2024House

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