NevadaAB8083rd Regular Session (2025)House

AN ACT relating to conservation; creating the Healthy Soils Initiative; setting forth the powers and duties of the State Conservation Commission in the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources relating to the Healthy Soils Initiative; establishing the Fund for Soil Health; declaring certain information obtained by the Commission to be confidential; requiring the Conservation Districts Program in the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to provide staff services relating to the Healthy Soils Initiative under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

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BDR 49-387

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

Voluntary soil programs protect farmers' privacy

Beginning January 1, 2026, soil-health programs must be voluntary and incentive-based; the commission cannot force participation or practices on nonparticipants. Programs cannot hold participants to specific practices during adverse climate conditions or when success has little or no chance. They also cannot require practices that cause lasting, unrepairable physical or economic harm. Records identifying producers or participants, or describing their practices, are private and exempt from general public-records disclosure. Release requires express written permission, unless an exception in the law or a grant agreement applies.

Soil-health help for farms with grant rules

Beginning January 1, 2026, Nevada creates the Healthy Soils Initiative to support farm soil practices, research, and education. Required work and staff support depend on available money; the law sets no funding amount. A new state fund accepts gifts and grants to develop the initiative and provide matching money for soil-health grants. The commission may offer project grants, with priority for conservation districts working with producers when appropriate. Grant rules must define eligible groups, use current science, limit unrelated costs and excessive overhead, and require compliance monitoring. Recipients must provide outreach, education, and project information; those lacking expertise must work with a technical assistance group. Starting January 1, 2036, the commission must review progress and report to lawmakers. If it finds no significant progress, it must add authorized measures or recommend repeal; the initiative does not automatically end.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

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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.

    4/17/2025House
  3. To printer.

    4/16/2025House
  4. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective.

    4/16/2025House
  5. Taken from General File.

    4/16/2025House
  6. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 51.)

    4/16/2025House
  7. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/15/2025House
  8. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    2/9/2025House
  9. Read first time. To committee.

    2/4/2025House
  10. From printer.

    12/4/2024House
  11. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To printer.

    12/2/2024House

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