NevadaSB15683rd Regular Session (2025)Senate

AN ACT relating to firearm safety; requiring the appointment of a Special Counsel for the Prevention of Gun Violence by the Attorney General; setting forth the powers and duties of the Special Counsel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Edgar Flores (Democratic)

Vetoed

BDR 18-958

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Nevada creates new gun violence prevention role

Beginning July 1, 2025, Nevada requires the Attorney General to appoint a Special Counsel for the Prevention of Gun Violence. The counsel serves at the Attorney General’s pleasure and advises on state laws, prevention barriers, and ways to reduce violence. The counsel works with researchers to develop research, prevention programs, tools, and resources. At the Attorney General’s request, the counsel also helps with gun violence, firearm safety, and suicide prevention education. State agencies may help with this work. The counsel must collect arrest or prosecution data under NRS 202.3625 through 202.3645. The Department of Public Safety, local police agencies, district attorneys, and city attorneys must share that data when asked. Within available funds, the counsel may award grants to Nevada organizations serving high-risk communities the counsel identifies. Organizations must show they can run effective, community-based programs that respect cultural differences and interrupt violence, trauma, and retaliation. Funded programs must use strategies supported by evidence without adding to mass incarceration, and undergo regular reviews with community input. Examples include hospital-based intervention, street outreach, violence interruption, group intervention, and crisis management. The Attorney General may set application, award, and reporting rules that organizations must follow. The counsel may seek and accept public or private money for this work and related expenses; no amount is guaranteed. By January 1 of each odd-numbered year, the Attorney General must report to lawmakers on implementation and statewide gun violence prevention.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Edgar Flores

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 36 • No: 22

House vote • 5/31/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)

Yes: 25 • No: 14

Senate vote • 5/28/2025

Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint)

Yes: 11 • No: 8

Actions Timeline

  1. Vetoed by the Governor.

    6/9/2025legislature
  2. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    6/4/2025legislature
  3. To enrollment.

    6/2/2025Senate
  4. In Senate.

    6/1/2025Senate
  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 25, Nays: 14, Excused: 3.) To Senate.

    5/31/2025House
  6. Read second time.

    5/30/2025House
  7. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/30/2025House
  8. From committee: Do pass.

    5/30/2025House
  9. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To committee.

    5/29/2025House
  10. In Assembly.

    5/29/2025House
  11. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.

    5/29/2025Senate
  12. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 11, Nays: 8, Excused: 2.) To printer.

    5/28/2025Senate
  13. Reprinting dispensed with.

    5/28/2025Senate
  14. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 847.)

    5/28/2025Senate
  15. Placed on General File.

    5/28/2025Senate
  16. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/28/2025Senate
  17. To committee.

    4/16/2025Senate
  18. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/16/2025Senate
  19. Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.

    4/15/2025Senate
  20. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 501.)

    4/15/2025Senate
  21. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    4/15/2025Senate
  22. Placed on Second Reading File.

    4/15/2025Senate
  23. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/15/2025Senate
  24. From printer. To committee.

    2/4/2025Senate
  25. To printer.

    2/3/2025Senate

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