NevadaSB16183rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET

AN ACT relating to local government employees; establishing additional procedures pursuant to which parties to a collective bargaining negotiation involving a school district and an employee organization representing teachers may submit issues to a binding arbitration process; prohibiting a school district or any agent thereof from requiring, requesting or urging a teacher to work more than a certain amount of time under certain circumstances; revising the penalties that may be imposed upon an employee organization representing teachers, the officers thereof and teachers for participation in a strike; revising the conduct that constitutes a strike; revising provisions relating to the recognition of employee organizations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Rochelle T. Nguyen (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

BDR 23-34

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6 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.

Big fines for illegal teacher strikes

If a teacher strike violates a court order, a court can fine the union up to $50,000 per day. A responsible union officer can be fined up to $1,000 per day. The court can apply both fines, and they add up each day the violation continues. This section fines unions and responsible officers, not individual teachers.

Harsh penalties for non-teacher strikes

If a non‑teacher public‑employee strike violates a court order, a court can fine the union up to $50,000 per day and a responsible officer up to $1,000 per day. The court may also order jail under state law. Employers may fire, suspend, demote, cancel contracts, or withhold pay from employees who take part. These penalties can be used together.

Arbitration after impasse with deadlines

After at least four bargaining sessions, either side may declare impasse and, after 5 days’ written notice, send issues to arbitration. The arbitrator holds a hearing within 30 days with 7 days’ notice and makes a full record; costs are split 50/50. The arbitrator must consider the district’s ability to pay using all available revenues, including State funds. The arbitrator may pause up to 3 weeks for talks; if no deal within 30 days after the hearing, each side submits one final offer. The arbitrator picks one final offer and issues a decision within 10 days. The ruling is final, binding, retroactive, includes reasons and a cost estimate, and the board must meet within 45 days to review fiscal impact.

Binding arbitration near contract expiration

School districts and teacher unions can choose binding arbitration as a contract ends. If no successor deal exists 75 days before the first school day, they may submit issues from 75 to 30 days before school starts. If a contract already expired, they may submit any time after expiration. The sides must build a shared list of up to five arbitrators at least 180 days ahead, or they cannot use this path. They pick an arbitrator by alternating strikes, then a hearing date is set within 5 days. The award is final, binding, retroactive to the last contract’s end, and each side pays half the costs. The arbitrator must consider the district’s ability to pay using all available revenues, and the board must hold a public meeting within 30 days on the fiscal impact.

Teacher hours limits and strike rules

If a teacher contract expires but its terms still apply, the district cannot ask, require, or urge extra hours beyond the expired deal. You cannot be punished for refusing, and that refusal is not a strike. Also, a stoppage, slowdown, absence, or interruption at one or more schools is not a “strike” unless it is district‑wide.

Teacher unions skip no-strike pledge

Teacher unions do not need a written no‑strike pledge to be recognized by a local employer. They also do not lose recognition only for refusing that pledge. The law defines a “teacher” as a school‑district employee licensed to teach and represented by a union.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Rochelle T. Nguyen

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 47 • No: 15

House vote • 5/23/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)

Yes: 33 • No: 9

Senate vote • 5/19/2025

Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)

Yes: 14 • No: 6

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 94.

    5/29/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    5/29/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/27/2025legislature
  4. To enrollment.

    5/23/2025Senate
  5. In Senate.

    5/23/2025Senate
  6. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 33, Nays: 9.) To Senate.

    5/23/2025House
  7. Read second time.

    5/22/2025House
  8. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/22/2025House
  9. From committee: Do pass.

    5/22/2025House
  10. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To committee.

    5/20/2025House
  11. In Assembly.

    5/20/2025House
  12. To Assembly.

    5/20/2025Senate
  13. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    5/20/2025Senate
  14. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 14, Nays: 6, Excused: 1.) To printer.

    5/19/2025Senate
  15. Reprinting dispensed with.

    5/19/2025Senate
  16. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 611.)

    5/19/2025Senate
  17. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/16/2025Senate
  18. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/15/2025Senate
  19. Read second time.

    5/12/2025Senate
  20. From committee: Do pass.

    5/8/2025Senate
  21. Waiver granted effective: February 18, 2025.

    2/24/2025Senate
  22. Read first time. To committee.

    2/5/2025Senate
  23. From printer.

    2/5/2025Senate
  24. To printer.

    2/4/2025Senate
  25. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs.

    2/3/2025Senate

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