NevadaSB19183rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET

AN ACT relating to professions; requiring the Certified Court Reporters' Board of Nevada to prescribe by regulation certain fees; authorizing a municipal court to designate a person who is not required to be a certified court reporter to operate certain sound recording equipment; increasing the compensation for certain services provided by a court reporter in district court; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Skip Daly (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

BDR 54-14

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District court reporter pay and transcript prices

Beginning January 1, 2026, district court reporters get $395 per day for being available during business hours. After-hours or weekends pay $75 per hour once 4 hours are met; less time is prorated from the daily rate. Judges may set a monthly salary instead of per-diem; if a reporter serves several counties, pay and travel are split among those counties. Per-page prices for an original plus one copy are $10 (24-hour), $8 (48-hour), $7 (4 days), and $5.50 (over 4 days). Extra copies are $3.75, $2.80, $2.30, and $1.50 for those same time frames. Reduced civil rates through nonprofit or pro bono programs are $7, $5, $4, and $3.50; copy-only rates for other parties are $1.50 (24-hour) and $1.00 (slower). In civil cases, transcription time is also $40 per hour and is taxable as costs. If multiple reporters are ordered for next-business-day criminal transcripts, the rate is $10 per page for the original plus one copy and $3 per extra copy. Instant translation costs $300 the first day and $200 each day after; translated pages on diskette are $1.50 each. Counties pay availability and court-ordered services; the ordering party pays for transcripts and usually must pay before delivery.

Municipal courts can use recording operators

Beginning January 1, 2026, a municipal court that is a court of record may use sound recording for jury proceedings. With city council approval, a judge may appoint someone who is not a certified court reporter to run the equipment and set their pay. The judge may also name who transcribes the recordings. The operator and the transcriber must swear an oath to ensure accurate work.

New licensing fee rules for reporters

Beginning January 1, 2026, the Certified Court Reporters’ Board of Nevada sets application, certificate, renewal, reinstatement, and firm fees by regulation. Initial fees must match the fees in effect on December 31, 2025. After that, each fee can be no less than 90% and no more than 125% of the current amount. The Board may also charge expedited or incidental service fees, but only up to the actual cost to provide the service. Statutory fee amounts stay in place until the Board’s rules are adopted and filed.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Skip Daly

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 54 • No: 9

House vote • 5/23/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)

Yes: 39 • No: 3

Senate vote • 4/22/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 15 • No: 6

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 289.

    6/6/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    6/5/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/31/2025legislature
  4. Assembly Amendment No. 705 concurred in. To enrollment.

    5/29/2025Senate
  5. In Senate.

    5/23/2025Senate
  6. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 39, Nays: 3.) To Senate.

    5/23/2025House
  7. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.

    5/23/2025House
  8. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 705.) To printer.

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

    5/22/2025House
  10. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/22/2025House
  11. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.

    4/28/2025House
  12. In Assembly.

    4/28/2025House
  13. To Assembly.

    4/28/2025Senate
  14. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/25/2025Senate
  15. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 15, Nays: 6.) To printer.

    4/22/2025Senate
  16. Taken from Secretary's desk. Placed on General File.

    4/22/2025Senate
  17. Taken from General File. Placed on Secretary's desk.

    4/22/2025Senate
  18. Reprinting dispensed with.

    4/21/2025Senate
  19. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 306.)

    4/21/2025Senate
  20. Placed on Second Reading File.

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

    4/21/2025Senate
  22. From printer. To committee.

    2/7/2025Senate
  23. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.

    2/6/2025Senate

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