NevadaSB19483rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring a short-term lessor to require proof of certain insurance as a condition for the lease of a passenger car; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Melanie Scheible (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

BDR 43-715

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Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Caps on rental damage waiver fees

Rental companies can sell a damage waiver, but daily charges are capped. For regular cars, the base cap is $22 per rental day. For cars with an MSRP over $60,000, the base cap is $150 per day. The state updates these caps each year for inflation and posts the new amounts by March 1.

Clear rental ads and no pushy add-ons

Rental companies cannot force you to buy a damage waiver, extra insurance, or other add‑ons to rent. They also cannot use pushy tactics to make you buy them, like refusing a reservation, hiding cars, or blocking your card when you say no. Any ad that shows a rental rate must also show the waiver price and say the waiver is optional.

Must show insurance to rent cars

To rent a passenger car, you must show proof of insurance that meets Nevada’s minimum coverage. If you do not have it, the rental company can sell you a short temporary policy or refer you to one, at no more than the standard market rate. If you refuse to buy it, they may refuse to rent to you. Selling that compliant temporary policy is not treated as an unfair or pushy practice.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Melanie Scheible

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 58 • No: 4

House vote • 5/22/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)

Yes: 38 • No: 4

Senate vote • 4/18/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 20 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Approved by the Governor. Chapter 81.

    5/28/2025legislature
  2. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/27/2025legislature
  3. To enrollment.

    5/23/2025Senate
  4. In Senate.

    5/22/2025Senate
  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 38, Nays: 4.) To Senate.

    5/22/2025House
  6. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/21/2025House
  7. Read second time.

    5/20/2025House
  8. From committee: Do pass.

    5/19/2025House
  9. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To committee.

    4/24/2025House
  10. In Assembly.

    4/24/2025House
  11. To Assembly.

    4/22/2025Senate
  12. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/22/2025Senate
  13. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Absent: 1.) To printer.

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

    4/17/2025Senate
  15. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 240.)

    4/17/2025Senate
  16. Placed on Second Reading File.

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

    4/17/2025Senate
  18. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    4/10/2025Senate
  19. From printer. To committee.

    2/11/2025Senate
  20. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To printer.

    2/10/2025Senate

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