# Nevada SB225: AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a candidate at a presidential preference primary election to pay a filing fee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Nevada SB225, AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a candidate at a presidential preference primary election to pay a filing fee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto., is a 83rd Regular Session (2025) Senate bill sponsored by Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections; status signed, last action 2025-05-28 (Chapter 82.); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Nevada SB225
- State: Nevada
- Session: 83rd Regular Session (2025)
- Title: AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a candidate at a presidential preference primary election to pay a filing fee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
- Status: signed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-02-19
- Last action: 2025-05-28, Chapter 82.
- Sponsor: Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: BDR 24-361
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 2 (61 yes, 2 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 1

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- New $1,000 fee for presidential primary candidates: cost, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, a qualified major party presidential candidate must pay a $1,000 filing fee to appear on Nevada’s presidential preference primary ballot. File a declaration of candidacy with the Secretary of State from October 1 to 5 p.m. on October 15 in the year before the primary. Pay th…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-05-21 | House | Final Passage - Assembly (As Introduced) | pass | 40 | 2 |   |
| 2025-04-15 | Senate | Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced) | pass | 21 | 0 |   |

## Actions (22)

- 2025-05-28: Chapter 82. (legislature)
- 2025-05-28: Approved by the Governor. (legislature)
- 2025-05-27: Enrolled and delivered to Governor. (legislature)
- 2025-05-22: To enrollment. (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: In Senate. (Senate)
- 2025-05-21: Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 2.) To Senate. (House)
- 2025-05-20: Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. (House)
- 2025-05-19: Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. (House)
- 2025-05-16: Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. (House)
- 2025-05-15: Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. (House)
- 2025-05-14: Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. (House)
- 2025-05-12: Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. (House)
- 2025-05-08: Read second time. (House)
- 2025-05-07: From committee: Do pass. (House)
- 2025-04-16: Read first time. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To committee. (House)
- 2025-04-16: In Assembly. (House)
- 2025-04-15: Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. (Senate)
- 2025-04-14: Read second time. (Senate)
- 2025-04-14: Placed on Second Reading File. (Senate)
- 2025-04-14: From committee: Do pass. (Senate)
- 2025-02-20: From printer. To committee. (Senate)
- 2025-02-19: Read first time. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To printer. (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB225_EN.pdf)
- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB225.pdf)

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## Sources
- [As Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB225_EN.pdf)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB225.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-SB225-83rd2025 (as of 2026-11-01).
