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NevadaSB22683rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET
AN ACT relating to legislative affairs; making various changes relating to legislative interim committees and presiding officers of those committees; revising the deadline to submit an application to the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education to serve on the Nevada State Teacher and Education Support Professional Recruitment and Retention Advisory Task Force; eliminating the requirement that the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Health and Human Services review certain regulations; making the Subcommittee on Public Lands of the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Natural Resources a stand-alone interim committee; making the Sunset Subcommittee of the Legislative Commission a stand-alone interim committee; revising provisions relating to legislative committee members and staff regulated by the Nevada Lobbying Disclosure and Regulation Act and Nevada Financial Disclosure Act; revising provisions governing the review of certain mining regulations by the Mining Oversight and Accountability Commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
Signed by Governor
BDR 17-365
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
16 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 11 mixed.
Independent 10-year sentencing forecasts
The Office of Finance must hire an independent expert each year. The expert reviews sentencing and parole practices and projects prison, probation, parole, and residential confinement numbers for the next 10 years. The Office must send a report by December 1 each year to the Judiciary interim committee and the Department of Sentencing Policy.
Child welfare and juvenile justice reviews
The Health and Human Services interim committee must review child welfare issues. The Judiciary interim committee must review juvenile justice issues. The Government Affairs committee may review government purchasing and related recommendations.
Defines official legislative committee work
The law defines what a “legislative committee” is and what counts as an official committee meeting, event, or trip. A chair must authorize the meeting, event, or trip for it to be official and tied to the committee’s work. These rules guide what activities count as legislative business for members and staff.
Statewide tracking of police use of force
Every law enforcement agency must collect use‑of‑force data, publish it yearly, and send it monthly to the Central Repository. All agencies must take part in the FBI’s national collection. The Central Repository posts the data online for the public. If funded, the Attorney General reviews the data and reports by December 1 each year. These reports cannot be used as evidence against a peace officer in criminal cases.
Stronger reviews of water and land plans
The Committee on Public Lands supports stronger state and local roles on public lands. It reviews the Colorado River Commission, public water authorities, and related laws and studies. The State Land Use Planning Agency must send plans and policies for review and include the Committee’s comments with each plan.
Fewer health and hospital reports to Legislature
Two delivery rules for licensing boards are ended. Legislative Counsel no longer must send licensing‑rule texts to the Health and Human Services interim committee, and boards no longer must mail a filed, stamped copy within 10 days. Hospitals with staffing committees also no longer file December 31 reports in even or odd years to the Legislature or that committee.
Gift and disclosure rules for meetings
The law clarifies gift and disclosure rules for legislative educational and investigative meetings. Actual expenses for these meetings count as reportable expenditures, not gifts. Legislative staff who attend are not subject to the Financial Disclosure Act unless they are public officers or candidates. It also clarifies who counts as a household member for disclosure.
How interim committees are formed and led
Each interim committee has 8 regular members and 5 alternates. Leaders appoint members, and chairs are set by October 31 after adjournment. Five members make a quorum, and any bill idea must pass majorities of both houses. Alternates must be the same party and have full powers, and the vice chair acts if the chair cannot serve. Members get pay, per diem, and travel when working between sessions.
Limits and reports for interim committees
Each committee can request up to 10 bill drafts, due by September 1 before session unless extended. The Health committee may request up to 5 child‑welfare drafts; the Judiciary committee up to 5 juvenile‑justice drafts. The Legislative Commission must approve each committee’s budget and work plan, and committees must file an interim report with proposed bills. The law clarifies which bodies count as committees and moves any conflicting duties to the right committee. It updates statute references, exempts new report requirements in this act from NRS 218D.380, and repeals several outdated sections.
New Public Lands Committee and meetings
The law creates a stand‑alone Committee on Public Lands with eight members, including a local official and a tribal representative. The Committee reviews federal land policies, can hold hearings, hire experts, and advise state agencies. It must hold at least three interim meetings in different counties outside Clark, Washoe, and Carson City. Legislative members’ pay and travel are from the Legislative Fund. It may request up to 4 bill drafts and is not under the general cap for other interim committees.
Purchasing report sent to Government Affairs
By July 1 of each even‑numbered year, the Commission to Study Governmental Purchasing must send its report and bill ideas to the Government Affairs interim committee. This replaces sending the report to Legislative Operations and Elections.
Setup changes for Tahoe and Senior committees
The Tahoe oversight committee and the Legislative Committee on Senior Citizens, Veterans and Adults With Special Needs now have eight regular and five alternate members, appointed like other interim committees. They follow the same formation and operating rules but are not counted under the usual bill‑drafting limits.
Sunset Committee to review state boards
The law creates a stand‑alone Sunset Committee with eight regular and five alternate members. It must review at least 10 boards and commissions each interim to decide whether to end, change, combine, or keep them. Reviews check duplication, performance, and whether any tax exemptions, abatements or set‑asides should continue or be changed.
Tighter oversight of prison industry spending
The Director of Corrections must get State Board of Examiners approval before spending from the prison industries construction fund. The Interim Finance Committee reviews programs that lose money for two years and requires a plan to turn a profit, with action if losses continue in year three. The Director must also explain any bond or guarantee amounts required of private employers under prison contracts.
New deadlines for teacher applications and reports
The law sets new timelines for education oversight and teacher recruitment. Teachers and education support professionals must apply to serve on the statewide recruitment and retention Task Force by December 1 of each odd-numbered year. The Education Committee must make selections by February 15 of each even-numbered year. The Department must provide a uniform application by December 1, 2023. The State Board must send its Holocaust and genocide instruction report by July 1 of each even-numbered year, and the Education Committee must submit its report by August 31.
Extra review for mining regulations
Certain permanent rules on mining, mineral taxes, and mine safety must be reviewed by the Mining Oversight and Accountability Commission before approval. After review, the Commission sends findings and recommendations to Legislative Counsel. If the Commission does not review within 90 days, the rule may proceed without that review.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/31/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 39 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/26/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 20 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chapter 455.
6/11/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/10/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
6/5/2025legislatureTo enrollment.
6/4/2025SenateAssembly Amendment No. 927 concurred in.
6/2/2025SenateIn Senate.
6/1/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 39, Nays: None, Excused: 3.) To Senate.
5/31/2025HouseFrom printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.
5/31/2025HouseRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 927.) To printer.
5/30/2025HousePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/30/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/30/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To committee.
5/26/2025HouseIn Assembly.
5/26/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.
5/26/2025SenateFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
5/26/2025SenateTo printer.
5/23/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 769.)
5/23/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/23/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/23/2025SenateNotice of exemption.
4/11/2025SenateFrom printer. To committee.
2/20/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To printer.
2/19/2025Senate
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