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NevadaSB22683rd Regular Session (2025)Senate
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
10 provisions identified: 7 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.
90-day clock on mining regulations
Certain mining‑related regulations must be reviewed by the Mining Oversight and Accountability Commission before taking effect. The Commission must send its findings to the Legislative Counsel. If the Commission does not finish its review within 90 days of adoption, the regulation can take effect without that review.
Less paperwork for hospitals and boards
Agencies no longer have to send certain licensing‑rule copies to the Health and Human Services committee. Large hospitals in big counties no longer have to file staffing‑committee reports each year. Other posting and filing rules still apply.
More focus on kids and justice
The Health and Human Services committee must review child‑welfare issues and can ask for up to five child‑welfare bills. The Judiciary committee must review juvenile‑justice issues and can ask for up to five juvenile‑justice bills. The Government Affairs committee may review government purchasing and now receives the purchasing commission’s report.
New Public Lands Committee and powers
The law creates a stand‑alone Committee on Public Lands with 8 members, including 3 Senators, 3 Assembly members, one local elected officer, and one tribal representative. It follows joint interim committee rules, allows alternates, and must hold at least three interim meetings mainly in different counties outside Clark, Washoe, and Carson City, with remote links allowed. The Committee can review federal and state land and water policies, investigate, request research from the Legislative Counsel Bureau, and advise the Attorney General. It reviews the Colorado River Commission and local water systems, and may recommend laws, enter contracts, and seek grants. Legislator members get pay, per diem, and travel from the Legislative Fund; the local government pays its member’s travel; the tribal member gets per diem and travel if funded, and the Committee may request up to 4 bill drafts.
Stronger reviews of state boards
The law turns the former Sunset Subcommittee into a stand‑alone Sunset Committee. It must review at least 10 state boards and commissions each interim and decide whether to end, change, combine, or keep them. Members are appointed like a joint interim committee, and the usual bill‑draft cap for those committees does not apply.
Tahoe and seniors committees updated
The Tahoe oversight committee and the committee for seniors, veterans, and adults with special needs are restructured. Each now has 8 regular and 5 alternate members, appointed like joint interim committees. They follow joint‑committee rules and are not subject to the usual cap on bill‑draft requests.
Tighter oversight of prison industries
The Interim Finance Committee now oversees state‑run prison vocational and industrial programs. If a program loses money for two straight years, the Director must appear with a plan to fix it, and if it is still not profitable in the third year after that meeting, the Director must act. The Committee must also review proposals before any new prison industry starts.
New school and teacher deadlines
The State Board files its Holocaust and genocide instruction report by July 1 of even‑numbered years. The Education Committee sends its review by August 31 of even‑numbered years. Teachers and education support professionals must apply by December 1 of odd‑numbered years to serve on the recruitment and retention task force, with selections by February 15 of the next even year.
Clearer rules for interim committees
Each interim committee has 8 regular and 5 alternate members, named by October 31 after the session. Leaders must keep experience and party balance, and the Chair and Vice Chair are named by October 31 and alternate between the two Houses. Members get interim pay, per diem, and travel from the Legislative Fund. Any bill a committee recommends needs a separate majority from its Senate members and its Assembly members. Committees can investigate, take oaths and depositions, and study committees created by the Legislative Commission may request up to 5 bill drafts, with extras only by Commission vote. If a member does not run or loses re‑election, their seat ends the day after the election and a replacement may be named.
Defines committees and shifts duties
The law defines which bodies count as legislative committees and what counts as an official investigative meeting or trip. If this act abolishes a committee named in other laws, its duties move to the right Joint Interim Standing Committee, and statutes will be updated. It also removes four named statutes and exempts new or revised reporting requirements in this act from NRS 218D.380.
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
Bill Text
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