NevadaSB27883rd Regular Session (2025)Senate

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to consider certain changes when adopting regulations governing licensure for teachers and other educational personnel; eliminating the use of local assessments to determine whether a pupil has a deficiency in the subject area of reading for certain purposes; revising certain reporting requirements concerning pupils who receive certain services and instruction to address a deficiency in the subject area of reading; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Sponsor information unavailable

Signed by Governor

BDR 34-788

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Easier paths to teacher licenses

The law requires Nevada’s licensing commission to look for ways to make teacher licensing and endorsements simpler. When it writes rules, it must consider streamlining steps, combining requirements, and improving access for people in alternative licensing routes. This aims to make the path to a regular license clearer and faster.

Only state board can require reading reports

The law limits who can demand reports about students getting reading‑intervention services. Only the State Board of Education can require these reports from schools, districts, or charter boards. Other agencies and groups cannot require them.

New rules for K-3 reading help

Schools now use state reading tests and the teacher’s observations to flag K-3 reading problems. Local tests no longer start the official reading‑deficiency process. Within 30 days after telling a parent, a licensed teacher creates a reading plan, approved by the principal and parent. The plan uses state‑approved programs and gives intensive help until the child meets the State Board’s grade‑level score on the statewide test. Once the child meets that score, required extra instruction ends. Schools check progress regularly and can adjust services.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

There is no primary sponsor on record.

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 63 • No: 0

House vote • 5/22/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)

Yes: 42 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/22/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 21 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Approved by the Governor. Chapter 190.

    5/31/2025legislature
  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: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

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

    5/21/2025House
  7. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/20/2025House
  8. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/19/2025House
  9. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/16/2025House
  10. Read second time.

    5/15/2025House
  11. From committee: Do pass.

    5/14/2025House
  12. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.

    4/28/2025House
  13. In Assembly.

    4/28/2025House
  14. To Assembly.

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

    4/25/2025Senate
  16. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.

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

    4/21/2025Senate
  18. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 416.)

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

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

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

    3/6/2025Senate
  22. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.

    3/5/2025Senate

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