NevadaSB27883rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET

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: Cecelia González (Democratic), Selena Torres-Fossett (Democratic), James Ohrenschall (Democratic), Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

BDR 34-788

Your PRIA Score

Score Hidden

Personalized for You

How does this bill affect your finances?

Sign up for a PRIA Policy Scan to see your personalized alignment score for this bill and every other piece of legislation we track. We analyze your financial profile against policy provisions to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.

Free to start

Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Easier alternative path to teacher license

The state streamlines the alternative route to a teacher license. Approved providers must offer supervised, school-based work and ongoing mentoring, in person or online. You can finish in two years or less, with some coursework waived for strong test scores. After you complete the route and meet all other rules, you can get a regular license even without a job offer. Regulators must also simplify and combine steps to improve access for alternative-route candidates.

Stronger K-3 reading help and notice

Schools use state tests and teacher observations, not local tests, to find K-3 reading problems. When a problem is found, the principal sends parents written notice within 30 days with details and services. Within 30 days after that notice, the school creates a plan to track progress and give intensive instruction until the child shows adequate skill on the statewide test. A licensed teacher and staff write the plan, and the principal and parent approve it. Charter elementary schools must adopt rules for these interventions that match state law. The law defines reading to include phonological and phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

State board controls reading reports

Only the State Board can require schools or school boards to file reports about these reading services. Other groups cannot demand those reports. The law also repeals NRS 392.775.

Middle and high teachers must prove subject

If you apply to teach middle or high school, you must prove subject skill. You can either finish coursework the Department sets or pass its subject exam with a satisfactory score.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

  • Cecelia González

    Democratic • House

  • Selena Torres-Fossett

    Democratic • House

  • James Ohrenschall

    Democratic • Senate

  • Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Edgar Flores

    Democratic • Senate

  • FabianDeputy Majority Whip Doñate

    Democratic • Senate

  • Rochelle T. Nguyen

    Democratic • Senate

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

Bill Text

Related Bills

Back to State Legislation