# Nevada SB282: AN ACT relating to food; requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to establish and administer the Grocery Initiative to award grants of money and provide technical assistance and other information to certain grocery stores in this State for certain purposes; revising the duties of the Council on Food Security; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Nevada SB282, AN ACT relating to food; requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to establish and administer the Grocery Initiative to award grants of money and provide technical assistance and other information to certain grocery stores in this State for certain purposes; revising the duties of the Council on Food Security; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto., is a 83rd Regular Session (2025) Senate bill sponsored by Julie Pazina (Democratic), Melanie Scheible (Democratic), Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford (Democratic) and 2 others; status failed, last action 2025-06-03 ((No further action taken.)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01).

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## Facts
- Bill: Nevada SB282
- State: Nevada
- Session: 83rd Regular Session (2025)
- Title: AN ACT relating to food; requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to establish and administer the Grocery Initiative to award grants of money and provide technical assistance and other information to certain grocery stores in this State for certain purposes; revising the duties of the Council on Food Security; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
- Status: failed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-03-05
- Last action: 2025-06-03, (No further action taken.)
- Sponsors: Julie Pazina (Democratic), Melanie Scheible (Democratic), Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford (Democratic), Nicole J. Cannizzaro (Democratic), Rochelle T. Nguyen (Democratic)
- Cosponsors: 6
- Subjects: BDR 18-75
- Touches household money: yes
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 4

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Nevada expands planning for better food access: benefit, low. The Council on Food Security must develop, coordinate, and implement a food system that supports health and economic development. Its duties include improving food-program access, federal nutrition-program participation, and food production, processing, distribution, and purchasing. It must researc…
- Nevada identifies communities needing grocery access: benefit, low. The law targets grocery help using food-desert rules based on the immediately preceding census: a tract must meet both a poverty test and a grocery-access test. The poverty test includes tracts where at least 20% of households live below the federal poverty level. Another qualifying test sets media…
- Grocery stores get grants with spending limits: mixed, medium. Nevada provides $10 million for the Grocery Initiative, run by the Department of Health and Human Services with the Council on Food Security, to expand healthy food access in food deserts and areas at risk. Grants can cover site studies, marketing, staff pay and benefits, rent, building down paymen…
- Grocery stores qualify under new aid rules: mixed, medium. Existing or planned stores can qualify if they mainly sell groceries, including fresh fruits and vegetables. Eligible stores include for-profit, nonprofit, independent, cooperative, and local government-owned and operated stores. Stores must accept or plan to accept SNAP or WIC food benefits. They…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Julie Pazina (Democratic), Senate
- Sponsor: Melanie Scheible (Democratic), Senate
- Sponsor: Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford (Democratic), Senate
- Sponsor: Nicole J. Cannizzaro (Democratic), Senate
- Sponsor: Rochelle T. Nguyen (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Angela D. Taylor (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Edgar Flores (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Fabian Doñate (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: James Ohrenschall (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Marilyn Dondero Loop (Democratic), Senate
- Cosponsor: Skip Daly (Democratic), Senate

## Actions (8)

- 2025-06-03: (No further action taken.) (Senate)
- 2025-04-15: From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee. (Senate)
- 2025-04-14: Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer. (Senate)
- 2025-04-14: Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 39.) (Senate)
- 2025-04-14: Notice of eligibility for exemption. (Senate)
- 2025-04-10: From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Senate)
- 2025-03-06: From printer. To committee. (Senate)
- 2025-03-05: Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer. (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB282.pdf)
- Reprint 1: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB282_R1.pdf)

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## Sources
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB282.pdf)
- [Reprint 1 (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB282_R1.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-SB282-83rd2025 (as of 2026-11-01).