All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Natural Resources
Signed by Governor
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Starting July 1, 2025, state grants help public water systems pay for projects. Eligible systems are the Lincoln County Water District and publicly owned community or nontransient systems that existed on January 1, 1995. The Board prefers systems serving fewer than 6,000 people. Each recipient must provide a local match between 15% and 75% of the total project cost. The Board sets the match using customers’ median household income, with hardship and health risk adjustments. Grant money can also pay to permanently retire groundwater rights when that protects resources, fixes falling water levels, or protects domestic wells.
Beginning July 1, 2025, the state runs a program to buy and permanently retire decreed or certificated groundwater rights from willing sellers and accept donations. The State Engineer must retire any rights the Director approves by June 30, 2035, and that water cannot be appropriated again. The State Engineer must also deny any application that tries to change or reinstate rights that were retired. The Director records the purpose of each purchase and files it with the State Engineer. The state creates a dedicated account to fund purchases and administration; it can take appropriations, gifts, and federal money, and balances carry forward. The Director stops accepting donations or purchase applications after June 30, 2035.
In any Nevada county with 700,000 or more people, the county or a city may ban or limit using water or treated wastewater for recreation in man-made lakes or streams. This does not apply to water kept for flood control, peak demand, or sewage treatment, to mining reclamation projects, or to U.S. or State public recreation facilities. Homeowners and HOAs with artificial lakes in these areas may face new limits.
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All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
House vote • 5/28/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/22/2025
Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
Chapter 292.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
In Senate. To enrollment.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
Read second time.
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Do pass.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To committee.
In Assembly.
From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.
Reprinting dispensed with.
Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 728.)
Placed on General File.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
To committee.
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 98.)
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Notice of eligibility for exemption.
Read first time. To committee.
From printer.
As Enrolled
As Introduced
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Reprint 2
AB499, AN ACT relating to elections; requiring, with certain exceptions, a registered voter show photo identification to vote in person; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles, under certain circumstances, to issue identification cards at no charge; requiring the Secretary of State to issue digital identification cards; requiring a county clerk in certain counties to establish a certain number of locations for a voter to return his or her mail ballot to a mail ballot drop box during the period between the last day for early voting and the day before the date of the general election; authorizing a county clerk in certain counties to establish such locations; authorizing a person, under certain circumstances, to return a mail ballot to a mail ballot drop box established at such a location on behalf of a voter; requiring the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a voter services portal on the Internet website of the Office of the Secretary of State; requiring the county clerk to include certain information relating to the voter services portal on any communication to a registered voter; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles to submit electronically to the Secretary of State certain information relating to each person who has a driver's license or identification card issued by the Department; requiring the Secretary of State to include certain information received from the Department in the centralized, top-down database that is established by the Secretary of State for purposes of creating the statewide voter registration list; requiring certain information to be included on the return envelope for a mail ballot; revising provisions relating to curing mail ballots; requiring mail ballot drop boxes to be monitored and secured; providing that certain information on the statewide voter registration list relating to a voter is confidential and not a public record; making various other changes relating to elections; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB397, AN ACT relating to higher education; revising provisions governing certain waivers of fees provided by the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada; revising the criteria of eligibility for a waiver of fees by the Board of Regents for certain persons who are or were unaccompanied for a certain period of time; revising the criteria of eligibility for a waiver of fees by the Board of Regents for certain Native American students; providing for the continuity of waivers previously provided for certain Native American students; repealing certain provisions requiring the Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education to cause to be analyzed certain natural materials upon the request of a resident of this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB259, AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain actions related to pricing and reimbursement for certain drugs; creating a cause of action for violating such prohibitions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB188, AN ACT relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program; requiring the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to report certain information relating to the costs of health insurance for certain retirees; revising provisions relating to the subsidy paid for certain health and welfare benefits for certain state employees who have retired with state service; revising requirements for certain retired public officers and employees to reinstate insurance under the Program; revising provisions relating to certain subsidies paid to the Program for the 2025-2027 biennium; requiring the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Government Affairs to conduct an interim study on the Program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB217, AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting a governmental entity from substantially burdening certain activity relating to assisted reproduction under certain circumstances; authorizing a person whose engagement in such activity has been so burdened to assert the violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding; authorizing a court to award damages against a governmental entity that substantially burdens such activity in certain circumstances; providing certain immunity from civil and criminal liability and administrative sanctions for certain persons and entities involved in the provision of assisted reproduction; providing that a fertilized egg or human embryo that exists before implantation in a human uterus is not a person for legal purposes; requiring certain health insurers to authorize a pregnant person to enroll in a health plan during a specified period; requiring certain public and private health insurers to provide certain coverage for the treatment of infertility and fertility preservation; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB15, AN ACT relating to governmental administration; revising provisions relating to the timing of when an annual meeting of a debt management commission must occur; revising the hours the office of the county treasurer is required to be kept open; revising the contents of a notice of delinquent taxes; revising provisions relating to certain fees imposed by certain counties and cities on the construction of a structure or the grading of land for certain purposes; revising provisions relating to certain property held in trust by the county treasurer; eliminating the requirement that a school associate superintendent provide a quarterly report to the governing body of a county within a local school precinct; revising the notice requirements relating to applications for certain franchises; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.