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NevadaSB40383rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET
AN ACT relating to education; creating the Subcommittee on Metrics of the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education; revising provisions governing competency-based learning; authorizing an alternative schedule for public schools; authorizing local educational agencies to develop, maintain and publish certain materials related to career exploration; requiring the Board of Economic Development to make certain recommendations relating to opportunities for pupils for career exploration in schools; authorizing the Office of Economic Development to require applicants for certain transferable tax credits and certain tax abatements to agree to a plan to provide work-based learning opportunities to pupils or instructors for career and technical education courses; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Marilyn Dondero Loop (Democratic)
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BDR 34-611
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Students need exams for proficiency credit
Public school pupils can earn course credit without attending regular classes by showing proficiency through an authorized exam. The exam can be prescribed by the State Board or approved by the principal as at least equally rigorous. A principal and teacher can also develop an exam for areas where a pupil lacks credit. Portfolios and tasks no longer qualify as ways to prove proficiency for this credit.
Career resources for elementary school families
Local education agencies can develop, maintain, and publish online recommendations for career-exploration materials. The materials must be suitable for pupils in grades 1 through 5. Publishing them is optional, so availability depends on the local agency.
Nevada funds education staff and oversight
Nevada provides $68,910 in each of fiscal years 2025–2026 and 2026–2027 for one education implementation staff position. Department personnel and operating costs receive $222,763 in 2025–2026 and $279,956 in 2026–2027. Commission and Metrics Subcommittee travel receives $25,000 in each year. Unspent funds cannot be committed after June 30 of the applicable fiscal year. They must return to the State General Fund by September 18, 2026, or September 17, 2027, respectively.
Nevada funds training for personalized learning
Nevada provides $2.25 million for the Department of Education to contract with a qualified group. The contract funds educator training on personalized, competency-based learning and school redesign. It also supports developing and carrying out recommendations for the education Commission and Department. Unspent money cannot be committed after June 30, 2027, and must return to the State General Fund by September 17, 2027.
New ways to measure student progress
The law creates an education subcommittee to develop optional measures of student, school, and district progress. It works with the Nevada Department of Education on measures covering learning, well-being, and civic engagement. The Department must review the Portrait of a Nevada Learner, the state's learning framework, by July 1, 2040. Reviews must occur at least every five years afterward, with updates as needed.
Schools gain more flexible calendar options
Districts can request alternative calendars, including fewer school days, while keeping at least the teaching minutes of a 180-day program. The state Superintendent must approve or deny an application within 30 days. Districts must develop schedules under Nevada's public-sector labor rules. This replaces the former option to cut up to 15 days specifically for a 12-month school program. Personalized, competency-based learning programs can also use alternative schedules; schools are not required to adopt them.
Nevada ends its personalized learning pilot
Beginning July 1, 2025, Nevada ends its competency-based education pilot and its associated support. The Department of Education's pilot duties and authority to award pilot grants end. Those duties included participation and instruction requirements, public awareness work, and meetings with superintendents. The law also repeals Nevada Revised Statutes 389.210 and 389.230. The supplied descriptions do not explain those two statutes, so their separate effects cannot be determined.
Businesses face tax break compliance rules
For the specified partial tax breaks, a full-time worker must hold a permanent job averaging at least 30 hours weekly. Businesses must repay covered tax relief, plus interest under Nevada law, if they stop meeting requirements or close early. The agreed operating period determines whether a closure is early. The Nevada Tax Commission can excuse repayment when it finds that the business substantially complied.
Personalized learning options with school safeguards
Personalized, competency-based learning lets students advance by showing mastery, with pacing and learning paths suited to them. Districts, charter schools, and university schools for profoundly gifted pupils can apply to offer these programs. Charter-formation committees and charter management organizations can apply only when their charter applications state this intent. Applications must explain technology access and communications, and the Department must approve applications that meet legal requirements. Approved programs must present or submit a plan at least 45 days before each school year and share it with the school community. School leaders must enforce graduation, accountability, attendance, truancy, discipline, and testing rules. Denied applicants have 30 days after notice to fix problems and resubmit; denial of a charter-formation application also requires program denial.
Aircraft businesses get conditional tax breaks
Qualifying aircraft businesses can receive partial personal-property and local sales-and-use tax breaks for up to 10 years. Businesses need a Nevada license, an agreement within one year after application receipt, and at least five years of operation. New businesses need five full-time workers within one year after receiving their eligibility certificate. Existing businesses must add 3% or three Nevada full-time workers, whichever is greater, within that same period. By the eighth calendar quarter after relief starts, average wages must reach 100% of the statewide average and required health coverage must be provided. Applicants must also meet one investment, property-value, intellectual-property, or federal aviation type-certificate criterion. Financial options include $250,000 in new Nevada capital investment or at least $5 million in Nevada tangible personal property. Local School Support Tax relief requires approval from at least two-thirds of the Board of Economic Development.
Data center tax breaks carry conditions
Nevada can approve partial property- and sales-tax breaks for qualifying new or expanded data centers. Terms up to 10 years require 10 Nevada-resident full-time workers within five years and $25 million invested per county. Terms over 10 and up to 20 years require 50 such workers within five years and $100 million per county. The required workforce must remain through at least year 10 or year 20, respectively. Both tiers require average hourly wages of at least 100% of the statewide average and health coverage within two years. At least 50% of construction workers must be Nevada residents unless the Executive Director grants a waiver. Applicants must sign an agreement within one year after applying and commit to operating in Nevada for at least 10 years. Local School Support Tax relief requires approval from at least two-thirds of the Board of Economic Development. The Office can set stricter requirements or approve applications missing the stated job or investment thresholds. Applications received on or after January 1, 2036, cannot be approved.
Data center tenants get limited relief
Businesses using an approved data center can receive partial tax breaks with a Nevada license and a contract lasting at least two years. Their tax-break percentage cannot exceed the data center's percentage, and relief cannot last longer than their contract. A tenant business must repay the relief if it stops meeting program requirements. If the data center loses eligibility or closes, tenant relief ends, but previously allowed amounts need not be repaid.
Tax incentives can require student learning
Nevada's Office of Economic Development can require work-based learning plans from applicants for specified tax credits or partial tax breaks. Covered applicants include data centers, aircraft businesses, production companies, qualified projects, and businesses seeking designated-area or general business abatements. Required agreements must include plans for learning opportunities for Nevada public high school pupils. Pupils can learn at business or project sites, or employees can teach career and technical education courses. The Office decides whether to require a plan; the law does not guarantee student participation or a tax incentive.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Marilyn Dondero Loop
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Angela D. Taylor
Democratic • Senate
Fabian Doñate
Democratic • Senate
James Ohrenschall
Democratic • Senate
Julie Pazina
Democratic • Senate
Melanie Scheible
Democratic • Senate
Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford
Democratic • Senate
Nicole J. Cannizzaro
Democratic • Senate
Rochelle T. Nguyen
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/30/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
(No further action taken.)
6/3/2025HouseRead second time.
6/1/2025HousePlaced on Second Reading File.
6/1/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass.
6/1/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.
5/31/2025HouseIn Assembly.
5/31/2025HouseFrom printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.
5/31/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.
5/30/2025SenateReprinting dispensed with.
5/30/2025SenatePlaced on General File.
5/30/2025SenateRead third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 874.)
5/30/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/30/2025SenateFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
4/24/2025SenateTaken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.
4/21/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 418.)
4/21/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/21/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/21/2025SenateNotice of eligibility for exemption.
3/27/2025SenateFrom printer. To committee.
3/19/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.
3/17/2025Senate
Bill Text
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