NevadaSB42683rd Regular Session (2025)Senate

AN ACT relating to public safety; creating the Lake Tahoe Basin Scenic Byway Corridor Recreation Safety Zone; authorizing certain entities to establish certain parking restrictions and prohibitions and enter into agreements with other governmental entities to provide parking enforcement and collect parking fees within the Safety Zone; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Natural Resources

Signed by Governor

BDR 43-374

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

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

Drivers face new Lake Tahoe parking rules

The law creates a Safety Zone on parts of U.S. 50, SR 28, SR 431, and SR 207 in the Lake Tahoe Region. DOT and local police can post signs, add traffic‑calming tools, and ban shoulder parking or stopping where it is unsafe or blocks traffic. You must not stop or park where those signs or rules forbid it. Traffic calming cannot reduce the number of travel lanes on U.S. 50 inside the zone.

Expanded Tahoe parking enforcement with guardrails

Agencies can appoint their own employees to issue parking citations, and those tickets count like police citations. Agreements must bar citations where public parking does not connect to a recreation site by transit or a pedestrian path. Appointed staff must meet set qualifications, get training, and wear ID or uniforms with proper equipment. Agencies have limited liability for those employees, except when a specific promise is relied on or the employee’s conduct caused the harm.

Paid parking and local reinvestment in Tahoe

DOT can charge fees for public parking on DOT land in the Safety Zone. DOT and partners can make deals to collect fees, enforce rules, and build or run parking, walkways, and amenities. Money from these fees and any parking fines must stay in the Lake Tahoe Region. The funds pay to operate and maintain parking and paths, add signs, enforce rules, and support restrooms and trash pickup.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Senate Committee on Natural Resources

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 63 • No: 0

House vote 5/23/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (2nd 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 452.

    6/9/2025legislature
  2. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    6/5/2025legislature
  3. To enrollment.

    6/4/2025Senate
  4. Assembly Amendment Nos. 576 and 742 concurred in.

    6/2/2025Senate
  5. In Senate.

    5/23/2025Senate
  6. To Senate.

    5/23/2025House
  7. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Third reprint.

    5/23/2025House
  8. To printer.

    5/23/2025House
  9. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.)

    5/23/2025House
  10. Dispensed with reprinting.

    5/23/2025House
  11. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 742.)

    5/23/2025House
  12. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

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

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

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

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

    5/16/2025House
  17. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.

    5/16/2025House
  18. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 576.) To printer.

    5/15/2025House
  19. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/14/2025House
  20. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To committee.

    4/28/2025House
  21. In Assembly.

    4/28/2025House
  22. To Assembly.

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

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

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

    4/21/2025Senate

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