All Roll Calls
Yes: 62 • No: 0
NevadaSB5283rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET
AN ACT relating to education; requiring the board of trustees of a school district to determine the percentage of certain pupils enrolled in the school district; revising the definition of pupils who are considered a “long-term English learner” for the purposes of certain reporting; revising certain factors considered in determining whether a pupil is eligible for a good-cause exemption to the requirement that the pupil be retained in grade 3 after not achieving a passing score on a uniform examination in reading; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Education
Signed by Governor
BDR 34-273
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.
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Easier promotion to grade 4 for some third-graders
Beginning July 1, 2028, more third‑grade students can move to grade 4 under a good‑cause exemption. A student qualifies if they: pass a State Board–approved alternative reading test; show grade‑level reading through a portfolio; are an English learner with at least 2 years of ESL; had 2 or more years of intensive reading help and were retained in kindergarten to grade 2 for a total of 2 years; or meet disability‑related criteria in their IEP or 504 plan. A student previously retained in grade 3 also qualifies. The principal bases the decision only on the existing monitoring plan and any IEP or 504 plan, then sends a written recommendation. The superintendent or charter board must approve or deny in writing, and the parent is told if approval is granted. Promoted students must keep getting intervention services and intensive reading instruction.
Schools must report more English learner data
Beginning July 1, 2025, each school district counts and reports how many students are immigrants, refugees, newcomers to English, short-term and long-term English learners, and all English learners, by grade. Reports also break out English learners by IEP or 504 status; gifted, CTE, magnet, AP, IB, dual credit, and sports or extracurricular participation; diploma type; and whether graduates attend college and, if known, get a scholarship. Districts also report how many teachers have bilingual or ESL endorsements and how many are trained in the district’s language program, split by elementary, middle/junior high, and secondary licenses. Districts send the report to the Department of Education by August 1 each year; the Department may recommend improvements and must send reports to the Legislature by February 1. A long‑term English learner means a student classified as an English learner for more than six consecutive years after first identification.
When these school changes start
Reporting and definition changes for English learners start July 1, 2025. The new good‑cause exemption rules for third‑grade promotion start July 1, 2028.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Senate Committee on Education
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/19/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (As Introduced)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/27/2025
Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)
Yes: 20 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chapter 47.
5/27/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
5/26/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
5/23/2025legislatureIn Senate. To enrollment.
5/19/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
5/19/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/16/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/15/2025HouseRead second time.
5/14/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass.
5/12/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.
3/31/2025HouseIn Assembly.
3/31/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.
3/27/2025SenateTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
3/26/2025SenateRead second time.
3/24/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass.
3/20/2025SenateRead first time. To committee.
2/3/2025SenateFrom printer.
11/22/2024SenatePrefiled. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.
11/19/2024Senate
Bill Text
As Enrolled
As Introduced
Related Bills
SB119 — AN ACT relating to economic development; requiring certain reporting relating to the NV Grow Program; requiring the Division of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development of the College of Southern Nevada to develop, create and oversee the Program; revising certain qualifications for a business to participate in the Program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB12 — AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; revising requirements for obtaining judicial review of a decision of the Board of Review concerning a claim for unemployment benefits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB460 — AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing plans to improve academic achievement; providing for the waiver of certain reporting requirements; revising provisions governing the annual report of accountability for a school district; revising the duties of the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education; providing for the impaneling of a Public Education Oversight Board; revising provisions governing boards of trustees of certain school districts; establishing certain measures for the designation of focus and priority school districts, sponsors of charter schools and public schools; revising provisions governing the Commission on School Funding; revising provisions governing the Early Childhood Literacy and Readiness Account; revising provisions governing prekindergarten programs; revising provisions governing assessments used to assess the literacy of certain pupils; revising provisions governing membership of the State Public Charter School Authority; revising provisions governing the formation of charter schools, the termination and amendment of charter contracts and the employment of teachers by charter schools; revising provisions governing the Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship Program; revising certain provisions governing instruction in English language arts; creating the Commission on Recruitment and Retention; revising provisions relating to the Commission on Professional Standards in Education; revising provisions governing background investigations of applicants for certain licenses; establishing requirements governing the hiring of a superintendent of schools; revising provisions governing certain evaluations; requiring the creation of a differential pay scale for certain teachers and administrators; creating the Education Service Center; establishing certain requirements for the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada; creating certain accounts and programs concerning teacher apprenticeships; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB81 — AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to create and conduct certain surveys of public school employees; revising provisions governing the reimbursement of certain hospitals or other facilities that provide educational services; revising terminology related to services provided to certain students; revising various reporting requirements relating to education; revising provisions governing the authority of the State Board of Education; revising provisions governing the ratios of pupils to licensed teachers; eliminating certain audits of empowerment schools; revising provisions governing the licensure of administrators; repealing provisions governing the Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship Program and the Incentivizing Pathways to Teaching Grant Program; revising provisions governing certain scholarship and grant programs for students in education and related fields of study; requiring the Department to create a program of block grants for such scholarship and grant programs; eliminating provisions requiring the Department to recommend that a minimum amount be spent by public schools on textbooks and other instructional supplies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB494 — AN ACT relating to state government; creating the Nevada Health Authority; creating certain divisions and offices within the Authority; providing for the appointment of officers and the employment of staff for the Authority; establishing requirements governing procurement by the Authority; creating the Nevada Health Authority Gift Fund; prescribing the duties of the Authority and its divisions and officers; transferring to the Authority the responsibility for operating various programs and administering various provisions; revising the name of certain agencies; revising certain terminology; eliminating the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services; revising provisions governing the operation of the Public Employees' Benefits Program and Medicaid; requiring certain reporting on the costs of health insurance for retired state employees; authorizing the Authority to require the reporting of certain information on the cost of certain prescription drugs; revising the membership and duties of the Board of Directors of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange; providing for a study of opportunities for the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to directly contract with certain providers of health care; providing for a study of and the development of a plan to transfer certain additional functions to the Authority; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB502 — AN ACT relating to projects of capital improvement; authorizing certain expenditures for certain projects of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the State Government; levying a property tax to support the Consolidated Bond Interest and Redemption Fund; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.