AN ACT relating to governmental administration; revising in skeleton form the powers and duties of the Office of Nevada Boards, Commissions and Councils Standards of the Department of Business and Industry; making various changes in skeleton form to the composition and operation of various boards, commissions, councils and similar bodies; providing in skeleton form for the consolidation and termination of various boards, commissions, councils and similar bodies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development
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35 provisions identified: 8 benefits, 7 costs, 20 mixed.
Pharmacy board pay capped at $150
Nevada State Board of Pharmacy members can receive a salary of up to $150 per day while doing board work. They can also receive per diem and travel expenses. The Office's Deputy Director sets the rates, with Department Director approval. Per diem and travel rates cannot exceed those generally provided to state officers and employees.
Education commission pay capped at $150
Voting Postsecondary Education Commission members may receive up to $150 per meeting day, increased from an $80 maximum. Construction Education Commission members are entitled to salary of no more than $150 per day while doing commission work. The deputy director sets actual amounts, with Department of Business and Industry director approval. Both groups receive daily allowances and travel expenses capped at general state officer and employee rates. The $150 figure is a ceiling, not guaranteed daily pay.
Family engagement council gets expense payments
Advisory Council for Family Engagement members are entitled to per diem and travel expenses for meetings and other council work. Payments use the rates generally available to state officers and employees. The Department pays these expenses. No dollar amount is specified.
Military families can get license extensions
Covered licensing boards can delay license expiration for active-duty members of any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. The option also covers spouses and dependent children living with the active-duty member. A board must authorize the delay by regulation; the law does not automatically extend licenses. No extension length is specified.
Emergency coordination moves to one board
The law creates the Nevada Emergency Response and Disaster Coordination Board, chaired by the Chief. It takes duties from the search-and-rescue board, disaster identification committee, and intrastate mutual aid committee. Members represent the National Guard, law enforcement, tribal government, forestry, public health, fire services, hospitals, and a county coroner. These provisions specify no funding amount or household payment.
Minority commission gets health office support
The Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and Equity provides staff help to the Nevada Commission on Minority Affairs. This replaces the support role assigned to the Business and Industry Director. Assistance is provided as the Governor considers appropriate and remains subject to the act's shared-service rules. The state boards office continues its assigned services. No staffing count or funding amount is set.
Medicaid beneficiaries get an advisory council
The law creates a Medicaid Advisory Committee and a Beneficiary Advisory Council to advise state Medicaid leaders. The committee takes duties from the former Medical Care Advisory Committee and reinvestment advisory committees. The director appoints council members, including current or former beneficiaries and family members or paid or unpaid caregivers. Council members serve two-year terms, with no more than two total terms or two consecutive terms. These provisions do not change Medicaid eligibility, coverage, or benefit amounts.
Medicaid committee supports more recipient input
The Medical Care Advisory Committee becomes the Medicaid Advisory Committee. It advises state officials on Medicaid policy, program administration, and services for welfare recipients. It participates in policy development and administration while increasing recipient participation, and performs federally required duties. This change does not directly change Medicaid eligibility, covered services, or benefit amounts.
Nonlicensing board members serve without pay
Members of covered nonlicensing boards and similar bodies must serve without pay. They remain entitled to daily allowances and travel expenses at Nevada state officer and employee rates. Members of the military children's interstate education compact council also serve without other pay and receive those allowances and expenses.
Some advisory members lose daily pay
Non-government Grants Management Advisory Committee members lose authorization for a salary of up to $80 per day. Industrial Relations advisory council members lose their former $60 salary per meeting day. Non-state members of the Advisory Committee for a Resilient Nevada and Commission on Off-Highway Vehicles lose pay authorization of up to $80 per day. Eligible per diem and travel expenses remain at state officer and employee rates. For the Resilient Nevada committee and off-highway commission, those expenses are payable only when money is available.
Nevada ends multiple public advisory bodies
The law ends the Commission on Behavioral Health, homelessness-to-housing advisory council, Nevada Commission for Women, disability services commission, autism commission, and Dietitian Advisory Group. It also ends the land-use council's Executive Council, public-school academic standards council, PFAS contamination working group, and Threat Analysis Center Advisory Committee. The Advisory Board on Automotive Affairs, Mining Oversight and Accountability Commission, Nevada Employment Security Council, and Credit Union Advisory Council also end. The Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority, Oversight Panel for Convention Facilities, and common-interest communities task force end as well. The supplied provisions identify no transfer of these duties or direct change to household benefits or eligibility.
New advisory bodies face two-year limits
Covered laws enacted on or after July 1, 2026, must give new advisory bodies a two-year expiration date. The two years start when the provision creating the body takes effect. Those laws must allow repeated two-year extensions when the deputy director submits a continuation notice based on required findings. Statutory exceptions apply.
State boards face stronger office oversight
The state boards office can set member appointment rules for bodies under its oversight. It can require those bodies to get approval before signing contracts. It can also inspect, copy, and subpoena records related to its duties. This authority reaches courts, law enforcement, public and private institutions, people, and government bodies.
State boards must justify staying open
The state boards office must periodically review covered executive-branch bodies for effectiveness, cost, public involvement, and overlap. Bodies created by the state Constitution or a governor's executive order are excluded. Covered bodies must share requested information and explain why they should continue. The deputy director recommends keeping, changing, combining, or ending each body; the governor must request legislation when needed. For specified advisory bodies, continuation requires advice that led to government action, compliance with legal duties, regular meetings, and no excessive overlap. The office must schedule reviews before covered advisory bodies expire.
Schools pay substitutes for teacher meetings
School districts and charter schools must pay substitute costs when teacher members attend Teachers and Leaders Council of Nevada meetings. For a specified council seat, the group that submitted the teacher's name for appointment may repay the employer. The law sets no dollar amount.
Some therapy providers no longer need licenses
Music therapists and homeopathic service providers no longer need the state licenses repealed by this law. The law also ends the Nevada Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners and its related regulation of homeopathic services. Music therapists leave the statutory health-care-provider definition, and the general meaning of physician no longer includes homeopathy. Chapter-specific physician definitions and the existing subsection 2 exception still apply. The law specifies no change to service prices or insurance coverage.
Advisory boards get new operating limits
For covered nonlicensing bodies, the department's administrative head is responsible for effective operation. That head also makes appointments previously assigned to the Governor. The Business and Industry Director appoints the Industrial Relations advisory council. Meetings require a call from the chair or department head, or a written request from most members; contrary minimum-meeting rules end. Members serve two-year terms and may serve no more than two terms.
Deaf community commission duties move
The law ends the Nevada Commission for Persons Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Its duties move to the Nevada Equal Rights Commission. The law also changes the Equal Rights Commission's membership. No direct change to individual rights, services, or household costs is specified.
Historic preservation duties move together
The law creates a Commission for Cultural and Historic Preservation. It replaces the Commission for Cultural Centers and Historic Preservation and the Comstock Historic District Commission. Their duties transfer to the new commission. No new funding is specified.
Licensing boards lose some staffing control
Appointed members of covered licensing boards serve four-year terms, with a limit of two terms. This includes the contractors' and barbers' boards. The Office's Deputy Director sets member pay, with Department Director approval. The Department Director appoints executive directors, who serve at that Director's pleasure; the Deputy Director sets their pay and duties with board advice. The Nursing Board's executive director no longer needs a Nevada professional nursing license.
Licensing disputes use state hearing officers
Contested cases before covered professional and occupational licensing boards must use hearing officers employed by the state boards office. The officer prepares written findings and recommendations. The licensing board must review and approve them before they become final. These changes do not themselves change license standards or guarantee a case outcome.
More Nevada boards get shared oversight
The Office of Nevada Boards, Commissions and Councils Standards oversees more state bodies within the Department of Business and Industry. These include the Nevada Behavioral Wellness Alliance Board, Nevada Board of Professional Design and Environmental Specialist, and Nevada Board of Healing and Rehabilitative Practice. Licensing-board oversight remains subject to the Nevada Constitution and federal law. The Department Director must appoint a Deputy Director, retain needed staff, and adopt rules and procedures. Staff can include hearing officers and accountants; the Director can also appoint a general counsel and deputies.
State board information moves online together
The state boards office must maintain one website for covered bodies to post information. Those bodies cannot post that information on other websites. Required Accountancy Board website information moves to the office's website.
Nevada combines behavioral health policy regions
Nevada reduces its behavioral health regions from five to three. The law also changes membership on each regional behavioral health policy board. This reorganizes regional policy coordination. No direct change to treatment eligibility, benefits, or household costs is specified.
Radiation advisers become a board subcommittee
Beginning July 1, 2026, the Radiation Therapy and Radiologic Imaging Advisory Committee becomes a seven-member voting subcommittee. The Board appoints members instead of the Governor. Members must represent Nevada's geographic diversity and the required professional groups. After initial terms, members serve three-year terms and no more than two consecutive terms. The subcommittee recommends changes to the Board, the Division, and the Legislature.
College oversight moves to business department
The Nevada Commission on Postsecondary Education moves from the Employment Security Division to the Department of Business and Industry. A nonvoting Business and Industry employee replaces the nonvoting Employment, Training and Rehabilitation representative. The Employment Security Division Administrator no longer administers the specified school-licensing laws. The law specifies no change to school licensing standards, student eligibility, or household costs.
School safety and workforce committees combine
A new Advisory Committee on School and Staff Safety replaces two school and staff safety committees and takes their duties. A new Nevada Commission on Innovation, Excellence and Education Workforce Development replaces two education and educator recruitment advisory bodies. Existing duties continue in the new bodies. These changes add no stated safety funding, school funding, or student eligibility rules.
Workplace safety appeals get new hearings
The law ends the Occupational Safety and Health Review Board and replaces citation review with a Division-appointed hearing officer. The Division must assign the officer within 15 working days after receiving a covered written appeal or notice of contest. The officer conducts the fact-finding hearing and decides the case. Before covered hearings about fatal work accidents or motor vehicle crashes, each deceased worker's immediate family must receive notice. That notice states the hearing's time, place, and public nature.
Aviation committee takes over air-service fund
The law ends the Nevada Air Service Development Commission. The Nevada Aviation Technical Advisory Committee takes over its duties. Those duties include managing the Nevada Air Service Development Fund and adopting the required regulations. The law specifies no change to funding amounts, air service, or travel prices.
State boards pay for shared services
The state boards office must set fees to cover the services it provides to covered boards and similar bodies. It can set billing and collection procedures. A covered body cannot pay another provider for a service the Office provides, including covered legal and hearing services. Service money goes into the State Treasury and is credited to a new Office account. The law sets no fee amount or direct household charge.
State boards share services and costs
The state boards office must provide covered bodies with legal, accounting, technology, legislative, and contested-case hearing services. The office must set fees to cover its costs and create billing or collection procedures. Covered bodies cannot pay another provider for services the office provides. The law gives no fee amounts or direct household charge.
Behavioral health licensing boards combine
The Nevada Behavioral Wellness Alliance Board replaces five licensing boards and takes their duties. It oversees psychologists, marriage and family therapists, clinical professional counselors, and social workers. It also oversees alcohol, drug and gambling counselors and applied behavior analysts. These provisions specify no changes to license requirements, fees, or access to care.
Vision and mobility licensing boards combine
The Nevada Board of Vision, Speech and Mobility Professions replaces four licensing boards and takes their duties. It covers podiatrists, optometrists, dispensing opticians, speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and hearing aid dispensers. These provisions specify no changes to license requirements or fees.
Employer injury claims use administrator decisions
The Industrial Relations Administrator runs the subsequent injury accounts for self-insured employers and associations of self-insured public or private employers. The Administrator decides action on reimbursement claims instead of recommending action to a board. Payments remain limited to those already authorized by the specified account laws. Appeals involving the self-insured employer account go directly to an appeals officer instead of district court. These changes do not themselves expand payment authority.
State employee committees combine their duties
A new Committee on Human Resources takes over three state workforce bodies. The Human Resources Commission, Employee-Management Committee, and Committee on Catastrophic Leave are eliminated. Their duties continue in the new committee. This provision does not specify changes to employee pay or leave eligibility.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development
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Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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Actions Timeline
(No further action taken.)
6/3/2025SenateTaken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To committee.
4/17/2025SenateRead second time.
4/17/2025SenateAmendment No. 528 withdrawn.
4/17/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/17/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/17/2025SenateNotice of eligibility for exemption.
3/19/2025SenateRead first time. To committee.
2/3/2025SenateFrom printer.
12/2/2024SenatePrefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.
11/20/2024Senate
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