# Nevada SB78: 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. Nevada SB78, 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., is a 83rd Regular Session (2025) Senate bill sponsored by Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development; status failed, last action 2025-06-03 ((No further action taken.)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-SB78-83rd2025 - As of: 2026-11-01 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Nevada SB78 - State: Nevada - Session: 83rd Regular Session (2025) - Title: 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. - Status: failed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2024-11-20 - Last action: 2025-06-03, (No further action taken.) - Sponsor: Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: BDR 18-301 - Touches household money: yes - Economic provisions PRIA read: 35 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Pharmacy board pay capped at $150: benefit, low. 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 provi… - Education commission pay capped at $150: benefit, low. 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 Departmen… - Family engagement council gets expense payments: benefit, low. 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: benefit, low. 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 licen… - Emergency coordination moves to one board: benefit, low. 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, fo… - Minority commission gets health office support: benefit, low. 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… - Medicaid beneficiaries get an advisory council: benefit, low. 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 bene… - Medicaid committee supports more recipient input: benefit, low. 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 fe… - Nonlicensing board members serve without pay: cost, low. 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… - Some advisory members lose daily pay: cost, low. 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-High… - Nevada ends multiple public advisory bodies: cost, low. 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,… - New advisory bodies face two-year limits: cost, low. 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… - State boards face stronger office oversight: cost, low. 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 in… - State boards must justify staying open: cost, low. 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 shou… - Schools pay substitutes for teacher meetings: cost, low. 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: mixed, low. 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, an… - Advisory boards get new operating limits: mixed, low. 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 th… - Deaf community commission duties move: mixed, low. 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: mixed, low. 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: mixed, low. 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 tha… - Licensing disputes use state hearing officers: mixed, low. 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 the… - More Nevada boards get shared oversight: mixed, low. 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 R… - State board information moves online together: mixed, low. 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: mixed, low. 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: mixed, low. 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, mem… - College oversight moves to business department: mixed, low. 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 Adminis… - School safety and workforce committees combine: mixed, low. 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… - Workplace safety appeals get new hearings: mixed, low. 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 heari… - Aviation committee takes over air-service fund: mixed, low. 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 servic… - State boards pay for shared services: mixed, low. 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… - State boards share services and costs: mixed, low. 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 provi… - Behavioral health licensing boards combine: mixed, low. 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.… - Vision and mobility licensing boards combine: mixed, low. 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 requir… - Employer injury claims use administrator decisions: mixed, low. 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 al… - State employee committees combine their duties: mixed, low. 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… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development ## Actions (10) - 2025-06-03: (No further action taken.) (Senate) - 2025-04-17: Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To committee. (Senate) - 2025-04-17: Read second time. (Senate) - 2025-04-17: Amendment No. 528 withdrawn. (Senate) - 2025-04-17: Placed on Second Reading File. (Senate) - 2025-04-17: From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Senate) - 2025-03-19: Notice of eligibility for exemption. (Senate) - 2025-02-03: Read first time. To committee. (Senate) - 2024-12-02: From printer. (Senate) - 2024-11-20: Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer. (Senate) ## Bill text - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB78.pdf) ## Related bills - AB499: AN ACT relating to elections; requiring, with certain exceptions, a registered voter show photo identification to vote in person; requiring the Department of M… (vetoed) - 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; revisi… (vetoed) - 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 su… (vetoed) - AB188: AN ACT relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program; requiring the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to report certain information relating… (vetoed) - SB217: AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting a governmental entity from substantially burdening certain activity relating to assisted reproduction under certain… (vetoed) - SB81: AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to create and conduct certain surveys of public school employees; revising provisions gover… (signed) ## Sources - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB78.pdf) ## Related - [AB499: AN ACT relating to elections; requiring, with certain exceptions, a registered…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB499-83rd2025) - [AB397: AN ACT relating to higher education; revising provisions governing certain waiv…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB397-83rd2025) - [AB259: AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain actions related to pricing…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB259-83rd2025) - [AB188: AN ACT relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program; requiring the Board…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB188-83rd2025) - [SB217: AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting a governmental entity from substant…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-SB217-83rd2025) - [SB81: AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to create a…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-SB81-83rd2025) - [Nevada bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/nevada/bills) - [Nevada state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/nevada) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-SB78-83rd2025 (as of 2026-11-01).