Bills & Legislation

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.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to animals; requiring certain persons that allow interactions between live animals and members of the public to post a sign with the contact information for the local animal control authority; providing an administrative penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Venicia ConsidineDemocrat

AN ACT relating to liens; revising certain requirements for the advertising of a sale of personal property to satisfy the lien of an owner of a facility for storage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Selena Torres-FossettDemocrat

AN ACT relating to Medicaid fraud; revising the authority of the Attorney General, acting through the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, to issue subpoenas; setting forth procedures for the enforcement of such a subpoena; revising provisions governing certain actions for false or fraudulent claims; revising the penalties for failing to maintain certain records relating to Medicaid claims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to the criminal justice system; prohibiting a person from threatening or intimidating any judicial personnel of an Indian tribe; expanding the applicability of enhanced penalties for assault and battery against certain persons; authorizing any judicial personnel of an Indian tribe to request a court order to maintain certain personal information in the possession of a county recorder, a county assessor or an elections official in a confidential manner; authorizing any judicial personnel of an Indian tribe to request the Department of Motor Vehicles to display an alternate address on the driver's license, commercial driver's license or identification card of the judicial personnel; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

David OrentlicherDemocrat

AN ACT relating to the education of incarcerated persons; requiring staff at each institution or facility of the Department of Corrections to provide information and assistance relating to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid; requiring the submission of certain reports concerning the provision of such information and assistance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Brittney M. MillerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to hospice care; requiring a program of hospice care to obtain informed consent to treatment and provide certain notice to patients or their representatives; providing that patients of a program for hospice care have a right to certain care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Rebecca EdgeworthRepublican

AN ACT relating to mental health; ratifying and entering into the Counseling Compact; authorizing the sharing of certain information with the coordinated database and reporting system created by the Compact; providing licensed professional counselors practicing in this State under the Compact with the same legal status as clinical professional counselors who are licensed in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Gregory T. Hafen IIRepublican

AN ACT relating to postsecondary education; changing the balance in the Account for Student Indemnification above which certain postsecondary educational institutions are not required to pay certain fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

PK O’NeillRepublican

AN ACT relating to outdoor education; establishing the Outdoor Education Council within the Division of Outdoor Recreation of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; prescribing the membership and duties of the Council; requiring the Council to establish and administer a program to award designations relating to outdoor education; authorizing the Council to adopt certain regulations relating to the program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to eggs; authorizing the State Quarantine Officer to take certain actions relating to the sale, offer or exposing for sale or transport for sale of egg products or shell eggs under certain circumstances; authorizing the State Quarantine Officer to adopt regulations relating to an order to temporarily suspend such requirements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Steve YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to telecommunication service; expanding the circumstances under which certain telecommunication providers may apply for relief from their status and obligations as a provider of last resort; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Elaine H. MarzolaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain governmental entities from substantially burdening certain activity relating to contraception and family planning services under certain circumstances; authorizing a person whose engagement in such activity has been so burdened to assert the violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding; authorizing a court to award damages against a governmental entity that substantially burdens such activity in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Selena Torres-FossettDemocrat

AN ACT relating to optometry; providing that a license to practice optometry issued by the Nevada State Board of Optometry is a revocable privilege; establishing procedures by which the Board may summarily suspend a license to practice optometry; specifying the substances which may be prescribed by an optometrist who holds a certificate to administer and prescribe pharmaceutical agents; increasing the number of members which constitute the Board; revising the requirements for the issuance of a license by endorsement; revising provisions governing the issuance of certain certificates by the Board; revising the circumstances under which certain optometrists are authorized to prescribe controlled substances; revising provisions relating to investigations conducted by the Board; clarifying that the practice of optometry includes optometric telemedicine; establishing certain circumstances under which a licensee is not required to report certain events to the Board; establishing certain provisions governing the temporary ownership of an optometry practice of a licensee who is permanently incapacitated; revising provisions governing the issuance of citations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Gregory S. KoenigRepublican

AN ACT relating to real property; enacting the Uniform Easement Relocation Act; enacting the Uniform Mortgage Modification Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Shea M. BackusDemocrat

AN ACT relating to victims of crime; requiring a law enforcement agency to furnish a free copy of all reports of the law enforcement agency concerning an act that constitutes domestic violence under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Gregory S. KoenigRepublican

AN ACT relating to public safety; prohibiting the release of certain balloons that are lighter than air under certain circumstances; providing for the imposition of civil penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sandra JaureguiDemocrat

AN ACT relating to psychology; authorizing the Board of Psychological Examiners to adopt regulations authorizing a person who is not licensed by the Board to perform certain psychological tests under certain conditions and use the title “psychometrist” in connection with the performance of such tests; prohibiting a complaint from being filed with the Board if 3 or more years have elapsed since the occurrence of the act or omission giving rise to the complaint; repealing provisions requiring certain business entities to register with the Board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Shea M. BackusDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; requiring, with certain exceptions, a governmental entity to keep confidential certain personal information regarding donors, members or volunteers of a nonprofit organization; prohibiting, with certain exceptions, a governmental entity from requesting or releasing certain personal information regarding donors, members or volunteers of a nonprofit organization; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Shea M. BackusDemocrat

AN ACT relating to trade regulations; setting forth certain requirements and restrictions concerning certain inflatable devices; requiring certain businesses that operate such devices to meet certain requirements; setting forth requirements for certain inspections of and warnings relating to such devices; imposing certain restrictions on the use of such devices under certain circumstances; authorizing a county, city or town to enact certain ordinances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Tracy Brown-MayDemocrat

AN ACT relating to insurance; revising certain definitions for the purposes of certain coverage for health care services; revising provisions governing the circumstances under which a managed care organization is not required to authorize coverage of a health care service; revising the applicability of certain provisions requiring certain insurers to establish a system of procedures for resolving complaints of insured persons and providing for the external review of an adverse determination to include certain insurers that issue policies or certificates that provide only dental coverage; revising the information which a health carrier is required to provide in a notice of an adverse determination; authorizing a dentist of a covered person to submit to the Office for Consumer Health Assistance in the Department of Health and Human Services a request for an external review of an adverse determination; requiring an independent review organization to notify the dentist of a covered person and a health carrier of certain information and the determination and reasons of the independent review organization; requiring a decision of an independent review organization to be based, in part, on certain documentary evidence, including any recommendation of the dentist of the insured; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Tracy Brown-MayDemocrat

AN ACT relating to insurance; revising the manner in which a data request or report submitted to the Commissioner of Insurance by certain insurers or other organizations providing health coverage relating to the compliance of the insurer or organization with certain federal laws must be submitted to the Commissioner; revising provisions governing the confidentiality of information contained in such a data request or report; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Lisa K. ColeRepublican

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; eliminating provisions requiring the Administrator of the Employment Security Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation to annually perform certain calculations to determine certain information relating to the solvency of the Unemployment Compensation Fund; revising the amount of certain money that is required to be annually transferred from the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund to the Unemployment Compensation Fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to education; renaming the Virtual Early Childhood Family Engagement Pilot Program within the Department of Health and Human Services; extending the prospective expiration date of the Program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Daniele Monroe-MorenoDemocrat

AN ACT relating to employment; revising provisions relating to the employment of children; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Daniele Monroe-MorenoDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; exempting certain offices of physicians or other health care facilities that administer anesthesia or sedation to dental patients from certain requirements to obtain a permit to provide anesthesia or sedation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Rebecca EdgeworthRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the State Board of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to make grants to certain school districts to finance capital improvements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Erica MoscaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; ratifying and entering into the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact; authorizing the sharing of certain information with data systems created by the Compact; providing audiologists and speech-language pathologists practicing in this State under the Compact with the same legal status as persons who are licensed to practice audiology and speech-language pathology in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Elaine H. MarzolaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; authorizing a health care provider who practices in reproductive health, any employee of or volunteer for a health care facility that provides services related to reproductive health, any provider of gender-affirming care and the spouse, domestic partner or minor child thereof to request a court order to make certain personal information in the possession of a county recorder, county assessor or elections official be kept in a confidential manner; authorizing such a person to request that the Department of Motor Vehicles display an alternate address on the person's driver's license, commercial driver's license or identification card; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Erica P. RothDemocrat

AN ACT relating to business entities; revising provisions relating to notice or other communications by business entities; making a conforming change relating to fiduciary duties owed by directors and officers of a corporation; revising provisions governing voting relating to the approval of a reverse stock split of a corporation; removing certain provisions governing the issuance of shares of a corporation; making changes to certain approvals by a board of directors; clarifying provisions relating to voting agreements by stockholders; revising provisions governing the amendment of articles of incorporation after issuance of stock; revising certain terms relating to business entities; revising provisions relating to the last known address of members and managers of a limited-liability company and the dissolution of a limited-liability company; establishing a process by which a corporation may reorganize through the formation of a holding corporation; revising provisions relating to the approval of a plan of merger, conversion or exchange of a domestic corporation and the conversion of a domestic entity into a foreign entity; revising provisions governing the right of a stockholder to dissent from certain corporate actions; making various other changes relating to business entities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Joe DaliaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to housing; requiring the governing body of each county and city to adopt an ordinance to authorize by-right a multifamily housing development or mixed-use development that includes a residential use on property zoned for commercial use; declaring void certain county or city ordinances; authorizing the State Land Registrar to transfer, under certain circumstances, certain real property owned by the State of Nevada to certain entities without consideration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sandra JaureguiDemocrat

AN ACT relating to physical therapy; enacting and entering into the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact; authorizing the sharing of certain information with the data system created pursuant to the Compact; providing a person practicing as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant under the Compact with the same legal status as a person practicing as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant under a license issued by the Nevada Physical Therapy Board; revising certain terminology relating to physical therapists; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Elaine H. MarzolaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to debt; establishing coerced debt as an affirmative defense in certain civil actions to collect an unsecured consumer debt; setting forth requirements for asserting the affirmative defense of coerced debt; requiring a court to take certain actions upon finding that a debt is a coerced debt; authorizing certain claims and remedies; revising provisions governing the presumption of intent to defraud in the issuance of certain instruments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Heather GouldingDemocrat

AN ACT relating to food inspections; revising provisions governing custom processing establishments and mobile processing units for certain purposes relating to the inspection of meat and poultry; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Gregory S. KoenigRepublican

AN ACT relating to real estate; requiring brokerage agreements to be in writing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Cinthia Zermeño MooreDemocrat

AN ACT relating to homelessness; requiring the board of county commissioners of certain counties to notify the Department of Transportation before conducting a clean-up of an encampment of homeless persons immediately adjacent to certain rights-of-way; authorizing the Department to consult with a homeless outreach team and participate in the clean-up of an encampment of homeless persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Erica MoscaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public health; requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to publish certain information relating to breastfeeding and develop a program of public education concerning lactation; authorizing certain providers of health care and medical facilities to provide that information to certain persons; prohibiting a place of public accommodation from engaging in certain discrimination against a person who is breastfeeding; authorizing certain civil actions and administrative actions to enforce that prohibition; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Cecelia GonzálezDemocrat

AN ACT relating to professional regulation; revising provisions relating to a certificate of registration to practice architecture; revising provisions relating to certain examinations required for licensure as a professional engineer or professional land surveyor; revising the circumstances under which the State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors may waive certain examinations for certain applicants for licensure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Gregory T. Hafen IIRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation; authorizing the Department of Taxation to disclose certain confidential information relating to the taxation of the net proceeds of minerals extracted in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Rich DeLongRepublican

AN ACT relating to transportation; extending the deadline for a regional transportation commission to submit certain recommendations relating to the imposition of certain taxes to the board of county commissioners; extending the deadline for a board of county commissioners to submit a ballot question to the voters regarding the imposition of certain taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to seek to establish certain rates of reimbursement under Medicaid for vagus nerve stimulation therapy devices and replacement parts for such a device; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Tracy Brown-MayDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing one or more institutions of higher education within the Nevada System of Higher Education to establish a pilot program to assess the competency of applicants for a license to teach through the use of alternative assessment methods; requiring certain regulations adopted by the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to authorize an applicant for a license to teach to be exempt from requirements to pass a competency test in various subjects if the applicant completes the pilot program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Selena Torres-FossettDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada to establish a course of study in financial literacy; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Duy NguyenDemocrat

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle fuel; establishing certain requirements for the display and labeling of pumps and dispensers for motor vehicle fuel at a motor vehicle fuel dispensing site; requiring certain types of motor vehicle fuel to be identified and labeled in a certain manner; revising requirements relating to the advertisement of prices of motor vehicle fuel; revising certain requirements relating to the letters, words, figures and numerals used on an advertising medium for motor vehicle fuel; repealing requirements for certain letters and numerals used on advertising mediums; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to civil actions; revising provisions relating to alternate dispute resolution for certain civil actions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; authorizing the Administrator of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to request from a local detention facility access to any records in its possession which contain information that may assist in evaluating and treating a defendant who is committed to the custody of or ordered to report to the Administrator based upon a finding of incompetence; requiring a local detention facility to provide access to any such records for the limited purpose of allowing the Administrator to evaluate and treat the defendant; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to mental health; establishing certain notification and reporting requirements concerning pilot programs that research transcranial magnetic stimulation or electromagnetic brain pulse treatment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Venise KarrisDemocrat