Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to health care; authorizing certain providers of behavioral health services to participate in the Student Loan Repayment for Providers of Health Care in Underserved Communities Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Angela D. TaylorDemocrat

AN ACT relating to counties; revising provisions relating to the annual compensation of elected county officers; authorizing the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Government Affairs to review certain issues relating to county commissions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SkipDeputy Majority Whip DalyDemocrat

AN ACT relating to crimes; expanding the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to include certain acts relating to the distribution of certain photorealistic images, digital images, computer images and computer-generated images; providing an exception to the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image for persons who are less than 18 years of age; revising the definition of “intimate image”; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

JeffAssistant Minority Leader StoneRepublican

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; creating the Nevada Attainable Housing Account and setting forth the allowable uses of money in the Account; requiring an eligible entity to provide or secure certain matching funds as a condition of receiving money from the Account; requiring the Administrator of the Housing Division of the Department of Business and Industry to adopt annually an allocation plan for attainable housing; requiring the Division to submit a report to the Interim Finance Committee relating to the Account; creating and setting forth the duties of the Nevada Attainable Housing Council; renaming the position of Housing Advocate within the Division as the Housing Liaison; revising provisions relating to the statewide low-income housing database maintained by the Division; revising provisions relating to the Account for Affordable Housing; authorizing the Division to establish programs for the reporting of rental payments to credit reporting agencies; revising provisions governing the sale, lease or conveyance of certain real property by the governing body of a county or city; requiring the governing body of a county or city to adopt certain expedited processes relating to attainable housing; revising provisions relating to the tiers of affordable housing; revising provisions relating to certain reports submitted to the Division by certain local governments relating to affordable housing; requiring, under certain circumstances, the State Contractors' Board to issue licenses by endorsement or provisional licenses to certain persons to perform work on attainable housing projects in certain rural areas; requiring, under certain circumstances, the State Contractors' Board to waive certain fees relating to contractor's licenses in certain rural areas; requiring the issuance of certain bonds; making various other changes relating to housing; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to emergency management; transferring the Division of Emergency Management and its powers and duties from the Office of the Military to the Office of the Governor; renaming the Division of Emergency Management to the Office of Emergency Management; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to providers of health care; revising requirements for continuing education and training for certain providers of health care; requiring the Board of Medical Examiners to require a physician assistant on inactive status to pay a biennial registration fee; revising the provisions relating to fees charged and collected by the Board; requiring the Board, if authorized by a licensee, to provide to an employer of the licensee or an entity credentialing the licensee certain documents and information; setting forth certain grounds for the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine to initiate disciplinary action against a licensee or deny licensure to an applicant; revising requirements for the issuance by the Board of a license to practice osteopathic medicine; providing for the biennial renewal of certain licenses issued by the Board; establishing and revising certain fees charged by the Board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring certain hospitals to enroll as a qualified provider for determining whether a pregnant woman is presumptively eligible for Medicaid or contract with certain entities to make such determinations; requiring such hospitals and contractors to provide notices relating to Medicaid to certain persons; prescribing certain rights for parents and legal guardians of newborn children who are patients in a neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Nicole J.Majority Leader CannizzaroDemocrat

AN ACT relating to local government employees; establishing additional procedures pursuant to which parties to a collective bargaining negotiation involving a school district and an employee organization representing teachers may submit issues to a binding arbitration process; prohibiting a school district or any agent thereof from requiring, requesting or urging a teacher to work more than a certain amount of time under certain circumstances; revising the penalties that may be imposed upon an employee organization representing teachers, the officers thereof and teachers for participation in a strike; revising the conduct that constitutes a strike; revising provisions relating to the recognition of employee organizations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Rochelle T. NguyenDemocrat

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a candidate at a presidential preference primary election to pay a filing fee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections

AN ACT relating to contractors; providing for issuance by the State Contractors' Board of a restricted license; setting forth various requirements relating to restricted licenses; requiring the Board to adopt regulations governing restricted licenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

FabianDeputy Majority Whip DoñateDemocrat

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring a short-term lessor to require proof of certain insurance as a condition for the lease of a passenger car; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

MelanieChief Majority Whip ScheibleDemocrat

AN ACT relating to child welfare; prescribing a time period within which an agency which provides child welfare services is required to take certain action relating to certain medical or mental health treatment for a child in the custody of the agency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Julie PazinaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; establishing separate provisions for the licensing or certification, regulation and discipline of agencies to provide personal care services in the home, employment agencies that contract to provide certain nonmedical services and intermediary service organizations; enacting provisions to facilitate the collecting of certain debts from applicants for certain licenses; imposing certain requirements as an applicant for a certificate to operate an intermediary service organization; revising the training requirements for certain caregivers who receive reimbursement through Medicaid; authorizing a family member to serve as the personal care assistant for a recipient of Medicaid under certain circumstances; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to health care; requiring reimbursement under Medicaid to family members who provide personal care services to certain recipients of Medicaid; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Angela D. TaylorDemocrat

AN ACT relating to cannabis; requiring the Cannabis Compliance Board to adopt regulations setting forth requirements for licensees or registrants relating to the testing of cannabis and cannabis products; setting forth various requirements for the contents of those regulations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Edgar FloresDemocrat

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; requiring that weekly and total extended benefit amounts payable to a person be reduced under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to public health; requiring the establishment of a program to improve access to certain resources in a medical emergency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Dina NealDemocrat

AN ACT relating to contractors; authorizing the State Contractors' Board to take certain actions against a person who submits certain bids without the proper license; revising the grounds for disciplinary action which the Board may impose against a licensed contractor to include interfering or attempting to interfere with an investigation or disciplinary proceeding of the Board or other legal action to which the Board is a party; making it unlawful for any person to interfere or attempt to interfere with an investigation or disciplinary proceeding of the Board or other legal action to which the Board is a party; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to educational personnel; requiring the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to adopt regulations authorizing a member or veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States who has received certain types of certification as an instructor in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program to receive an endorsement to teach pupils enrolled in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program; requiring school districts to consider certification as an instructor in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program to satisfy qualifications for certain positions of employment applied for by a member or veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Lori RogichRepublican

AN ACT relating to gaming; revising the definitions of certain terms related to gaming; revising certain provisions governing restricted licenses to operate gaming; providing for the administrative approval of games or gambling games by the Chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board; revising the types of games that may be exposed by gaming establishments; making a technical correction to refer to a race book and sports pool for the purposes of licensing an establishment to operate interactive gaming; removing and repealing provisions governing cash access and wagering instrument service providers; removing and repealing provisions governing global risk management; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to emissions testing; increasing certain fees relating to forms certifying emission control compliance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to crime; authorizing a governmental entity to disclose certain confidential information to the statewide center for providing assistance to victims under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

John C. SteinbeckRepublican

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; revising provisions governing the prohibition against intentionally feeding certain animals; prohibiting, with certain exceptions, a person or any agent or employee of a person from knowingly bringing into or possessing in this State the excrement or bodily fluid of certain animals; revising provisions governing certain civil penalties for unlawfully killing or possessing certain big game mammals; revising provisions relating to the importation, possession and propagation of certain fallow deer or reindeer; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to governmental financial administration; making an appropriation for allocation to nonprofit organizations to provide programs for the creation and maintenance of school gardens; making appropriations to certain other nonprofit organizations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Julie PazinaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental financial administration; establishing conditions of the acceptance of an appropriation under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-CrawfordDemocrat

AN ACT relating to property; requiring certain landlords to establish a policy requiring certain applicants for employment to undergo a criminal background check as a condition of employment; requiring such landlords to take certain actions relating to dwelling unit keys; requiring such landlords to maintain a log of certain information and actions on the premises; authorizing the filing of a civil action under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Julie PazinaDemocrat

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Nevada Center for Civic Engagement to support civics education programs in elementary, junior high, middle and high schools in this State and to expand civics education programs for adults; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

MarilynPresident pro Tempore Dondero LoopDemocrat

AN ACT relating to taxation; authorizing the Department of Taxation to deliver by electronic means notices, decisions and other written communications under certain circumstances; authorizing the Board of Economic Development to deny an application for an abatement, partial abatement or transferable tax credits under certain circumstances; revising the manner in which the Department determines the industry in which a business is engaged for the purposes of the commerce tax; revising the due date for the payment of sales and use taxes; authorizing businesses that recycle certain materials or produce certain fuels from recycled materials to apply to the Office of Economic Development for a partial abatement of certain taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to juvenile justice; expanding the scope of a program established by the juvenile court for the treatment of children diagnosed with or suspected to have autism spectrum disorders to include children diagnosed with or suspected to have certain other neurobehavioral disorders; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

James OhrenschallDemocrat

AN ACT relating to trade practices; prohibiting a third-party reservation service platform provider from engaging in certain activities; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

FabianDeputy Majority Whip DoñateDemocrat

AN ACT relating to energy; authorizing the board of county commissioners of a county to require applicants for a partial abatement of certain taxes imposed on certain renewable energy facilities to reimburse the county for costs incurred by the county to participate in the preparation of a federal environmental impact statement; authorizing the Director of the Office of Energy within the Office of the Governor to condition approval of such a partial abatement on compliance with the requirement to pay such a reimbursement; prohibiting a county from taking certain actions with respect to a renewable energy facility that the county has approved or recommended approval for a partial abatement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

AN ACT relating to public employees; establishing the maximum allowed salaries for certain state employees; revising provisions relating to the compensation of employees of the Senate and Assembly; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT making an appropriation to Communities In Schools of Nevada to provide integrated student support services to pupils enrolled in public schools in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Nicole J.Majority Leader CannizzaroDemocrat

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising provisions governing the requirements for the issuance by the Department of Motor Vehicles of a special license plate or special or temporary parking placard or parking sticker; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

John C. SteinbeckRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the board of trustees of a school district or governing body of a charter school to provide a stipend to certain teachers who teach pupils enrolled in a program of bilingual education; requiring information concerning such stipends to be included in certain reports prepared by the board of trustees of each school district and the governing body of each charter school; requiring the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to adopt regulations requiring teachers to hold an endorsement to teach pupils enrolled in a program of bilingual education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-CrawfordDemocrat

AN ACT making appropriations to the Department of Education for certain surveys, offsets to decreases in federal grant funding, professional development costs, information technology projects, programs, grants and studies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to public employees; revising the definition of “police officer” for the purposes of certain benefits and exemptions; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Brian HibbettsRepublican

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; revising provisions governing the submission of certain reports by the State Land Registrar; repealing provisions requiring the State Forester Firewarden to submit an annual report relating to the Lake Tahoe Basin; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to land use planning; requiring the governing body of certain cities and counties to include a heat mitigation plan in the conservation element of the master plan; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to energy; authorizing the users of a solar-powered affordable housing system to participate in net metering; exempting the owner or operator of a solar-powered affordable housing system from certain provisions of law; requiring the owner or landlord of a qualified multifamily affordable housing property to notify residents and new tenants of certain information relating to a solar-powered affordable housing system; making certain provisions governing public works applicable to contracts for construction work related to certain solar-powered affordable housing systems; establishing requirements for a tariff or contract relating to a solar-powered affordable housing system; revising provisions governing the administration of net metering; revising provisions relating to an expanded solar access program which certain electric utilities are required to offer; revising certain contractual requirements for an agreement for the purchase or lease of a solar-powered affordable housing system; imposing various requirements and restrictions on a contractor who performs work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to produce electricity on a qualified multifamily affordable housing property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

HowardMajority Whip WattsDemocrat

AN ACT relating to water; revising provisions governing the Account for the Channel Clearance, Maintenance, Restoration, Surveying and Monumenting Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Robin L.Minority Leader TitusRepublican

AN ACT relating to insurance; establishing a maximum cost-sharing amount that certain health insurers may impose for a 30-day supply of prescription insulin drugs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT making appropriations to the Nevada System of Higher Education for operational and instructional expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; revising provisions relating to the Governor Guinn Millennium Scholarship Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring the Commissioner of Insurance to establish programs to inform providers of health care and insureds under health insurance policies of certain information relating to the payment of claims; revising provisions governing the payment of claims under policies of health insurance; establishing certain administrative penalties; requiring a health carrier to provide certain information to participating providers of health care and covered persons; requiring a health carrier to establish certain procedures for challenging the denial of a claim; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to forestry; revising provisions relating to logging permits; removing certain requirements relating to a cutting operation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to campaign practices; requiring certain communications relating to an election that include synthetic media to contain a disclosure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections