Bills & Legislation

AN ACT making appropriations to and authorizing the expenditure of money by the Office of the Military for certain projects, programs, equipment and contractual costs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to emergency management; revising provisions governing the Nevada Intrastate Mutual Aid System to require the State Forester Firewarden of the Division of Forestry of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to administer the System as it relates to wildfire suppression; requiring the State Forester Firewarden to serve as Co-Chair of the Intrastate Mutual Aid Committee and appoint committee members jointly with the Chief of the Division of Emergency Management of the Office of the Military; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; establishing the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Treatment Assistance Program within the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Health and Human Services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to programs for public personnel; establishing for the 2025-2027 biennium the subsidies to be paid to the Public Employees' Benefits Program for insurance for certain active and retired public officers and employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to taxation; removing the prospective expiration of the Nye County Sales and Use Tax Act of 2007; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Revenue

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; creating and prescribing the duties of the Beneficiary Advisory Council of the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services; prescribing requirements governing the membership and procedures of the Council; revising the name of the Medical Care Advisory Committee of the Division to the Medicaid Advisory Committee; adding certain members to the Committee; revising certain requirements governing the operations of the Committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to public works; revising provisions relating to the compliance of a contractor or subcontractor with certain requirements relating to apprentices on a public work; revising requirements relating to identifying numbers for public works; revising provisions relating to the imposition of penalties for certain violations; revising provisions relating to the period within which a person is disqualified from being awarded a contract for a public work in certain circumstances; revising provisions relating to the investigation of certain possible violations; creating the Public Works Compliance Division within the Office of Labor Commissioner and prescribing its duties; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to insurance; revising provisions relating to reimbursement for certain treatment and services provided by certain providers of health care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to mental health; requiring Medicaid to provide coverage for rehabilitative residential mental health care; requiring the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to investigate and provide certain assistance to providers of rehabilitative residential mental health care; providing for the licensure and regulation of providers of rehabilitative residential mental health care; making appropriations to and authorizing certain expenditures by the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT making supplemental appropriations to the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Health and Human Services for an unanticipated shortfall related to costs associated with certain provider payments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to adoption; requiring background investigations of certain persons who operate or provide services to children at a child-placing agency; authorizing the disclosure of information from the State Register for Adoptions to certain persons without the consent of the natural parent under extenuating circumstances; authorizing certain persons to attend an adoption hearing by a remote-technology system under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a county or city clerk to provide certain information or data relating to the current election cycle within a certain period of time; revising qualifications for certain elected public officers to require such officers to be registered to vote in this State; revising provisions governing a declaration of candidacy and declaration of residency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections

AN ACT relating to chiropractic; enacting provisions relating to temporary certificates for chiropractic assistants; revising provisions relating to unprofessional conduct in the practice of chiropractic; revising the membership of the Chiropractic Physicians' Board of Nevada; revising certain qualifications required to apply for a license as a chiropractic physician or a certificate as a chiropractic assistant; revising certain fees the Board may charge and collect; revising certain requirements for student participation in a preceptor program; revising certain requirements for certain cease and desist orders of the Board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to state property; revising certain provisions relating to the lease of certain state real property for grazing or pasturage rights and the sale of agricultural products produced on such real property; requiring certain money received for the grazing of livestock and the sale of agricultural products be deposited in the Account for Maintenance of State Parks within the Division of State Parks of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to environmental hazards; authorizing the Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to issue an order for certain violations relating to mining reclamation; providing the Division, solid waste management authority and Department with a lien on certain property under certain circumstances; revising provisions governing mining reclamation to include the stabilization of process fluids; revising certain requirements for a permit to engage in a mining operation or exploration project; authorizing the State Environmental Commission to adopt regulations relating to solid waste management facilities; requiring the Commission to adopt regulations relating to the requirements for the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste landfill or solid waste management facility to provide certain evidence of financial responsibility; requiring a permit to construct or operate a solid waste management facility; making requirements for disposal sites applicable to solid waste management facilities; prohibiting a municipal solid waste landfill from accepting certain types of hazardous waste; revising provisions relating to the management of hazardous waste; revising requirements governing a permit to operate a facility for the management of hazardous waste; revising requirements relating to evidence of financial responsibility provided by an owner or operator of certain facilities for the management of hazardous waste; revising certain prohibitions relating to hazardous waste; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to background investigations; requiring a background investigation of employees, prospective employees, contractors and prospective contractors of the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising provisions governing the taxation of remote sales of cigars and pipe tobacco; revising provisions governing the licensing of remote retail sellers of cigars and pipe tobacco; revising provisions governing age verification for remote retail sales of certain tobacco products; providing penalties; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Brian HibbettsRepublican

AN ACT relating to economic development; authorizing the creation of an industrial park in a contiguous area that meets certain requirements; authorizing the creation of a tax increment area and the issuance of bonds and other securities for certain projects within an inland port or industrial park; requiring the designation of a teacher or other licensed educational personnel to coordinate career pathways programs at each high school which offers such programs; creating the Career Pathways Oversight Committee; requiring the appointment of a Career Pathways Oversight Coordinator; revising provisions governing the Teacher Academy College Pathway Program; revising provisions governing the program for reimbursement of tuition and fees paid by teachers who completed the Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Shea M. BackusDemocrat

AN ACT relating to child welfare; revising provisions relating to deductions from the separate account of a child in the Trust Fund for Child Welfare; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing a pupil to attend a public school outside the zone of attendance the pupil is otherwise required to attend in certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Education to establish a program to award grants of money for the purpose of providing transportation to such pupils; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Education

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Office of the State Controller for the costs of certain consulting services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Education to carry out the Incentivizing Pathways to Teaching Grant Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Education for the replacement of the information technology system for educator licensure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to educational personnel; authorizing a person who holds a license to teach in another state to be hired as a teacher in this State on a certain provisional basis if he or she satisfies certain requirements; requiring the Commission on Professional Standards in Education to prescribe certain regulations concerning the licensure of teachers, school counselors, school nurses and school social workers; eliminating the authority of the State Board of Education to disapprove of regulations adopted by the Commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Education

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising provisions governing the effectuation of additional annual increases in certain taxes imposed on fuels for motor vehicles in certain larger counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Nevada System of Higher Education for safety and security equipment and enhancements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to public safety; authorizing a board of county commissioners to establish an electronic database containing information concerning victims of mass casualty incidents; setting forth certain requirements for such an electronic database; exempting certain persons from civil liability related to such an electronic database, under certain circumstances; providing for the confidentiality of information contained in such an electronic database; requiring a hospital and an independent center for emergency medical care in a county in which such an electronic database is established to report to the database certain information concerning a victim of a mass casualty incident; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to education; requiring a school administrator or his or her designee to conduct an initial screening and assessment of a report of discrimination based on race, bullying or cyber-bullying to determine whether to take certain actions; authorizing the board of trustees of a school district to assign a pupil who is a perpetrator of discrimination based on race, bullying or cyber-bullying to another school if his or her parent or guardian requests such an assignment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Education

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring certain health insurers to respond to requests for prior authorization for medical or dental care within a certain amount of time; prohibiting certain insurers from requiring prior authorization for certain types of medical care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Shea M. BackusDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; revising the expiration date of certain licenses issued by the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to transportation; revising the minimum dollar amount of transportation network company insurance that a transportation network company, a driver or a monitored autonomous vehicle provider is required to maintain under certain circumstances; defining certain terms related to delivery network companies; providing that certain delivery network companies are not vicariously liable for any acts or omissions of a driver who provides delivery services for the delivery network company; providing that a transportation network company is not vicariously liable for any acts or omissions of a driver who provides transportation services for the transportation network company; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

AN ACT relating to health care; making various revisions governing the qualifications and procedure for licensure as a physician, physician assistant, practitioner of respiratory care or perfusionist; requiring screening of youth for certain health conditions when certain physical examinations are conducted; revising the authority of a practitioner of respiratory care to perform certain laboratory tests; requiring certain sharing of information between the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine; authorizing the Board of Medical Examiners to require certain competency demonstrations; eliminating certain special licenses; revising provisions related to fees owed to the Board of Medical Examiners or the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine; eliminating certain fees; revising investigation procedures and grounds for discipline against a licensee of the Board of Medical Examiners; revising requirements governing certain medical procedures; authorizing a medical assistant to perform tasks under the supervision of a registered nurse; authorizing a certified registered nurse anesthetist to perform certain tasks in certain hospitals; authorizing discipline against a registered nurse who fails to adequately supervise a medical assistant; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to the protection of children; requiring an investigation of the history of abuse or neglect of certain persons associated with certain medical facilities and organizations; requiring such a facility to terminate the employment of such persons based on the results of such an investigation under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising provisions governing the administration of the exemption from sales and use taxes for organizations created for religious, charitable or educational purposes; requiring the Department of Taxation to report to the Legislature certain information concerning applications for such an exemption; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Revenue

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring certain health plans to include coverage for certain procedures or services for the preservation of fertility of insureds who have been diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer; providing certain exceptions for insurers affiliated with religious organizations; authorizing certain expenditures; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Tanya P. FlanaganDemocrat

AN ACT relating to the protection of children; revising provisions relating to certain categorical grants to fund the adoption assistance program; providing for a study of and the development of a plan for reinvesting certain money; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to accountants; revising the requirements for the granting of a certificate of certified public accountant; requiring the Nevada State Board of Accountancy to prescribe by regulation certain requirements and standards for the issuance of a certificate of certified public accountant; revising provisions governing certain fees that the Board is authorized or required to charge; revising provisions governing the examination required for the issuance of a certificate of certified public accountant; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising provisions governing the disposition of certain vehicles abandoned on public or private property; revising provisions governing the issuance of junk certificates by the Department of Motor Vehicles; revising provisions governing lists of operators of tow cars used by law enforcement agencies; prohibiting the operator of a tow car from falsely reporting the location of the operator or tow car to a law enforcement agency for certain purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Max E., II CarterDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; requiring certain state agencies to prepare a report if the provisions of certain federal laws and regulations are repealed by the Federal Government; authorizing such state agencies to adopt certain regulations if such federal laws and applicable regulations are repealed by the Federal Government; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Education

AN ACT relating to public employment; requiring an appointing authority to recognize relevant employment experience obtained in the Federal Government as equivalent to employment experience obtained in the government of this State for certain purposes; prohibiting, with certain exceptions, an appointing authority from requiring an applicant for a position of employment in the classified or unclassified service of the State to have obtained a bachelor's degree as a condition precedent to employment; requiring the Administrator of the Division of Human Resource Management of the Department of Administration to take certain actions with respect to the master classification plan for all positions in the classified service of the State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain agencies and licensing boards to establish a process for the priority review of certain applications for licensure to practice certain health professions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Division of Forestry of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for an unanticipated shortfall related to firefighting costs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to public works; creating a program to gather data on the use of job order contracts for certain public works; authorizing certain public bodies to enter into job order contracts for minor construction performed on an existing public work; prescribing the procedure for awarding a job order contract; making certain documents and other information submitted by a person seeking a job order contract confidential until a contract is awarded; prescribing responsibilities of a contractor who enters into a job order contract; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT making appropriations to Clark County, the City of Reno and the Nevada Rural Housing Authority for eviction diversion programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to adoption; repealing, reenacting, revising, reorganizing and establishing certain provisions relating to the adoption of children through agency adoptions, identified adoptions, close-family adoptions, confirmatory adoptions, readoptions and adoptions of children placed in the custody of agencies which provide child welfare services under certain circumstances; revising various provisions relating to the adoption of adults; requiring the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt various regulations; directing the Legislative Counsel to make various organizational changes concerning the placement of certain compacts for adoption in the Nevada Revised Statutes; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Brittney M. MillerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to workforce development; authorizing, to the extent that money is available, the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation to establish and carry out a program to place career coaches in middle schools and junior high schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Revenue

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services for an unanticipated shortfall related to the Rural Child Welfare budget account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to housing; revising provisions governing manufactured homes, mobile homes, manufactured buildings, commercial coaches and factory-built housing; revising provisions relating to certain investigations by the Administrator; revising provisions governing the payment of certain claims from the Account for Housing Inspection and Compliance; revising provisions governing certain disclosures required to be made to a tenant by a landlord of a manufactured home park; revising requirements relating to the maintenance of lots by tenants in a manufactured home park; requiring a purchaser or transferee of a mobile home park to notify the Housing Division of the Department of Business and Industry of the sale or transfer; eliminating certain provisions relating to travel trailers; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to guardianship; revising provisions relating to service of certain notices, petitions and citations relating to guardianships of minors; revising provisions relating to the appointment, modification, removal or termination of guardianships of minors; revising provisions relating to the powers and duties of guardians of minors; revising provisions relating to the management of the estates, property and other assets of protected minors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to open one or more investigatory dockets to examine certain matters relating to a potential cost-sharing adjustment mechanism; requiring a utility to refund certain overcharges; revising provisions governing certain applications filed by a public utility; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Tracy Brown-MayDemocrat