Bills & Legislation

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.

AN ACT relating to health care; revising provisions governing the qualifications of applicants for a license by endorsement as a dental hygienist; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles to contract with a person who makes installment loans to pay the fees and taxes due for the initial or renewal registration of a vehicle; prescribing certain requirements for such installment loans; authorizing the Director of the Department to authorize the use of digital license plates; providing requirements governing the use of digital license plates; revising the applicability of certain provisions governing installment lenders to a lender who contracts with the Department; extending the prospective expiration of the pilot program to gather data about annual vehicle miles traveled by certain vehicles registered in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to transportation; requiring a regional transportation commission in certain counties to take certain actions to mitigate safety risks to transit operators; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to interscholastic activities; prohibiting the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association from retaliating against a school or person for certain activities; prohibiting athletic recruitment; revising provisions governing certain hearings and appeals conducted by the Association; revising provisions governing the eligibility of pupils who transfer schools to participate and practice in a sanctioned sport or other interscholastic activity or event; revising requirements relating to the adoption of regulations by the Association; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Natha C.Assistant Majority Whip AndersonDemocrat

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 identification cards; authorizing the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a program to issue identification cards to Nevada residents who are experiencing homelessness; requiring an applicant for an identification card to attest to certain facts and provide certain information providing for the change of the full legal name on an identification card under certain circumstances; providing for the expiration of an identification card issued by the Department; prohibiting certain conduct related to an identification card; authorizing certain local governments to accept an identification card issued by the Department for certain purposes; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Linda F. HuntDemocrat

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 cannabis; repealing provisions requiring the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine to establish a program for the evaluation and research of the medical use of cannabis in the care and treatment of persons who have been diagnosed with a chronic or debilitating medical condition; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to victims of crime; revising certain provisions relating to the Fund for the Compensation of Victims of Crime; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the State Board of Education to adopt regulations establishing criteria that a vendor that provides a high-impact tutoring program must satisfy to contract with the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school to provide such a program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to offenders; revising requirements relating to the provision of certain medical services to women in the custody of the Department of Corrections; revising provisions relating to notarial acts performed for persons incarcerated in the state prison; eliminating the requirement that the Director of the Department establish and administer a program of regimental discipline; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to water; exempting the State Engineer from liability for certain damages resulting from the performance of certain duties; revising provisions relating to the construction, reconstruction or alteration of a dam; exempting certain works under the jurisdiction of the United States Bureau of Reclamation or the United States Army Corps of Engineers from certain requirements relating to dams; requiring that certain applications relating to dams be made available to the Department of Wildlife; authorizing the State Engineer to enter certain parcels of land to access a dam or other obstruction; revising provisions relating to the removal of any dam, diversion works or obstruction; revising provisions relating to the removal of certain animals interfering with the flow of water; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

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.

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.Assistant Minority Floor Leader North KoenigRepublican

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.

AN ACT relating to offenders; authorizing the Director of the Department of Corrections to establish a transitional housing program for certain offenders to develop skills and training relating to forestry management and conservation; requiring the State Forester Firewarden to establish a hiring program to appoint certain former offenders to firefighting positions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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.

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada to establish a data dashboard setting forth certain statistical information relating to student outcomes; requiring the Board of Regents to establish a policy for the use of low-cost course materials and no-cost open educational resources in courses offered at an institution within the Nevada System of Higher Education; requiring the Board of Regents to conduct a study during the 2025-2026 interim relating to certain issues facing students of the Nevada System of Higher Education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services for a grant program to expand the biennial survey administered pursuant to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Department of Health and Human Services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to the Department of Motor Vehicles; authorizing the imprinting of individualized symbols or codes for different medical conditions on driver's licenses or identification cards; revising the manner in which the Department communicates certain information concerning liability insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring an application to participate in Medicaid as a provider to be accompanied with a verification of the identity and signature of the applicant; establishing the means by which the identity and signature of an applicant may be established; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to artificial intelligence; defining “artificial intelligence” in the context of emergency management; requiring emergency management plans prepared by the Governor and each plan adopted by a state or local governmental agency to include provisions ensuring that final decisions regarding emergency response planning and the allocation of resources in response to an emergency are not made by artificial intelligence; prohibiting a public utility from making a final decision regarding whether to reduce or shut down utility service in response to a disaster or emergency based solely on the use of artificial intelligence; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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 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 public employees; revising the computation of credit for service for certain members of the Public Employees' Retirement System who are employed by a school district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

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 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 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.

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 public financial administration; revising the hours the office of the county treasurer is required to be kept open; requiring certain money from the sale of property for delinquent taxes to be accounted for separately in a county general fund and used to pay for the acquisition and improvement of technology used in the office of the county treasurer; revising the contents of a notice of delinquent taxes; revising provisions relating to certain property held in trust by a county treasurer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Bert K. GurrRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; authorizing officers and trainees appointed for certain elections to choose to work as volunteers who receive no compensation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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 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 water; requiring the State Engineer to retire certain groundwater rights; revising provisions relating to temporary permits to appropriate groundwater; creating the Nevada Conservation and Recreation Program; creating the Account for Retiring Water Rights; establishing the Nevada Voluntary Water Rights Retirement Program; requiring the Director of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to purchase certain water rights with money from the Account for the purpose of retiring those water rights; revising provisions relating to the program to provide grants of money to pay certain costs related to water conservation and capital improvements to water systems; revising provisions relating to a program to pay the costs for property owners to connect to a community sewerage disposal system under certain circumstances; revising certain legislative declarations relating to clean water and water pollution; authorizing the State Environmental Commission to establish a water quality standard variance; revising provisions relating to an irrigation water efficiency monitoring program established by the Southern Nevada Water Authority; revising provisions relating to membership on the Advisory Committee for the Management of Groundwater in the Las Vegas Valley Groundwater Basin; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to providers of health care; limiting the amount a provider of health care may charge to fill out certain forms necessary to take a leave of absence authorized by the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to the state militia; clarifying for purposes of industrial insurance that a member of the state militia is on state active duty for 24 hours a day while on state active duty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to housing authorities; authorizing the formation of a regional housing authority in certain counties; setting forth the composition and powers of certain regional housing authorities; revising various provisions relating to housing authorities; revising the compensation of commissioners; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

PK O’NeillRepublican

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

DanieleSpeaker Pro Tempore Monroe-MorenoDemocrat

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.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

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.

DanieleSpeaker Pro Tempore Monroe-MorenoDemocrat

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., IIMinority Floor Leader HafenRepublican

AN ACT relating to real property; requiring a landlord or his or her agent to provide a tenant at least one method of paying rent or any other fee or charge that meets certain requirements; prohibiting a landlord or his or her agent from charging a tenant a fee to make a payment through an Internet website or online portal that exceeds the amount of any fee charged by the operator of the Internet website or online portal for the use of the website or portal; requiring a written rental agreement to separately identify any such fee under certain circumstances; authorizing a tenant to bring a civil action against a landlord who has committed certain violations; requiring a landlord or his or her agent to provide, upon request, a copy of a written rental agreement to a prospective tenant; requiring a landlord to refund certain fees collected from a prospective tenant under certain circumstances; prohibiting a landlord from collecting certain application fees; requiring certain references to the amount of rent due under a rental agreement to be set forth in a certain manner; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Venicia ConsidineDemocrat

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 Medicaid; requiring Medicaid to provide coverage for screening for certain forms of cancer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Natha C.Assistant Majority Whip AndersonDemocrat

AN ACT relating to insurance; establishing the applicability of provisions requiring policies of health insurance to include certain coverage; requiring that certain health insurance policies and health plans include coverage for certain forms of speech-language pathology as treatment for stuttering for persons who are less than 26 years of age; prohibiting certain limitations on such coverage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

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.

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