Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to business; authorizing the Secretary of State to adopt regulations to decrease the amount of the fee for the issuance or renewal of a state business license and certain filing fees paid by business entities; authorizing the Secretary of State to adopt regulations to decrease certain penalties and fees for failing to obtain or renew a state business license or timely file certain documents; revising provisions governing the renewal of a state business license; requiring an electronic mail address to be included in certain filings related to registered agents; authorizing the Office of the Secretary of State to accept records written in a language other than English under certain circumstances; revising provisions governing acceptance by the Secretary of State of certain documents on behalf of a business entity whose name includes certain words associated with professions regulated by the State Board of Architecture, Interior Design and Residential Design; eliminating fees for the filing of documents to dissolve or cancel the registration of a business entity; revising provisions governing the registration of trademarks, trade names and service marks with the Secretary of State; authorizing the Board to accept proof of receipt of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in lieu of an examination for registration as an architect; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to elections; defining the term “current and valid” for purposes of certain documentation relating to elections; authorizing an active registered voter to request a mail ballot under certain emergency circumstances; revising eligibility to be a candidate of a major political party; setting forth the form of a declaration of candidacy for certain candidates; revising the methods for paying candidate filing fees; revising the information required to be contained in election notices; revising provisions relating to election boards; revising provisions relating to the provision or reimbursement of certain expenses related to training on elections procedures; revising provisions relating to when certain candidates may be declared elected at a primary election; revising provisions relating to ballots and standards for counting votes; revising provisions relating to an application to preregister or register to vote; revising provisions relating to the designation of persons who are not affiliated with a political party; revising provisions relating to updating voter registration information; revising provisions relating to certain crimes relating to elections; requiring the Secretary of State to adopt a cyber-incident response plan; authorizing certain elderly persons to request that certain personal information be kept confidential; revising provisions relating to the testing of certain equipment; revising the deadline by which a withdrawal of candidacy must be presented by certain candidates; revising provisions relating campaign contributions for certain special elections; making various other changes relating to elections; providing a penalty; making an appropriation to the Contingency Account for allocation to the Secretary of State for certain costs relating to training on elections procedures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections

AN ACT relating to transportation; revising the required qualifications of a Deputy Director of the Department of Transportation; revising the highway projects for which the Department is required to prepare a written cost-benefit analysis; revising provisions governing the award of contracts by the Department; increasing the maximum cost of a project for which the Department may use informal bidding procedures; revising provisions relating to advertisement and submission of bids for work; increasing the amount that the Department may spend to purchase equipment without approval from the Board of Directors of the Department; revising requirements for the provision of certain notices by the Department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring a county or city clerk to allow any person to inspect the signature of a registered voter; prohibiting a county or city clerk from providing a copy or allowing a person to copy the signature of any registered voter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; requiring certain public entities to post certain information relating to purchasing on their Internet websites; revising the duties of the Commission to Study Governmental Purchasing; abolishing the Regional Business Development Advisory Council for Clark County; eliminating a requirement that institutions of the Nevada System of Higher Education provide certain mentoring to certain businesses participating in the NV Grow Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to behavioral health; requiring licensing boards that regulate various professions relating to behavioral health to report certain information; ratifying and entering into the Social Work Licensure Compact; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT making an appropriation to the City of Fernley for continued construction and development at the Fernley Community Response and Resource Center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to civil actions; revising provisions governing the legal representation of certain persons by the Attorney General or the chief legal officer or authorized legal representative of a political subdivision; revising requirements relating to a special verdict form in certain actions; revising provisions governing indemnification of certain persons in certain civil actions; revising provisions governing civil liability of public employers for certain conduct of employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to coroners; providing, with certain exceptions, that the final report of a coroner concerning certain investigations of deaths is a public record; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; prohibiting the State Government from the recovery of Medicaid benefits from an account established under the Nevada ABLE Savings Program in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to the Internet; establishing certain requirements relating to de-identified data; prohibiting controllers of online services, products or features from processing the personal data of children for certain purposes; establishing requirements for the collection and processing by controllers of certain types of data belonging to children; requiring controllers to conduct certain assessments; authorizing certain civil enforcement; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to cities; requiring, under certain circumstances, a board of county commissioners in certain counties to appoint a public body to carry out certain duties of a regional planning coalition; requiring certain cities to adopt a program of annexation; creating a city annexation and detachment commission in certain counties; setting forth the powers and duties of the commission; authorizing the governing body of certain cities to detach territory using certain procedures; setting forth procedures for the review of a proposal to annex or detach territory by a commission in certain counties; revising procedures relating to a proposal to annex territory in certain counties; establishing procedures relating to a proposal by certain cities to detach territory; repealing the authority of certain cities to use certain alternative procedures to annex territory; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to education; prohibiting licensed teachers and educational personnel from engaging in certain activities that constitute sexual impropriety with the grooming of a pupil; authorizing the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to place an administrative hold on the license of a person who commits certain acts that may constitute grounds for disciplinary action; providing requirements governing the placement of an administrative hold; exempting a person with an administrative hold on his or her license from provisions governing the lapse of a license while school is in session; authorizing the State Board to suspend or revoke the license of a person who engages in grooming or sexual impropriety or who seeks or obtains new employment with a school district or charter school while the license of the licensee is subject to an administrative hold; eliminating provisions authorizing the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue a provisional license to a person pending the receipt of certain criminal history reports; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Education

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing the children who must be served by a prekindergarten program supported by certain grants from the Department of Education; establishing the method for determining the amount awarded for such grants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to peace officers; clarifying that requirements for certain law enforcement agencies relating to the use of portable event recording devices do not apply to certain peace officers; clarifying that records made by certain portable event recording devices are not public records; clarifying that requirements relating to the use of a portable event recording device apply only to certain law enforcement agencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to public safety; establishing requirements for the reporting by law enforcement agencies of certain information concerning violations of the prohibition against driving or being in actual physical control of a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or certain controlled substances; revising provisions governing the measurement of the concentration of alcohol in the blood or breath of a person who was driving, operating or in actual physical control of certain vehicles or vessels; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

AN ACT relating to tourism; requiring the Commission on Tourism to develop and administer a grant program relating to agritourism; defining certain terms relating to agritourism; requiring the Director of the State Department of Agriculture to adopt regulations establishing the types of businesses that qualify as agritourism; requiring the Department to carry out certain marketing and outreach duties relating to agritourism; authorizing the Director to issue special use permits relating to agritourism under certain circumstances; establishing certain provisions relating to the liability of operators of businesses engaged in agritourism; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development

AN ACT relating to highways; requiring the Department of Transportation to create an electronic system for local governments to report road conditions under certain circumstances; authorizing a city, county, regional transportation commission, the Department or any other public authority to notify a navigation provider regarding certain road conditions; requiring a navigation provider to take certain actions after receiving such a notification; revising provisions relating to the Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety; requiring the Director of the Department to adopt regulations; providing a civil penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

AN ACT relating to housing; creating the Account for Housing Expansion Through Local Partnerships; authorizing the use of money in the Account to reimburse cities and counties for the cost of reducing or subsidizing certain fees to assist in maintaining or developing a project for affordable housing; making an appropriation to the Account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; authorizing the Office of Nevada Boards, Commissions and Councils Standards of the Department of Business and Industry to adopt regulations prescribing a fee for any service provided by the Office to a professional or occupational licensing board under the purview of the Office; removing the Commission on Postsecondary Education of the Employment Security Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation from the purview of the Office; revising provisions governing technology fees imposed on each compensable trip by a taxicab; authorizing a transportation network company and a taxicab motor carrier or person who provides electronic hailing services to a taxicab motor carrier to enter into certain agreements; setting forth certain requirements for a trip resulting from such an agreement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to public employees; making appropriations for the implementation of certain collective bargaining agreements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT making appropriations to the Interim Finance Committee for allocation to the State Public Charter School Authority to provide money to charter schools for salary increases for certain employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Robin L.Minority Leader TitusRepublican

AN ACT relating to energy; creating the Nevada Energy Resiliency Task Force; setting forth the membership and duties of the Task Force; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Robin L.Minority Leader TitusRepublican

AN ACT relating to crimes; revising provisions relating to the additional penalty for certain crimes committed against an older person or a vulnerable person; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to health care; revising requirements governing the electronic maintenance, transmittal and exchange of health information; making revisions relating to emergency medical care; prescribing certain requirements to expedite the credentialing and privileging of providers of health care; authorizing paramedics to serve as employees or volunteers in hospitals under certain circumstances; imposing certain requirements governing prior authorization for medical care and payment of health insurance claims; making various revisions relating to Medicaid; creating and prescribing the duties of the Office of Mental Health in the Department of Health and Human Services or the Nevada Health Authority, if it is created; prohibiting noncompetition covenants governing certain providers of health care; requiring the prioritization of certain applications for licensure as a physician or osteopathic physician; requiring certain providers of health care to provide certain data to the Department; requiring certain reports of the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine to include certain information; authorizing the establishment of an alternative pathway to licensure as a dental hygienist; establishing provisions to incentivize the provision of psychological services to rural patients; requiring the Patient Protection Commission to study academic medical centers; making appropriations; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor; removing the prospective expiration of the Office of Small Business Advocacy within the Office of the Lieutenant Governor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Department of Corrections for an automated case management system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the Nevada Gaming Control Board for an unanticipated shortfall related to personnel expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT making appropriations to the Nevada System of Higher Education for expenditures related to instruction that are due to caseload adjustments at certain institutions within the System; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to insurance; providing for a study of certain issues relating to coverage for behavioral health care; requiring the submission of certain information for the purposes of that study; providing for the confidentiality of such information; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to education; revising the manner in which the Governor is required to prepare the proposed executive budget with respect to the support of the operation of public schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to economic development; revising provisions governing abatements of certain taxes and transferable tax credits for certain businesses; authorizing the Office of Economic Development to approve a partial deduction of certain taxes for a person who intends to locate or expand a high-impact business in this State; authorizing the Board of Economic Development to deny an application for an abatement, deduction or transferable tax credits under certain circumstances; authorizing the Office to issue transferable tax credits for the location or expansion of a child care facility in this State; creating the Community Infrastructure Grant Program; revising provisions governing the State Plan for Economic Development; revising provisions governing programs of workforce recruitment, assessment and training; requiring the Office of Economic Development and the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation to establish a program to reimburse certain expenses of certain students of the Nevada System of Higher Education; providing for the establishment of a program to provide stipends to certain employers whose employees teach in programs of career and technical education; revising provisions governing programs of career and technical education; authorizing businesses that recycle certain materials or produce certain fuels from recycled materials to apply to the Office for a partial abatement of certain taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development

AN ACT relating to education; increasing the amount of anticipated annual revenue from certain settlement agreements and civil actions that may be used to pay the costs of administering the Millennium Scholarship Trust Fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to public safety; revising provisions relating to assault, battery, stalking, pornography involving minors, domestic violence, and driving under the influence of alcohol or a prohibited substance; requiring a compliance hearing after the issuance of certain orders to relinquish firearms; establishing certain unlawful acts related to certain theft offenses involving property damage; revising provisions relating to offenders; establishing provisions related to the creation of corridors and the adjudication and reporting of certain offenses committed within such corridors; making various changes related to juvenile justice; prohibiting the construction of certain findings relating to actions for wrongful conviction; revising provisions relating to the sealing of records and specialty court programs; revising provisions relating to pretrial release; revising provisions relating to opioid use disorder; making appropriations; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; transferring the Office of Federal Assistance in the Office of the Governor to the Office of Finance in the Office of the Governor; making the Director of the Office of Federal Assistance a Deputy Director for the Office of Federal Assistance; revising the membership of the Nevada Advisory Council on Federal Assistance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to the Department of Motor Vehicles; renaming the Division of Field Services and the Administrative Services Division of the Department of Motor Vehicles; eliminating the Division of Central Services and Records of the Department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Finance

AN ACT relating to public safety; providing that certain provisions governing the organization of a metropolitan police department do not prohibit a participating political subdivision from establishing and administering a unit of specialized law enforcement consisting of officers that provide public safety services; setting forth the jurisdiction and authority of officers of such a unit; revising provisions governing the jurisdiction and authority of certain units of specialized law enforcement established in a county in which a metropolitan police department has been organized; requiring certain officers of such a unit to wear portable event recording devices; providing that certain officers of such units have the powers of a peace officer; providing that such officers are police officers for purposes of certain provisions governing occupational diseases; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to courts; revising provisions relating to bailiffs and deputy marshals in certain courts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT making an appropriation to Workforce Connections for a program for certain youth; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to public works; authorizing an action seeking an alternate writ of mandamus to require a public body to award certain contracts and authorizing a court to award attorney's fees and costs to a party that prevails on such an alternate writ of mandamus; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to education; revising the qualifications for a pupil to participate in a work-based learning program; revising the requirements relating to criminal background investigations of volunteers in work-based learning programs; authorizing, under certain circumstances, the board of trustees of a school district to reimburse a business, agency or organization for the cost of an investigation into the criminal background of an employee who volunteers in a work-based learning program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Education

AN ACT relating to transportation; removing and revising provisions relating to drivers who enter into an agreement with a transportation network company; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to financial institutions; providing for the licensure and regulation by the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of merchant acquirer limited purpose banks; setting forth various procedures and requirements for the organization and licensure of merchant acquirer limited purpose banks; setting forth the powers and duties of the Commissioner with respect to merchant acquirer limited purpose banks; imposing various requirements and restrictions concerning the operation of merchant acquirer limited purpose banks; establishing certain prohibited acts relating to merchant acquirer limited purpose banks; revising certain provisions relating to financial institutions; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to nicotine products; defining certain terms relating to vapor products containing nicotine; requiring a manufacturer of a vapor product that is sold for retail sale in this State or to a consumer in this State to execute and deliver certain information to the Attorney General; requiring the Department of Taxation to create, maintain and make available a directory of manufacturers of vapor products and all vapor products; prohibiting a manufacturer of a vapor product from offering for sale or selling a vapor product that is not included in the directory; requiring the Department to prepare and submit to the Legislature an annual report regarding the directory; creating the Account for Vapor Product Enforcement in the State General Fund; providing for the seizure of certain products containing nicotine under certain circumstances; making it unlawful to sell, give, deliver or furnish a product that contains a nicotine analogue; authorizing the sharing of certain information with federal, state, or local agencies for purposes of enforcement of certain provisions relating to products containing nicotine; making an appropriation; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Nicole J.Majority Leader CannizzaroDemocrat

AN ACT relating to landlords; requiring the Housing Division of the Department of Business and Industry to establish a registry of landlords and a mechanism for a tenant to file a complaint concerning a landlord; requiring a landlord of a dwelling unit that does not satisfy certain requirements for essential items or services to provide a tenant certain alternative accommodations under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to health care; creating the Statewide Health Care Access and Recruitment Program Account; providing for certain transfers of money out of the Account; requiring a biennial assessment of the health care needs of this State; establishing the Statewide Health Care Access and Recruitment Grant Program to award grants of money to fund certain projects to address shortages of providers of health care or clinical services or expertise identified by the assessment; requiring a grantee to enter into a funding agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services; providing for certain oversight of projects funded through the Program; authorizing the Department to take certain actions in response to certain changes to a funded project or if a grantee fails to comply with a funding agreement or applicable law;making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Nicole J.Majority Leader CannizzaroDemocrat

AN ACT relating to property; authorizing the executive board of a unit-owners' association to make an assessment to fund certain repairs; requiring a structural inspection of certain buildings in a common-interest community; requiring an association to establish reserves for corrective repairs; requiring a study of reserves of an association to include an estimate of the costs of certain repairs; revising provisions governing the duty of the executive board to provide or make available to a unit's owner certain records; prohibiting certain persons within or associated with a common-interest community from committing certain acts; requiring a written report from a structural inspection of certain buildings in a common-interest community to be provided under certain circumstances; eliminating the authority of the Real Estate Division of the Department of Business and Industry to establish a program for rendering of certain disputes; authorizing the Commission for Common-Interest Communities and Condominium Hotels or a hearing panel to prohibit certain persons from serving on the executive board; revising certain provisions governing actions for constructional defects; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to taxation; imposing the excise tax on admission to live entertainment events through certain resales; requiring certain persons who facilitate resales of admission to live entertainment events to collect the excise tax on such resales; limiting the liability of such persons for failure to collect the tax under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department of Taxation to adopt regulations to require certain persons who list or advertise resales of admissions to live entertainment events to collect and remit the tax under certain circumstances; revising the distribution of the proceeds of the tax; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development