Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain health insurers and providers of health care from engaging in certain discriminatory actions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

MelanieChief Majority Whip ScheibleDemocrat

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; extending the time for which a judgment of death must be executed; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

James OhrenschallDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to include a method for providing additional weight to the scores of certain pupils on criterion-referenced examinations in the statewide system of accountability for public schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Carrie Ann BuckRepublican

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; revising various requirements for an association of self-insured public or private employers, members of an association and members of a board of trustees of an association; revising permissible uses of money collected from members as annual assessments; prohibiting the distribution of dividends to members of an association by an association; revising provisions relating to certain administrative penalties; requiring an association of self-insured public or private employers operating on October 1, 2025, to apply for and be issued a new certificate to act as such an association; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SkipDeputy Majority Whip DalyDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; entering into interstate compacts that authorize the multistate practice of certain providers of health care under certain conditions; providing professionals practicing in this State under those compacts with the same legal status as persons who are licensed to practice the same professions in this State; authorizing the sharing of certain information with data systems created by those compacts; revising certain terminology; providing for a study of certain impacts of entering into certain interstate compacts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to water; authorizing the State Engineer, in certain areas of this State, to coordinate with persons who seek to relinquish, by certain means, a right to appropriate water; requiring the State Engineer to retire such relinquished rights; revising provisions relating to the effective date of a right to appropriate water under a permit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

James OhrenschallDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; authorizing the Legislative Commission to suspend or nullify certain administrative regulations in certain circumstances; revising provisions relating to judicial review of certain administrative regulations in certain circumstances; revising provisions relating to certain administrative regulations and procedures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SkipDeputy Majority Whip DalyDemocrat

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; revising provisions relating to the testimony of a witness given through the use of audiovisual technology at a preliminary examination or grand jury proceeding; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

James OhrenschallDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain health care facilities and certain providers of health care to provide patients with a form for a non-opioid directive and offer patients treatments that do not utilize an opioid under certain circumstances; requiring the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to create a form for a non-opioid directive; requiring the Administrator of the Division to appoint an advisory board to monitor compliance with laws and regulations relating to the non-opioid directive; requiring certain policies of health insurance to include coverage for at least one drug that is an alternative to opioids; requiring certain insurers to provide the form for a non-opioid directive to new insureds; revising the manner by which money in the Fund for a Resilient Nevada allocates money to projects and grants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

RobertaAssistant Majority Leader LangeDemocrat

AN ACT relating to common-interest communities; requiring the Real Estate Division of the Department of Business and Industry to audit the financial accounts of unit-owners' associations of common-interest communities under certain circumstances; requiring background investigations for candidates nominated for membership on executive boards of associations; revising provisions relating to reserve accounts; providing that certain actions related to common-interest communities are not subject to mandatory alternative dispute resolution processes and must be adjudicated as small claims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Carrie Ann BuckRepublican

AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting a provider of health care from providing electroconvulsive therapy to a person who is less than 18 years of age; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

LisaMinority Whip KrasnerRepublican

AN ACT relating to compensation; authorizing a sole proprietor or independent contractor to open a portable benefit account under certain circumstances; authorizing certain contributions to and disbursements from a portable benefit account under certain circumstances; setting forth certain restrictions on the consideration by the Labor Commissioner of a contribution to a portable benefit account in determining whether the holder of the account should be classified as an employee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Lori RogichRepublican

AN ACT relating to correctional institutions; requiring the Director of the Department of Corrections to submit an annual report to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau relating to the employment of offenders; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Dina NealDemocrat

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Southern Nevada Enterprise Community Board for certain expenses of the Board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Dina NealDemocrat

AN ACT relating to deceptive trade practices; making it a deceptive trade practice for a person to make a bad-faith claim or assertion of copyright infringement; creating a civil cause of action for a person aggrieved by a bad-faith claim or assertion of copyright infringement; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Dina NealDemocrat

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; renaming the position of Chief of the Budget Division of the Office of Finance as the Administrator of the Budget Division and transferring the qualifications, powers and duties of that position to the Director of the Office of Finance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions relating to complaints of incidents of discrimination or other unwanted or unsafe activities in a public school; revising provisions relating to the policy adopted by the State Board of Education to encourage parental and family involvement in supporting the education of their children; revising provisions relating to progressive discipline plans required to be established by the superintendent of each school district and the administrative heads of other public schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Dina NealDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the annual report of accountability prepared by the board of trustees of each school district to include certain information concerning heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems; requiring the tentative budget of a school district to include certain information regarding the salaries and benefits of licensed teachers at each school; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-CrawfordDemocrat

AN ACT relating to contractors; revising certain bond requirements for certain licensed contractors and certain applicants for a contractor's license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-CrawfordDemocrat

AN ACT relating to offenders; providing for the establishment of a program to provide telephone calls free of charge between certain offenders and the families of such offenders; revising provisions relating to charges for audio and video calls made by or to offenders; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

MelanieChief Majority Whip ScheibleDemocrat

AN ACT relating to natural resources; prohibiting the sale, offer for sale or distribution for sale of water in certain disposable plastic bottles within any community which abuts the Lake Tahoe Watershed; requiring, under certain circumstances, the local board of health or health department to issue administrative fines for such a violation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

MelanieChief Majority Whip ScheibleDemocrat

AN ACT relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program; eliminating the duty of the Director of the Department of Administration to appoint and define the duties of a Quality Control Officer for the Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions relating to projects for the new construction, repair or reconstruction of certain buildings, facilities and property of a charter school; providing administrative penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SkipDeputy Majority Whip DalyDemocrat

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and the Commissioner of Insurance to prepare certain reports; expanding the scope of certain provisions relating to pharmacy benefit managers; prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from engaging in certain practices; requiring pharmacy benefit managers to make certain disclosures; imposing requirements relating to the compensation of pharmacy benefit managers; revising requirements relating to the collection of certain medical debt; providing civil and criminal penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Rochelle T. NguyenDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; requiring certain standards of content and performance for courses in health to correspond with certain social and emotional learning standards developed by the Department of Education and to include certain information relating to mental health; requiring certain teachers to complete a course in mental health education; requiring the Department to adopt regulations concerning a course in mental health education; requiring school districts and charter schools to partner with certain entities to provide professional development training in mental health education; requiring certain professional development training for teachers and administrators to include training on mental health education and social and emotional learning; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

RobertaAssistant Majority Leader LangeDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public monuments; prohibiting, with certain exceptions, a governmental agency from removing or destroying a monument that is located on state lands or any other publicly owned land unless such action is approved by the Governor; providing that a person who willfully vandalizes, defaces, destroys or damages such a monument is guilty of a gross misdemeanor; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

John EllisonRepublican

AN ACT relating to trade practices; imposing certain requirements upon certain alarm companies with respect to an alarm system that becomes defective or inoperative; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

John EllisonRepublican

AN ACT relating to water; providing that a federal agency that is a claimant of a vested water right is not required to file proof of the claim on or before a certain date; revising requirements relating to a notice of pending adjudication of certain water rights; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing certain waivers of fees assessed against students enrolled in a school within the Nevada System of Higher Education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Angela D. TaylorDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health and human services; requiring the Office of Minority Health and Equity of the Department of Health and Human Services to analyze and identify gaps in health and human services delivered to minority groups in this State; requiring governmental agencies that receive information related to a person's sexual orientation or gender identity or expression to annually submit a summary of the information to the Office of Minority Health and Equity; requiring the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department to annually submit various reports to the Office of Minority Health and Equity; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to mental health; establishing a task force to develop recommendations for the creation of a program that provides housing and other services to certain children who are discharged from a treatment facility or certain other facilities or released on parole; revising provisions related to the designation of certain facilities of the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services; expanding the applicability of enhanced penalties for assault or battery against certain persons who provide child welfare services or child protective services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-CrawfordDemocrat

AN ACT relating to interscholastic activities; requiring the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association to adopt regulations that set forth the process for the Association to designate a sanctioned sport; providing certain requirements for such regulations; requiring the Association to publish such regulations on the Internet website maintained by the Association; providing for the designation of lacrosse as a sanctioned sport; establishing the Subcommittee on Interscholastic Activities of the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education; requiring the Subcommittee to conduct an interim study of the Association; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

FabianDeputy Majority Whip DoñateDemocrat

AN ACT relating to vehicular homicide; revising the elements required for a person to commit the crime of vehicular homicide; revising provisions relating to penalties for certain prohibited acts involving the operation of a vehicle; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

JeffAssistant Minority Leader StoneRepublican

AN ACT relating to civil liability; revising provisions relating to civil liability to persons using certain premises for recreational activity under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to law enforcement; allowing a county sheriff to enter into an agreement with certain federal agencies to authorize their employees to enforce state or local laws, or both, in certain circumstances; conferring the powers of a peace officer on such employees in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Ira HansenRepublican

AN ACT relating to public employees; revising the definition of “employee,” for purposes of collective bargaining for state employees, to include category I, II and III peace officers in the unclassified service of the State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

MarilynPresident pro Tempore Dondero LoopDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental purchasing; eliminating the prohibition against a local government entering into certain contracts pursuant to a solicitation by certain other governmental entities or cooperative purchasing organizations if a contractor's license is required for any portion of the work to be performed; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to periods of observance; designating the month of October of each year as “Menopause Awareness Month” in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Rochelle T. NguyenDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; prohibiting governmental entities from entering into certain nondisclosure or confidentiality agreements; declaring certain records relating to a predecisional or deliberative process of the governmental entity concerning a rule, ordinance or regulation are public records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

James OhrenschallDemocrat

AN ACT relating to food establishments; requiring certain local boards of health to provide certain information relating to sidewalk vendors and compact food cart vendors; establishing requirements for a compact food cart vendor; authorizing a registered compact food cart vendor to sell certain food items; setting forth certain requirements for the regulation of sidewalk vendors and compact food cart vendors by certain local boards of health and certain local zoning boards, planning commissions and local governments; exempting an establishment that sells or offers or displays for sale certain foods and a compact food cart vendor from the definition of “food establishment”; revising certain requirements which certain local boards of health are required to adopt relating to sidewalk vendors who sell food; prohibiting certain governmental bodies from limiting the types of food that may be sold by a sidewalk vendor or compact food cart vendor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

FabianDeputy Majority Whip DoñateDemocrat

AN ACT relating to physician assistants; requiring the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine to authorize a supervising physician or osteopathic physician to simultaneously supervise not less than six physician assistants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Edgar FloresDemocrat

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring the development and implementation of a system of reimbursement for services provided under Medicaid through certain accountable care organizations; requiring a survey of providers of health care who participate in Medicaid; providing for certain increases to the rates of reimbursement under Medicaid for services provided by physicians and advanced practice registered nurses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to local governments; authorizing a board of county commissioners and a governing body of an incorporated city to, with certain exceptions, enact an ordinance or measure relating to affordable housing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to fire protection; requiring the State Forester Firewarden to designate areas in this State with a high risk of fire hazards; requiring certain information concerning a property located in such an area to be included on a form for disclosing the condition of residential property offered for sale; requiring a governing body which issues building permits to notify an applicant that the site for which the permit is sought is located in such an area; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to public works; expanding the recordkeeping requirements for contractors and subcontractors engaged on a public work; providing an exception to the confidentiality of such records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to planning; declaring the importance of tribal knowledge and expertise and consulting tribal governments when engaged in the land use planning process; revising provisions relating to the State and Local Government Cooperation Act to include tribal governments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Senate Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT making appropriations to Clark County and the Cities of Reno and Sparks for programs for rental assistance to certain persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Nicole J.Majority Leader CannizzaroDemocrat