Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; requiring the Economic Forum to provide an estimate of future State revenue required to be credited to the State Education Fund; revising provisions governing the disposition of proceeds of the tax on wholesale sales of cannabis; revising requirements for certain reservations of money in and recommendations for the proposed executive budget for the support of public schools; revising the date for certain payments to the State Education Fund; making an appropriation to the Cannabis Compliance Board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to constructional defects; requiring a written response to a notice of a constructional defect to include certain information; requiring a contractor, subcontractor and certain related professionals to maintain a policy of insurance which covers liability for constructional defects; revising provisions relating to certain settlement offers concerning constructional defects; clarifying certain provisions relating to the recovery of damages proximately caused by a constructional defect; revising provisions relating to certain required mediation; revising the definitions of certain terms related to actions resulting from constructional defects; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

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

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring, with certain exceptions, a registered voter show photo identification to vote in person; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles, under certain circumstances, to issue identification cards at no charge; requiring the Secretary of State to issue digital identification cards; requiring a county clerk in certain counties to establish a certain number of locations for a voter to return his or her mail ballot to a mail ballot drop box during the period between the last day for early voting and the day before the date of the general election; authorizing a county clerk in certain counties to establish such locations; authorizing a person, under certain circumstances, to return a mail ballot to a mail ballot drop box established at such a location on behalf of a voter; requiring the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a voter services portal on the Internet website of the Office of the Secretary of State; requiring the county clerk to include certain information relating to the voter services portal on any communication to a registered voter; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles to submit electronically to the Secretary of State certain information relating to each person who has a driver's license or identification card issued by the Department; requiring the Secretary of State to include certain information received from the Department in the centralized, top-down database that is established by the Secretary of State for purposes of creating the statewide voter registration list; requiring certain information to be included on the return envelope for a mail ballot; revising provisions relating to curing mail ballots; requiring mail ballot drop boxes to be monitored and secured; providing that certain information on the statewide voter registration list relating to a voter is confidential and not a public record; making various other changes relating to elections; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to contractors; requiring, rather than authorizing the State Contractors' Board to require, a contractor who performs work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to produce electricity to obtain a performance bond and payment bond before commencing the work; revising requirements for such bonds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring county and city clerks and the Secretary of State to post on the Internet certain information relating to mail ballots and provisional ballots; requiring each county clerk to post monthly on the Internet an alphabetical listing of all registered voters in the county; requiring certain information to be included on the return envelopes for mail ballots; revising provisions relating to access to information concerning provisional ballots; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to charter schools; revising provisions governing the circumstances in which the sponsor of a charter school that receives certain performance ratings under the statewide system of accountability for public schools is required to terminate the charter contract of the charter school or restart the charter school under a new charter contract; temporarily providing that the sponsor of a charter school that receives certain performance ratings under the statewide system of accountability for public schools is not required to terminate the contract of the charter school or restart the charter school under a new charter contract if the charter school achieves certain ratings or increases a rating from the immediately preceding school year; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Education

AN ACT relating to limousines; authorizing the holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate a limousine in certain counties to lease a limousine to an independent contractor; requiring that a lease agreement be entered into between such a limousine operator and the independent contractor; imposing certain requirements and restrictions on the operator, the independent contractor and the Nevada Transportation Authority with respect to such leases; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Growth and Infrastructure

AN ACT relating to courts; revising provisions relating to the venue for certain proceedings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; revising provisions relating to vacating a judgment of conviction and sealing certain records of certain victims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to animals; directing the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Natural Resources to conduct a study during the 2025-2026 interim concerning the sale of cats and dogs by retail pet stores in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to civil actions; revising the term “heir” for certain purposes relating to civil actions; eliminating the statute of limitations for certain civil actions against a natural person who is deemed to be a killer or the personal representative of the estate of such a killer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to water; revising provisions governing certain assessments on water users; making an appropriation to the Division of Water Resources of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for various projects relating to the management of water resources in this State and for the digitization of records and data of the Division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring the State Plan for Medicaid to provide coverage for certain services relating to family planning and language translation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to aviation; creating the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Incentive Fund and the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Incentive Program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to housing; revising provisions relating to discrimination in housing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Records, Communications and Compliance Division of the Department of Public Safety for carrying out a forensic DNA testing program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to public welfare; requiring, to the extent that money is available, the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of the Department of Health and Human Services to establish and carry out a program to supplement the supply of food available to recipients of benefits of certain federal programs; creating the Surplus Food Assistance Account in the State General Fund; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to labor; revising provisions relating to certain administrators employed by an association of self-insured employers; revising provisions relating to subsequent injury accounts; revising provisions relating to physicians or chiropractic physicians who treat industrial injuries and occupational diseases; revising provisions relating to independent medical examinations; revising provisions relating to compensation under industrial insurance; revising procedures for the reimbursement of certain insurers; establishing, revising and eliminating various other provisions relating to industrial insurance; eliminating provisions relating to the expiration and renewal of certain completion cards for certain training required for certain workers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Danielle GallantRepublican

AN ACT relating to insurance; imposing requirements governing prior authorization for medical or dental care; prohibiting an insurer from requiring prior authorization for covered emergency services or denying coverage for covered, medically necessary emergency services; requiring an insurer to publish certain information relating to requests for prior authorization on the Internet; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Heidi KasamaRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; requiring money in the Education Stabilization Account that exceeds a certain percentage of appropriations and authorizations from the State Education Fund to be used to make allocations to school districts for the retention, recruitment and training of educational personnel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing a private school that provides certain health care services to a child placed in the school under certain circumstances to request reimbursement from the school district or charter school in which the child was enrolled; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Danielle GallantRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; creating immunity from civil liability for a school district, charter school or institution within the Nevada System of Higher Education for certain actions that constitute harassment if the school district, charter school or institution establishes, publishes and enforces a policy containing certain provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Brittney M. MillerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; revising requirements relating to the standards of content and performance for certain courses; prohibiting the State Board of Education from taking certain actions relating to certain courses of study; prohibiting certain persons and entities from refusing to enforce or taking certain other actions with respect to certain courses of study and standards of content and performance; prohibiting the governing body of certain governmental entities or certain public employees in direct supervisory roles from taking adverse employment actions against certain employees based on certain characteristics or activities; prohibiting certain actions against such employees based on certain characteristics and activities or the performance of certain duties; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Brittney M. MillerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to transportation; requiring transportation network companies to establish certain policies and procedures; establishing certain requirements relating to the suspension or deactivation of drivers and monitored autonomous vehicle providers; requiring transportation network companies to make certain disclosures; prohibiting a transportation network company from retaliating against drivers and monitored autonomous vehicle providers in certain circumstances; requiring the Nevada Transportation Authority to certify a driver support organization; establishing certain duties of the Authority, transportation network companies and the certified driver support organization; providing for certain assessments on transportation network companies; providing for civil causes of action and administrative fines against transportation network companies; imposing an additional excise tax on the connection of a passenger with a driver or fully autonomous vehicle; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

HowardMajority Whip WattsDemocrat

AN ACT relating to taxation; requiring the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Revenue to conduct a study during the 2025-2026 interim on the advisability and feasibility of treating certain business entities as a single entity for the purposes of the commerce tax and imposing a tax on the sale or transfer of a controlling interest in an entity which possesses an interest in real property in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Venicia ConsidineDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring public utilities to make notices to customers available in certain languages; requiring the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to adopt certain regulations relating to communications between public utilities and customers; prohibiting a public utility from disclosing information concerning customers under certain circumstances; revising provisions governing the circumstances under which a public utility is prohibited from terminating gas, water or electric service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Cinthia Zermeño MooreDemocrat

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for the imposition, administration, collection and enforcement of a tax on certain digital products electronically transferred to a purchaser; prohibiting the issuance and use of certain transferable tax credits if money is transferred or allocated from the Account to Stabilize the Operation of the State Government; stating the intent of the Legislature to review the transferable tax credits which the State is authorized to issue under certain circumstance; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Natha C.Assistant Majority Whip AndersonDemocrat

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing that flags and certain related personal property are exempt from property taxes; increasing the property tax exemption for certain veterans and their surviving spouses by the amount of the assessed valuation of any flagpole that is a fixture or improvement to any real property in which the veteran or surviving spouse has an interest; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Alexis M. HansenRepublican

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising provisions governing partial abatements of property taxes levied on certain residential rental dwellings; providing for a partial abatement of the property taxes levied on certain residential dwellings if the owner of the dwelling does not impose certain fees or restrictions on companion animals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Melissa R..Assistant Minority Floor Leader South HardyRepublican

AN ACT relating to transportation; prohibiting trains of a certain length from being run on certain railroads; requiring certain railroads to install certain safety equipment; requiring certain railroad companies to take or refrain from taking certain actions relating to railroad safety; establishing requirements for lighting equipment installed in certain railroad yards; requiring certain reports; providing for the monitoring and inspection of railroads by certain union representatives; prescribing certain requirements relating to the transportation of railroad employees by railroad contract carriers; limiting the hours drivers employed by railroad contract carriers may work; providing for the maintenance and inspection of certain records; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Max E., II CarterDemocrat

AN ACT relating to real property; prohibiting the governing body of a county or city from enacting an ordinance or measure imposing rent control; eliminating the power of such a governing body to regulate planning and zoning as a matter of local concern; requiring such a governing body to allow certain types of housing in any residential area; requiring, under certain circumstances, the governing body of each county or city to authorize the owner of a single-family residential property to add an accessory dwelling unit; requiring, under certain circumstances, the governing body of each county or city to establish an expedited process for the by-right development of residential housing; prohibiting such a governing body from imposing certain restrictions on the zoning or development of housing; revising provisions relating to factory-built housing and tiny houses; requiring the Administrator of the Housing Division of the Department of Business and Industry to create a housing task force; making various other changes relating to planning and zoning; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Danielle GallantRepublican

AN ACT relating to libraries; providing that library staff are immune from criminal or civil liability for certain good faith acts relating to providing access to or assisting pupils or library patrons in accessing library materials; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

DanieleSpeaker Pro Tempore Monroe-MorenoDemocrat

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising provisions governing the applications for a tax credit under the Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship Program; requiring a scholarship organization to use a donation for which a tax credit was received under the Program within a certain time after the application for the tax credit was approved; requiring a scholarship organization to be a domestic nonprofit corporation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

DanieleSpeaker Pro Tempore Monroe-MorenoDemocrat

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; revising provisions relating to the testing of certain employees for tuberculosis, hepatitis and other contagious diseases for the purpose of compensation under industrial insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblymember Toby Yurek

AN ACT relating to unfair trade practices; revising the list of activities that constitute an unlawful contract, combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade to include manipulating the price of an essential good or service in this State; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to health care; transferring regulation of nonemergency medical transportation from the Nevada Transportation Authority to certain health authorities; exempting certain operators of a vehicle for nonemergency medical transportation from the requirement to be permitted; requiring the driver of a vehicle for nonemergency medical transportation to report the abuse, neglect, isolation, abandonment or commercial sexual exploitation of certain persons; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Jill DickmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to firearms; removing and revising certain exemptions of The Background Check Act; revising provisions relating to the forms prescribed for a permit to carry a concealed firearm and for the renewal of such a permit; revising provisions relating to courses in firearm safety that are required to be completed to obtain a permit to carry a concealed firearm; revising provisions governing the renewal of a permit to carry a concealed firearm; authorizing a retired law enforcement officer who is not a resident of this State to apply to any sheriff for certification to become a qualified retired law enforcement officer; prohibiting the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History from charging a fee for a background check under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Ken GrayRepublican

AN ACT relating to property insurance; creating the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plan Association; requiring the membership of certain authorized insurers in the Association; creating the Board of Directors of the Association and prescribing the duties of the Board; requiring the Board to establish the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Plan; establishing the requirements of the FAIR Plan; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Jill DickmanRepublican

AN ACT relating to education; creating the State Public Charter School Facility Fund; authorizing the Executive Director of the State Public Charter School Authority to request the issuance of bonds by the State Board of Finance for certain purposes; authorizing a school district to impose a property tax, the proceeds and interest of which must be remitted for credit to the Fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Gregory S.Assistant Minority Floor Leader North KoenigRepublican

AN ACT relating to employment practices; making it unlawful for an employer, with certain exceptions, to take or threaten to take certain adverse employment actions against an employee who declines to attend certain meetings or participate in certain communications where the primary purpose of the meeting or communication is to communicate the opinion of the employer regarding religious matters or political matters; providing a remedy for a violation committed by an employer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Natha C.Assistant Majority Whip AndersonDemocrat

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; creating and setting forth the duties of the Security Operations Center within the Office of the Chief Information Officer within the Office of the Governor; creating the Account for the Security Operations Center and prescribing the use of money in the Account; requiring the Security Operations Center to prepare an annual report that assesses the effectiveness of the Security Operations Center; establishing the Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline Program; revising the purpose of the Office; authorizing the board of trustees of a school district to use the services and equipment of the Office; making various other changes relating to the cybersecurity of governmental entities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblymember Toby Yurek

AN ACT relating to trade practices; making certain acts relating to the initial sale of tickets to certain events by a primary ticket provider a deceptive trade practice; revising provisions relating to the resale of tickets to certain events; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Bert K. GurrRepublican

AN ACT relating to public financial administration; revising provisions governing the program administered by a corporation for public benefit to provide private equity funding and venture capital investments to certain businesses; revising provisions relating to certain financing information that is required to be provided to certain small businesses by the Office of Economic Development; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to parentage; adopting provisions of the Uniform Parentage Act; revising provisions relating to the establishment of a parent and child relationship and the presumption of parentage; establishing provisions concerning the voluntary acknowledgment of parentage and denial of parentage by certain persons; authorizing the State Board of Health to adopt regulations relating to an acknowledgment of parentage or denial of parentage; establishing provisions governing genetic testing in proceedings to adjudicate parentage; establishing and revising various provisions relating to proceedings to adjudicate parentage; authorizing a person who claims to be a de facto parent of a child to be adjudicated as a parent of the child in certain circumstances; authorizing a court to adjudicate a child to have more than two parents in certain circumstances; establishing and revising provisions relating to assisted reproduction and gestational agreements; providing for the right of a gestational carrier to make all health care decisions regarding the gestational carrier and the pregnancy of the gestational carrier; repealing various provisions relating to parentage; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Shea M. BackusDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing the plan of operation for a local school precinct; revising provisions governing the expenditure of certain money by a local school precinct; revising provisions governing members of the organizational team for a local school precinct; revising provisions governing the duties of certain entities when a vacancy occurs in the position of principal for a local school precinct; requiring the principal of a local school precinct to provide the organizational team with a briefing containing certain information; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Venise KarrisDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; providing that certain teachers have sole authority to determine the grade assigned to a pupil and the components and weights used to calculate such a grade; prohibiting regulations, policies or directives that interfere with such authority; prohibiting certain acts intended to interfere with the grade assigned to a pupil or the components or weights used to calculate such a grade; eliminating provisions requiring certain teachers and administrators to develop learning goals for pupils that are used in the evaluations of such teachers and administrators; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Selena La Rue HatchDemocrat

AN ACT relating to business; revising provisions relating to contributions into the Unemployment Compensation Fund; providing an exemption for certain persons from paying certain fees for an application and first renewal of a state business license; establishing requirements relating to the review and approval of an application to modify a facility for personal wireless service by certain land use authorities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Lisa K. ColeRepublican