This tracker serves as a dynamic tool to monitor key legislation during the current session, offering insights into how Nevada Policy ranks current bills. These are the key bills that will determine your legislator score in our 2025 Legislative Scorecard. Here are some important points to keep in mind:
Living Document: This tracker will be updated regularly—once or twice a week—based on the introduction of new bills, as well as hearings and developments on existing ones. As new information becomes available, the tracker will reflect updates.
Changing Positions: Our position on some bills may evolve as hearings occur and new details emerge. Initially neutral positions may shift as more questions are addressed and clarified.
Priority Weighting: Bills ranked as Priority 1 will carry more weight in a legislator’s evaluation than those ranked as Priority 2. Prioritization reflects the bill’s significance and impact on our research focus areas and audiences.
Legislator Scores: Legislators can gain or lose points not only by voting, but also based on the quality of the legislation they introduce. Introducing strong bills will earn positive points, while poor legislation will result in deductions.
Personal Report Cards: This year each legislator will receive a personal “report card,” accessible online by their constituents. These will include breakdowns of the legislator’s performance on key bills, with an overall grade.
Solutions Sourcebook: For further clarification on our stance, here is a digital version of our Solutions Sourcebook, which provides policy recommendations, historical context, and key legislative insights. It should be the primary resource for understanding our position on specific bills alongside empirical evidence.
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Bill Tracker
| Order | House of Origin | wdt_ID | wdt_created_by | wdt_created_at | wdt_last_edited_by | wdt_last_edited_at | Bill | Priority | Topic | Summary | Position | Sponsor |
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| 1 | Senate | 1 | Dara | 07/03/2025 12:47 PM | Dara | 10/03/2025 11:18 AM | SB 2 | 1 | Good Governance | Negotiating sessions between unions and public employers are currently exempt from the Open Meetings law, making Nevada one of only 11 states with secret collective bargaining. This bill removes the exemption to make these proceedings transparent, as they are in a majority of states. | ✅ | Committee on Government Affairs |
| 3 | Senate | 2 | Dara | 07/03/2025 12:48 PM | Dara | 10/03/2025 11:19 AM | SB 18 | 1 | Fiscal Policy | Creates an incentive for agency savings by allowing nonreversion and retention of 50 percent of the remaining balances of appropriations made from the State General Fund or the State Highway Fund at year end. This is step 1 toward charter agencies. | ✅ | Committee on Government Affairs |
| 6 | Senate | 3 | Dara | 07/03/2025 12:48 PM | Dara | 10/03/2025 11:23 AM | SB 34 | 1 | Interstate Compacts | Authorizes Nevada to enter interstate compacts that mutual recognize licensure for the following medical professions: Physician Assistant (PA), Nurse, Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, Physical Therapy (PT), Occupational Therapy (OT). The bill would ease Nevada's uniquely restrictive occupational licensing regime. | ✅ | Committee on Commerce and Labor |
| 9 | Senate | 4 | Dara | 07/03/2025 01:08 PM | Dara | 10/03/2025 11:24 AM | SB 78 | 1 | Boards and Committees | This bill restructures the Office of Nevada Boards, Commissions, and Councils Standards, expanding its oversight to include additional boards, commissions, and councils within the Executive Department. It mandates that the Office provide administrative, legal, and financial services to these entities and prohibits them from hiring outside services for functions provided by the Office. The bill eliminates or consolidates numerous boards, such as the Nevada State Board of Accountancy, the State Board of Podiatry, the Board of Dispensing Opticians, and the Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority, transferring their responsibilities to new or existing agencies. It standardizes term limits and compensation, setting a four-year term limit with a maximum of two terms for appointed board members, impacting boards such as the State Contractors’ Board and the State Barbers’ Health and Sanitation Board. All professional and occupational licensing boards will now use hearing officers from the Office to adjudicate contested cases instead of deciding them internally. Additionally, the bill mandates the closure or consolidation of over 20 advisory bodies, including the Commission on Behavioral Health and the Nevada Commission for Persons Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, while requiring all affected entities to centralize online postings on a single government website. | ✅ | Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development |
| 10 | Senate | 5 | Dara | 07/03/2025 01:08 PM | Dara | 10/03/2025 11:23 AM | SB 103 | 1 | Election Integrity | This bill revises the rules for counting mail ballots in county and city elections. It requires each mail ballot to have either a date mark from the county or city clerk or a postmark from the U.S. Postal Service to be counted. Additionally, it mandates that mail ballots must be postmarked by the last day of early voting and received by the time polls close on Election Day, eliminating the allowance for ballots received after Election Day. Such reform will expedite the ballot counting process and ensure timeliness in voters. | ✅ | Lisa Krasner |
| 14 | Senate | 6 | Dara | 07/03/2025 01:09 PM | Dara | 10/03/2025 11:25 AM | SB 123 | 1 | Rent Control | This bill prohibits a board of county commissioners and a governing body of an incorporated city from enacting any ordinance or measure that imposes rent control. | ✅ | John Ellison |
| 16 | Senate | 7 | Dara | 07/03/2025 01:10 PM | Dara | 10/03/2025 11:25 AM | SB 129 | 1 | Labor | This bill requires regulatory bodies in Nevada to issue a license by endorsement without adopting additional regulations. An applicant must be a Nevada resident, have held a valid and unrestricted license in good standing for at least one year in another U.S. jurisdiction, meet all educational, examination, and experience requirements, and not have voluntarily surrendered a license while under investigation. These requirements are established as an alternative to existing statutes on licensure by endorsement. Allowing issuance of license by endorsements will expedite the process and address occupational shortages. | ✅ | Jeff Stone |
| 19 | Senate | 8 | Dara | 07/03/2025 01:11 PM | Dara | 10/03/2025 11:26 AM | SB 161 | 1 | Education, Collective Bargaining | This bill outlines new procedures for binding arbitration in collective bargaining between school districts and employee organizations representing teachers, especially when agreements expire or negotiations fail. It sets deadlines for arbitration decisions and mandates a final ruling within 60 days of the dispute being submitted or by the start of the school year. The bill also prohibits school districts from requiring teachers to work more hours than the expired agreement stipulates. It authorizes teacher organizations to petition the court for a strike if detrimental policies or conditions exist, with the court's approval. The bill revises public policy to allow court-approved strikes, and it excludes individual teachers from penalties related to strikes, instead imposing penalties on the employee organization and its officers. If passed this bill will create the opportunity for teacher unions to protest terms that they lawfully negotiated for. | ❌ | Rochelle Nguyen |
| 26 | Senate | 9 | Dara | 07/03/2025 01:12 PM | Dara | 10/03/2025 11:28 AM | SB 211 | 1 | PERS | This bill allows certain categories of peace officers, firefighters, and their supervisory employees to negotiate with the Executive Department of State Government to leave the Public Employees' Benefits Program and obtain alternative life, accident, or health insurance. The bill creates an exception to the existing prohibition on collective bargaining for insurance benefits, enabling these negotiations. If such employees choose to leave the Program, they are exempt from needing approval from the Public Employees' Benefits Program Board. | ✅ | Jeff Stone |
| 27 | Senate | 10 | Dara | 07/03/2025 01:12 PM | Dara | 10/03/2025 11:28 AM | SB 220 | 1 | Fiscal Policy | This bill revises Nevada’s film tax credit program and establishes the Nevada Film Infrastructure, Workforce Development, Education, and Economic Diversification Act. It creates film infrastructure tax credits for productions at the Nevada Studios Project at the UNLV Research Foundation’s Harry Reid Research and Technology Park, allowing production companies to use these credits against the modified business tax, insurance premium tax, or gaming license fee. The base amount of credits is 35% of qualified expenditures paid to Nevada residents and 30% of all other qualified expenditures, with reductions if workforce requirements are not met. The total amount of credits issued each year is capped, with 50% of unused credits rolling over, and no credits can be issued more than 15 years after the Project’s first certificate of occupancy. The bill expands non-infrastructure tax credits, increasing the base rate from 15% to 35% for Nevada-based expenditures and 30% for other expenditures for applications submitted between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2043. It also raises the annual cap on these credits from $10 million to $15 million starting July 1, 2028, until June 30, 2043. The available transferable tax credits would begin at $48 million annually, eventually ramping up to $83 million. Additionally, the bill establishes the Account for Nevada Film, Media, and Related Technology Education and Vocational Training, funded by 10% of issued tax credits, to support the Nevada Media and Technology Lab and workforce development programs. A new Board for Nevada Film, Media, and Related Technology Education and Vocational Training will oversee the fund, approve grants, and ensure recipients implement community benefits programs. | ❌ | Roberta Lange |