Two bills signed into law last week create a statewide groundwater rights retirement program. It has no funding.
2025 Nevada Legislature
The latest news from the 2025 Nevada Legislature in Carson City.
Education was a focal point of Nevada’s 83rd legislative session, and the Clark County School District will soon begin to feel the effects of a sweeping, bipartisan education bill.
The Nevada Legislature wrapped with some progress made, but experts say it was over all underwhelming. Term limits and lack of leadership and communication are to blame.
Two sides are warring over the passage of a bill mandating nurse-to-patient ratios and increasing transparency in work protections.
The bill requires some local governments to update master plans to better reconcile with rising temperatures.
School Boards in Nevada will soon be able to transfer bullies to other schools in the district, a result of legislation signed into law by Gov. Joe Lombardo.
The newspaper found a group of private administrators, real estate agents, lawyers and house flippers cashed in on dead people’s homes across Southern Nevada for years.
Here’s a running list of the bills Gov. Joe Lombardo has vetoed — so far.
The Nevada legislative session ended with a hold-up from Senate Republicans. A bill to bring a film studio to Las Vegas died, as did three of the Gov. Joe Lombardo’s five signature bills.
The bill aiming to increase animal cruelty penalties known as “Reba’s Law” passed the Nevada Senate, a major hurdle for the bill that was once thought to be dead.
The capital improvement project bill, the last constitutionally required budget bill legislators must pass, is soon heading to the governor’s desk.
The Republican governor’s major health care policy reform proposal, opposed by some members of his own party, passed the Senate but didn’t get a vote in the Assembly.
A bill proposed by Democratic Speaker Steve Yeager to include voter ID requirements as part of a compromise passed the Senate and now heads to the governor.
The Nevada Assembly passed Senate Bill 460, sweeping education reforms proposed by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Gov. Joe Lombardo.
Changes to AB 540, one of five bills from the Republican governor, came with about three hours left in the part-time Legislature’s session.