The latest news from the 2025 Nevada Legislature in Carson City.
Assembly 381 came from an animal cruelty case that is pending in court. Known as Reba’s Law in honor of an English bulldog that died after being taped into a plastic bin, the bill stiffens animal cruelty penalties and sets guidance for how a bystander can intervene if they see an animal locked in a car during extreme weather.
Nevada’s governor signed a bill that adds steps needed to take over a dead person’s estate.
Two bills signed into law last week create a statewide groundwater rights retirement program. It has no funding.
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.
Gov. Joe Lombardo rejected a bill to expand drop box access and implement voter ID as part of his record-setting vetoes of bills from the Democratic-controlled Nevada Legislature.
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.
