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SB 226 Nevada Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to legislative affairs. (BDR 17-365)

SB 226 revises Nevada's legislative committee procedures to modernize and clarify operations. It codifies common-law rules for interim committee chairs and vice chairs (e.g., filling vacancies), converts the Public Lands Subcommittee into a standalone "Committee on Public Lands" requiring meetings in different counties (excluding Clark/Washoe/Carson City), and adjusts application deadlines for the Teacher Recruitment Task Force. The bill also updates reporting requirements for committees and transfers oversight of governmental purchasing from one committee to another. These changes directly affect Nevada's legislative committees, their members, and state agencies that submit reports to them.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Feb 19, 2025 Signed Jun 10, 2025
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Reprint 2 → As Enrolled · 7 edits · Jun 10, 2025
MODERATE
This bill updates Nevada's legislative rules to modernize how interim committees are formed and operate. It clarifies that committee chairs act as presiding officers, sets a specific deadline for appointing members, and reorganizes several committees to function as standalone entities rather than subcommittees. The changes aim to improve committee efficiency, ensure balanced representation, and streamline the review of specific regulatory issues like mining and public lands.
Scope change
The bill expands the scope of several committees by making them independent entities and transfers the responsibility for reviewing governmental purchasing from one committee to another.
REQUIREMENT

Codified common-law rules stating that a committee chair serves as the presiding officer and can take necessary actions to manage committee business.

Mandated that alternate committee members must belong to the same political party as the regular member they replace.

Required the new Committee on Public Lands to hold at least three meetings during each legislative interim, with each meeting located in a different county (excluding Clark, Washoe, and Carson) to ensure broader public access.

TIMELINE

Set a strict deadline of October 31 following a legislative session for appointing committee members, chairs, and vice chairs.

SCOPE

Transferred the duty to evaluate governmental purchasing from the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections to the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Government Affairs.

Established the Committee on Public Lands as a standalone interim committee, separate from the Natural Resources committee.

Established the Sunset Subcommittee as a standalone interim committee, separate from the Legislative Commission.

Floor votes · Assembly May 31, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
13
Key actions
8
Committee
3
Jun 10, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
executive
Jun 4, 2025
Upper · Passed
To enrollment.
upper
Jun 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
Assembly Amendment No. 927 concurred in.
upper
May 31, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 39, Nays: None, Excused: 3.) To Senate.
upper
May 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 927.) To printer.
upper
May 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To committee.
upper
May 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 769.) To printer.
upper
Feb 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To committee.
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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