SB 240 Nevada Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to state business licenses. (BDR 7-126)

SB 240 reduces the state business license fee for small businesses from $200 or $500 to $100. It directly affects corporations, sole proprietorships, limited-liability companies, limited partnerships, and general partnerships that employ 50 or fewer full-time or part-time employees. The bill amends NRS 76.100 to set this lower fee for qualifying small businesses while maintaining the requirement to obtain a license. The change takes effect July 1, 2025. This is a concrete fee reduction targeting small business owners, not a procedural change.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Assembly Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 26, 2025 Last action Jun 3, 2025
Maddy AI version diff · 2 comparisons

What changed between versions

Reprint 1 Reprint 2 · 3 edits
MINOR
This bill update changes the effective date of the reduced state business license fee from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 2027, and reprints the bill as the second version after amendments were adopted on May 21, 2025. The core policy of reducing fees for small businesses remains unchanged, but the implementation timeline has been extended by two years.
Scope change
The bill's scope remains the same, applying to businesses with 50 or fewer employees, but the effective date for the fee reduction has been delayed.
TIMELINE

The effective date for the reduced $100 business license fee was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 2027.

TECHNICAL

The bill header was updated to reflect amendments adopted on May 21, 2025 and is now labeled as the SECOND REPRINT.

The bill version identifier was updated from SB240_R1 to SB240_R2.

Floor votes · Senate May 21, 2025

How they voted

200
Passed
Total votes 20
May 21, 2025
D Democratic12
12 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican8
8 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
10
Key actions
6
Committee
5
May 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.
lower
May 21, 2025
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (20-0)
senate
May 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 718.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.
upper
Apr 15, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
upper
Apr 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 78.) Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.
upper
Feb 27, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To committee.
upper
5 primary · 3 co-sponsors

Sponsors