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SB 25 Nevada Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to fire protection. (BDR 42-249)

SB 25 revises Nevada's fire protection laws by restructuring responsibilities between the State Forester Firewarden and State Fire Marshal. It removes the requirement for the Forester to cooperate with the Fire Marshal on vegetation management, eliminates the State Fire Marshal Division, and expands the Fire Marshal's duties to include enforcing fire safety regulations at cannabis production facilities. The bill also broadens mandatory fire investigations to cover incidents causing injuries or over $2 million in financial loss, beyond the previous focus on deaths. These changes directly affect fire safety enforcement agencies, cannabis facilities, and communities managing wildfire risks.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2024
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Nov 8, 2024 Signed May 28, 2025
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What changed between versions

Reprint 1 → As Enrolled · 5 edits · May 28, 2025
MODERATE
This bill reorganizes the State Fire Marshal Division by eliminating its specific statutory sections and removes the requirement for the State Forester Firewarden to cooperate with the Fire Marshal on vegetation management. It expands the Fire Marshal's authority to enforce safety regulations at cannabis production facilities and increases the threshold for mandatory fire investigations to include incidents causing injuries or financial losses over $2 million.
Scope change
The bill expands the scope of the State Fire Marshal's enforcement duties to include cannabis production facilities and broadens the criteria for mandatory fire investigations to cover injuries and significant financial losses.
REQUIREMENT

Eliminated the legal requirement for the State Forester Firewarden to cooperate with the State Fire Marshal regarding vegetation fire risk mitigation.

Expanded the requirement for the State Fire Marshal to investigate fires to include those resulting in injuries or financial losses greater than $2 million.

Replaced the specific cooperation clause with new duties focused on wildfire risk mitigation, landscape resiliency, and community safety.

STRUCTURE

Removed the specific statutory sections that defined the composition of the State Fire Marshal Division.

ENFORCEMENT

Added cannabis production facilities to the list of locations where the State Fire Marshal must enforce fire safety laws and regulations.

Floor votes · Assembly May 19, 2025

How they voted

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

Actions timeline

Total actions
12
Key actions
5
Committee
2
May 28, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 53.
executive
May 19, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 2.) To Senate. In Senate. To enrollment.
lower
May 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass.
lower
Apr 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Absent: 1.) To Assembly.
upper
Apr 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 495.) To printer.
upper
Nov 8, 2024
Introduced
Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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