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SB 48 Nevada Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to planning and zoning. (BDR 22-413)

SB 48 revises Nevada's planning and zoning laws to change reporting deadlines and term lengths for local planning commissions. It requires annual reports to be submitted by October 1 (instead of April) and shifts from calendar year to fiscal year reporting for commissions preparing city or county master plans. The bill also gives counties with populations under 700,000 (currently all except Clark County) the option to align planning commission member terms with the terms of the governing body member who recommended their appointment. These changes affect local planning commissions, regional planning commissions, and governing bodies in Nevada counties with populations below 700,000. The report deadline change takes effect January 2026, while the term alignment option becomes effective July 2029.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2024
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
Assembly Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Nov 19, 2024 Signed Jun 6, 2025
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Reprint 2 → As Enrolled · 4 edits · Jun 6, 2025
MODERATE
This bill updates the reporting deadline for local planning commissions from April 1 to October 1 and changes the reporting period from the previous calendar year to the previous fiscal year. It also grants counties with populations under 700,000 the authority to set planning commission member terms to match the terms of the appointing officials, whereas previously only larger counties could do this. These changes aim to align reporting with fiscal cycles and provide more flexibility for smaller jurisdictions in structuring their planning commissions.
Scope change
The bill expands the ability for counties with populations under 700,000 to set coterminous terms for planning commission members, a power previously restricted to larger counties.
TIMELINE

The deadline for submitting annual reports to the regional planning commission was moved from April 1 to October 1.

REQUIREMENT

Annual reports must now cover actions taken during the previous fiscal year instead of the previous calendar year.

Entities must now file relevant information with the governing board before submitting recommendations for legislation or starting programs related to the regional plan.

ELIGIBILITY

Counties with populations under 700,000 are now authorized to pass ordinances allowing planning commission member terms to match the terms of the appointing officials.

Floor votes · Assembly May 22, 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
6
Committee
2
Jun 6, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 374.
executive
Jun 2, 2025
Lower · Passed
Assembly Amendment No. 645 concurred in. To enrollment.
lower
May 22, 2025
Lower · Passed
From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. In Senate.
lower
May 19, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
lower
Apr 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Absent: 1.) To printer.
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. 491.) Reprinting dispensed with. Placed on General File.
upper
Nov 19, 2024
Introduced
Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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