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SB 74 Nevada Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to elections. (BDR 24-482)

SB 74 expands electronic ballot access, allowing any registered voter to use approved electronic transmission to request or cast a ballot if they cannot access their mail ballot or cannot travel to polls due to illness, disability, hospitalization, or sudden absence. It removes restrictions preventing major party candidates from changing voter registration information in another state during specific election periods. The bill also requires election notices to include candidate names, offices, and party affiliations, and updates declaration forms for independent candidates. These changes directly affect voters, candidates, and election officials by modifying ballot access, candidate eligibility, and public notice requirements.
Bill status passed 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2024
Committee Review
Jun 2025
Senate Passage
Jun 2025
Assembly Passage
Jun 2025
Governor
Introduced Nov 20, 2024 Last action Jun 4, 2025
Maddy AI version diff · 4 comparisons

What changed between versions

Reprint 3 → Reprint 4 · 4 edits
MODERATE
The bill was reprinted with amendments adopted on June 2, 2025, updating the version from the Third Reprint to the Fourth Reprint. The Legislative Counsel's Digest was revised to reflect new provisions, including an appropriation for election training costs and clarifications about candidate eligibility and filing fees.
Scope change
The bill's scope was expanded to include an appropriation to the Contingency Account for election training costs, while maintaining the same substantive focus on election procedures and candidate requirements.
TIMELINE

The reprint date was updated from May 31, 2025 to June 2, 2025, and the version designation changed from Third Reprint to Fourth Reprint.

FISCAL

New language was added to provide an appropriation to the Contingency Account for allocation to the Secretary of State for costs related to election training procedures.

ELIGIBILITY

The Legislative Counsel's Digest was updated to clarify that Section 2 removes the prohibition preventing a person from being a candidate of a major political party if they changed information on a voter registration application from another state.

REQUIREMENT

The Legislative Counsel's Digest was updated to clarify that Section 4 allows declaration of candidacy fees to be paid by credit card if the filing officer accepts it, and reorganizes existing fee schedules.

Floor votes · Assembly Jun 2, 2025

How they voted

27–13
Passed
Total votes 40
Jun 2, 2025
D Democratic26
26 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican14
1 Yea 13 Nay
92% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
13
Key actions
6
Committee
6
Jun 2, 2025
Assembly · Passed
Assembly Vote: pass (27-13)
assembly
Jun 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 974.) Dispensed with reprinting. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 28, Nays: 14.)
upper
May 31, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 926.) Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. To printer. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Third reprint. To committee.
upper
May 30, 2025
Committee
Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Action of rereferral rescinded.
upper
May 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 785.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 13, Nays: 7, Excused: 1.) To printer.
upper
Apr 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
upper
Apr 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 344.) Notice of eligibility for exemption. Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.
upper
Nov 20, 2024
Introduced
Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To printer.
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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