Source is Nevada State Legislature website.
After the session ended on June 2, Governor Lombardo had 10 days to either sign, veto or let the bill become law without his signature.
At the last deadline there were 34 bills still moving through the process, eight of them passed.
AB 73 relating to Artificial Intelligence, requiring certain communications relating to elections, to disclose if it contains synthetic media. Effective 1/1/2026.
AB92 requires that rooms or spaces in public buildings be provided to certain political parties without charge. Effective 7/1/2025.
AB148 relating to election deadlines for a county or city clerk to distribute sample ballots. Effective 10/1/2025.
AB176 relating to health care that prohibits a government entity from substantially burdening certain activity relating to reproductive health care under certain circumstances. Effective 1/1/2026.
AB197 relating to governmental administration with certain exceptions to keep personal information regarding donors, members, or volunteers of nonprofit organizations private. Effective 7/1/20/27.
AB235 relating to health care providers who practice reproductive health and employees or volunteer for the facility, and providers for gender affirming care, spouse, domestic partner or minor child that request that certain personal information in the possession of a county recorder, county assessor or elections official be kept in a confidential manner. Effective 7/1/2025.
AB343 relating to health care requiring hospitals to publish certain information relating to the pricing of goods and services. Effective 1/1/2026.
SB443 relating to elections revising provisions to voter registration during certain periods preceding an election. Effective 10/1/2025.
Governor Lombardo broke his 2023 record by vetoing 87 bills, some of which were really good bills. I have listed some.
Source is the Las Vegas Review Journal:
SB217 which would have established a statutory right to in vitro fertilization and expanded it to Medicaid for coverage for infertility diagnosis and treatment. Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro “Even Donald Trump has backed efforts to expand IVF, but Lombardo is picking out-of-state extremists over protecting Nevada doctors and patients,” Cannizzaro, D-Las Vegas, said in a statement. “By vetoing this bipartisan bill, Lombardo has turned his back on ordinary Nevada families who need a little help to overcome the hardships of infertility in order to experience the joy of parenthood.” (quoted from press release).
SB428 would require incumbents to live in the district they represent during their entire term. This passed on a party-line vote in favor of Democrats in the Senate and unanimously in the Assembly. But Lombardo said in his veto message he believed the bill did not protect candidates’ privacy because residential addresses could be considered part of the public record.
AB499 which would have expanded access to ballot drop boxes and implemented voter ID requirements. The bill was the result of a compromise between Yeager and the governor, who has long supported voter ID. Yeager sought to match the language in the ballot question to implement voter ID, which passed in 2024 but needs to be approved by voters in 2026.
In his veto message, the governor said that he wholeheartedly supports voter ID, but he said the bill is not entirely consistent with the language in the ballot question. He said it fails to resolve inconsistencies in how voter ID is reviewed, does little to improve signature verification and leaves too much ambiguity for future interpretation. He also expressed concerns about increased access to ballot drop boxes.
He specifically took issue with the proposed mail ballot ID verification and argued it would apply voter ID requirements unequally between in-person and mail ballot voters, saying that mail ballots would continue to be accepted solely on the basis of a signature match. Their identifying information written on the return envelope is only checked if the signature needs to be verified, while in-person voters must show ID every time.
“This inconsistency undermines the principle of uniform voter verification,” he wrote. “Voter ID is essential for ensuring election integrity, and it should be applied consistently across all voting methods.
AB416 which would have prohibited school boards or other leadership from banning or removing material that they may find “objectionable” — “fundamentally flawed” in his veto message on Thursday. Community members seeking to have materials removed would need to petition a court to do so, according to the bill sponsored by Assemblymember Brittney Miller, D-Las Vegas.
“Decisions about what library materials are appropriate for students should be made locally — by educators and families who understand the unique needs of their communities — not by judges through a rigid, one-size-fits-all legal process,” he wrote.
SB156 sponsored by state Sen. Edgar Flores, would have required the attorney general to appoint a special counsel for the Prevention of Gun Violence, authorizing the counsel to administer a grant program for gun violence prevention initiatives, to collaborate with professors and researchers in developing data relating to gun violence, and to put together educational campaigns relating to firearm safety and suicide prevention.
The bill passed the Assembly 25-14 and the Senate 11-8.
AB223 sponsored by Assemblymember Venicia Considine and other Democrats, would have authorized a tenant to file a complaint for relief if their landlord fails to maintain a rental unit in habitable condition, such as if the unit lacks proper measures to control rodents and insects, or if it lacks doors and windows in good repair.
The bill passed down party lines in both houses.
Lombardo said the bill disrupts a “well-established balance” in Nevada law that provides adequate tenant protections while ensuring landlords maintain safe and quality housing. He criticized a provision of the bill that would require landlords to remedy issues within 48 hours after receiving notice, calling it an “onerous requirement.” He also said that a tenant’s own negligence may cause their apartment to become uninhabitable.
Nevada State Democratic Party spokesperson Tai Sims:
SB414 would have required elected officials to disclose their financial investments, including stocks, that could create conflicts of interests. After Lombardo vetoed a similar bill last session that passed with bipartisan support, he was asked if he would use dark money in order to win elections and he replied, “I’m going to use everything available to ensure success.” Once it was revealed that Lombardo registered his inaugural committee as a dark money group, Republicans in the Nevada State Senate unanimously voted against SB414 — after it received bipartisan support last session.
SB89 prohibits individuals who have been convicted within the past 10 years of certain offenses, such as hate crimes or violent crimes motivated by characteristics like race, religion, or sexual orientation, from purchasing, owning, or possessing firearms. It also specifies that each firearm purchased by such a person is a separate violation. Additionally, the bill allows individuals convicted of these offenses before July 1, 2025, to retain firearms they legally owned prior to that date.
AB205 This bill changes the consent process for sexuality education in public schools from an opt-in to an opt-out system, requiring school districts to provide a form allowing parents or guardians to refuse their child’s participation. It also sets deadlines for providing the form and allows it to be posted on the district’s secure website, with a notice that parents may opt out at any time during the school year
Passed Bills
Source is Nevada Independent Veto Tracker
SB404 which passed both the Senate and Assembly unanimously.The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by state Sen. Melanie Scheible, a Las Vegas Democrat, crafted the proposal in response to a Review-Journal investigation which found that Nevada law placed few restrictions on who manages a probate case when an individual dies without a will. State law, in fact, allows anyone “legally qualified” to step up.
This created a lucrative market for third-party interests — real estate investors, private administrators and attorneys — to profit from the process while relatives received a pittance, if anything.
The investigation revealed that these agents “often started cases without family involvement and routinely obtained court authority to sell homes through a process that does not require a judge’s approval of the deal or a competitive bidding that could boost the price.” They also “frequently sold homes at steep discounts to estimated values, often to the same circle of repeat buyers who resold them within months” at prices well above the cost of the original purchase. “The probate cases,” the report revealed, “often ended with nothing for heirs.”
The law was intended to allow for the timely and orderly disposition of an estate when relatives didn’t exist, couldn’t be found or didn’t want the bother. But fairness dictates that every effort should be made to ensure family members have the opportunity to take part in the task if they so desire. This bill imposes safeguards to assure that third-party administrators don’t abuse the state’s liberal probate statutes. The reforms demand that those seeking to be deemed “legally qualified” now provide a court with evidence to that effect, along with affidavits indicating their efforts to locate any potential heirs. It also limits who can become an “independent administrator,” and thus able to sell the deceased’s home without a judge’s approval or open bidding.
AB540 is one of the Governor’s 5 priority bills. The Nevada Attainable Housing Act focuses on housing access and attainability. It creates an account in the state general fund which will be administered by the Housing Division. This account will provide loans and other financial assistance for attainable housing projects.
The bill establishes the attainable Housing Council to oversee and guide the administration and allocation of funds from the Attainable Housing Account. The funding and initiatives allocates funds that were originally $200 million which was amended to $150 million but finally appropriated to $133 million to the account. Also amended out of the bill was the prevailing wage clause.
AB121 Landlords will no longer be able to charge a tenant a fee to make a payment through an online portal or website which prohibits junk fees from corporate landlords when paying rent.
AB111 makes wrong-way driving on a divided highway a misdemeanor rather than a civil infraction aiming to curb the large number of roadway fatalities that occur every year.
SB460 this bill is a combined bill from Lombardo education bill into Senator Cannizzaro bill.
It revises provisions governing the annual report of accountability for a school district. Revises the duties of the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, impanels a Public Education Oversight Board. It establishes boards of trustees of certain school districts as well as measures for the designation of focus and priority school districts, sponsors of charter schools and public schools, and much more.
All in all out of 605 bills that made it to the governor’s desk, he passed 518 bills. If you would like to read any of the bills but don’t know how, I would be glad to help you out. Contact me at [email protected].
The next session will be in 2027.
