Gov. Joe Lombardo rejected a bill to expand drop box access and implement voter ID as part of his record-setting vetoes of bills from the Democratic-controlled Nevada Legislature.
2025 Nevada Legislature
The latest news from the 2025 Nevada Legislature in Carson City.
The Nevada legislative session ended with a hold-up from Senate Republicans. A bill to bring a film studio to Las Vegas died, as did three of the Gov. Joe Lombardo’s five signature bills.
The bill aiming to increase animal cruelty penalties known as “Reba’s Law” passed the Nevada Senate, a major hurdle for the bill that was once thought to be dead.
The capital improvement project bill, the last constitutionally required budget bill legislators must pass, is soon heading to the governor’s desk.
The Republican governor’s major health care policy reform proposal, opposed by some members of his own party, passed the Senate but didn’t get a vote in the Assembly.
A bill proposed by Democratic Speaker Steve Yeager to include voter ID requirements as part of a compromise passed the Senate and now heads to the governor.
The Nevada Assembly passed Senate Bill 460, sweeping education reforms proposed by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Gov. Joe Lombardo.
Changes to AB 540, one of five bills from the Republican governor, came with about three hours left in the part-time Legislature’s session.
Senate Bill 179 defines the term for Nevada Equal Rights Commission investigations into discrimination in housing, employment and accommodations.
The clock ran out on Gov. Joe Lombardo’s heavily amended bill, preventing a final vote before the 2025 session’s legally manded conclusion.
A bid to offer film tax credits to build the 31-acre Summerlin Studios never got a Senate vote on the final day of the Nevada legislative session.
Amendments made to Gov. Joe Lombardo’s crime and public safety bill reduce his proposals to be tough on certain crimes.
Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Gov. Joe Lombardo have merged their sweeping education proposals together, though some more changes could be coming.
Gov. Joe Lombardo signed Assembly Bill 375, bipartisan legislation establishing cocktails-to-go and “picon punch” as the official state drink.
Film tax credits. Nonpartisans in primaries. Education reform. Here’s where some major proposals are in the legislative process.