2025 Final Nevada Legislative Report

 

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Editor: Janine Hansen

July 2025, In the Year of Our Lord                                                                              

Volume 52, Number 4, Online Version

 

 

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Finally!!!

Dear Friends, I’m finally home from helping my son’s family in Arizona and my computer is fixed. Thank you for all your help during the Legislature. It was the most successful Legislature for us in as long as I can remember! Be of good cheer! Janine Hansen

 

2025 Final Nevada Legislative Report

 

Our Strategy: Because the Legislature was controlled in both houses by significant Democrat majorities, Senate 13 to 8 and Assembly 27 to 15, our strategy was to do all we could to provide the Republican Minority with all the support we could to oppose bad bills while undermining Democrat support for bad bills through lots of testimony in person and online, lots of emails and lots of people giving their opinions online.  Then if we could not stop the bills in the Legislature, because we had given the Republicans support to oppose them, we counted on Governor Lombardo’s vetoes. The Governor vetoed 89 measures, a record number. Thank you for all you did to provide for the success!

 

The Governor, the Hero of the 2025 Legislative Session

All of the following bills were Vetoed by the Governor

 

AB105 Prohibits a person from carrying a gun within 100 feet of the entrance to a polling place. This makes a polling place a gun free zone and a target for crazies to disrupt the election and harm people.      

 

AB140 Extended renewal of driver authorization cards for illegal aliens making them equal to citizen drivers licenses.

 

AB144 Indigenous Peoples Day moved to Columbus Day to erase our history.

 

AB205 Changed Sex Education from Opt in to Opt out undermining Parental rights.

 

AB237 Authorized rural counties to create the office of appointed registrar of voters essentially replacing their elected county clerks as their election officer.

 

AB245 made it a gross misdemeanor for anyone under 21 to possess a semiautomatic shotgun or semiautomatic centerfire rifle.

 

AB278 designated July Muslim American Heritage Month, undermining America’s July 4th.

 

AB306 Expands election Drop Boxes. (Drop boxes are also in AB499 which was also vetoed.)

 

AB328 provides for a Study to lay the foundation for providing reparations for descendants of former enslaved Africans. This will only cause resentment and racial animosity, dividing not uniting Nevadans.

 

AB411 would allow doctors who prescribe abortion pills like mifepristone and misoprostol to hide their names on prescription labels. This strips away accountability and puts women at greater risk during emergencies, when knowing the prescribing doctor can be critical.

 

AB416 restricts the rights of parents, citizens and taxpayers to object to obscene material in the school and county library. It forces those who object to obscene materials to petition the court.

 

AB496 required County Clerks to publish online, every month, the list of registered voters and that the list could be downloaded by any person for free. It required a voter number to be included in the list and other changes.

 

AB499 was amended at the last minute to include Voter ID identical to the ballot question. However, it also included election drop boxes increasing the risks of ballot harvesting, had lower ID requirements for mail in ballots than in person voting, required the Secretary of State to have digital IDs by transferring all personal ID information from the DMV to the SOS causing concerns with Identity theft.

 

AB534 which the Deputy Secretary of State identified as their “pot of money”. There were no restrictions in the bill as to where the money could come from or where it could be used.. (Think of Zuckerbucks.) It can be doled out to cities and counties for running elections AND for “Any other project, program or expense that the Secretary of State determines to be eligible for the Program.” Essentially a slush fund for the SOS. It died in the Assembly Ways and Means and was amended into this bill.

 

AB585 reduced the number of Legislative bills. We originally supported this bill but after further consideration we opposed it in the Senate. It reduced the minority party’s bills more than the majority’s and as the Governor said in his veto, it significantly reduced the Governor’s ability to submit his policy proposals.

 

AB588 Changed the names of Assemblyman and Assemblywoman to Assemblymember in Statute rather than by Assembly rules.

 

AB597 Open Primaries. The voters just voted against open primaries in 2024. Political parties are private associations protected by the First Amendment and should determine who their own candidates will be.

 

SB74 one of the Secretary of State’s clean-up bills which required candidates to file “an intent to file”, redefined Political Action Committee excluding labor unions from the definition.

SB89 A hate crime bill that takes the right to keep and bear arms away from someone convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime in the previous 10 years.

SB100 requires the Secretary of State to write regulations setting timelines and requirements for local county Clerks, City Clerks and Registrars of Voters over elections. If they fail to carry out their duty in a timely manner, they must report to the Secretary of State and Attorney General. This gives more unwarranted power to the SOS instead of leaving it where it belongs, in the counties.

SB102 So called “fake electors” bill designed to punish in the future alternative Republican electors who in 2020 were selected because of concerns over possible election fraud. Punishment included a felony, jail time, $5000 fine, and lost right to ever serve in elected or appointed office.

SB155 Allowed non-citizens (allowed to work in the U.S.) to serve as peace officers who could arrest American Citizens.

SB156 which created the government office of anti-Second Amendment propaganda. The bill provided that private anti-Second Amendment groups like Brady and Bloomberg could provide grants to the “Office of Gun Violence Prevention” which can influence their agenda. Instead, reduce gun violence by enforcing the laws and encourage law-abiding citizens to get Concealed Weapon Permits. Statistics show when more law-abiding citizens have guns crime is reduced. 

SB171 Made Nevada a sanctuary state for gender affirming doctors from other states who have violated the laws of other states.

SB217 which mandates public, private insurance and Medicaid to cover very costly infertility treatments. This bill attempts to redefine human life in defiance of scientific fact.

SB352 prohibited private and government health care providers and insurance including Medicaid from discriminating against transgenders, intersex, gender identity or expression, etc.

SB414 added additional reporting requirements for an inaugural committee aimed at the Governor.

SB422 allowed a person with a driver’s license from another state or just a signed affidavit, to vote a provisional ballot. It would be costly to taxpayers to keep the DMV open on Saturdays and Sundays before the election so people can get ID’s. Their updated ID didn’t have to be turned in until Friday after the election delaying election results.

 

A Couple of Good Bills that Passed

AB197 which protects non-profits free speech by protecting their donor and volunteer lists from government.

SB445 is a good step towards protecting public school student data. It requires the State Dept of Education, one year after a student graduates from high school, to transfer any student data to the State Dept. of Ed where personal information  is redacted and is destroyed 10 years thereafter.

 

Bad Bills that Died

AB119 which allowed the Attorney General to investigate paramilitary activity was amended to provide that individuals or groups who unlawfully assume law enforcement or government roles, interfere with legal rights, or train for such activities, must be armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon to be considered engaging in paramilitary activity.

AB156 made School Board member salaries equal to county Commissioners in Clark County. In Clark County, School Board members make $750 a month or $9,000 a year. Clark County Commissioners make between $56,000 and $131,000 a year. The bill was made worse when amended to authorize ALL counties and Carson City to make School Board Members salaries equal to County Commissioners and requiring them to provide compensation starting in Jan. 2026. It also provided that appointed School Board members in Clark could now vote like elected members. Passed Assembly All Republicans voted no and 3 Democrats. Not heard in Senate.

AB268 Universal Breakfast & Lunch for all school children (Clark County already has this.) Appropriation for 2 years $33,097,720. One more replacement of parental responsibilities.

AB346 Assisted Suicide passed the Assembly with 19 voting no.  Democrats: Brown-May, D’Silva, LaRue Hatch, Marzola, Nadeem, All Republicans voted no except Rebecca Edgeworth & Burt Gurr.

AB402 Automated Traffic Enforcement in construction zones (cameras) passed the Assembly with 15 Republicans voted no. No hearing in Senate.

AB464 Locked the Woke Diversity Equity and Inclusion agenda into Nevada statutes. It tied the hands of elected School Boards and Charter schools from responding to the concerns of voters, taxpayers and parents. It could cause Nevada to lose critical federal funds.

AJR1 Property Tax Constitutional Amendment which removed the requirement for equal and uniform property taxes and removed the property tax cap.  Passed Assembly with 15 Republicans voting no along with Democrat Brittany Miller.

 

SB74 it was one of the Secretary of States clean-up bills and originally contained an expansion of electronic voting. It passed the Senate & Assembly but was never sent to the Governor.

SB234 Medicaid for Illegal Aliens was amended to only include illegals under the age of 21 who have cancer or need a kidney transplant and to the extent available under Federal funds provide ongoing cancer and kidney treatments. The original price tag for taxpayers was $61,000,000.

 

Bad Bills that Passed the Legislature

AJR14 condemns President Trump and the J6rs who participated at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2020. The Governor cannot veto Resolutions.

AJR6 asks for Congress to make the Social Security Fairness Act (which was passed by the lame-duck Congress under Biden) retroactive back to 2013. The Social Security Administration projects they will be able to pay full benefits only until 2037. The Governor cannot veto Resolutions.

AB530 Clark County Gas Tax increase. Gives authority by a 2/3rds vote of the County Commission to continue the gas tax increases. It removes the vote of the people extending it out 10 years.

 

SB116 raises the salaries of elected county officers to 3% above the highest paid employee of that officer. It also raises the salaries of county commissioners: Clark $121.000, Washoe $116,000, Rural Counties between $39,000 and $30,000. The amendment allows the County Commission to NOT raise the salaries of elected officers if financial resources are not available.

SB319 changed to a STUDY to consolidate the fire districts of Washoe County, Reno and Sparks. The real purpose is to shift huge amounts of debt from Reno and Sparks to the County and then raise taxes to pay for it. 8 Assembly Republicans and 5 Senate Republicans voted no.

SB347 This was significantly amended so it is not a bad. It provides for confiscation and return of a firearm when a person is placed on a mental health hold. 5 Senate Republicans voted No and in the Assembly 15 Republicans voted no.

Good bills that died

AB359 bill removes the sales tax from precious metals (gold, silver, platinum, and palladium) coins, bullion and currency.  Only 5 states tax these items. It will encourage local businesses, open the door for coin conventions and promotes real hard currency.

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