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Assemblymember Torres Fawcett said the interim committee heard “many of the law enforcement agencies throughout the state of Nevada” and that agencies asked for a consolidated, strategic plan for officer wellness. Dr. James Tenney, a licensed psychologist and director of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Wellness Bureau, told the panel that police and fire personnel face elevated risks of PTSD, depression, anxiety and suicide and that a statewide task force could produce a “wireframe” for effective wellness programs.

The bill would create a task force charged with reviewing state policies on wellness initiatives for peace officers and recommending standards and programs including screening, long‑term monitoring, stress management, counseling and other practices. The sponsor said an amendment had been accepted to include firefighters on the task force after testimony that the firefighter community shares similar mental‑health burdens; the sponsor referenced a figure that “37 percent of firefighters have contemplated suicide,” which was presented during testimony as a reason to include fire personnel.

Representatives from municipal governments, police and firefighter organizations, the Nevada Police Union and other public‑safety employers testified in support. Ryan Beaman, representing Professional Firefighters in Nevada, said nearly one in three first responders will develop a behavioral‑health condition and urged the committee to invest in mental wellness to keep communities safe. John Abel of the Las Vegas Police Protective Association and Dan Gordon of the Nevada Police Union also spoke in support, praising work already underway at Las Vegas Metro and urging statewide coordination. City public‑safety leaders from Reno, Henderson and Las Vegas said they were willing to participate and share best practices.

One caller, Barry Johnston, provided a comment criticizing the legislature’s recent policy choices and attributing declines in morale to political decisions; the caller’s remarks were partisan in tone and framed as a broader critique of the legislature rather than the task force proposal itself.

No committee vote was recorded; the committee closed the AB433 hearing after testimony.

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The bill sponsor, Assemblymember Toby Yurek, said, “Cybercrime is not some abstract threat anymore.” He described the SOC as a centralized mechanism to scale existing state cybersecurity efforts, provide a talent pipeline for students and authorize the CIO to apply for federal grant funds to stand up and sustain the center.

AB432 would: establish a SOC within the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO); authorize pursuit of federal grant funding and require annual reporting; create a cybersecurity talent pipeline program with Nevada System of Higher Education partners; extend SOC services to school districts and local governments on an opt‑in basis; and add limited protections for cybersecurity incident details from public disclosure where release would increase risk.

Timothy Galluzzi, Nevada’s state chief information officer, told the committee Nevada lacks centralized cybersecurity oversight and described recent incidents in other jurisdictions as examples of the cost of fragmentation. He said his office analyzed “over 298,000,000,000 network logs” in FY24, reviewed “over 241,000 incidents” and validated “17,304” as legitimate threats, and that the SOC would scale that work statewide.

Administrator Adam Miller of the Office of Cyber Defense Coordination explained how the SOC would operate in practice and offered an analogy: “a helpful analogy too is thinking of this like a post office…They'll scan that mail…But they won't actually physically open the mail and read the letter inside,” describing SOC work as monitoring infrastructure logs rather than reading private content.

Committee members pressed for specifics across multiple areas: whether nonexecutive agencies would be required or permitted to participate (Galluzzi said executive branch agencies would be required to use the SOC while county, city and school districts would be able to opt in); whether the SOC would create a “master key” to access data (Galluzzi and Miller denied that, citing encryption and “least privilege” principles); how the state would fund and staff the SOC (presenters said initial operations could be virtual and vendor‑supported, with federal grants and a rate structure for participating agencies to sustain the program); and whether student communications or other content would be monitored (presenters said the SOC would monitor network and infrastructure logs, not the content of communications).

Local governments, higher education institutions and business groups testified in support. Clark County CIO Ashley Kennedy supported the bill and noted the opt‑in structure allows planning and budgeting. The Vegas Chamber’s director of government affairs, Nick Schneider, and representatives from the University of Nevada, Reno, UNLV and the Nevada System of Higher Education described workforce and training benefits. The city of Las Vegas and other municipal representatives also spoke in favor, citing mutual vulnerability when one jurisdiction is weaker than others.

One caller, Al Rojas, testified in opposition and said the presenters lacked a formal technical specification to define boundaries and accountability; he urged clearer product specifications and accountability mechanisms. No committee vote was recorded during the hearing.

The committee closed the AB432 hearing after public testimony and moved on to the next bill.

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Assembly committee hears bill to create Blue Ribbon Task Force on peace officer and first responder wellness

Assembly committee hears proposal to create statewide security operations center to monitor cyber threats