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AB 559 (Attorney General — extradition coordinator): Chief fiscal analyst reported that the bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $1,200,000 for 2025 to the attorney general's extradition coordinator budget account; the agency had requested $1,518,027. The committee accepted a motion to amend and do pass (motion by Vice Chair Baucus; second by Assemblymember Hradecki) and the motion carried on a voice vote. The committee assigned the floor statement to Assemblymember Brown-May.

AB 561 (Division of Forestry): The bill as introduced proposed a $18,600,000 supplemental appropriation; the agency asked to amend the amount to $20,733,824. The committee accepted a motion to amend and do pass (motion by Vice Chair Baca; second by Assemblymember Hradek) and approved the amendment and do-pass recommendation. The floor statement was assigned to Assemblymember Anderson.

AB 581 (Department of Corrections): The original supplemental appropriation request was $6,600,000. A budget amendment was proposed totaling $44,741,565, of which $11,100,000 addressed shortfalls in non-personnel categories and $33,600,000 addressed personnel shortfalls. The committee accepted a motion to amend and do pass; the motion carried and the floor statement was assigned to Assemblymember O'Neil.

AB 586 (Aging and Disability Services Division, Department of Health and Human Services): The chief fiscal analyst summarized a supplemental appropriation of $16,200,000 to fund projected shortfalls for fiscal year 2025. Assemblymember Brown-May stated on the record that she had a potential conflict of interest under joint standing rule 23 because her employer could possibly receive funding and therefore would abstain from the vote. The committee took a voice vote on a motion to do pass (moved by Assemblymember Bacchus; second by Assemblymember Hategui); the motion passed with one recorded abstention by Assemblymember Brown-May.

Committee procedures were standard voice votes; the record shows motions carried on each item and floor statements assigned as noted. No roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript excerpts provided, aside from the recorded abstention on AB 586.

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Sponsor Brian Hibbits told the committee the bill would ensure \"anybody that's a peace officer under NRS 289 is a peace officer under the heart and lung protection statute,\" citing NRS 617.135 as the heart-and-lung statute to which the bill would extend coverage.

Annette Teixeira, deputy risk manager for the State Risk Management Division, told the committee the amendment to AB 93 would broaden the classification to include 297 additional sworn positions across state agencies and expand heart-and-lung coverage to those positions. Based on historical claim rates and national health data, Teixeira said an estimated three additional claims annually at an average cost of $99,988 per claim would produce an anticipated annual cost of $299,964 and a biennial impact of $599,928 starting in fiscal year 2027.

Several law-enforcement organizations testified in support. Matthew Caldwell, president of the Police Officers Association for the Clark County School District Police Department, said the coverage would \"force them to be checked annually\" and called the bill lifesaving. Dan Gordon, president of the Nevada Police Union, said the union \"fully supports this important bill\" and urged committee passage.

Hibbits noted the bill is an effort to consolidate coverage so this issue need not be revisited each session; he said an earlier version of the bill had passed policy and the floor in a prior session but died in the Senate Finance Committee.

No opponents testified on record at the hearing. The committee did not take a final vote during the hearing phase.

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Jill Dickman, sponsor and assemblywoman for District 31, said the provision existed before 2021 but was removed when references to political parties were stripped from statute. \"This prior to 2021, this was in statute for years,\" Dickman said, noting the intent is to restore the prior availability and that high schools are generally used for such meetings.

Dickman told the committee the bill originally generated a fiscal note from ANCHE that alleged a loss of revenue, but that language was amended and the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) submitted an unsolicited fiscal note of $0 after the amendment excluded NSHE buildings. She said the sponsor did not intend for NSHE to be part of this change.

There was no public testimony in support, opposition or neutral on the bill in either Carson City or Las Vegas, and no callers provided testimony by phone.

The committee closed the hearing without recorded agency opposition; no vote was taken during the hearing phase. Committee staff and the sponsor did not identify other fiscal impacts during the hearing.

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Assemblyman Howard Watts, representing Assembly District 15, told the committee the bill's purpose is to \"allow our department of wildlife to manage all wildlife species in the state\" and to give the state more tools to prevent species from being listed under the federal Endangered Species Act.

The bill drew support from conservation groups and cautious fiscal scrutiny from agency staff. Alan Janae of the Nevada Department of Wildlife said the department supports the concept but lacks in-house entomology expertise and outlined fiscal constraints. \"We do not possess that knowledge base right now...we need to hire that expertise,\" Janae said, adding that two federal grants that historically funded similar work were omitted from the president's “skinny” budget and that loss creates a roughly $2,300,000 shortfall in the department's biodiversity work.

Watts told the committee he had discussed using the agency’s sportsman's revenue — fees from hunting and fishing licenses and tags — to fund a specialist position. The bill sponsor noted a projected sportsman's revenue balance of about $6,400,000 at the end of the fiscal year but also warned that recent closing actions increased the department’s demands on that fund.

Kevin Burls, representing the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, urged support and emphasized that expanded authority would allow the department to apply for federal funds such as the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund under section 6 of the Endangered Species Act. \"These grant funds have been used by the department in the past to conserve other imperiled wildlife species before more drastic and costly federal measures are needed,\" Burls said.

Olivia Tanager, director of the Sierra Club Toiyabe chapter, said the bill is \"fiscally prudent\" because proactive management of invertebrates can prevent costlier recovery programs later and supports industries that rely on pollination, such as agriculture and tourism.

Laurel Saito, Nevada water strategy director for The Nature Conservancy, also testified in support, telling the committee that invertebrates are \"a critical part of ecosystems\" and important to Nevada’s food system economy.

Department witnesses and the sponsor said discussions are ongoing about whether the position could be funded this biennium and whether statutory language can be adjusted to address concerns about funding reliance on sportsman's revenue. Janae said the department typically maintains an eight-month reserve in that fund to manage the cyclical nature of license and tag sales.

The committee did not take a vote on AB 85 during the hearing.

Details from the hearing indicate supporters view the bill as a preventive conservation measure and a means to unlock federal grant opportunities, while agency officials emphasized the need for a dedicated entomology hire and highlighted potential gaps in federal funding that create fiscal risk.

If the bill advances, the department and sponsor said they will continue working on language and funding options to avoid tying routine wildlife funding to new obligations without a staffing plan.

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