Nevada Senate withdraws AB238 from finance, advances dozens of Assembly bills to general file and sets adjournment for June 2

The Nevada Senate on Friday withdrew Assembly Bill 238 from the Committee on Finance and placed it on second reading for immediate consideration, advanced multiple Assembly bills to the general file, and voted to stand adjourned until noon Monday, June 2, 2025.

The move on AB 238 was made by Senator Cannizzaro, who said, “I would move to take assembly bill number 238 and withdraw it from the committee on finance and place it on second reading for immediate consideration.” The motion carried on a voice vote. The bill is titled in the record as the Nevada Studio Infrastructure Jobs and Workforce Training Act.

The action follows committee reports, including a report from Senator Angela Taylor, chair of the Senate Committee on Education, which recommended that Assembly Bill 397 be amended and do pass as amended. Senate staff repeatedly confirmed on the floor that no amendments were offered for the bills presented: on several occasions the clerk responded, “There are none.”

On the floor the Senate ordered numerous Assembly bills to the general file. Bills noted in the floor record and placed on the general file include measures on education personnel (AB 49); an appropriation to an outdoor education and recreation grant program (AB 108); health insurance provisions (AB 169); changes to the Public Employees’ Benefits Program (AB 188); early childhood education (AB 212); exemptions for certain anesthesia and sedation requirements (AB 221); inspection of meat and poultry (AB 251); Medicaid reimbursement rates for devices to treat epilepsy (AB 284); motor vehicle provisions (AB 296); reporting requirements for pilot programs researching transcranial magnetic stimulation (AB 304); a grant to expand the youth risk behavior survey (AB 331); intoxicating liquor provisions (AB 375); special license plates (AB 409); forensic mental health provisions (AB 467); appropriations for eviction diversion programs (AB 475) directed to Clark County, the City of Reno and a housing authority named in the bill record; an appropriation to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (AB 476); taxation of agricultural real property (AB 479); additional education and mental health measures and multiple appropriations and supplemental funding items (including ABs 494, 514, 515, 533, 542, 558, 567, 568, 571, 581, 585, 595 and 596).

Senator Cannizzaro also moved that the remaining bills on the general file be placed on the general file for the next legislative day; the motion passed on a voice vote. The Senate recessed briefly during the session and later adjourned the floor, with Cannizzaro moving “that we stand in adjournment until the hour of noon on Monday, 06/02/2025.” The motion carried.

There was no recorded floor debate on the substantive merits of these measures in the provided transcript excerpt; the actions recorded on the floor were procedural (committee reports, second-reading placements and ordering bills to the general file). Where the clerk or the presiding officer asked for amendments, the record states that none were offered. Future floor consideration on the bills placed on the general file, including AB 238 on second reading and the appropriations and policy bills noted above, will determine further action.