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Votes at a glance: Senate passes budget and capital bills; many appropriations ordered to general file
Summary
On May 21, 2025, the Nevada Senate moved a large group of appropriation bills to the general file and passed budget and capital measures (SB501 and SB502). Several SB4xx appropriations were ordered to the general file with no floor debate recorded in the excerpt.
The Nevada State Senate handled a range of fiscal and procedural items on May 21, 2025, moving many bills to the general file and passing two major budget-related measures.
Key floor actions and recorded votes
- SB 501 (Authorizes non‑general fund expenditures for the 2025–27 biennium): Passed by a recorded vote of 21–0 and ordered to the Assembly. Sponsor summary reported wide-ranging authority for federal funds, fees, grants and other non‑general-fund sources.
- SB 502 (Capital improvement program and related capital projects for 2025): Passed by a recorded vote of 17–4 and ordered to the Assembly. The sponsor described funding for the 2025 CIP and related general obligation bond authorizations.
- Multiple Senate Committee finance appropriation bills (second reading) were ordered to the general file with no floor amendments recorded in the excerpt. Those bills include (as read on the floor): SB 469, SB 470, SB 474, SB 476, SB 478, SB 479, SB 484, SB 485, SB 488, SB 489, SB 490, SB 491, SB 493 and others listed on the floor calendar. Each was announced “ordered to the general file.”
- The Senate adopted committee amendments and ordered to general file a set of Assembly bills whose amendments were presented on the floor, including AB 44 (amendment adopted), AB 209 (amendment adopted), AB 319 (amendment adopted), AB 434 (amendment adopted), and AB 461 (amendment adopted); the transcript records the motions adopting amendments and that the bills were reprinted/engrossed into the general file.
- Earlier in the session a procedural motion moved a long list of Assembly bills on the general file to the calendar for the next legislative day; the motion carried by voice vote.
Several procedural matters also carried by voice vote, including a motion to dispense with reprinting bills amended on second reading to allow movement to general file while printing caught up after an outage.
What happened next
The bills passed by the Senate (SB 500, SB 501, SB 502 and others ordered to general file) were to be immediately transmitted to the Assembly where companion action and any amendments are possible. The Senate recessed to allow committee meetings to proceed.
For full fiscal details and precise statutory language, consult the enrolled bills and fiscal analysis reports and the committee reports referenced on the floor.
