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LCB outlines 2025 Authorizations Act: $17.2 billion authorized for FY26
Summary
Legislative Counsel Bureau fiscal staff presented BDR 12‑31, the proposed 2025 Authorizations Act, detailing $17.2 billion in non‑general/hwy authorizations for FY2026 and related carryover and exemption language; committee introduced the measure as a committee bill.
The Legislative Counsel Bureau presented BDR 12‑31, the proposed 2025 Authorizations Act, to the Nevada Senate Finance Committee, describing $17,196,000,000 in authorized spending for fiscal year 2026 and $16,645,000,000 for fiscal year 2027 for non‑general fund and non‑highway fund accounts.
John Kucera, LCB fiscal analysis division, said, “This will become the 2025 authorizations act,” and walked members through the bill sections, which include line‑item authorizations for 404 budget accounts, carryover provisions, exemptions, and special authorizations for a small set of agencies the act treats differently (the Gaming Control Board and the Department of Transportation). The presentation highlighted that the Department of Transportation includes highway fund authorizations of roughly $353,400,000 in FY26 and $364,000,000 in FY27 within the authorization totals.
The bill draft request includes standard carryforward and reversion language, multiple Section‑7 exemptions for grants and incident business units, and new language authorizing the creation of an attorney general special litigation and investigations unit supported by tobacco settlement carryover funds. Kucera and staff noted several sections that permit agencies to expend fee and tuition revenue, allocate county assessments for public defender services, and balance forward specific loan/stipend programs in higher education.
Committee members had no follow‑up questions after the presentation. Later in the session the committee voted to introduce three BDRs — the authorizations act (BDR 12‑31), the K‑12 funding bill (BDR 12‑32) and the CIP bill (BDR 12‑33) — as committee bills; the motion to introduce was moved by Senator Wynne and seconded by Senator Cannizzaro and carried on a voice vote.
Why it matters: the authorizations act legally authorizes spending from non‑general and non‑highway sources and contains the back language needed to implement funding choices made by the money committees, including carryover rules and exemptions that affect how agencies can use and reallocate funds in the 2025–27 biennium.
The committee did not take a final floor vote on the full authorizations act at the hearing; staff said the three bills introduced will be sent to the floor for further consideration in the coming days.
