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Nevada Senate adopts a slate of bills across health, education and commerce; sends measures to Assembly
Summary
During its May 19 floor session in Carson City, the Nevada Senate adopted a package of bills on topics including food-delivery licensing, dental-claims review, limits on provider fees for forms, transit safety, and protections for children; roll-call votes on multiple measures were unanimous (20-0) where recorded.
The Nevada Senate on May 19, 2025, voted to pass a series of bills across policy areas and ordered them to the Assembly for further action. Several measures, including Assembly Bill 116 on food-delivery licensing and Assembly Bill 305 limiting fees charged by health-care providers for employer forms, were adopted on voice or roll-call votes reported as 20-0.
Why it matters: The bills passed address consumer protections, health-care billing, education, local government finance and public-safety topics that affect state regulatory standards and service delivery. Because many measures proceed to the Assembly or were ordered to be reprinted and engrossed, they remain active in the 2025 legislative process and could take effect at different times specified in each bill.
Most significant floor actions and summaries
- Assembly Bill 116 (Scheibel): Prohibits a food-delivery platform from facilitating online orders for an establishment unless the establishment has all required local business licenses for that location; a civil penalty of up to $100 per unauthorized order is authorized. The Senate reported a roll-call result of 20-0 and declared the bill passed and ordered it to the Assembly. The bill’s effective date is listed in the bill as Jan. 1, 2026.
- Assembly Bill 202 (Pizzina): Expands certain complaint-resolution and external review procedures to insurers that issue dental-only policies; allows a dentist to request an expedited external review and requires inclusion of a dentist in the external review process. Vote recorded as 20-0; bill ordered to the Assembly.
- Assembly Bill 258 (Pizzina): Revises provisions relating to certain debt-collection civil actions, including definitions and court procedures. Recorded vote 20-0; bill ordered to the Assembly.
- Assembly Bill 289 (Taylor): Authorizes the Board of Regents to establish a financial-literacy course of study and outlines required instruction if the course is established. Passed by roll call 20-0 and ordered to the Assembly.
- Assembly Bill 305 (Daley): Prohibits health-care providers from charging more than $30 to fill out certain FMLA-related certification forms, with the amount adjusted annually by the Department of Health and Human Services using the Consumer Price Index; recorded vote 20-0 and ordered to the Assembly.
- Assembly Bill 361 (Winn): Requires certain regional transportation commissions in counties of 100,000 or more population to install infrastructure and signage to mitigate safety risks to transit operators and post criminal penalties for assault or battery of transit officers; passed 20-0.
- Assembly Bill 394 (Taylor): Authorizes the Board of Regents to require emergency-response plans addressing opioid-related overdoses at institutions in the Nevada System of Higher Education; passed 20-0 and ordered to the Assembly.
- Assembly Bill 430 (Daley): Exempts persons engaged solely in payroll-processing services from money-transmission provisions; passed 20-0 and ordered to the Assembly.
- Assembly Bill 493 (Pizzina): Revises collection, disposal and retirement requirements for certain distributed-generation and utility-scale solar systems, including required disposal plans and reporting; passed 20-0 and ordered to the Assembly.
- Assembly Bill 498 (reported as AB 4 98 / SB 498 on the floor): Revises licensing and place-of-business requirements for motor clubs and allows nonresident club agents under certain conditions; recorded vote reported as 20-0 and ordered to the Assembly.
- Assembly Bill 510 (Ellison; AB5 10 on the floor): Makes changes to regulation of accountancy, shifts certain education and experience requirements into board-prescribed regulations, effective Jan. 1, 2026; passed 20-0.
- Assembly Bill 512 (Flores; AB5 12): Expands the definition of casualty insurance to include legal-expenses insurance and clarifies regulatory treatment; passed 20-0 and ordered to the Assembly.
- Assembly Bill 521 (Titus; AB5 21): Requires written authorization for release of certain records from the statewide central registry for child abuse/neglect for the preceding five years in adjudications determining substantiated reports, and authorizes termination or certification action against intermediary service organizations that employ persons with substantiated reports when those persons would provide services to children or persons with disabilities; passed 20-0 and ordered to the Assembly.
Floor process and next steps
Most of the bills above moved on motions to reprint and engross or were ordered to the general file after the adoption of committee-sponsored amendments earlier in the day. Where a roll call was recorded, the Senate reported unanimous approval in the recorded results cited on the floor ("the yeses are 20, the noes are 0"). Several bills contained sponsor- or committee-proposed amendments that were adopted on the floor before final action and were described briefly on the floor when amendments were moved and adopted.
After completing the day’s business, the Senate agreed to adjourn until 11 a.m. on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
Note: This summary reports actions and descriptive language as presented on the Senate floor. It does not infer provisions that were not read aloud or recorded during the session; where the bill text lists an effective date in the legislative text, that date is noted above (for example, AB 116 lists Jan. 1, 2026).
