The Nevada joint Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means committees on Saturday approved a series of subcommittee closing reports and related technical adjustments covering multiple state agencies.

What passed
Committee votes approved the subcommittees’ recommendations for the following major areas and agencies (motions to approve were made by Assemblymember Pamela Monroe Moreno and seconded by Senator Wynne unless otherwise noted): Legislative branch budgets (Legislative Counsel Bureau accounts including legislative council and interim Senate/Assembly accounts); Office of the Chief Information Officer adjustments recommended by the Joint Subcommittee on General Government; Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs closing recommendations (including room‑tax transfers and museum positions); Division of Public and Behavioral Health closing recommendations (including multiple program transfers, ARPA adjustments and program-specific technical changes); Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR) closing recommendations including vocational rehabilitation and unemployment insurance items; Department of Wildlife subcommittee recommendations; Office of the Military closing actions; Department of Veterans Services adjustments; and the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange adjustments.

Votes and notable items
- Legislative Council Bureau: The committee approved the LCB budget closing revisions, including restoring two administrative positions and a small net decrease in the account by $59,124 as presented by Diane Thornton from LCB.

- OCIO: The joint subcommittee accepted staff recommendations to centralize fiscal support, move several positions, approve certain IT technician and professional positions for public cloud and identity services, and to issue a letter of intent requesting status updates on identity and cloud services utilization.

- Tourism and Cultural Affairs: The subcommittee approved reallocations of room‑tax revenue for state museums and historical society operations, approved specific position changes and grant‑transfer recommendations while rejecting some proposed room‑tax replacements for other agencies.

- Public and Behavioral Health: The joint subcommittee recommended multiple technical adjustments and position changes across behavioral health, epidemiology, public health improvements and other programs; the committee approved those actions with technical adjustments and letters of intent where noted.

- DETR and Unemployment Insurance: The committee approved a package addressing disability adjudication, vocational rehabilitation expansions, workforce development conversions of intermittent positions, continued implementation funding for an unemployment insurance modernization project and related federal grants; some budget amendments and technical adjustments were included.

- Department of Wildlife, Office of the Military and Veterans Services: The subcommittees’ position and fund transfers and other technical adjustments were approved in line with the closing recommendations; the Department of Wildlife received direction to report on non‑wildlife law‑enforcement time and reimbursements.

- Silver State Health Insurance Exchange: The committee approved reserve-funded positions to support Nevada Health Link plan certification and a dedicated tribal liaison position.

Why it matters: These approvals close the technical and program-level budget items for many state agencies for the 2025–27 biennium and authorize fiscal staff to make further technical adjustments. Several items were contingent on enabling legislation or require future IFC actions for contingency allocations.

Process notes
Most approvals were voice votes. Several actions included conditions: items that depend on future enabling legislation, transfers that require technical adjustments by fiscal staff, and contingency-account funding that will require IFC authorization before expenditures are released.

Public comment and adjournment
One public commenter thanked committee members and wished safe travel; no substantive programmatic public comments were recorded. The meeting adjourned after the approvals.