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Assembly Revenue Committee amends and advances a dozen bills in work session; recorded dissents noted
Summary
The Assembly Committee on Revenue held a work session and advanced multiple bills by motion to amend and do pass. Committee members recorded several dissenting votes on specific measures; floor statements were assigned to sponsors for many bills.
CARSON CITY — The Assembly Committee on Revenue on the evening conducted a work session and moved a number of bills and a joint resolution to the next legislative stage, taking motions to amend and “do pass” on several items and assigning floor statements to sponsors.
Among the measures the committee advanced were bills on veterans’ property tax exemptions, taxes and abatements tied to community benefits plans, changes to the sales and use tax ballot questions, a transfer-tax on entity interests in Nevada real property, rules for remote sales of tobacco products, and a proposed constitutional amendment on property taxation and relief for older or disabled homeowners. Several motions recorded named members voting in opposition on different bills, though most motions carried.
Votes at a glance
- AB100 (Nevada Air/Aerospace development fund appropriation): Motion to amend and do pass; floor statement assigned to sponsor; motion carried (no roll-call tally recorded in the transcript). Referenced fiscal exemption date 02/10/2025.
- AB135 (expand veteran partial property tax exemption to surviving spouses): Motion to amend and do pass. Vice Chair Considine announced he would vote nay; the motion carried and a floor statement was assigned to Assemblymember Jurick.
- AB226 (require community benefits plans for certain transferable tax credits/abatements): Motion to amend and do pass. Recorded nays included Assemblymembers O’Neil, Gallant, Gray and Haven; motion carried. Floor statement assigned to Assemblymember Mosca.
- AB243 (expand veteran exemptions for surviving spouses of service members killed in line of duty): Motion to do pass; motion carried; floor statement assigned to Assemblymember Hibbets.
- AB359 (submit coin/currency/bullion sales exemption to voters 11/03/2026): Motion to do pass; recorded nays included Assemblymembers Golding, Roth and Vice Chair Considine; motion carried. Floor statement assigned to Assemblymember Gallant.
- AB362 (tax on sale/transfer of controlling interest in entities owning Nevada real property): Motion to amend and do pass (amendments described in work-session packet). Recorded nays included Assemblymembers O’Neil, Gallant, Gray and Haven; motion carried. Floor statement assigned to Vice Chair Considine.
- AB403 (sales/use tax trade-in allowance for used portable electronics on ballot): Motion to amend and do pass; Vice Chair Considine announced a no vote; motion carried. Floor statement assigned to Assemblymember Torres Fossett.
- AB441 (revisions to Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship Program; 30-day application window for tax credit approvals): Motion to amend and do pass. Recorded nays included Assemblymembers O’Neil, Gallant, Gray and Haven; motion carried. Floor statement assigned to Assemblymember Monroe Moreno.
- AB471 (taxation and licensing of remote sales of cigars, pipe tobacco, and vapor products): Motion to amend and do pass; motion carried. Floor statement assigned to Assemblymember Hibbets.
- AJR1 (proposed constitutional amendment on property assessment and a program to pay property taxes for qualified seniors/disabled): Motion to amend and do pass. Recorded nays included Assemblymembers O’Neil, Gallant, Gray and Haven; motion carried. Floor statement assigned to Assemblymember Anderson.
Items rolled to a future work session: AB535 and AB539 were explicitly rolled to the committee’s next work session for amended language circulation.
Why this matters
Advancing multiple tax- and revenue-related bills at once is typical at budget/revenue committee work sessions during a legislative session, but the roll-call notes and recorded negative votes signal areas of intra-committee disagreement that could influence floor debate. Several measures either expand exemptions or create new local levy options that could affect local tax policy, school funding, or county revenue tools.
What’s next
Floor statements were assigned to sponsors where noted. Several bills with recorded dissent were still advanced out of committee; they will next travel to additional committees or to the Assembly floor per the usual legislative path. Sponsors and fiscal staff indicated some bills will receive amended language prior to subsequent committee consideration.
