Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Floor Votes Roundup topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Senate orders dozens of bills to files and passes multiple measures; roll-call tallies recorded for several bills
Summary
On May 16 the Nevada Senate reported many committee referrals, ordered dozens of bills to the general file and passed multiple measures by roll-call, including bills on unemployment, DMV medical indicators, juvenile justice protections, and other matters; the journal lists votes and amendments adopted on several measures.
The Nevada Senate on May 16 completed multiple routine and final actions: committees reported dozens of Assembly bills; the Senate ordered many bills to the general file or adopted committee amendments; and the body took roll-call votes on a series of measures that were passed and ordered to the Assembly.
Highlights of final actions recorded on the Senate floor:
- AB 17 (writs of garnishment): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. The bill requires writs of garnishment to be served on the Division of Human Resource Management rather than the State Controller when the garnishee is the State of Nevada.
- AB 18 (electronic filing of certain documents): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. The bill requires certain electronic filings to include specified information.
- AB 20 (Department of Motor Vehicles medical-condition symbols and notices): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. Authorizes DMV to adopt individualized symbols or codes for medical conditions on driver credentials and requires certain electronic notifications; effective for administrative tasks on passage and 10/01/2025 for other purposes.
- AB 21 (unemployment-compensation reporting): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. Eliminates a statutory requirement that the Employment Security Division perform certain solvency calculations by September 30 each year.
- AB 30 (records of defendants found incompetent): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. Authorizes the division of public and behavioral health to request and access medical and mental-health records from local detention facilities for evaluation/treatment of committed defendants.
- AB 38 (manufactured housing; two-thirds vote required): Passed by roll call, yeses 17, noes 3. Makes a range of changes to regulation of manufactured homes, manufactured buildings and related disclosures.
- AB 46 (privileges for utility records): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. Provides that certain privileges are not waived by disclosure to the Public Utilities Commission and specified entities.
- AB 48 (school reassignment for bullying victims or perpetrators): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. Authorizes school-district reassignment on parent request when a student is found to be a victim or perpetrator of bullying or discrimination based on race.
- AB 50 (mass-casualty victim database): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. Authorizes boards of county commissioners to establish electronic victim databases for coordination of identification and services and contains immunity provisions for reporting entities.
- AB 55 (motor vehicle crashes; toxicology reporting): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. Requires postmortem toxicology reporting for crash victims and a centralized crash-reporting repository; effective 07/01/2025.
- AB 56 (medical licensing boards; two-thirds vote required): Passed by roll call, yeses 19, noes 1. Makes various changes to medical and osteopathic licensure, fees, continuing education and renewal cycles.
- AB 70 (renewable-energy tax abatement process): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. Allows counties to require applicants for partial tax abatements for renewable-energy facilities to obtain certain approvals and conditions; effective 07/01/2025, sunsets 06/30/2049.
- AB 89 (unclothed searches of children at juvenile facilities): Passed by roll call, yeses 19, noes 1. Requires facilities to adopt policies prohibiting unclothed searches of children except under specified circumstances.
- AB 90 (juvenile detention rights; regional facilities): Passed by roll call, yeses 12, noes 8. Expands the juvenile-justice bill of rights protections to regional facilities for treatment and rehabilitation.
- AB 97 (criminal-record reporting to central repository): Passed by roll call, yeses 20, noes 0. Requires agencies of criminal justice to submit specified information using the national incident-based reporting system; effective 10/01/2025.
In addition to final passage votes, the Senate adopted numerous committee reports and amendments on the floor and referred newly introduced Senate bills (for example, SB 497 was referred to Health and Human Services). The floor also approved procedural motions allowing faster placement of measures on reading files for the remainder of the session and authorized immediate transmittal of measures to the Assembly when time permits.
Why it matters: The collected actions advance a broad set of policy changes that will move to the Assembly and, if concurred and signed, will change Nevada law on topics ranging from administrative procedure and records access to public safety, education and energy development.
The Senate journal records the amendments adopted on the floor and the roll-call tallies for the measures listed above. Measures not listed with final tallies in this summary were ordered to the general file or reprinted and engrossed per the Senate's routine procedures.
