2025 NV Legislative Scorecard

AB367 expands Nevada’s election language-access requirements. It directs the secretary of state to post all voting materials and election information online in multiple languages—at least the seven most commonly spoken in the state—plus American Sign Language. The bill also requires a toll-free hotline offering interpretation in up to 200 languages, and mandates hiring a language-access coordinator. It defines “voting materials,” and ensures all statewide election communications are available in English and Spanish.

The Nevada State Senate passed AB367 on May 21, 2025 by a vote of 17 to 4. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill significantly expands government-mandated multilingual election infrastructure, moving Nevada further away from the long-standing civic norm of a shared English language in public governance. By requiring election materials and services in multiple languages, AB367 imposes new bureaucratic costs while weakening linguistic unity in the electoral process. As President Donald Trump affirmed in Executive Order 14224, issued March 1, 2025, English has been the language of America’s founding documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and civil institutions. Preserving a common language in elections promotes clarity, cohesion, and accountability, whereas institutionalizing multilingualism undermines these principles and fragments civic participation.

SB500 sets Nevada’s K-12 education budget for the 25-27 biennium, determining per-pupil funding levels and distributing billions in state and local education dollars. The bill appropriates more than $1.3 billion from the State General Fund for each fiscal year and authorizes additional spending from the State Education Fund. It establishes statewide base per-pupil amounts ($9,416 in FY 2026 and $9,486 in FY 2027), adds weighted funding for English learners, at-risk pupils, and gifted students, and allocates money for food services, transportation, special education, teacher-salary increases, adult-education programs, and career and technical education. SB500 also funds teacher-training scholarships, professional-development programs, and pathways-to-teaching stipends, while authorizing transfers from the Education Stabilization Account to support the state’s pupil-centered funding plan. Overall, the bill ensures Nevada’s public-school system is fully financed for the 2025-27 biennium.

The Nevada State Senate passed SB500 on May 21, 2025 by a vote of 13 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill accepts and expands state control over K-12 education by committing billions of taxpayer dollars to a centralized, government-run system. By increasing per-pupil funding, layering on weighted subsidies, and financing a wide array of programs and mandates, the bill deepens the state’s role in education at the expense of parental authority and educational independence. Education is properly the responsibility of families, not government, and continued public financing through general and property taxes crowds out private schools and homeschooling while perpetuating a costly monopoly. We urge parents to exit the government-school system altogether and seek truly independent alternatives such as homeschooling or private institutions, including FreedomProject Academy, that reject government funding and oversight, and embrace parental rights.

AB245 significantly tightens Nevada’s firearm restrictions for young adults and older minors. The bill makes it a gross misdemeanor for anyone under 21 to possess or control a semiautomatic shotgun or semiautomatic centerfire rifle, with limited exceptions for military members, law-enforcement officers, and 18-20-year-olds engaged in specific regulated activities (such as shooting ranges, competitions, hunting, or predatory-animal control). It creates matching penalties for adults who aid or allow someone under 21 to possess these firearms and expands negligent-storage rules to include risks involving persons under 21. The bill also amends existing law for minors: children 14 and older may no longer use semiautomatic shotguns or semiautomatic centerfire rifles under the hunting and training exceptions, and additional secure-storage requirements apply when firearms are kept in the home. Finally, it makes it a category B felony—punishable by 1 to 6 years in prison and up to a $5,000 fine—to sell or barter a semiautomatic shotgun or semiautomatic centerfire rifle to anyone under 21.

The Nevada State Senate passed AB245 on May 21, 2025 by a vote of 12 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this legislation is a direct and egregious assault on the constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. By criminalizing law-abiding adults under 21 for possessing commonly owned firearms—and by stripping hunting and training rights from minors long trusted with responsible firearm use—AB245 treats constitutional rights as government-granted privileges. The Second Amendment does not expire based on age, nor does it permit states to ban entire classes of firearms that are in common use for lawful purposes. This legislation punishes responsible families, hunters, and young adults while doing nothing to deter violent criminals, who already ignore gun laws. AB245 is not about public safety; it is about expanding state control, normalizing prohibition, and eroding individual liberty through fear and felony threats.

SB295 creates a statewide framework for regulating sidewalk food vendors and newly defined “compact food cart vendors” in Nevada’s large counties. It requires local health boards to provide clear guidance, multilingual documents, and lists of preapproved foods. Compact food cart vendors must register annually, follow local ordinances, and sell only certain low-risk foods prepared in commercial kitchens or on their carts. The bill exempts these vendors and certain small produce or prepackaged-food sellers from the definition of “food establishment,” reducing regulatory burdens.

The Nevada State Senate passed SB295 on April 22, 2025 by a vote of 17 to 4. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill blatantly inserts government into the private sector through unnecessary regulations that the free market would resolve on its own. Legislation like this violates America’s founding principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

SB155 allows Nevada agencies to hire noncitizens as law enforcement-officers beginning January 1, 2026, as long as the person is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law, has already been employed as a peace officer in another state, and meets all other Nevada requirements for law-enforcement employment. The bill also prohibits the state Peace Officers’ Standards and Training (POST) Commission from adopting or enforcing any regulation that requires U.S. citizenship for these applicants, and it voids any existing POST regulations that conflict with this new policy.

The Nevada State Senate passed SB155 on April 18, 2025 by a vote of 13 to 7. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this legislation undermines public safety and U.S. citizenship. While the 10th Amendment reserves to the states the authority to regulate law-enforcement qualifications, this power should be exercised in a manner that upholds the integrity of both law enforcement and citizenship. Allowing noncitizens to exercise police power and authority over citizens as law-enforcement officers undermines public trust in law enforcement and raises concerns about allegiance and accountability.