2025 NV Legislative Scorecard
The following scorecard lists several key votes in the Nevada Legislature in 2025 and ranks state assemblymen and senators based on their fidelity to (U.S.) constitutional and limited-government principles.
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Assembly Votes
SB6 appropriates $600,000 in both FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27 to the Desert Research Institute to support Nevada’s State Cloud Seeding Program. The Institute must submit annual reports to the Interim Finance Committee detailing how the funds were spent. Any unspent money cannot be used after each fiscal year and must revert to the State General Fund by the specified deadlines.
The Nevada State Assembly passed SB6 on June 2, 2025 by a vote of 39 to 3. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this legislation pushes experimental and largely unaccountable weather-modification practices that pose risks to public health, property, and civil liberties. As The New American has reported, federal agencies, corporations, and globalist climate activists increasingly promote geoengineering and atmospheric manipulation as tools to advance the false climate-change narrative and justify sweeping controls on energy and human behavior. Rather than funding speculative atmospheric manipulation, lawmakers should protect taxpayers from unproven experiments that expand government power while offering no guaranteed public benefit.
SB132 appropriates $500,000 from the State General Fund to the Nevada Clean Energy Fund to help secure and implement grants for qualified clean-energy projects. The money may be used for bridge funding, technical support for agencies, and administrative or staffing needs. The Clean Energy Fund must submit interim and final expenditure reports to the Interim Finance Committee and make its records available for audit, if requested.
The Nevada State Assembly passed SB132 on June 2, 2025 by a vote of 36 to 6. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill channels substantial taxpayer money into climate-change programs and regulatory expansions that distort the free market and embrace the false climate-change narrative. Rather than allowing energy choices to develop through voluntary exchange, SB132 empowers the state to direct investment, subsidize favored industries, and impose costly planning mandates—the hallmarks of the globalist and Marxist climate-change agenda. Such central planning inflates state spending, entrenches bureaucratic control, and enables government to pick economic winners and losers.
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 Assembly passed SB155 on May 22, 2025 by a vote of 27 to 15. 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.
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 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 centerfire rifle to anyone under 21.
The Nevada State Assembly passed AB245 on April 22, 2025 by a vote of 27 to 15. 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 God-given 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. 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.
AB244 phases in a statewide ban on polystyrene foam (“Styrofoam”) food containers. Beginning October 1, 2025, large food-dispensing establishments with 10 or more locations in the state may no longer sell, serve, or transport food or beverages in disposable polystyrene-foam containers, with civil penalties up to $100 per day for willful violations.
The Nevada State Assembly passed AB244 on April 17, 2025 by a vote of 36 to 6. We have assigned pluses to the nays because government should not interfere in commerce or the free market, nor violate America’s founding principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Additionally, this legislation advances the false climate-change narrative promoted by the globalist United Nations’ Agenda 2030.
AB82 requires the governor of Nevada to issue annual proclamations recognizing four cultural and religious observances: Diwali Day, Eid al-Fitr Day, Vaisakhi Day, and Vesak (Buddha) Day. Each proclamation is tied to its respective traditional calendar date, and may encourage media, educators, community leaders, and public officials to highlight the diversity and cultural traditions of the communities that celebrate these holidays.
The Nevada State Assembly passed AB82 on April 17, 2025 by a vote of 33 to 9. We have assigned pluses to the nays because by requiring the governor to issue official proclamations recognizing non-Christian religious observances, the Legislature is granting state endorsement to religious practices outside the Judeo-Christian tradition upon which America’s civil institutions were built. The Founders consistently recognized Almighty God—not a pantheon of deities—as the source of liberty, law, and moral order. By elevating Hindu, Islamic, Sikh, and Buddhist observances to official state recognition, lawmakers promote religious relativism under the guise of inclusion rather than uphold the moral framework that has long sustained the Republic. As George Washington affirmed in his 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation, it is the duty of nations to acknowledge “the providence of Almighty God,” a principle this legislation pointedly disregards.
