Nevada's regular 2025 legislative session ends. Voter ID is among the key bills to pass

CARSON CITY, Nev. -- Nevada lawmakers successful the Democratic-controlled Legislature ended their 2025 regular league aboriginal Tuesday aft a flurry of last time action.

Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo is expected to instrumentality enactment by adjacent week connected the hundreds of bills that passed. The first-term politician vetoed a grounds 75 bills successful 2023. Nevada lawmakers conscionable each different twelvemonth successful unusual years.

Ahead of the session, Lombardo had urged the Legislature to enactment authorities speech and come together to find solutions for specified issues arsenic affordable lodging and education. Some of his large bills failed, including a wide-ranging measure that would person created stiffer penalties for definite crimes, but helium won successful different areas including elections and education.

Here is simply a look astatine immoderate of the notable bills that passed and failed during this year's 120-day league successful Carson City.

VOTER ID AND MORE BALLOT BOXES: Signaling a large compromise, lawmakers passed a measure connected the last time of the league that revived Democrats' vetoed effort to adhd much message ballot driblet boxes astir the authorities up of an predetermination successful speech for caller elector ID requirements that Lombardo supports.

It marks a important displacement for Nevada Democrats, who person agelong opposed GOP-led efforts to necessitate photograph recognition from voters astatine the polls and comes connected the heels of voters successful November passing a elector ID ballot measure. It would person to walk again successful 2026 successful bid to amend the authorities constitution.

PRIMARY ELECTIONS FOR NONPARTISAN VOTERS: A week earlier the league ended, Yeager introduced a measure arsenic an exigency request that would let nonpartisan voters to formed a ballot successful Republican oregon Democratic superior elections, excluding statesmanlike primaries. It passed. Voters registered arsenic nonpartisan outnumber some large parties successful the plaything state. The measure is antithetic from the effort voters rejected successful November that would person implemented unfastened primaries and ranked-choice voting for each voters.

TEACHER RAISES: Lawmakers successful some chambers overwhelmingly approved a bill that includes wage raises for teachers astatine charters schools. Lombardo had said helium would not o.k. the state's acquisition fund if it near retired raises for charter schoolhouse teachers, which Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager, a Democrat, past added to the bill.

SCHOOL POLICE USE OF FORCE: The proposal approved by lawmakers would necessitate the Clark County School District’s constabulary section to marque nationalist its information connected serviceman usage of force, including the usage of stun guns, batons and capsicum spray. The schoolhouse territory is the fifth-largest successful the federation and has its ain constabulary department.

“ATTAINABLE” HOUSING: Lombardo's bill aimed astatine expanding affordable housing, 1 of his apical priorities this session, would allocate $133 cardinal successful authorities funds for lodging projects for what helium calls the “missing middle" who can't spend to bargain a location but don't presently suffice for affordable housing. It passed.

RENTER PROTECTIONS: A fistful of bills aimed astatine expanding protections for renters passed connected enactment lines. They see a proposal that would make a aviator programme capping rent prices for seniors for a year, and another that would let tenants to rapidly record ineligible complaints against landlords for unsafe surviving conditions similar breached aerial conditioning oregon breached locks.

CRIMINAL PENALTIES: The governor, who was a longtime constabulary serviceman and the erstwhile elected sheriff successful Las Vegas, had vowed up of the league to ace down connected crime. But his transgression bill failed aft last-minute changes were added and lawmakers ran retired of clip Monday night. It would person created stiffer penalties for definite crimes, including “smash-and-grab” retail thefts and convulsive crimes against hospitality workers, a recently designated protected people nether the proposal.

FILM TAX CREDITS: The intimately watched bill backed by Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. Entertainment failed. It would person fixed monolithic taxation credits aimed astatine bringing movie accumulation to confederate Nevada, including a 31-acre movie workplace successful an affluent vicinity westbound of the Las Vegas Strip. A similar bill failed successful 2023.

DEFINING ANTISEMITISM: Lawmakers approved a bill that creates a explanation of antisemitism for state-led investigations into favoritism successful housing, employment and different accommodations. It passed, but sparked a statement due to the fact that immoderate thought the explanation was excessively wide and could bounds escaped code criticizing Israel.

STATE LOTTERY: The proposal, backed by the almighty Culinary Workers Union that represents 60,000 edifice and casino workers, would person ended Nevada's longstanding prohibition connected lotteries. It failed aft the Legislature's archetypal large deadline successful April.