Nevada Legislature 2025

2-Minute Preview: Lawmakers hear bills to establish a Holocaust museum, appoint members to the Board of Regents

Riley Snyder
Riley Snyder
Megan Messerly
Megan Messerly
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Michelle Rindels
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Assembly Chambers during speech

Lawmakers will discuss bills creating a Nevada Holocaust Museum, launching a statewide database of gangs and appointing members of the Board of Regents rather than electing them.

They’ll also consider budgets from the Department of Corrections and the Department of Education.

For more information on the status of bills working their way through the Legislature, check out The Nevada Independent’s bill tracker. And for the bills in committee today, check out the Legislature’s website for committee times and links to watch live committee meetings and floor sessions.

Here’s what to watch for on Friday at the Legislature:

AB281: Prohibits some immigration holds

This bill, proposed by Democratic Assemblyman Edgar Flores, would prohibit police agencies from detaining an individual on a hold request related to immigration enforcement, unless there is an independent finding of probable cause to keep the individual detained.

The measure explicitly does not prevent any law enforcement agency from participating in a 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Custom Enforcement, where police screen anyone imprisoned to see if they are wanted by federal immigration authorities and keep them behind bars beyond the time where they would normally be released so ICE can take custody of them.

The bill will be heard in the Assembly Judiciary Committee at 8 a.m.

AB307: Database of gangs

Lawmakers will review a proposal to create a statewide database of gang members that would be confidential and assist law enforcement in tracking the activities of gangs.

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Edgar Flores, also calls for regulations to notify people when they are added to the database and for a process in which people can dispute their inclusion in the gang.

Such systems already exist: Some agencies in the country participate in a cross-jurisdictional, information-sharing database known as GangNet.

The bill is set for a hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee at 8 a.m.

AB420: Asset forfeiture

This bill would create a new structure for the police seizure and forfeiture of property used in crimes, repealing the current statutory structure and replacing it with a system where the state must meet much higher standards to seize property.

The bill states that property can only be forfeited in cases of a criminal conviction, as part of a plea agreement or through agreement by the parties in a case. It requires the state to establish that any forfeited property claimed by the state through “clear and convincing evidence.” It creates new reporting requirements on seized property for law enforcement agencies and sets forth a process where a person can reclaim their seized property.

It’s scheduled to be heard in the Assembly Judiciary Committee at 8 a.m.

Corrections, Education budgets

Members of legislative budget subcommittees are set to review the budgets for the Department of Corrections, the Colorado River Commission, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the state Department of Education.

AB257: Nevada Holocaust Museum

Proposed by Republican Assemblywoman Lisa Krasner, this bill would add a state Holocaust museum to the list of museums overseen by the state. An amendment to the bill clarifies that the museum will be privately funded and that a feasibility study for the museum must be finished within two years.

The bill will be heard in the Assembly Committee on Government Affairs at 8:30 a.m.

SB321: Abolishing the Achievement School District

This bill, sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Marilyn Dondero Loop, would abolish the controversial Achievement School District, launched in 2015, that turns underperforming public schools into charter schools.

The bill will be heard by the Senate Education Committee, which will begin 20 minutes after the 11 a.m. Senate floor session.

SB354: Appointing members of the board of regents

Lawmakers have already voted to send to the ballot a proposal, AJR5 of the 2017 session, to remove the board of regents from the Nevada Constitution. If voters approve that proposal in 2020, this measure, sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Joyce Woodhouse, would reduce the number of regents covering the Nevada System of Higher Education from 13 to 9.

The proposal would also make four of those regents appointees of the governor and leave five as elected officials.

The bill will also be heard in Senate Education following the conclusion of the Senate floor session.

AB66: Crisis stabilization in Washoe and Clark Counties

The Washoe Regional Behavioral Health Policy Board is backing this legislation that aims to address crisis mental health care after the county’s only crisis triage center suddenly shut its doors last year.

The bill would require the state to establish crisis stabilization centers in Clark and Washoe Counties and allow it to enter into contracts with behavioral health-care providers to do so. The overall goal is de-escalating and stabilizing mental health crises and keeping patients out of inpatient health facilities and hospitals.

Each facility would be required to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week with eight beds that patients can stay in no longer than 14 days.

The bill will be heard in Assembly Health and Human Services committee, which will begin 20 minutes after the adjournment of the 11:30 a.m. Assembly floor session.

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