Confusion prevailed at the end of the 2025 Nevada Legislature on Monday, as numerous bills passed by both houses were stuck in a process that required both chambers to agree on changes made to the legislation.

When the clock hit midnight, lobbyists, lawmakers and the press were still unsure about the status of many bills. 

As of Tuesday morning, a review by The Nevada Independent showed that more than 150 bills died at the final legislative deadline.

Here are highlights of legislation that was still alive on Monday but failed to make it past the end of the legislative session, organized by topic: 

Gov. Joe Lombardo's bills:

• Health care: SB495, an omnibus health care measure targeting the state’s provider shortage and insurance authorization process, died after a controversial emergency room provision was added to the measure. Senate Republicans voted against the measure in protest, and Assembly Republicans decided not to suspend rules that would have kept the legislation alive.
  • Though the measure died, other portions of Lombardo’s health care proposal found their way into other bills, including a competitive funding program designed to support projects that address critical shortages of health care providers and changes to the state’s graduate medical education program.
• Crime: SB457, Lombardo’s far-reaching crime bill, sought to crack down on retail theft, expand domestic violence laws and more. Lawmakers cut provisions to crack down on habitual offenders, lower the fentanyl trafficking threshold and curb eligibility for certain rehabilitation programs, and added proposals to reduce crime on the Strip before it passed the Assembly. But the Senate did not sign off on the changes before time ran out.
• Economic development: SB461 would have given $12 million in tax credits toward child care facilities and expanded tax abatements for high tech businesses such as clean energy and defense manufacturers. It also would have funneled additional funds towards rural housing and infrastructure projects, but it never got a floor vote. 
• Education: AB584 called for increasing school accountability, including converting persistently low-performing district schools into charters and expanding school choice. Pieces of the bill were incorporated into Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro’s (D-Las Vegas) SB460, which successfully passed out of the Legislature on Monday. 

Economy:

• Film tax expansion: Both proposals to expand film tax credits failed to reach the governor’s desk. AB238, sponsored by Assm. Sandra Jauregui (D-Las Vegas), would have set aside more than $1.4 billion in tax credits for a Summerlin movie studio over a 15-year timeframe. SB220, sponsored by Sen. Roberta Lange (D-Las Vegas), sought to allocate about $1.6 billion over 18 years for a film and production campus in southwest Las Vegas on a UNLV-owned lot.
  • Lange attempted to amend AB238 on Monday to turn the proposal into study, but the idea failed to advance.
• Baby bonds: Democratic State Treasurer Zach Conine once again proposed a measure (AB67) to establish a program creating $3,200 bonds for children whose births were covered by Medicaid. Those funds, growing with interest, could be used to help cover everything from education, buying a home, or just everyday purchases. It never received a floor vote.
• New type of bank: Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager’s (D-Las Vegas) AB500 would have created a new type of payments bank in an effort to cut down on the middlemen in financial transactions. But it failed twice on the Assembly floor — first on Friday when it failed to receive support from two-thirds of legislators (because it would have imposed a fee) and then on Sunday after it did not receive a simple majority, after the two-thirds requirement was removed via amendment.
• Reforming cannabis wholesale tax: AB307, brought by Assm. Danielle Gallant (R-Las Vegas), was a push to reduce taxes on legal cannabis. To do so, AB307 would eliminate the excise tax (a type of tax applied to certain products) on wholesale cannabis sales, and instead increase the excise tax on retail cannabis sales, directing those revenues towards the Cannabis Compliance Board and the State Education Fund. It never received a floor vote.
• Live entertainment tax expansion: SB431 would have imposed an 9 percent excise tax on resale tickets for live entertainment events. It also would have eliminated an excise tax exemption for Nevada-based professional sports teams. It failed to get a vote on the Assembly floor.
• Puppy mill study: AB487, which initially sought to ban retail pet stores or puppy mills, had passed both houses but was amended into a study on pet stores on the Senate side. The bill was scheduled for a conference committee Monday, where Assemblymembers and senators can work out differences on the bill, but the committee was never held.

Education:

• Universal school meals funding: AB268, sponsored by Jauregui , would have allocated about $33 million to provide universal free breakfast and lunch to all Nevada pupils, regardless of their household income. It did not move out of a money committee. A similar bill was vetoed last session by Lombardo.
• Republican member’s pitch for charter school pay raises: SB506, a last-minute, standalone charter school pay raises bill by Senate Minority Leader Robin Titus (R-Wellington), was meant to be an alternative to amendments added to separate bills by Democrats after funding for charter school raises were cut out of the main education budget bill. It died without getting a hearing. AB398, which included more than $38 million in funding for charter school raises, was passed.
• Collective bargaining rights for graduate assistants: AB191, sponsored by Assm. Natha Anderson (D-Sparks), would have allowed graduate assistants at the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) to collectively bargain. It died after not receiving any action after passing its first committee. NSHE estimated that implementing it would have cost nearly $6.3 million.

Boards and commissions:

• No reforms: Several bills that would have restructured the system governing Nevada’s more than 300 boards and commissions — civilian-composed bodies that either provide recommendations or oversee occupational licensing requirements — failed to reach Lombardo, who has prioritized reforming the system since he entered office in an effort to streamline occupational licensing requirements to more easily attract employees.
  • For much of the session, the primary bill was SB78, which the Department of Business and Industry (B&I) proposed to greatly increase its oversight of the boards and merge and consolidate many of the boards.
    • However, it received significant backlash from board officials, and it ultimately stalled without passing out of either chamber.
  • Then, Sen. Fabian Doñate (D-Las Vegas) proposed an amended version of SB425 that would have stripped B&I authority of the boards, but that also stalled after receiving a hearing.
  • In what initially appeared to be a compromise between all parties, Assembly Minority Leader Greg Hafen’s (R-Pahrump) AB601 would have increased B&I oversight of the boards, while not merging or consolidating them. It never received a hearing after being introduced in the last week of session.
  • And finally, SB507, a budget implementation bill, would have provided B&I with 11 more employees to oversee the boards and allowed the department to prescribe a fee for services it provides. But after receiving a hearing on Saturday, it did not advance further.

Elections:

• Wide-ranging SOS operations bill: SB74, a bill from the secretary of state’s office, passed out of both chambers with all but one Republican opposed, but the Senate did not hold a vote on concurring with changes made on the Assembly side, killing the bill. It would have made changes related to candidate filing procedures and made a $200,000 appropriation for county election official training courses.

Criminal Justice:

• Phone calls from prison: SB323 from Sen. Melanie Scheible (D-Las Vegas) would have continued a program that allows inmates at Florence McClure Women’s Prison a free, 15-minute phone call each day to keep family ties strong. It allocated about half a million dollars to the program, but did not move out of a money committee.

Housing: 

• Mortgage rate buydown program: SB193, sponsored by Doñate, would have required the state’s housing division to establish a pilot program to help eligible families buy down the interest rate on mortgage loans. It included $10 million to fund the program. The bill failed to get a vote on the Assembly floor.
• Cracking down on corporate housing purchases: SB391, brought by Sen. Dina Neal (D-North Las Vegas), would have barred corporations from purchasing more than 100 housing units annually and called for increased transparency measures.
  • In May, Sen. Ira Hansen (R-Sparks) said he voted against the bill at the request of the governor, and it failed to garner the two-thirds support needed to pass. Hansen told The Indy on Monday that his “no” vote was one of his only regrets this session.
  • An amendment to Lombardo’s housing bill that briefly appeared on Monday would have put a 2,000-unit annual limit on corporate homebuying, but it was ultimately rescinded.

Environment and energy:

• Agricultural workers bill of rights: SB172, brought by Sen. Edgar Flores (D-Las Vegas), would have expanded protections for agricultural workers, including reasonable access to housing and the right to collective bargaining. It also would have prohibited certain restrictive practices, such as barring workers from having access to visitors if they live in employee-provided housing. It failed to get a floor vote.
• Omnibus environmental and health bill: SB173, a wide-ranging environmental and health bill sponsored by Neal, addressed a variety of issues ranging from the selling of certain products containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS or “forever chemicals”); requiring emergency management plans to include heat mitigation measures; and requiring redevelopment agencies to work with arborists to plant drought-tolerant trees. The bill passed out of both houses, but the Senate was not able to concur in Assembly-side amendments before the session ended, killing the bill.

Appropriations:

With the state facing a precarious financial outlook, it was much quieter on the appropriations front when the session came to a close than it has been in past sessions. 

On Monday, however, SB104, a bill from Sen. Julie Pazina (D-Las Vegas) to fund outdoor school gardens, was amended to appropriate an additional $600,000 to the Nevada Judicial Resource Center on Firearms ($100,000), Mob Museum ($250,000) and Raise the Future, a nonprofit focused on supporting adoption ($250,000). The bill passed out of the Legislature.

Here are some notable ones that died:

• $33 million in rental assistance to people in Clark County, Reno or Sparks who are elderly, disabled or facing emergencies (SB283)
• $10 million to provide grants to grocery stores to expand health food access in food deserts (SB282)
• $4.6 million for the implementation of Dolly Parton’s book program statewide (AB358)
• $10 million for a new jail in Mineral County (AB16)
• $750,000 for a veterans and community center in Virginia City (AB300)
• $1.4 million to the United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra for the United Readers Program (SB159)
• $5 million to implement language access plans (AB127)
• $2.4 million in laptop costs for UNR Pell Grant recipients (AB353)

Artificial intelligence:

• Wide-ranging AI bill: SB199, sponsored by Neal, would have regulated the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in Nevada, such as blocking an insurer’s use of patient data to train an AI system without explicit consent, and prohibiting landlords from using AI-recommended rent prices based on nonpublic data. It also would have required AI companies to register with the attorney general’s office. It died in a money committee.
• Helping feed SNAP recipients: AB474, a committee bill, would have seen Nevada roll out an app that uses AI to determine how much food is going to waste through retailer data. It then transfers that data to SNAP recipients using food consumption trends that show who might benefit from the unused food. Recipients could also use the app to see discounts on SNAP-eligible food items near them that would otherwise go uneaten. It died in a Senate policy committee.