2025 Nevada legislative session
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| 2025 Nevada legislative session |
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| General information |
| Scheduled session start: February 3, 2025
Scheduled session end: June 2, 2025 |
| Leadership |
| Senate President Stavros S. Anthony (R) House Speaker |
| Elections |
| Next Election: November 3, 2026
Last Election: November 5, 2024 |
| Previous legislative sessions |
| 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 |
| Other 2025 legislative sessions |
In 2025, the Nevada State Legislature is scheduled to convene on February 3 and adjourn on June 2.
The legislators serving in this session took office following the 2024 elections. Democrats won a 13-8 majority in the Senate and a 27-15 majority in the Assembly. The Republican Party controlled the governorship, creating a divided state government. At the start of the 2025 session, Nevada was one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers.
At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session:
Leadership in 2025
Nevada State Senate
- Senate president: Stavros S. Anthony (R)
- Majority leader: Nicole Cannizzaro (D)
- Minority leader: Robin Titus (R)
Nevada State Assembly
- Speaker of the Assembly: Steve Yeager (D)
- Majority leader: Sandra Jauregui (D)
- Minority leader: Gregory Hafen (R)
Partisan control in 2025
- See also: State government trifectas
Nevada was one of 12 divided state governments at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state Assembly. For more information about state government trifectas, click here.
Nevada was also one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers. Veto overrides occur when a legislature votes to reverse a veto issued by an executive such as a governor or the president. If one party has a majority in a state legislature that is large enough to override a gubernatorial veto without any votes from members of the minority party, it is called a veto-proof majority or, sometimes, a supermajority. To read more about veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures, click here.
The following tables show the partisan breakdown of the Nevada State Legislature in the 2025 legislative session.
Nevada State Senate
| Party | As of January 2025 | |
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| Democratic Party | 13 | |
| Republican Party | 8 | |
| Total | 21 |
Nevada State Assembly
| Party | As of January 2025 | |
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| Democratic Party | 27 | |
| Republican Party | 15 | |
| Total | 42 |
Regular session
The list below shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2025 legislative session that most recently passed both chambers of the legislature, were signed by the governor, or were approved by the legislature in a veto override. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation has met these criteria yet in 2025. This information is provided by BillTrack50.
Legislation trackers
- See also: Legislation Trackers
Ballotpedia’s legislation trackers are your go-to resource for staying on top of key legislative topics. We capture any bill introduced on the topic across all of the 50 state legislatures, and we track the movement of the bill every step of the way. We provide real-time updates and translate legislative legalese into easily understandable language. As of the 2025 session, Ballotpedia provided tracking on the following topics. Click on the links below to view related bills from the 2025 session:
Standing legislative committees
A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter.
At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, there were 20 standing committees in Nevada's state government, including 10 state Senate committees and 10 state Assembly committees.
Senate committees
- Finance Committee
- Revenue and Economic Development Committee
- Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
- Senate Education Committee
- Senate Government Affairs Committee
- Senate Growth and Infrastructure Committee
- Senate Health and Human Services Committee
- Senate Judiciary Committee
- Senate Legislative Operations and Elections Committee
- Senate Natural Resources Committee
Assembly committees
- Commerce and Labor Committee
- Education Committee
- Government Affairs Committee
- Growth and Infrastructure Committee
- Health and Human Services Committee
- Judiciary Committee
- Legislative Operations and Elections Committee
- Natural Resources Committee
- Revenue Committee
- Ways and Means Committee
Legislatively referred constitutional amendments
In every state but Delaware, voter approval is required to enact a constitutional amendment. In each state, the legislature has a process for referring constitutional amendments before voters. In 18 states, initiated constitutional amendments can be put on the ballot through a signature petition drive. There are also many other types of statewide measures.
The methods in which the Nevada Constitution can be amended:
The Nevada Constitution can be amended via three different paths: a constitutional convention, a legislatively referred constitutional amendment or an initiated constitutional amendment.
Initiative
- See also: Initiated constitutional amendment
An initiated constitutional amendment is a citizen-initiated ballot measure that amends a state's constitution. Eighteen (18) states allow citizens to initiate constitutional amendments.
In Nevada, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment is equal to 10% of the total number of votes cast in the preceding general election. A simple majority vote in two consecutive elections is required for voter approval.
Legislature
A simple majority vote is required during two successive legislative sessions for the Nevada State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 22 votes in the Nevada State Assembly and 11 votes in the Nevada State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.
Convention
According to Section 2 of Article 16 of the Nevada Constitution, a two-thirds vote of the Nevada State Legislature is required to refer a constitutional convention question to the ballot. A simple majority vote of the electorate is required to call a convention.
2026 measures:
- See also: Nevada 2026 ballot measures
Certified:
- The following measures were certified for the ballot.
No measures to list
2025 measures:
Below is a list of measures that were referred to the 2025 ballot by the legislature.
- See also: 2025 ballot measures
Certified:
- The following measures were certified for the ballot.
No measures to list
Historical partisan control
The table below depicts the historical trifecta status of Nevada.
Nevada Party Control: 1992-2025
Five years of Democratic trifectas • Two years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
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| Governor | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | R |
| Senate | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | D | D | D | S | S | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
Historical Senate control
Democrats won control of the Nevada State Senate in 2016. In 2024, they won a 13-8 majority.
The table below shows the partisan history of the Nevada Senate following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.
Nevada State Senate election results: 1992-2024
| Year | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '18 | '20 | '22 | '24 |
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| Democrats | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 13 |
| Republicans | 11 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
Historical Assembly control
Democrats won control of the Nevada State Assembly in 2016. In 2024, they won a 27-15 majority.
The table below shows the partisan history of the Nevada State Assembly following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.
Nevada State Assembly election results: 1992-2024
| Year | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '18 | '20 | '22 | '24 |
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| Democrats | 29 | 21* | 25 | 28 | 27 | 23 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 26 | 27 | 15 | 27 | 29 | 26 | 28 | 27 |
| Republicans | 13 | 21 | 17 | 14 | 15 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 27 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 15 |
Analysis
Adopted legislation, 2017-2023
- See also: The State Legislative Decade - Nevada
In 2024, Ballotpedia released analysis of bills enacted in each state in the preceding decade. The charts and table below detail legislation passed each year by party sponsorship.
See also
| Elections | Nevada State Government | State Legislatures | State Politics |
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