AB 444 Nevada Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to governmental administration. (BDR 18-772)

AB 444 revises Nevada's administrative procedures to better protect small businesses (fewer than 150 employees) from burdensome regulations. It requires state agencies and local governments to notify business associations and owners of proposed rules likely to significantly impact small businesses, include specific impact details in official statements, and conduct workshops before adopting such rules. The bill eliminates previous exemptions for local governments regarding impact fees and sales taxes, extending the same procedural requirements to these areas. It also clarifies that violations of these rules make any affected government action unenforceable. This law, approved by the governor on June 9, 2025, applies to all state agencies and local governments adopting regulations or fees affecting small businesses.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

Assembly Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

Jun 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Mar 17, 2025 Signed Jun 9, 2025

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Reprint 2 → As Enrolled · 5 edits · Jun 9, 2025

MODERATE

This bill updates Nevada's administrative procedures to ensure small businesses are notified about proposed regulations that could harm them. It requires state agencies to notify chambers of commerce and trade associations before holding workshops and to include specific impact data in their reports. Additionally, it removes exemptions that previously allowed local governments to skip these procedures when changing impact fees or taxes.

Scope change

The bill expands the scope of the Nevada Administrative Procedure Act to include state agencies in the notification process previously reserved for local governments, and it removes exemptions for local governments regarding impact fees and taxes.

REQUIREMENT

State agencies must now make a concerted effort to notify chambers of commerce and trade associations about workshops related to proposed regulations affecting small businesses.

State agencies must include the total number of affected small businesses and a list of notified trade associations in their small business impact statements.

State agencies must maintain and annually update an electronic mailing list of local chambers of commerce, trade associations, and business owners/officers.

EXEMPTIONS

Local governments are no longer exempt from procedural requirements when adopting rules that impose, increase, or change the calculation basis for impact fees or sales and use taxes.

ENFORCEMENT

Actions by local governments that violate procedural requirements for adopting rules are now explicitly declared both void and unenforceable.

Floor votes · Assembly May 28, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Jun 9, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by the Governor. Chapter 427.

executive

Jun 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: 1.) To Assembly. In Assembly. To enrollment.

upper

May 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.

upper

May 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

lower

May 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 828.) To printer.

lower

Apr 24, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Notice of eligibility for exemption. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 376.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.

lower

Mar 18, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. To committee.

lower

2 primary · 0 co-sponsors