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AB 486 Nevada Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Makes various changes related to transportation. (BDR 35-678)

AB 486 increases the fee on new tires from $1 to $2 per tire. Tire sellers must collect this fee, send 95% of it to the state for the Solid Waste Management Account, and split the remaining 5% between the Wildlife Crossings Account and administrative costs. The Wildlife Crossings Account funds projects like wildlife overpasses or underpasses to reduce animal-vehicle collisions and protect migration routes. This affects tire sellers, purchasers, and state transportation projects focused on wildlife safety. The bill directly changes how tire fees support wildlife crossing infrastructure.
Issues: ✓ EnvironmentSupports EnvironmentBill allocates 5% of tire fees to Wildlife Crossings Account funding conservation projects like wildlife overpasses to protect migration routes and reduce collisions.90% confidence ✓ TransportationSupports TransportationFunds wildlife crossings (transportation safety infrastructure) via tire fee revenue, directly advancing transportation safety projects.95% confidence
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Mar 24, 2025 Signed Jun 5, 2025
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Reprint 3 → As Enrolled · 3 edits · Jun 5, 2025
MINOR
This bill updates the Department of Transportation's reporting requirements to include specific data on wildlife connectivity projects and raises the cost threshold for mandatory benefit-cost analyses from $25 million to $50 million. It also modifies the educational and experience qualifications for Deputy Directors to include business and economics backgrounds, broadening the pool of eligible candidates.
Scope change
The bill expands the scope of required reporting to explicitly include wildlife connectivity project progress and needs, and applies the new cost analysis threshold to a larger range of highway projects.
REQUIREMENT

Raised the cost threshold for mandatory written benefit-cost analyses of highway projects from $25 million to $50 million.

Required the annual Director's report to specifically include the progress and need for projects identified in the state's wildlife connectivity inventory.

ELIGIBILITY

Updated Deputy Director qualifications to accept bachelor's degrees in business or economics and relevant experience in those fields, in addition to engineering and project management.

Floor votes · Assembly Apr 22, 2025

How they voted

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

Actions timeline

Total actions
14
Key actions
7
Committee
3
Jun 5, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor.
executive
May 26, 2025
Lower · Passed
Senate Amendment No. 598 concurred in. To enrollment.
lower
May 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: 1.) To Assembly.
upper
May 19, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 598.) To printer.
upper
Apr 22, 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
Apr 18, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 408.) To printer.
lower
Mar 25, 2025
Lower · Passed
From printer. To committee.
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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