SB 285 Nevada Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to apprenticeships. (BDR 53-91)

SB 285 modifies Nevada's apprenticeship rules for construction trades. It prohibits the Labor Commissioner from issuing temporary "interim credentials" (which certify an apprentice's current skill level) and requires all construction trade programs to use only time-based training (measuring progress by hours worked) instead of competency-based or hybrid approaches. The bill also bans "career lattices" in these programs - pathways allowing apprentices to specialize laterally or advance within a trade. These changes directly affect construction apprenticeship programs seeking state approval and their participants, ensuring standardized training structures for this specific sector.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Mar 5, 2025 Signed May 31, 2025
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Reprint 1 As Enrolled · 3 edits · May 31, 2025
MINOR
This bill updates Nevada's apprenticeship laws to allow construction trade programs to use three different training methods (time-based, competency-based, or hybrid) instead of requiring only a time-based approach. It also adds a transition rule allowing programs approved before October 1, 2025, to keep their old standards even if they don't meet the new requirements.
Scope change
The bill expands the scope of allowable training methods for construction apprenticeships from a single time-based model to include competency-based and hybrid models.
REQUIREMENT

Construction trade apprenticeship programs are no longer required to use only a time-based approach; they may now use competency-based or hybrid approaches.

New requirements were added for hybrid approach programs to specify skills to be acquired and minimum on-the-job learning hours.

TIMELINE

A grandfathering provision was added allowing programs approved before October 1, 2025, to continue using their existing standards.

Floor votes · Assembly May 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
May 31, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 193.
executive
May 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
To enrollment.
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May 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 28, Nays: 14.) To Senate. In Senate.
upper
May 16, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass.
upper
Apr 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 16, Nays: 5.) To printer.
upper
Apr 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 112.) Reprinting dispensed with.
upper
Mar 6, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To committee.
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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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Skip Daly
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