SB 343 Nevada Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to governmental administration. (BDR 49-972)

SB 343 renames Nevada’s Agricultural Extension Department to the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and updates the purpose of the State 4-H Camp to focus on youth development in natural settings. It requires legislative approval for any lease, sale, or exchange of State 4-H Camp property (previously allowed with gubernatorial approval) and revises the 4-H Advisory Council’s membership structure to include more farm bureau and extension-designated members. The bill also ends several advisory boards (like the Council for Academic Standards and Medicaid Innovation Committee) and transfers their duties to other entities, with no fiscal impact on state or local government.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
Assembly Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Mar 12, 2025 Signed May 28, 2025
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As Introduced As Enrolled · 11 edits · May 28, 2025
MAJOR
This bill significantly restructures Nevada's agricultural and youth development programs by renaming the Agricultural Extension Department to the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, modifying the State 4-H Camp Advisory Council's membership structure, and adding stricter protections for the 4-H Camp property. It also abolishes several advisory boards and commissions, including those for technological crimes, academic standards, Medicaid innovation, and compensation reviews, while transferring their duties elsewhere. The changes aim to streamline government operations and update institutional names to reflect current organizational structures.
Scope change
The bill expands legislative oversight over the State 4-H Camp property by requiring express legislative authority for any lease, exchange, or sale, whereas previously only the Governor's approval was needed. It also modifies eligibility and appointment processes for the 4-H Camp Advisory Council by changing how members are designated and adding term limits.
REQUIREMENT

Changed the name of the Agricultural Extension Department to the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension throughout the bill.

Added term limit requirements for Advisory Council members, limiting them to two consecutive terms with a one-year break required, unless approved by the Director for three consecutive terms.

Strengthened property protection for the State 4-H Camp by requiring express legislative authority for any lease, exchange, or sale of the property, rather than just Governor approval.

Abolished the Technological Crime Advisory Board and its associated funding account, transferring related duties to existing provisions.

Abolished the Council to Establish Academic Standards for Public Schools.

Abolished the Advisory Committee on Medicaid Innovation in the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy.

Abolished the Commission to Review the Compensation of Constitutional Officers, Legislators, Supreme Court Justices, Judges, and Elected County Officers.

Abolished the Advisory Board on Automotive Affairs.

Eliminated the requirement for the Division of Environmental Protection to establish certain working groups.

Added requirement that negotiations regarding State 4-H Camp property are not binding on the State unless ratified and authorized by the Legislature, expanding beyond the previous requirement of Board of Regents approval.

ELIGIBILITY

Revised the State 4-H Camp Advisory Council membership structure, removing the two members appointed by the University of Nevada, Reno President and replacing them with two members designated by the Director of the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.

Floor votes · Senate Apr 16, 2025 · Assembly May 21, 2025

How they voted

200
Passed
Total votes 20
Apr 16, 2025
D Democratic12
12 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican8
8 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
14
Key actions
7
Committee
3
May 28, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 88.
executive
May 22, 2025
Lower · Passed
To enrollment.
lower
May 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. In Senate.
lower
May 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
From committee: Do pass.
lower
Apr 16, 2025
Upper · Passed
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
upper
Apr 15, 2025
Upper · Passed
From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
From printer. To committee.
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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