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SB36Introduced in the Senate

Revises provisions relating to water. (BDR 48-384)

Passed

Introduced by Natural Resources

What does this bill do?

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Official description

AN ACT relating to water; requiring the State Engineer to retire certain groundwater rights; creating the Nevada Conservation and Recreation Program; creating the Account for Retiring Water Rights; establishing the Nevada Voluntary Water Rights Retirement Program; requiring the Director of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to purchase certain water rights for the purpose of retiring the water rights; revising provisions governing a program to provide grants of money for certain purposes relating to improvements to water systems and to conserve water; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Where it stands

Chapter 292.

June 6, 2025

How did lawmakers vote?

Assembly votes

1 recorded vote · each counted separately

Senate votes

1 recorded vote · each counted separately

AssemblyStage: Assembly Final Passage · May 28, 2025

42

Yes

0

No

0

Absent or Not Voting

42 assemblymembers recorded in this Assembly vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

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Bill history

  1. Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To printer.

  2. From printer.

  3. Read first time. To committee.

  4. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

  5. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

  6. Placed on Second Reading File.

  7. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 98.)

  8. Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.

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

  10. To committee.

  11. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

  12. Placed on General File.

  13. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 728.)

  14. Reprinting dispensed with.

  15. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.

  16. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.

  17. In Assembly.

  18. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To committee.

  19. From committee: Do pass.

  20. Placed on Second Reading File.

  21. Read second time.

  22. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

  23. In Senate. To enrollment.

  24. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

  25. Approved by the Governor.

  26. Chapter 292.

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