AB286 · NV 83rd Session

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing one or more institutions of higher education within the Nevada System of Higher Education to establish a pilot program to assess the competency of applicants for a license to teach through the use of alternative assessment methods; requiring certain regulati

Outcome: Passed both chambers — last vote Senate (1st Reprint): Passed on 2025-05-31

NV Legislature 83rd Session bill, aggregated from roll-call votes across the seated state legislators in this dataset. Bill ID 12341.

Sponsorship

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Roll-call summary

Vote	Count
Yea	60
Nay	6

Party breakdown

Party	Yea	Nay
Republican Party	60	6

Per-legislator votes

Legislator	Party	Vote	Chamber	Date
Alexis Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Alexis Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Alexis Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Ben Kieckhefer	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Friday, May 24, 2019
Ben Kieckhefer	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Thursday, May 23, 2013
Bert Gurr	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Bert Gurr	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Brian Hibbetts	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Brian Hibbetts	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Carrie Buck	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Carrie Buck	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Cresent Hardy	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Danielle Gallant	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Danielle Gallant	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Gregory Hafen II	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Gregory Hafen II	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Gregory Hafen II	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Gregory Koenig	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Gregory Koenig	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Heidi Kasama	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Heidi Kasama	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Heidi Kasama	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Ira Hansen	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Ira Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Ira Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Ira Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Friday, May 24, 2019
Ira Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Jeff Stone	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Jeff Stone	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Jill Dickman	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Jill Dickman	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Jim Marchant	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Joe Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Monday, April 13, 2009
John Ellison	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, April 17, 2013
John Ellison	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2017
John Ellison	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
John Ellison	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 23, 2019
John Steinbeck	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Ken Gray	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Ken Gray	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Lisa Cole	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Lisa Krasner	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Lisa Krasner	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Lisa Krasner	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Lisa Krasner	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Lori Rogich	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Mark Amodei	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Melissa Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Melissa Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Melissa Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Melissa Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Thursday, May 23, 2013
Melissa Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (3rd Reprint)	Thursday, May 25, 2017
Melissa Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Friday, May 24, 2019
Michele Fiore	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Philip O'Neill	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Philip O'Neill	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Rebecca Edgeworth	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Richard DeLong	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Richard DeLong	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Robin Lee Titus	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Robin Lee Titus	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Robin Lee Titus	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Robin Lee Titus	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Robin Titus	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Thaddeus Yurek III	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Thaddeus Yurek III	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Bill history (12 actions)

Chronological legislative actions taken on this bill, sourced from NELIS. Journal links open the daily Assembly or Senate journal PDF where the action was recorded — public record per NRS 218D.

Date	Action	Journal
Feb 25, 2025	Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.	Assembly Journal
Feb 26, 2025	From printer. To committee.
Mar 02, 2025	Notice of eligibility for exemption.
Apr 21, 2025	From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 160.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.	Assembly Journal
Apr 24, 2025	From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
May 28, 2025	From committee: Do pass, as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.	Assembly Journal
May 29, 2025	In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.	Senate Journal
May 30, 2025	From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.	Senate Journal
May 31, 2025	Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.	Senate Journal
Jun 01, 2025	In Assembly. To enrollment.	Assembly Journal
Jun 04, 2025	Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
Jun 06, 2025	Approved by the Governor. Chapter 372.

Exhibits, testimony & documents (3 on file)

Exhibits, testimony, amendments, and supporting documents collected by the NV Legislature on this bill. Submissions are public record per NRS 218D. Sources cite back to NELIS.

Amendment (1)

Document type	Submitted by	File
Amendment	Assemblymember Selena Torres-Fossett	PDF

Presented (1)

Document type	Submitted by	File
Presentation	Dr. Danica Hays and Dr. Kenneth Varner	PDF

Submitted (1)

Document type	Submitted by	File
	Kenneth Varner, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives & Professor College of Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas	PDF