SB277 · NV 83rd Session

AN ACT relating to education; requiring certain public schools to employ a school social worker to the extent that money is available for that purpose; creating immunity from civil liability for a school district or charter school for certain actions that constitute harassment or power-based violenc

Fiscal effect: state

Outcome: Passed both chambers — last vote Assembly (2nd 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 12477.

Sponsorship

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Roll-call summary

Vote	Count
Yea	29
Nay	18

Party breakdown

Party	Yea	Nay
Republican Party	29	18

Per-legislator votes

Legislator	Party	Vote	Chamber	Date
Alexis Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Alexis Hansen	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Ben Kieckhefer	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Friday, April 22, 2011
Ben Kieckhefer	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Thursday, April 20, 2017
Bert Gurr	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Bert Gurr	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Brian Hibbetts	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Brian Hibbetts	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Danielle Gallant	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Danielle Gallant	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Gregory Hafen II	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Gregory Hafen II	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Gregory Koenig	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Gregory Koenig	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Heidi Kasama	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Ira Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Ira Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 28, 2011
Ira Hansen	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Jeff Stone	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Jeff Stone	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, May 26, 2025
Jill Dickman	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Jill Dickman	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Joe Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Friday, April 22, 2011
Joe Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 20, 2009
John Ellison	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, May 16, 2017
John Ellison	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Saturday, May 28, 2011
John Ellison	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, May 26, 2025
John Steinbeck	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, May 26, 2025
Ken Gray	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Ken Gray	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Lisa Cole	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Lisa Krasner	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (1st Reprint)	Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Lisa Krasner	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (1st Reprint)	Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Lisa Krasner	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, May 26, 2025
Lori Rogich	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, May 26, 2025
Mark Amodei	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Monday, April 13, 2009
Melissa Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (1st Reprint)	Thursday, April 20, 2017
Melissa Hardy	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Melissa Hardy	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Philip O'Neill	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Philip O'Neill	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Rebecca Edgeworth	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Richard DeLong	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Richard DeLong	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023
Robin Titus	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (2nd Reprint)	Monday, May 26, 2025
Thaddeus Yurek III	Republican Party	Yea	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Saturday, May 31, 2025
Thaddeus Yurek III	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (2nd Reprint)	Monday, June 5, 2023

Bill history (13 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
Mar 05, 2025	Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.	Senate Journal
Mar 06, 2025	From printer. To committee.
Apr 15, 2025	From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File.	Senate Journal
Apr 16, 2025	Notice of eligibility for exemption. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 272.) Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.	Senate Journal
Apr 17, 2025	From printer. To committee.
May 26, 2025	From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 782.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 15, Nays: 5, Excused: 1.) To printer.	Senate Journal
May 27, 2025	From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.	Assembly Journal
May 30, 2025	From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.	Assembly Journal
May 31, 2025	Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 38, Nays: 1, Excused: 3.) To Senate.	Assembly Journal
Jun 01, 2025	In Senate.	Senate Journal
Jun 02, 2025	To enrollment.	Senate Journal
Jun 04, 2025	Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
Jun 09, 2025	Approved by the Governor. Chapter 445.

Exhibits, testimony & documents (6 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	Michelee Cruz-Crawford, Nevada Senate	PDF

Support (1)

Document type	Submitted by	File
Statement	Chris Daly, Deputy Executive Director for Government Relations, Nevada State Education Association	PDF

Opposition (2)

Document type	Submitted by	File
Statement	Jungnam Kim, Ph.D., UNLV Counselor Education Faculty-School Counseling Program; Chris Wood, Ph.D., UNLV Counselor Education Faculty-School Counseling Program; Carly Boren, Ph.D., NCC, UNR Counselor Education Faculty	PDF
Statement	Fawn Lewis	PDF

Other (1)

Document type	Submitted by	File
	Conceptual Amendment, Senator Cruz-Crawford	PDF

Presented (1)

Document type	Submitted by	File
Presentation	Michelee Cruz-Crawford, Nevada Senate	PDF