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NV SB403

Bill

Status

Failed

6/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Marilyn Dondero Loop

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Origin

Senate

83rd Legislature (2025)

AI Summary

  • Creates a Subcommittee on Metrics under the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education to develop metrics measuring student progress, learning outcomes, and holistic factors including student well-being and civic engagement

  • Replaces "competency-based education" pilot program with "personalized, competency-based learning" programs that school districts and charter schools can apply to provide, allowing students to advance through mastery-based progression with alternative schedules including reduced school days

  • Authorizes the Office of Economic Development to require businesses applying for tax credits or abatements to include plans for providing work-based learning opportunities to high school students or having employees serve as career and technical education instructors

  • Appropriates $2,250,000 for professional development on personalized, competency-based learning programs, $68,910 for a staff position to oversee Commission recommendations, and $50,000 ($25,000 per fiscal year) for Commission and Subcommittee travel expenses

  • Adds three university education deans (UNR, UNLV, Nevada State) to the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education and requires the Department of Education to review the Portrait of a Nevada Learner by July 1, 2040 and every 5 years thereafter

Legislative Description

Revises provisions relating to education. (BDR 34-611)

Last Action

(No further action taken.)

6/3/2025

Committee Referrals

Ways and Means5/31/2025
Finance4/21/2025
Education3/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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