Nevada 2025 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 444 — Revises provisions concerning policies governing the use of certain electronic devices in schools. (BDR 34-855)

Last action — Approved by the Governor. Chapter 92.

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    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 24, 2025. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Joe Lombardo (Republican) on May 28, 2025.

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Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

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  • Enacted

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  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 2 recorded votes so far.

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Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

63 added · 76 removed

63 line(s) added, 76 removed.

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(Reprinted with amendments adopted on April 14, 2025) FIRST REPRINT S.B.
Senate Bill No.
444 SENATE B ILLN O.
444–Committee on Education CHAPTER..........
444–COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION M ARCH 24, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Education SUMMARY—Revises provisions concerning policies governing the use of certain electronic devices in schools.
(BDR 34-855) FISCAL NOTE:
Effect on Local Government:
May have Fiscal Impact.
Effect on the State:
No.
~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
LegExisting law:
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
(1) requires the board of trustees of each school district to adopt a policy concerning the use and possession by pupils of certain electronic devices while on school property or at a school activity;
policy concerning the use and possession by pupils of certain electronic devicesdopt a while on school property or at a school activity;
pupil using a progressive scale based on the number and seriousness of violations;ng a (2) limitations on the use of an electronic communication device during instruction;
This bill additionally requires the policy to include:
(1) measures for disciplining a (2) limitations on the use of an electronic communication device during instruction;
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
Section 1.
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:D IN Section 1.
The board of trustees of each school district shall adopt a policy concerning the use and possession by pupils of [a pager, cellular telephone or any other similar] an electronic - *SB444_R1* – 2 – communication device [used for communication] while on the premises of a public school or while at an activity sponsored by a public school.
The board of trustees of each school district shall adopt a policy concerning the use and possession by pupils of [a pager, cellular telephone or any other similar] an electronic communication device [used for communication] while on the premises of a public school or while at an activity sponsored by a public school.
(1) On the use of an electronic communication device during an emergency or crisis or to manage the health of a pupil;
- 83rd Session (2025) – 2 – (1) On the use of an electronic communication device during an emergency or crisis or to manage the health of a pupil;
and (3) If the use of an electronic communication device is included as part of an individualized education program or a plan developed in accordance with section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C.
and included as part of an individualized education program or a plan developed in accordance with section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C.
H - *SB444_R1*
~~~~~ 25 - 83rd Session (2025)
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Amendments

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Action History

  1. Approved by the Governor. Chapter 92.

  2. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

  3. To enrollment.

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

  5. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

  6. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

  7. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

  8. Read second time.

  9. From committee: Do pass.

  10. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.

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

  12. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

  13. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 177.) To printer.

  14. From printer. To committee.

  15. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.

Sponsors

  • Senate Committee on Education · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 66 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Senate Committee on Education

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (66)

66 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Assembly (1st Reprint)

Passed 42 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 27000
Republican 14000
Unaffiliated 1000
Total 42000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (42)
Member Party Vote
O’Neill, PK — Yea
Anderson, Natha C. Democratic Yea
Backus, Shea M. Democratic Yea
Brown-May, Tracy Democratic Yea
Carter, Max E., II Democratic Yea
Considine, Venicia Democratic Yea
D'Silva, Reuben Democratic Yea
Dalia, Joe Democratic Yea
Flanagan, Tanya P. Democratic Yea
González, Cecelia Democratic Yea
Goulding, Heather Democratic Yea
Hunt, Linda F. Democratic Yea
Jackson, Jovan A. Democratic Yea
Jauregui, Sandra Democratic Yea
Karris, Venise Democratic Yea
La Rue Hatch, Selena Democratic Yea
Marzola, Elaine H. Democratic Yea
Miller, Brittney M. Democratic Yea
Monroe-Moreno, Daniele Democratic Yea
Moore, Cinthia Zermeño Democratic Yea
Mosca, Erica Democratic Yea
Nadeem, Hanadi Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Duy Democratic Yea
Orentlicher, David Democratic Yea
Roth, Erica P. Democratic Yea
Torres-Fossett, Selena Democratic Yea
Watts, Howard Democratic Yea
Yeager, Steve Democratic Yea
Cole, Lisa K. Republican Yea
DeLong, Rich Republican Yea
Dickman, Jill Republican Yea
Edgeworth, Rebecca Republican Yea
Gallant, Danielle Republican Yea
Gray, Ken Republican Yea
Gurr, Bert K. Republican Yea
Hafen, Gregory T., II Republican Yea
Hansen, Alexis M. Republican Yea
Hardy, Melissa R.. Republican Yea
Hibbetts, Brian Republican Yea
Kasama, Heidi Republican Yea
Koenig, Gregory S. Republican Yea
Yurek, Toby Republican Yea

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Senate (1st Reprint)

Passed 21 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 8000
Democratic 13000
Total 21000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (21)
Member Party Vote
Cannizzaro, Nicole J. Democratic Yea
Cruz-Crawford, Michelee "Shelly" Democratic Yea
Daly, Skip Democratic Yea
Dondero Loop, Marilyn Democratic Yea
Doñate, Fabian Democratic Yea
Flores, Edgar Democratic Yea
Lange, Roberta Democratic Yea
Neal, Dina Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Rochelle T. Democratic Yea
Ohrenschall, James Democratic Yea
Pazina, Julie Democratic Yea
Scheible, Melanie Democratic Yea
Taylor, Angela D. Democratic Yea
Buck, Carrie Ann Republican Yea
Ellison, John Republican Yea
Hansen, Ira Republican Yea
Krasner, Lisa Republican Yea
Rogich, Lori Republican Yea
Steinbeck, John C. Republican Yea
Stone, Jeff Republican Yea
Titus, Robin L. Republican Yea

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Subjects

education technology
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SB 444 is sponsored by Senate Committee on Education.
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