Nevada 2025 Regular Session Status: Enacted

AB 472 — Revises provisions relating to educational personnel. (BDR 34-529)

Last action — Chapter 478.

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    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 17, 2025. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Joe Lombardo (Republican) on June 10, 2025.

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  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

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Bill Text

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46 added · 59 removed

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EXEMPT (Reprinted with amendments adopted on May 28, 2025) FIRST REPRINT A.B.
Assembly Bill No.
472 ASSEMBLY BILL NO .
472–Committee on Education CHAPTER..........
472–COMMITTEE ON E DUCATION (O N BEHALF OF THE JOINT NTERIM S TANDING COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION ) M ARCH 17, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Education SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to educational personnel.
(BDR 34-529) FISCAL NOTE:
Effect on Local Government:
May have Fiscal Impact.
Effect on the State:
Yes.
~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
Existing law authorizes the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school to employ a teacher or instructor authorized to teach in the United States under the teacher exchange programs authorized by laws of the Congress of the United States.
governing body of a charter school to employ a teacher or instructor authorized to teach in the United States under the teacher exchange programs authorized by laws of the Congress of the United States.
(NRS 391.070) A J-1 visa is a nonimmigrant visa available to a foreign national who is a student, scholar, trainee, teacher, or skill and who is coming temporarily to the United States for certain purposes,wledge including, without limitation, teaching.
(NRS 391.070) A J-1 visa is a nonimmigrant visa available to a foreign national who is a student, scholar, trainee, teacher, professor, research assistant, specialist or leader in a field of specialized knowledge or skill and who is coming temporarily to the United States for certain purposes, a nonimmigrant visa available to a foreign national who is coming to the Unitedsa is States for the purpose of practicing a specialty occupation.
§ 1101(a)(15)(J)) An H-1B visa is a nonimmigrant visa available to a foreign national who is coming to the United States for the purpose of practicing a specialty occupation.
(8 U.S.C.
- *AB472_R1* – 2 – THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
intends to employ, a J-1 visa holder pursuant to a teacher, or exchange program shall not enter into a contract or partner with any person or entity that is a sponsor of such a program or that recruits candidates for such a program if the total amount of fees and costs charged per person who participates in, or applies to be a candidate for, the program exceeds $10,000.
Sec.
1.
A school district in this State that employs, or intends to employ, a J-1 visa holder pursuant to a teacher exchange program shall not enter into a contract or partner with any person or entity that is a sponsor of such a program or that recruits candidates for such a program if the total amount of fees and costs charged per person who participates in, or applies to be a candidate for, the program exceeds $10,000.
2.
(Deleted by amendment.) Sec.
(Deleted by amendment.) - 83rd Session (2025) – 2 – contract or partnership existing on July 1, 2025, but do apply to any renewal or extension of such a contract.
4.
The provisions of section 2 of this act do not apply to a contract or partnership existing on July 1, 2025, but do apply to any renewal or extension of such a contract.
H - *AB472_R1*
~~~~~ 25 - 83rd Session (2025)
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Action History

  1. Chapter 478.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

  4. In Assembly. To enrollment.

  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.

  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. From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.

  9. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.

  10. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 863.) To printer.

  11. Read second time. Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To committee.

  12. From committee: Do pass.

  13. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

  14. From printer. To committee.

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

Sponsors

  • Assembly Committee on Education · Primary

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

Sponsors (1)

  • Assembly Committee on Education

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (66)

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AB 472 is sponsored by Assembly Committee on Education.
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