Nevada Assembly Bill 246

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)
Status: Failed on February 6 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-02-06 - Bill read. No further consideration.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring, under certain circumstances, the Secretary of State, county clerks and city clerks to ensure that voting materials and certain other elections information are posted on certain Internet websites and made available in certain languages; requiring the Secretary of State to establish a toll-free telephone number which may be used for a person to receive language interpretation or translation assistance relating to an election; requiring such telephone number to be posted at each polling place and on certain Internet websites and included on sample ballots; requiring the Secretary of State to include certain information related to a registered voter's preferred language on an application to register to vote; requiring county and city clerks to make a good faith effort to appoint election board officers who are bilingual; revising the information relating to registered voters that is required to be included on the statewide voter registration list; requiring, under certain circumstances, a mechanical voting system to list offices, candidates and ballot measures in a voter's preferred language; creating and setting forth the membership and duties of the Language Access Advisory Committee; making an appropriation to the Office of the Secretary of State for certain expenses relating to language access and the establishment of a toll-free telephone number; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Revises provisions governing elections. (BDR 24-821)

Rep. Selena Torres-Fossett [D]	Rep. Elaine Marzola [D]	Rep. Howard Watts [D]	Rep. Cecelia Gonzalez [D]
Rep. Natha Anderson [D]	Rep. Shea Backus [D]	Rep. Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod [D]	Rep. Tracy Brown-May [D]
Rep. Max Carter [D]	Rep. Lesley Cohen [D]	Rep. Venicia Considine [D]	Rep. Reuben D'Silva [D]
Rep. Bea Duran [D]	Rep. Brittney Miller [D]	Rep. Cameron Miller [D]	Rep. Daniele Monroe-Moreno [D]
Rep. Erica Mosca [D]	Rep. Sabra Newby [D]	Rep. Duy Nguyen [D]	Rep. Sarah Peters [D]
Rep. Shondra Summers-Armstrong [D]	Sen. AngelaTaylor [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-06	Assembly	Bill read. No further consideration.
2025-02-03	Assembly	Made Special Order of Business for Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 12 p.m.
2025-02-03	Assembly	Returned from Secretary of State.

AB246 (Carry Over) 2023-06-16 - Vetoed by the Governor.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/11915/Overview
Text	https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB246_82.pdf