Nevada SB 130: Provides for a presidential preference primary election. (BDR 24-37)

Bill Text

- 83rd Session (2025)
Senate Bill No. 130–Senators Doñate,
Flores and Steinbeck

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AN ACT relating to contractors; providing for issuance by the State
Contractors’ Board of a restricted license; setting forth
various requirements relating to restricted licenses; requiring
the Board to adopt regulations governing restricted licenses;
and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the
State Contractors’ Board. (Chapter 624 of NRS) Section 2 of this bill authorizes the
Board to issue a restricted license that authorizes a person to perform certain work
of a type for which a contractor’s license is required, within the scope and monetary
limit of the restricted license, to a person who satisfies certain requirements, which
include, without limitation, the requirement to have obtained certain experience
and, within the year immediately preceding the application, to have completed a
course in business counseling or a similar curriculum.
Existing regulations establish a classification B license in the branch of general
building and the subclassification B-7, which authorizes a person who holds such a
license to perform the remodeling and improvement of an existing, detached, stand-
alone single-family residence or single-family residential unit within a structure
that does not extend more than three stories above the ground and one story below
the ground. (NAC 624.160, 624.170) Existing regulations provide that a
subclassification B-7 license does not authorize a person to increase the existing
enclosed space of the residential structure. (NAC 624.170) Section 2 provides that
a restricted license may only be issued in a classification or subclassification which
authorizes the holder to perform the type of work for which the holder of a
subclassification B-7 license is authorized to perform under existing regulations.
Section 2 additionally authorizes the holder of a restricted license to enter into a
contract for a construction project that involves one or more building trades or
crafts, subject to certain limitations.
Section 2 sets forth certain bonding requirements for applicants for a restricted
license and authorizes a person who has held such a license for not less than 2 years
to apply for a contractor’s license that is not a restricted license under certain
circumstances. Under section 2, the requirements generally applicable to the
issuance and renewal of a contractor’s license do not apply to the issuance and
renewal of a restricted license, with certain exceptions. Rather, sections 2 and 3 of
this bill require the Board, on or before January 1, 2027, to adopt regulations
necessary to provide for the issuance and renewal of a restricted license. The
regulations are required to, among other things: (1) establish the monetary limit of a
restricted license, which must be $7,000, including labor and materials, or a greater
amount that the Board determines to be appropriate; (2) set forth certain application
requirements and procedures for the issuance and renewal of a restricted license;
and (3) establish reasonable fees associated with the issuance and renewal of a
restricted license.

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- 83rd Session (2025)
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:

Section 1. (Deleted by amendment.)
Sec. 2. Chapter 624 of NRS is hereby amended by adding
thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. The Board may issue a restricted license that authorizes
the holder to perform certain work for which a contractor’s
license is required, within the scope and monetary limit of the
restricted license, to a person who submits to the Board:
(a) An application containing any information required by the
Board by regulation;
(b) Any fees required for the issuance of the license
established by the Board by regulation; and
(c) Proof satisfactory to the Board that the person:
(1) Has not less than 2 years of experience in a trade,
which may include, without limitation:
(I) Work experience of a particular type or within a
particular classification;
(II) Alternative training in a program which is offered
at an accredited college or university, apprenticeship or equivalent
program accepted by the Board; or
(III) Completion of any other program or obtaining any
other qualification acceptable to the Board; and
(2) Completed, within the year immediately preceding the
date on which the application is submitted, a course in business
counseling or a similar curriculum which consists of a minimum
number of hours and any other requirements established by the
Board.
2. Before issuing a restricted license to an applicant, the
Board shall require the applicant to file with the Board a surety
bond or cash deposit in an amount determined by the Board by
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