Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB361: Revises provisions relating to public mass transportation. (BDR 22-1066)
Status: Chaptered, May 27, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to transportation; requiring a regional transportation commission in certain counties to take certain actions to mitigate safety risks to transit operators; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides that in any county for all or part of which a streets and highways plan has been adopted as a part of the master plan by the county or regional planning commission, the board of county commissioners may by ordinance create a regional transportation commission…
From the enrolled text, May 20, 2025:
AN ACT relating to transportation; requiring a regional transportation commission in certain counties to take certain actions to mitigate safety risks to transit operators; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides that in any county for all or part of which a streets and highways plan has been adopted as a part of the master plan by the county or regional planning commission, the board of county commissioners may by ordinance create a regional transportation commission. A commission may perform certain duties prescribed by law, such as operating a system of public transportation within its area of jurisdiction and using streets, roads, highways and other public rights-of-way for public transportation. (NRS 277A.170, 277A.270) Section 1 of this bill requires a regional transportation commission in a county whose population is 100,000 or more (currently Clark and Washoe Counties) to: (1) take certain actions to mitigate safety risks to transit operators, including, without limitation, installing and maintaining appropriate infrastructure and technology designed to mitigate safety risks to transit operators such as the use of barriers, panic buttons and other technology; and (2) install and maintain appropriate signage informing the public about the criminal penalties for certain crimes committed against transit operators or the public. EXPLANATION - Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted …