Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB398: Revises provisions governing compensation for certain employees of public schools. (BDR 34-189)
Status: Chaptered, June 6, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to award money to school districts to provide compensation in addition to base pay for hard-to-fill positions in public schools; requiring school districts to report certain information relating to hard-to-fill positions; eliminating the authority in certain large school districts to use weighted funding provided to a school for certain pupils to pay certain hiring and retention incentives; revising the powers of the Subcommittee on Education Accountability of the Interim Finance Committee…
From the enrolled text, May 29, 2025:
AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to award money to school districts to provide compensation in addition to base pay for hard-to-fill positions in public schools; requiring school districts to report certain information relating to hard-to-fill positions; eliminating the authority in certain large school districts to use weighted funding provided to a school for certain pupils to pay certain hiring and retention incentives; revising the powers of the Subcommittee on Education Accountability of the Interim Finance Committee; making an appropriation to the Interim Finance Committee for allocation to the Department to fund compensation in addition to base pay for hard-to-fill positions in public schools; making an appropriation to provide money to charter schools for salary increases for teachers and education support professionals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Section 2 of this bill requires the Department of Education, to the extent that money has been appropriated for that purpose, to make awards to school districts to provide compensation, in addition to base pay, for hard-to-fill positions in the public schools of this State. Section 2 defines "hard-to-fill position" as and (2) teacher positions and other positions filled by licensed educational personnel whose duties include actively teaching pupils in certain subjects which are suffering from a critical labor shortage. Section 2 requires each …