Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB256: Revises provisions relating to gaming. (BDR 41-146)
Status: Chaptered, June 6, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to gaming; requiring the disgorgement of any profit, gain, gross receipt or other benefit related to certain illegal gaming activities; increasing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law prohibits: (1) a person from engaging in certain activities relating to gaming without procuring a state gaming license; (2) a person from engaging in a fraudulent act or otherwise manipulating or cheating at a gambling game…
From the enrolled text, May 29, 2025:
AN ACT relating to gaming; requiring the disgorgement of any profit, gain, gross receipt or other benefit related to certain illegal gaming activities; increasing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law prohibits: (1) a person from engaging in certain activities relating to gaming without procuring a state gaming license; (2) a person from engaging in a fraudulent act or otherwise manipulating or cheating at a gambling game; and (3) a person from accepting, receiving or allowing certain other persons to accept or receive certain wagers through any medium of communication from another person physically present within this State. (NRS 463.160, 465.070, 465.092) Sections 1-3 of this bill require, in addition to any existing penalty, a person to disgorge any profit, gain, gross receipt or other benefit resulting from certain illegal gaming activities and pay that amount to the State Treasurer for deposit in the State General Fund. Section 3 also increases the penalty for accepting, receiving or allowing certain persons to accept or receive certain wagers under certain circumstances from a misdemeanor to a gross misdemeanor. 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. NRS …
Sponsors
- Rochelle Nguyen (D, 3) · primary sponsor
- Brittney Miller (D, 5) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Chapter 337.
- : Approved by the Governor.
- : Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
- : Assembly Amendment No. 657 concurred in. To enrollment.
- : From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. In Senate.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 657.) To printer.
- : In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.
- : Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.
- : Read second time.
- : From committee: Do pass.
Votes
- Assembly (1st Reprint) (May 22, 2025): 42 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Senate (As Introduced) (April 7, 2025): 20 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is SB256?
- SB256 is a bill in the Nevada Legislature (83rd Legislature (2025)): Revises provisions relating to gaming. (BDR 41-146).
- What does SB256 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to gaming; requiring the disgorgement of any profit, gain, gross receipt or other benefit related to certain illegal gaming activities; increasing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law prohibits: (1) a person from engaging in certain activities relating to gaming without procuring a state gaming license; (2) a person from engaging in a fraudulent act or otherwise manipulating or cheating at a gambling game…
- What is the status of SB256?
- Chaptered as of June 6, 2025. Latest action: Chapter 337. (June 6, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB256?
- Rochelle Nguyen (D, 3), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for SB256?
- On the Nevada Legislature website: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12404/Overview
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