Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB260: Revises provisions relating to air quality. (BDR 53-961)
Status: Chaptered, June 11, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to employment; requiring the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry to adopt certain regulations prescribing requirements for certain employers relating to the exposure of certain employees to poor air quality from wildfire smoke in the workplace; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires certain employers to establish and implement a written safety program that includes the establishment of a training program concerning safety in the workplace…
From the enrolled text, June 4, 2025:
AN ACT relating to employment; requiring the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry to adopt certain regulations prescribing requirements for certain employers relating to the exposure of certain employees to poor air quality from wildfire smoke in the workplace; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires certain employers to establish and implement a written safety program that includes the establishment of a training program concerning safety in the workplace. (NRS 618.383) Section 1 of this bill requires the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry to establish by regulation measures that an employer must take to reduce the exposure of an employee to poor air quality from wildfire smoke where the air quality index and (2) 200 or more. The Administrator is also required to establish by regulation an air quality index level caused by wildfire smoke at which an employer is prohibited from allowing an employee to perform critical tasks outdoors. Section 1 further requires each employer to establish a communications system that: (1) informs an employee when the employee is being exposed to certain poor air quality; and (2) allows any employee to report to the employer the presence of such poor air quality and any symptom …