NevadaNevada’s food council studies hunger and coordination strategies
Nevada’s Council on Food Security must study ways to coordinate efforts against food insecurity and report its findings by December 1, 2026.
What it does
During the 2025–2026 interim, the Council studies food insecurity, including where gardens could help, and recommends ways public agencies and private groups can coordinate.
Argument forThe study could help public agencies and private groups find places for gardens and coordinate their work to reduce food insecurity.
Argument againstResidents may wait for action after the study, since the Council sends recommendations to lawmakers but is not directed here to carry them out.
More detail
The law directs the Council on Food Security to study food insecurity and ways to coordinate efforts to address it. The study covers food insecurity in Nevada and coordination among state government, local governments, and private organizations. The study must review state laws and policies, identify areas where gardens or urban farms could help, examine coordination among state and local governments and private organizations, and recommend coordination strategies the Council considers appropriate. The Council must conduct the study during the 2025–2026 interim and send a written report by December 1, 2026, to the Agriculture Department director and the Legislative Counsel Bureau for delivery to the 84th Legislature.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Jun 9Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo. Chapter 426.Became Law
- Jun 5Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 2Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. In Assembly. To enrollment.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 1Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- May 31Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- May 30From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.Minor
- May 29From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To committee.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- May 28From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 836.) To printer.Minor
- Mar 31Read second time. Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To committee.Minor
- Mar 27From committee: Do pass.Minor
- Mar 12From printer. To committee. Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- Mar 11Read first time. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources. To printer.Introduced
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