NevadaNevada counts some existing farm land with solar power as agricultural use
Nevada counts integrated farming and solar land as agricultural use only if it qualified for agricultural assessment before July 1, 2025.
What it does
Land used for both farming and solar power counts as agricultural use only if it qualified for agricultural assessment before July 1, 2025.
Owners cannot apply for agricultural tax assessment for property with farming and solar power if the solar use receives a tax break under Nevada law.
When agricultural property includes land used for farming and solar power, the county assessor must consider both uses in setting its agricultural value.
Argument forSome farms approved for agricultural assessment before July 1, 2025, could keep that tax treatment while producing solar power alongside farming.
Argument againstOwners whose solar power use gets another tax break may lose the option to apply for this agricultural tax assessment.
More detail
The law counts certain land used for both farming and solar power as agricultural use. This applies to land where farming and solar power production take place together on the same property. The land must combine farming and solar power in a way designed to support both activities. Before July 1, 2025, the land must have been found to be agricultural real property and qualified for agricultural use assessment. The land must have qualified before July 1, 2025.
The law bars an owner from applying for agricultural use assessment for covered property. This applies to property that includes land used for both farming and solar power. The bar applies when the solar power use on the land receives a tax break under chapter 701A of Nevada law.
The county assessor must consider both farming and solar power when valuing covered land for agricultural use. This applies when agricultural real property includes land used for both farming and solar power.
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History
- 2025
- Jun 11Chapter 481.Latest
- Jun 10Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- Jun 6Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 4In Assembly. To enrollment.Major
- Jun 2Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 1From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.Minor
- May 28In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Finance. To committee.Minor
- May 27From committee: Do pass, as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 39, Nays: 3.) To Senate.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 24From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- Apr 21From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 151.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.Minor
- Mar 27Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- Mar 20From printer. To committee.
- Mar 19Read first time. Referred to Committee on Revenue. To printer.Introduced
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