NevadaNevada candidates must register to vote where they are required to live
Nevada law requires candidates for state and local office to register where they must live, and gives clerks two working days to answer election-data requests.
What it does
Candidates for state and local office must be registered to vote where the law requires them to live. This applies to people filing after October 1, 2025, but not to federal offices or people who held elected office on that date.
When the Secretary of State requests information about the current election cycle, county and city clerks must provide it or explain when they can send it within two working days.
Filing officers must make candidacy, residency, and legislative-vacancy eligibility declarations available to the public electronically. People filing candidacy or eligibility declarations must attest where in Nevada they are registered to vote.
Argument forRequiring candidates to register where they must live could help voters check whether candidates meet local residency rules.
Argument againstThe registration rule could keep people from serving in local office if they meet other qualifications but are not registered in the required area.
More detail
Candidates for state and local elected office must be registered to vote in the area the law requires them to live in. The rule covers state and local elected offices, including offices in districts, counties, townships, cities, and other areas set by law. The rule does not cover federal offices. It does not apply to people who held elected office on October 1, 2025. The rule applies to people who file a declaration of candidacy after October 1, 2025.
County and city clerks must provide election-cycle information requested by the Secretary of State, or explain when they can provide it. This applies to county and city clerks who receive a request from the Secretary of State. The request must concern the current election cycle. Clerks must respond by the end of the second working day after receiving the request.
Filing officers must make specified candidate declarations available to the public in an electronic format. This applies to filing officers handling the listed declarations for candidates and people seeking to fill a legislative vacancy. The declarations include declarations of candidacy, residency, and eligibility to fill a legislative vacancy. People filing candidacy or eligibility declarations must attest under penalty of perjury to the Nevada city or town and county where they are registered to vote.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Jun 6Chapter 323.Latest
- Jun 5Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- May 29Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- May 27Senate Amendment No. 639 concurred in. To enrollment.Major
- May 26In Assembly.
- May 23From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.
- May 22Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 18, Nays: 3.) To printer.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- May 21From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 639.) Reprinting dispensed with.Minor
- Apr 23From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Senate. In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To committee.Minor
- Apr 21Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To printer.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 18From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 383.) Dispensed with reprinting.Minor
- Mar 25From printer. To committee.
- Mar 24Read first time. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To printer.Introduced
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