NevadaNevada schools keep disability services in student transfers
Nevada schools provide comparable services to transferring students with disabilities and require most music and art teachers to hold an endorsement.
What it does
A child with a disability who transfers to a Nevada school must initially receive services comparable to those in the child’s current learning plan.
The Commission must require a subject knowledge test for music and art endorsements. Most teachers must hold an endorsement to teach those subjects, with exceptions for some elementary schools and approved shortage hires.
Argument forStudents who change schools may keep similar disability services while staff review or update their learning plans.
Argument againstSchools may have a harder time filling music and art teaching roles because most teachers need an endorsement and must pass a subject test.
More detail
A Nevada school must initially provide comparable services to a child with a disability who transfers there. The child must have a current individualized education program and transfer from a school inside or outside Nevada. The school must consult with the child’s parent or guardian. For a transfer from another Nevada school, services continue until the current plan is adopted or a new plan is put into effect. For a transfer from outside Nevada, they continue until any needed examination and an appropriate new plan.
The Commission on Professional Standards in Education must set rules for music and art endorsements. The rules cover teachers, administrators, and other education staff seeking a music or art endorsement. Most teachers at elementary, middle, junior high, and secondary schools must hold an endorsement to teach those subjects. The rules must require a subject knowledge test. Elementary teachers are exempt at schools in districts with fewer than 200,000 pupils or at schools with fewer than 500 pupils. The existing teacher shortage exception applies when a shortage exists and the district board gets the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s permission to hire licensed teachers temporarily. These requirements took effect July 1, 2026.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Jun 9Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo. Chapter 450.Became Law
- Jun 4Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 2To enrollment.Major
- Jun 1In Senate.
- May 31Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 1, Excused: 1.) To Senate.Passed House
- Vote recorded Assembly (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- May 30From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.Minor
- May 28From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.Minor
- May 27From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 731.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To printer.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- 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. 267.) Notice of eligibility for exemption. Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.Minor
- Mar 19From printer. To committee.
- Mar 17Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.Introduced
EducationDisability Rights