---
type: "Bill"
title: "Makes various changes to provisions governing contractors. (BDR 54-234)"
description: "AN ACT relating to contractors; authorizing the State Contractors' Board to delegate to a hearing officer or panel its authority to hold certain hearings; expanding the period during which an applicant for licensure as a contractor must have received certain experience before applying for licensure; repealing provisions which require an applicant for renewal of a contractor's license who will engage in residential construction to submit certain financial information to the Board; expanding the period during which a license may be placed on inactive status; authorizing a licensee who was on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States, a reserve component thereof or the National Guard to apply to have his or her contractor's license reinstated under certain circumstances; repealing provisions which prohibit a telephone number to a provider of paging services used in certain unlawful advertising from being disconnected; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "AB 25"
citation: "Nevada AB 25 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["TELEPHONE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "CONTRACTORS", "ARMED FORCES", "PAGERS AND PAGING SERVICES", "ADVERTISEMENTS AND ADVERTISING", "NATIONAL GUARD (See also ARMED FORCES)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-11-16T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-05T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/035bd37a-95a8-41fa-b920-1436e0ea37ab"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/5925/Overview"
source_hash: "d4f7e7bc0ba0a9a3c094f0a97cc20fec7434b8b6c5df4ffecc0719c079d69588"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nv"]
---

# Nevada AB 25 (80) — Makes various changes to provisions governing contractors. (BDR 54-234)

AN ACT relating to contractors; authorizing the State Contractors' Board to delegate to a hearing officer or panel its authority to hold certain hearings; expanding the period during which an applicant for licensure as a contractor must have received certain experience before applying for licensure; repealing provisions which require an applicant for renewal of a contractor's license who will engage in residential construction to submit certain financial information to the Board; expanding the period during which a license may be placed on inactive status; authorizing a licensee who was on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States, a reserve component thereof or the National Guard to apply to have his or her contractor's license reinstated under certain circumstances; repealing provisions which prohibit a telephone number to a provider of paging services used in certain unlawful advertising from being disconnected; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB25.pdf)
2. **Amendment 218** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_AB25_218.pdf)
3. **Amendment 660** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_AB25_R1_660.pdf)
4. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB25_R1.pdf)
5. **Reprint 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB25_R2.pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB25_EN.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor — primary (organization)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-11-16T08:00:00+00:00** Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-11-20T08:00:00+00:00** From printer.
- **2019-02-04T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. To committee. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-11T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-15T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 218.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2019-04-16T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 40, Nays: None, Excused: 2.) To Senate.
- **2019-04-17T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
- **2019-05-09T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-10T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 660.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2019-05-13T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2019-05-14T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2019-05-15T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2019-05-16T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2019-05-20T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-21T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
- **2019-05-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment No. 660 concurred in. To enrollment.
- **2019-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** Chapter 334.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/035bd37a-95a8-41fa-b920-1436e0ea37ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).