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AB237 • 2025

Authorizes any county to create the office of registrar of voters. (BDR 20-363)

AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing any county in this State to create the office of registrar of voters; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing any county in this State to create the office of registrar of voters; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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Assembly Committee on Government Affairs
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Authorizes any county to create the office of registrar of voters. (BDR 20-363)

Authorizes any county to create the office of registrar of voters.

What This Bill Does

  • Authorizes any county to create the office of registrar of voters.
  • (BDR 20-363)

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-17 Nevada Electronic Legislative Information System

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Official Summary Text

Authorizes any county to create the office of registrar of voters. (BDR 20-363)

Current Bill Text

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- 83rd Session (2025)
Assembly Bill No. 237–Committee
on Government Affairs

CHAPTER..........

AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing any county in this State to
create the office of registrar of voters; and providing other
matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law authorizes a board of county commissioners in a county whose
population is 100,000 or more (currently Clark and Washoe Counties) to create the
office of registrar of voters and make appointments to the offic e. Upon
appointment, a registrar of voters assumes, with certain exceptions, all powers and
duties vested in and imposed upon the county clerk with respect to elections.
(NRS 244.164)
Section 1 of this bill removes the requirement that a county have a population
of 100,000 or more to be authorized to create the office of registrar of voters.
Removal of the population requirement authorizes any county to create the office of
registrar of voters.

EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. NRS 244.164 is hereby amended to read as follows:
244.164 1. [In each county having a population of 100,000 or
more, the] The board of county commissioners of each county may
create the office of registrar of voters, prescribe the qualifications,
duties and compensation of that office and make appointments to
that office.
2. The registrar of voters, upon appointment as provided in
subsection 1, shall assume all of the powers and duties vested in and
imposed upon the county clerk of the county with re spect to
elections, except the duties imposed by virtue of NRS 293.393 to
make out and deliver certificates of election.
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective on July 1, 2025.

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