(Nevada Republican Club) – Tomorrow morning, there will be a hearing on Nevada Legislative Bill AB420. It doesn’t take long to read…here is the link:
https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12607/Text#
Click on “As Introduced” to see the text.
Your participation in opposing and defeating this bill is urgently needed. You can call your representative(s) and/or the Secretary of State’s office, 775-684-5708, sosmail@sos.nv.gov advising them of your opposition to this bill.
You can also use one of the testimonies below to provide testimony during the hearing. To do that, shoot us an email [mailto: directorcommunications@nevadarepublicanclub.com] and we will respond with instructions.
Two testimonies have been developed to oppose this bill in tomorrow’s hearing. They are as follows:
Testimony 1 addresses this bill as unconstitutional…
The summary for Bill AB420 describes it as: “Revises Provisions relating to governmental administration”. It references the BDR used by the Legislative Bureau as BDR 34-538.
However, in the BDR listing on the Nevada Legislative website, BDR-34-538 is described as “Revises provisions relating to elections”.
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- AB420, Section 1, revises NRS Chapter 391. That chapter addresses Personnel, under Title 34, Education.
- AB420, Sections 2, 3 and 4, seek to revise NRS Chapter 225. That chapter addresses The Secretary of State, under Title 18, the State Executive Department.
- One bill addressing 2 completely different subjects, under 2 completely different NRS Categories.
- Article 4, Section 17 of the Nevada Constitution mandates “Each law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, and matter, properly connected therewith, which subject shall be briefly expressed in the title;”
- NRS 218D.100, Section 3, subsection (b) states ”The Legislative Counsel shall not honor a request for the drafting of a legislative measure which has been combined in violation of Section 17 of Article 4of the Nevada Constitution.”
- The drafting of AB420 violates both the Nevada Constitution and the Statute just quoted.
- This matter must be taken up with the Legislative Counsel and this bill must be withdrawn.
Testimony 2 addresses this bill as an attempt to give the Secretary of State a “Voter Access Grant Program” that has no guard rails whatsoever, undermining election integrity in Nevada!
I strongly oppose AB420. There are two major issues with this bill.First, this bill covers 2 completely different subjects, one under the rubric of “governmental administration” and one under “provisions relating to elections”
The Nevada Constitution, Article 4, Section 17, mandates that “Each law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, and matter, properly connected therewith, which subject shall be briefly expressed in the title”. In other words, we can only have single subject bills. For this reason alone, this bill must be withdrawn.
The second major issue is outlined in Section 3. It establishes the Voter Access Grant Program for the Secretary of State to hand out money in the form of grants to “eligible entities”. The purpose of this program would allow the Secretary of State to pay for supplies and equipment, give extra pay to his employees, pay for voter outreach and any other project the Secretary of State determines is eligible. Nothing is off limits.
In addition, section 4, subsection 2, states “The Secretary of State may apply for and accept any donation, gift, grant, bequest or other source of money for deposit into the Account”. And once the money is deposited it stays there and cannot revert to the State General Fund. This borders on the subversive.
This is an extreme overreach by Assembly member Gonzalez. What could possibly be her motivation to submit such an egregious bill? I strongly urge you to withdraw AB420.
We must all have our voices heard! Please help defeat AB420!
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