Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo calls special session to address 16 different bills

McKenna Ross, Las Vegas Review-Journal on Nov 12, 2025

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Nevada lawmakers will return to Carson City for a special legislative session beginning Thursday, Gov. Joe Lombardo announced in a proclamation issued Wednesday afternoon.

The Republican governor called on the Democratic-majority Legislature to consider 16 bills, according to the announcement.

The proclamation makes Lombardo’s plans official to urge lawmakers to pick up “unfinished” business from the regular legislative session that ended in June.

On Oct. 6, the governor said he intended to call back the 63-member body to consider legislation that was left incomplete at the end of the 120-day session.

About Nevada’s special legislative sessions

Nevada law prohibits campaign fundraising 15 days before a special session or the day after the proclamation calling a special session is issued, and the blackout period ends 15 days after a special session adjourns.

This is not the governor’s first special session — or his second. Lombardo called on lawmakers to keep working in Carson City longer in June 2023, when a brief session was held to pass a capital projects budget that legislators had failed to pass by the end of the 82nd regular session. An 8-day session immediately followed to approve public funding for the Athletics’ ballpark in Las Vegas.

Though Nevada lawmakers are constitutionally required to meet every odd year, meetings can come more frequently since Nevadans enacted a 120-day session limit through a constitutional amendment passed in 1998. There have been 35 special sessions In Nevada’s history — 15 of which have occurred since 2001.

Special sessions are generally limited to 20 consecutive calendar days.

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