2025 Nevada Legislature – Changes to Corporate Matters and Litigation Procedures
On June 2, 2025, the Nevada Legislature ended its 83rd Session with the passage of many bills affecting Nevada employers. Below is a summary of new laws that may impact a Nevada employer in relation to litigation procedures and corporate matters. For each, we have provided a link to Nevada’s legislative website where you can view the final text of the bill (click on “As Enrolled”).
AJR 8 – Courts. This Assembly Joint Resolution proposed to amend the Nevada Constitution to authorize the Nevada Legislature to establish a business court. This court would have the exclusive jurisdiction to hear disputes involving shareholder rights, mergers and acquisitions, fiduciary duties, receiverships involving business entities, and other commercial or contractual disputes between business entities. The bill also provides that should a business court be created, the Nevada Supreme Court will have exclusive appellate jurisdiction over its cases, such that business court cases would not go to Nevada’s mid-level appellate court. This bill will not become effective unless and until it is passed during a second legislative session and then approved by Nevada voters during a general election.
AB 3 – Courts. This bill increases the monetary threshold for Nevada’s mandatory nonbinding arbitration program to expand its effect on civil lawsuits. Currently, a lawsuit that is filed in a Nevada district court for damages that do not exceed $50,000 per plaintiff must be submitted to nonbinding arbitration before proceeding to the court system. This bill increases that threshold to $100,000 and makes other changes to the arbitration program. Certain types of lawsuits are exempt from the arbitration program; this bill expands the exemption to include actions involving sexual assault or sexual battery, bad faith insurance claims, and actions for product liability. These changes become effective on January 1, 2026.
AB 12 – Unemployment. This bill changes the procedures for appealing a decision of the unemployment division in district court and provides that a failure to follow those procedures, after an opportunity to correct such a deficiency, will deprive the court of jurisdiction over the matter. This change became effective on June 10, 2025.
AB 239 – Business Entities. This bill makes a variety of changes to the law governing business entities. In part, it permits an entity’s articles of incorporation to require certain internal actions to be tried before a judge instead of a jury. It also revises the steps for a board of directors to approve a merger, conversion or exchange, and it establishes a process by which a corporation may reorganize through the formation of a holding corporation. This bill’s changes became effective on May 30.
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