Nevada Legislature | |
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| 82nd Nevada Legislature | |
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| Houses | Senate Assembly |
Term limits | Senate: 3 terms (12 years) Assembly: 6 terms (12 years) |
| History | |
New session started | February 2023 |
| Leadership | |
President pro tempore of the Senate | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 63
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Length of term | Senate: 4 years Assembly: 2 years |
| Salary | $150.71/day + per diem |
| Elections | |
Last Senate election | November 8, 2022 (10 seats) |
Last Assembly election | November 8, 2022 |
Next Senate election | November 5, 2024 (11 seats) |
Next Assembly election | November 5, 2024 |
| Redistricting | Legislative control |
| Meeting place | |
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| Nevada State Capitol Carson City | |
| Website | |
| Nevada Legislature | |
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The Nevada Legislature is a bicameral body, consisting of the lower house, the Assembly, with 42 members, and the upper house, the Senate, with 21. With a total of 63 seats, the Legislature is the third-smallest bicameral state legislature in the United States, after Alaska's (60 members) and Delaware's (62). The Nevada State Legislature as of 2019[update] is the first majority female State Legislature in the history of the United States.[1] As of 2022, the Democratic Party controls both houses of the Nevada State Legislature. In the 2022 Nevada elections, which were a part of the midterm elections for that year, the Democratic Party obtained a supermajority in the lower house of the state legislature.[2] As for the upper house of the state legislature, the elections provided the Democratic Party with thirteen of the twenty-one seats—amounting to a partisan composition of 61.9 percent.
- ^ "Did first female-majority legislature in US make a difference?". BBC News. March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
- ^ "2022 Nevada General Election Results: State Assembly Races". KUNR Public Radio. November 9, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2023.