Nevada Legislature
Nevada Legislature | |
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| 82nd Nevada Legislature | |
| Type | |
| Type | |
| 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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Assembly political groups |
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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 | |
| Nevada Legislative Building, Carson City | |
| Website | |
| Nevada Legislature | |
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 is the first majority female State Legislature in the history of the United States. 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. 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.