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Read. Follow. Verify.Nevada Assembly Bill 158 Authorizes General Personal Jurisdiction Over Business Entities Based on State Registration or Contact
Last action · April 12, 2025: (Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)Sponsor: Erica Roth
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What This Bill Proposed
Assembly Bill 158 authorizes Nevada courts to exercise over corporations, limited-liability companies, partnerships, and other specified business entities if they are registered to do business in the state, consent to jurisdiction, or maintain sufficient contacts with the state. Any may then be brought against these entities regardless of where the claim arose. These provisions apply to civil actions commenced on or after October 1, 2025.
Changes where businesses registered or operating in Nevada can be sued by allowing courts to hear any lawsuit against them, regardless of where the underlying dispute occurred, for all actions filed on or after October 1, 2025.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
business entities
Corporations, limited-liability companies, partnerships, and business trusts registered or operating in Nevada become subject to general personal jurisdiction based solely on registration, consent, or state contacts.
parties to a civil action
Litigants gain the statutory ability to bring any cause of action against qualifying business entities in Nevada courts regardless of where the claim originated.
Key Facts
- Nevada courts may exercise general personal jurisdiction over corporations, limited-liability companies, limited partnerships, business trusts, and other listed entities organized under state, federal, or foreign laws based solely on state registration, express consent, or sufficient state contact.
- When jurisdiction is established under this measure, any cause of action may be asserted against the entity regardless of whether the claim arises directly from the qualifying act or contact.
- Discontinuance of a qualifying business act or registration does not remove jurisdiction over acts, transactions, or omissions that occurred while the act was active.
- The new jurisdictional provisions apply to civil actions commenced on or after October 1, 2025.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in Assembly committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Apr 12, 2025(Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)
- Feb 4, 2025IntroducedRead first time. To committee.
- Feb 2, 2025From printer.
- Jan 30, 2025IntroducedPrefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 55)
- Controversy30Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz15Current news / social attention level
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