Nevada Legislature

Nevada Legislature
82nd Nevada Legislature
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Senate Assembly
Term limits	Senate: 3 terms (12 years) Assembly: 6 terms (12 years)
History
New session started	February 2023
Leadership
President of the Senate (Lt. Governor)	Stavros Anthony (R) since January 2, 2023
President pro tempore of the Senate	Pat Spearman (D) since February 6, 2023
Speaker of the Assembly	Steve Yeager (D) since February 6, 2023
Structure
Seats	63 21 senators 42 representatives
Senate political groups	Democratic (13)   Republican (8)
Assembly political groups	Democratic (28)   Republican (14)
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 State Capitol Carson City
Website
Nevada Legislature

39°09′43″N 119°45′58″W / 39.16194°N 119.7661°W / 39.16194; -119.7661

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.