Executive Order 2026-003

EXECUTIVE ORDER 2026-003

Order Requiring a Review of Existing Regulations by All Executive Branch Agencies, Departments, Boards, and Commissions

WHEREAS, state regulations should protect workers, consumers, and the environment, while promoting entrepreneurship and economic growth; and

WHEREAS, state regulations can become outdated, result in unintended consequences, create conflicts, or impose an unnecessary burden on citizens, businesses, or government entities; and

WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the state of Nevada that its regulatoryenvironment be concise, transparent, stable, balanced, predictable, and thoughtfully constructed; and

WHEREAS, Nevada's current regulatory structure is too often unfocused and inefficient, contains regulations that are obsolete, and includes regulations that are unnecessarily onerous, thereby limiting the economic potential of the State; and

WHEREAS, Executive Order 2023-003 was a critically necessary first step in addressing Nevada's outdated, inefficient regulatory structure by streamlining, clarifying, and reducing over 900 unnecessarily burdensome regulations; and

WHEREAS, the continued, thoughtful review of Nevada's regulations should be driven by citizen and industry input, including an initial meeting to garner stakeholder feedback, receive recommendations, and engage in nuanced discussions regarding regulations that should be considered for revision or removal (to improve the general welfare and foster innovation); and

WHEREAS, Article 5, Section 1 of the Nevada Constitution provides that, "The Supreme Executive Power of this State shall be vested in a Chief Magistrate who shall be Governor of the State of Nevada;

NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as Governor by the Constitution and laws of the State of Nevada, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1:

Every executive branch department, agency, board, and commission shall hold a public hearing, after having provided reasonable notice consistent with Chapter 241 of the Nevada Revised Statutes, to key industry stakeholders, to: (i) solicit from those stakeholders recommendations regarding regulations that should be streamlined, clarified, or removed; (ii) undertake a comprehensive review of the regulations subject to its enforcement; and (iii) identify other regulatory changes the subject department, agency, board, or commission determines worthy of consideration. Any meeting(s) necessary to carry out the directives in this Section must be held no later than October 29, 2026.

SECTION 2:

After receiving the comprehensive stakeholder input described in Section 1, every executive branch department, agency, board, and commission shall substantively review the regulations discussed and/or proposed for revision or removal during those meetings. On or before December 31, 2026, each department, agency, board, and commission shall provide a report to the Governor's office detailing how the regulations subject to its enforcement can be streamlined, clarified, reduced, or otherwise improved to ensure those regulations provide for the general welfare of the State without unnecessarily inhibiting economic growth.

SECTION 3:

As part of its report, every executive branch department, agency, board, and commission shall provide a list of between five (5) and ten (1O) regulations recommended for such consideration, ranking them in descending order of priority. Additionally, each report shall include a description of: (i) any recommendations raised by stakeholders; (ii) whether those recommendations were accepted and incorporated into the department's, agency's, board's, or commission's final recommendation; and (iii) if those recommendations were not incorporated, an explanation for that non-incorporation.

SECTION 4:

Reports shall be emailed to the Governor's Office at regreview@gov.nv.gov no later than December 31, 2026. Any questions from any executive branch department, agency, board, or commission regarding reporting obligations should be sent to the same address.