Announcing the Release of the 82nd Nevada General Assembly State Legislative Effectiveness Scores (SLES)​

The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is proud to announce the release of our State Legislative Effectiveness Scores (SLES) for the 82^nd Nevada General Assembly (2023–2024). This initiative is part of our broader effort to measure the lawmaking effectiveness of individual legislators in all 99 state legislative chambers in the United States.

These scores capture lawmaking effectiveness by tracking the number of bills legislators sponsor, how far those bills advance through the legislative process, and the substantive significance of the proposals.

Nevada marks the latest addition to our public data release, following earlier reports on Montana, Georgia, and several other states. We will continue to expand our data availability and analyses to all fifty states in the coming months.

Highlights from the 82^nd Nevada State Legislature SLES scores (2023–2024):

• Top Performers: We identify the most effective lawmakers from each party in both the Nevada State Assembly and Senate, including legislators who have consistently ranked highly across multiple General Assemblies.
• Exceeds Expectations: We highlight members who earned our prestigious Exceeds Expectations designation for lawmaking effectiveness, including both seasoned legislators with sustained records and first-term legislators who quickly distinguished themselves among their peers.
• Majority Party Advantage: Consistent with CEL research, majority-party legislators were generally more effective lawmakers, reflecting structural advantages such as agenda-setting power and committee leadership.
• Nevada Insights (2023–2024): In terms of broader trends, our data show a partisan turn in lawmaking in Nevada over the past couple of terms. From 2011-20, both majority-party and minority-party lawmakers were active partners in lawmaking. The gap between their average SLES was less than 0.4 points in the Assembly and less than 0.3 points in the Senate. In the past two terms, however, those gaps have risen to nearly 0.6 in the Assembly and nearly 0.8 in the Senate. This means that majority-party Democrats have been limiting the influence of minority-party Republicans more significantly in recent years than before.

You can explore the full report and detailed findings below:

• Read the Nevada Report here
• View the SLES Scores here

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