Lobbying in Nevada · SignalData

1,151

registered lobbyists

Lobbyists on the Legislative Counsel Bureau's 83rd (2025) Session list of lobbyists and their clients, Oct. 22, 2026: 1,151 registrations, each a different person by name. By the Bureau's classification: 666 Paid; 236 Non-Paid; 178 Paid Non-Profit; 38 Intern; 33 Non-Paid Military Veteran. 18 are marked revoked on the list.

1,373

clients (lobbyist employers)

Distinct client names, as listed, on the Bureau's 83rd (2025) Session client list, Oct. 22, 2026: 1,386 client rows (some names appear more than once with different addresses) carrying 1,373 distinct names (1,371 if capitalization is ignored), linked to lobbyists 4,904 times. The same organization written two ways counts twice.

Clients ranked by reported lobbying spending: not available (Nevada reports expenditures by lobbyist, not by client)

Expenditures registered lobbyists reported to the Legislative Counsel Bureau for the 83rd (2025) regular session, February through June 2025: money spent on behalf of legislators or of organizations whose main purpose is supporting one party's legislators in one house (NRS 218H.400), mostly receptions, meals and other events, plus educational or informational meetings and trips. Not what lobbyists were paid, not what clients spent on lobbying overall, not campaign contributions; the public report does not tie an expenditure to a client.

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Nevada's lobbying law (NRS chapter 218H) covers lobbying of the Legislature only. Anyone who lobbies during a regular or special session must register with the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau within two days, listing each client and the main subjects they expect to work on; registration is tied to a session, not a calendar year. The registration does not ask what the lobbyist is paid. While the Legislature is in session, each registered lobbyist files a monthly report, and a final report within 30 days after the session ends, giving what they spent on behalf of legislators or of party caucus organizations for each house. For the 83rd (2025) session the Bureau lists 1,151 lobbyists and 1,373 distinct client names. 61 lobbyists reported 73 expenditure lines totaling $255,302.00, almost all for receptions, meals and similar events; the Bureau's monthly table also shows a $666.00 commercially reasonable loan, kept apart here. The Bureau publishes expenditures by lobbyist, with a short description and amount, not by client, so no client can be ranked by spending, and the state collects no pay figures. A lobbyist's reported spending on legislators shows that money was spent; it does not show that any legislator acted because of it.

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Nevada does not collect what lobbyists are paid or what clients spend on lobbying; the only amounts are lobbyists' reported expenditures on behalf of legislators and legislative caucus organizations.
The Bureau's public expenditure report lists each lobbyist's lines (month, short description, amount) but not the client the spending was for, so no client can be ranked by spending; no ranking is shown. Ranking clients by how many lobbyists they registered was not done, because the site's table shows dollar amounts only.
The law requires reports to itemize spending by legislator (NRS 218H.400), but the public report shows only descriptions and amounts; the individual report forms naming legislators were not found on the public site and are not yet checked.
Several events appear to have been reported by more than one lobbyist with the same amount (22 lines share a month and amount with another lobbyist's line); whether each is the whole cost or a share is not stated, so the $255,302.00 total may count some events more than once.
Expenditures were reported in whole dollars; amounts are as filed.
The expenditure report lists 1,150 lobbyists, one fewer than the registration list (1,151); one registered lobbyist does not appear on it, and why is not stated.
Counts are as of Oct. 22, 2026 and reflect the Bureau's lists on that date; the Bureau may have edited registrations since the session ended. The pages carry no 'as of' date.
Client names are as listed; the same organization written two ways (for example NV Energy, Nevada Energy, Nevada Power, Sierra Pacific Power) is not combined.
The 36th (2025) Special Session and the Interim 2025-2026 list are shown separately and never added to the 83rd session counts. Earlier sessions (82nd 2023, 81st 2021, 33rd 2021 special) are on the Bureau's site but were not pulled; no comparison across sessions is made.
Lobbying of state agencies and local governments is outside chapter 218H and is not covered here; whether other registries exist was not checked.
The Bureau's 'Do You Need To Register' page for the special session returned a server error (HTTP 500) on Oct. 22, 2026; the 2025 session PDF of the same guide was used instead.

Gaps in the lobbying records as of the date checked.

Who lobbies the Legislature.

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