Tracy Brown-May is a Democratic member of the Nevada State Assembly who has represented District 42 since 2021 and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election. Ballotpedia lists her profession as nonprofit executive.[1][2]
Tracy Brown-May graduated from Ware High School in 1985, earned an associate degree from the College of Southern Nevada in 2015, and earned a bachelor's degree from Northeastern University in 2021.[1]Her career experience includes working as director of advocacy, board, and government relations and as special assistant to the president and CEO of Opportunity Village.[1]The Clark County Commission appointed her to the Assembly on February 2, 2021, following the resignation of Alexander Assefa, and she assumed office on February 8, 2021.[1]For the 2025-2026 session she was assigned to the Growth and Infrastructure, Health and Human Services (as chair), and Ways and Means committees.[1]Her Republican opponent in the 2026 general election is Christopher Brandlin.[1][2]
Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Democrats voted. How topics are assigned
Makes manipulating the price of an essential good or service an unlawful restraint of trade, defined as knowing deceptive practices that raise prices beyond supply and demand and above the five-year average increase, with no private lawsuits.
Requires workers doing custom fabrication on public works to be paid prevailing wages, and requires bidders using preferences on public works in counties of 100,000 or more to certify nonstandard materials will be custom fabricated in Nevada.
Raises paid family leave for state executive-branch workers from 8 to 12 weeks, eligible after 90 days instead of 12 months, with wage-based pay. Also requires private and local-government employers with 50 or more employees to provide 12 weeks of paid family leave.
May 29, 2025 · Passed 26–16 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Makes many election law changes, including renaming certain provisional ballots "conditional ballots," revising voter registration updates, mail ballot and registration deadlines, risk-limiting audits and polling place conduct rules, and creating a Voter Access Grant Program.
Lets heirs and personal representatives sue for damages for a homicide death at any time, with no two-year limit, if a preponderance of evidence shows homicide. Applies retroactively and revives previously time-barred claims.
On the version voted Jun 2, 2025: Requires hospitals and birthing centers to provide sign language interpreters to birthing patients and allow a doula present, requires insurers to cover doulas, limits race-based health formulas to board-approved lists, and requires assessments for some children leaving child welfare custody.
Adds race, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation and disability to the bases on which insurers, including Medicaid, may not discriminate; bars providers from discriminating on those and gender identity; lets licensing boards adopt rules and discipline violators.
As introduced, requires the label on a mifepristone or misoprostol prescription (or generic) to show the prescribing health care practice's name instead of the practitioner's name, when the prescribing practitioner requests it.
Gives appointed trustees on school boards in districts over 75,000 pupils the same duties and rights as elected trustees, lets them take part in filling vacancies and serve as officers, and sets 12-year term limits, salary changes and work-session rules.
Removes the requirements that a district attorney give written approval, and that the child make certain admissions, before a juvenile court dismisses a petition and refers the child to a probation officer for informal supervision.
Requires juvenile detention and commitment facilities to adopt policies that prohibit unclothed searches of children except in certain circumstances and set rules for any such search.
Changes the Windsor Park Environmental Justice Act relocation program for North Las Vegas homeowners: clarifies neighborhood boundaries and eligibility, lets some vacant-lot owners exchange lots, revises property and transfer taxes, extends appropriation reversion dates, and appropriates money.
Bans intentionally releasing balloons filled with lighter-than-air gas, with exceptions such as hot air balloons, certain research balloons and indoor releases, and allows civil penalties sought by the Attorney General or local attorneys.
Makes utensils and condiments in delivery orders opt-in, bans manufacturers from selling carpets, cosmetics, food packaging and certain other products with intentionally added PFAS from 2026, sets aside redevelopment revenue for shade landscaping, and requires formaldehyde testing of hair products in Clark County.
Lets cities and counties in a region governed by an interstate planning agency (currently Lake Tahoe) charge linkage fees on larger new homes, additions and costly remodels to fund deed-restricted affordable housing.
Requires landlords to offer tenants at least one rent payment method meeting set requirements, caps online payment fees at the portal operator's own fee, limits prospective tenant fees, and lets tenants sue landlords for certain violations.
Lets tenants file a verified complaint for expedited relief when a landlord fails to fix habitability problems, and revises rental agreement content, rent payment rules, tenant remedies, and amounts recoverable for unlawful landlord acts or missing disclosures.
Changes driver authorization cards from a four-year expiration to one set by Department of Motor Vehicles regulations, which must match driver's license periods where federal law allows.
Raises the emissions-testing compliance form fee from $150 to $175 per set of 25 and from $6 to $7 per form for fleet stations, which also raises the linked first-issuance fee for certain special license plates.
Bars online services from processing children's personal data for certain purposes, sets rules for collecting and processing children's data, requires data protection assessments, and allows civil enforcement and penalties.
Limits state and local agencies' collection and disclosure of autism-related data, and sets crimes and civil liability for unauthorized genetic testing, disclosure of a person's genetic information, and selling or transferring a person's DNA sample without consent.
Voted against most of their party on 4 of 137 party-divided votes on file.
Revises provisions relating to employment. (BDR 23-1027)
What it does: Raises paid family leave for state executive-branch workers from 8 to 12 weeks, eligible after 90 days instead of 12 months, with wage-based pay. Also requires private and local-government employers with 50 or more em…
Voted no · most Democrats voted yes · Democrats 26–1, Republicans 0–15
Establishes provisions governing the prescribing, dispensing and administering of medication designed to end the life of a patient. (BDR 40-600)
What it does: Lets an adult patient diagnosed as terminally ill by two practitioners request a prescription for medication to end their own life, after two verbal requests and one signed written request, and sets requirements for p…
Voted no · most Democrats voted yes · Democrats 20–7, Republicans 3–12
Revises provisions relating to elections. (BDR 24-362)
What it does: Lets election trainees and election, voting and counting board officers choose to work unpaid, and removes the bars on voter registration agencies employing, and county clerks appointing as field registrars, people wi…
Voted no · most Democrats voted yes · Democrats 26–1, Republicans 0–15
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
SB4 · NV ASSEMBLY
Revises provisions relating to state financial and governmental administration.
YesVOTED
Motion: Final Passage
Makes supplemental appropriations for state government operations for the 2025-2027 biennium, raises the maximum annual salary of the state Chief Information Officer, and changes the membership of the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education.
Revises provisions relating to real property. (BDR 10-38)
YesVOTED
Motion: Final Passage
Caps at 1,000 per year the residential units that corporations, investment vehicles, LLCs and their affiliates may buy in Nevada, requires them to register with the Securities Division and report purchases, and voids purchases over the cap.
Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to enact various requirements relating to the distribution and submission of mail ballots.
YesVOTED
Motion: Final Passage
Proposes a constitutional amendment requiring county clerks to mail a ballot to each active registered voter, letting voters opt out, requiring polling places to accept mail ballots, and requiring mail ballot drop-off sites in the three days before elections.
Revises provisions relating to employment. (BDR 53-35)
YesVOTED
Motion: Final Passage
Adds federal Portal-to-Portal Act exclusions to Nevada wage law, so activities such as waiting time, preparatory and concluding activities, certain training and meetings, and travel time are not compensable working time.
Revises provisions relating to occupational diseases. (BDR 53-36)
YesVOTED
Motion: Final Passage
Makes the presumption that lung disease is job-related for qualifying police officers, firefighters and arson investigators apply without proof of exposure to smoke, fumes or gases, and applies it to claims already filed.
Revises provisions relating to public safety. (BDR 15-31)
YesVOTED
Motion: Final Passage
Changes criminal law on assault, battery, stalking, child sexual abuse material, domestic violence and DUI, adds theft-related property damage offenses, and changes juvenile justice, record sealing, pretrial release and opioid use disorder provisions.
Enacts the Nevada Studio Infrastructure Jobs and Workforce Training Act.
YesVOTED
Motion: Final Passage
Creates the Nevada Studio Infrastructure Jobs and Workforce Training Act, offering film infrastructure transferable tax credits for productions at the Summerlin Production Studios project, and funds film workforce education and training.
Revises provisions relating to public office. (BDR 24-21)
YesVOTED
Motion: Final Passage
Lets public officers ask that their personal information in certain government records be kept confidential, lets them request an alternate address on their driver's license, and allows campaign funds to pay for personal security.
Revises provisions relating to alcoholic beverages. (BDR 32-24)
YesVOTED
Motion: Final Passage
Exempts holders of nonrestricted gaming licenses, and certain affiliates, from the rule requiring liquor retailers to pay wholesalers by electronic funds transfer, and applies the same exemption to some restricted licensees.
Revises provisions relating to the staffing of health care facilities. (BDR 40-33)
YesVOTED
Motion: Final Passage
Sets maximum patient-to-nurse ratios for hospitals in counties of 100,000 or more people, adds technical and service staffing committees beside nurse committees, requires compliance records, bars retaliation for reports, and allows discipline for violations.