Assemblymember Toby Yurek

Minority Whip
Party: Republican

Legislative Service

  • Nevada Assembly, 2023 and 2025 (first elected November 2022)—two regular session and two special sessions
  • 2025 SESSION COMMITTEES: Commerce and Labor; Growth and Infrastructure; Judiciary
  • 2023 SESSION COMMITTEES: Commerce and Labor; Judiciary; Natural Resources

Other Public Service

  • Fourth Amendment legal instructor for multiple southern Nevada law enforcement academies, 2008-current
  • Henderson Municipal Court, Judge Pro Tempore, 2019-current
  • Hope International University, Board of Trustees, Member and Chairman, 2010-2020
  • Injured Police Officers Fund, Co-General Counsel, 2021-current
  • Lake Mead Christian Ministries, Governance Board, Member and President, 2009-2018
  • Las Vegas Police Managers and Supervisors Association, General Counsel, 2017-current
  • State Bar of Nevada, Fee Dispute Arbitration Committee, Mediator/Arbitrator, 2009-2020

Honors and Awards

  • Henderson/Green Valley Elks Lodge No. 2802, Officer of the Year, 2002
  • City of Henderson Police Department, Sworn Supervisor of the Year, 2006
  • Hope International University, Distinguished Alumni Award, 2015
  • Hope International University, Inaugural President's Alumni Servant Leader Award, 2024

Other Achievements

  • Nevada Peace Officers’ Standards and Training; Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, and Management Certificates
  • Co-wrote “The Automobile Exception in Nevada: A Critique of the Harnisch Cases,” published in Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2008

Affiliations

  • Clark County Bar Association, Member, 2009-current
  • State Bar of Nevada, Member, 2009-current

Education

  • Hope International University, B.A., Church Growth with Emphasis in Preaching
  • Boston University, M.S., Criminal Justice
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, J.D.

Personal

Occupation: Law Firm Managing Partner, Retired Police Lieutenant
Recreation: Camping, Hunting, Spending time with family
Born: 1973, Anchorage, Alaska
Spouse: Carrie Yurek
Children: T.J., Tyler, Trey

Primary Sponsor

AB93 Revises provisions relating to public employees. (BDR 53-160)
AB132 Revises provisions relating to water. (BDR 48-586)
AB135 Revises provisions relating to certain tax exemptions for veterans and surviving spouses of veterans. (BDR 32-236)
AB142 Revises provisions relating to industrial insurance. (BDR 53-876)
AB162 Establishes a statewide database and Internet website for certain criminal records relating to domestic violence. (BDR 14-52)
AB195 Revises provisions governing boards of trustees of school districts. (BDR 34-237)
SB215 Revises provisions relating to wildlife. (BDR 45-576)
SB258 Revises provisions relating to industrial insurance. (BDR 53-594)
AB290 Revises provisions relating to prior authorization for medical or dental care under health insurance plans. (BDR 57-861)
AB294 Revises provisions relating to the use of the Internet by minors. (BDR 52-567)
AB295 Revises provisions relating to health insurance. (BDR 57-238)
AB334 Revises provisions relating to oral health. (BDR 54-800)
AB400 Authorizes a law enforcement agency to require applicants for certain positions of employment to make certain attestations as a condition precedent to employment. (BDR 23-1061)
AB408 Revises provisions relating to victims of crime. (BDR 16-587)
AB432 Revises provisions relating to governmental administration. (BDR 19-551)
AB440 Revises provisions relating to industrial insurance. (BDR 53-550)

Co-Sponsor

SCR1 Memorializes esteemed native Nevadan and lobbyist Kathleen “Neena” Laxalt. (BDR R-1028)
ACR3 Expresses gratitude to the National Conference of State Legislatures for 50 years of service. (BDR R-986)
SCR4 Declares April 2025 as Financial Literacy Month. (BDR R-1163)
SB205 Revises provisions relating to the statewide voter registration list. (BDR 24-579)
AB240 Revises provisions relating to athletics. (BDR 34-179)
AB267 Revises provisions relating to the Legislature. (BDR 17-1001)
AB274 Requires the waiver of certain fees for certain businesses related to veterans. (BDR 7-728)
AB275 Revises provisions related to criminal procedure. (BDR 14-548)
AB309 Revises provisions relating to certain orders for protection against domestic violence. (BDR 3-885)
SB319* Revises provisions relating to public employees. (BDR 23-953)
AB380 Revises provisions relating to mobile crisis teams. (BDR 39-1062)
AB431 Revises provisions relating to the sale and resale of tickets to certain events. (BDR 52-1075)
AB436 Revises provisions relating to firearms. (BDR 15-830)