Senator Ben Kieckhefer

Assistant Minority Leader
Party: Republican

Legislative Service

  • Nevada Senate, 2011 -Present (first elected in November 2010)
  • Assistant Majority Floor Leader, 2015
  • Assistant Minority Floor Leader, 2013-2014

Education

  • DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, B.A., English
  • University of Illinois, Springfield, M.A., Public Affairs Reporting

Personal

Occupation: Communications
Recreation: Skiing, hunting, reading, family
Born: 1977 - Springfield, Illinois
Spouse: April
Children: Aspen, Austin, Lincoln, Lucerne

Primary Sponsor

AB1 Revises provisions relating to constructional defects. (BDR 3-584)
ACR5 Memorializes former Assemblyman Peter L. “Pete” Livermore. (BDR R-1259)
SB119 Revises provisions relating to educational facilities. (BDR 28-732)
SB132 Makes various changes relating to special education. (BDR 34-217)
SB159 Revises provisions relating to insurance. (BDR 57-829)
SB171 Revises provisions governing the issuance of permits to carry concealed firearms. (BDR 15-597)
SB185 Makes temporary changes relating to fire and related emergency services in certain counties. (BDR 42-121)
SB198 Requires an agency to provide personal care services in the home to adopt an electronic visit verification system under certain circumstances. (BDR 40-830)
SB206 Revises provisions relating to organ donation. (BDR 43-215)
SB207 Revises provisions relating to financing of school facilities. (BDR 30-1256)
SB217 Revises provisions relating to policies of health insurance. (BDR 57-836)
SB227 Creates the Silver State Opportunity Grant Program. (BDR 34-216)
SB243 Revises provisions relating to animal shelters. (BDR 50-280)
SB270 Revises certain provisions relating to elections. (BDR 24-835)
SB309 Enacts the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act. (BDR 40-214)
SB310 Revises provisions relating to local government financing. (BDR 22-827)
SB311 Revises provisions relating to irrigation districts. (BDR 48-831)
SB312 Revises provisions relating to certain taxes. (BDR 21-834)
SB313 Authorizes the governing body of a private school or a university school for profoundly gifted pupils to provide a program of distance education. (BDR 34-1032)
SB318 Provides for the consolidation of certain fire protection districts in certain counties. (BDR 42-833)
SB333 Revises provisions governing the homestead exemption. (BDR 10-971)
SB334 Proposes to exempt sales of certain durable medical equipment, mobility-enhancing equipment, hearing aids, hearing aid accessories, and ophthalmic or ocular devices or appliances from sales and use taxes and analogous taxes. (BDR 32-262)
SB336 Revises provisions governing prescribing, dispensing and administering controlled substances designed to end the life of a patient. (BDR 40-32)
SB350 Makes various changes relating to concealed firearms. (BDR 20-1031)
AB377 Establishes provisions for the preservation, development and use of the Nevada State Prison as a historical, cultural, educational and scientific resource. (BDR 26-625)
SB384 Revising provisions relating to family trust companies. (BDR 55-279)
SB391 Revises provisions governing educational instruction in the subject of reading. (BDR 34-644)
SB392 Revises provisions relating to prevailing wage. (BDR 28-828)
SB511 Establishes the Teach Nevada Scholarship Program and incentives for new teachers in certain schools. (BDR 34-1277)

Co-Sponsor

ACR3 Honors Nevadans who have lost their lives in the Global War on Terrorism. (BDR R-202)
SR4 Inducts Dean Rhoads into the Senate Hall of Fame. (BDR R-1268)
ACR4 Memorializes former Assemblyman Joseph “Joe” Michael Hogan, Sr. (BDR R-1260)
SR5 Inducts Terry Care into the Senate Hall of Fame. (BDR R-1270)
SR6 Inducts Randolph J. Townsend into the Senate Hall of Fame. (BDR R-1269)
SCR8 Commemorates the 30th anniversary of the sister-state relationship between the State of Nevada and Taiwan. (BDR R-1265)
SB167 Revises provisions relating to employment. (BDR 18-265)
SB175 Makes various changes relating to public safety. (BDR 15-515)
SB240 Makes certain changes relating to public safety. (BDR 14-955)
SB250 Revises provisions relating to policies of health insurance. (BDR 57-687)
SB261 Makes various changes relating to certain research facilities. (BDR 50-56)
SB266 Revises provisions relating to the tax on live entertainment. (BDR 32-720)
SB293 Revises provisions relating to the disposition of unspent campaign contributions. (BDR 24-596)
SB325 Revises provisions relating to state purchasing. (BDR 27-1024)
SB339 Authorizes the Nevada System of Higher Education to impose additional restrictions relating to the use of tobacco. (BDR 15-873)
SB390 Revises provisions relating to charter schools. (BDR 34-78)
SB396 Contingently reduces by half the valuation of certain vehicles for the purpose of determining the amount of governmental services taxes imposed. (BDR 32-119)