Assemblymember Steve Yeager

Speaker
Party: Democratic

Legislative Service

  • Nevada Assembly, 2017-2025 (first elected November 2016)—five regular sessions and five special sessions
  • 2025 SESSION COMMITTEES: Commerce and Labor; Ways and Means
  • 2023 SESSION COMMITTEES: Commerce and Labor; Legislative Operations and Elections; Ways and Means
  • 2021 SESSION COMMITTEES: Judiciary (Chair); Growth and Infrastructure; Revenue
  • 2019 SESSION COMMITTEES: Judiciary (Chair); Growth and Infrastructure (Vice Chair); Commerce and Labor
  • 2017 SESSION COMMITTEES: Judiciary (Chair); Corrections, Parole, and Probation (Vice Chair); Health and Human Services; Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining
  • 2019-2020 INTERIM COMMITTEE: Committee to Conduct an Interim Study of Issues Relating to Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana (Chair); Committee to Consult with the Director; Gaming Policy Committee; Southern Regional Behavioral Health Policy Board; Technological Crime Advisory Board
  • 2017-2018 INTERIM COMMITTEES: Committee to Conduct an Interim Study Concerning the Advisability and Feasibility of Treating Certain Traffic and Related Violations as Civil Infractions (Chair); Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice; Gaming Policy Committee; Nevada State Council for Interstate Adult Offender Supervision; Southern Regional Behavioral Health Policy Board

Other Public Service

  • Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice, Subcommittee to Review Arrestee DNA, Chairman, 2013-2014

Honors and Awards

  • Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice, Dedicated Service Award, 2016
  • 2019 Legislative Award, Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice, 2019
  • Southwest Legislator of the Year, TechNet, 2019
  • Alumni Exemplary Public Service Award, Cornell Law School, 2020
  • Nevada Justice Association 2021 Consumer Advocate of the Year
  • Boyd School of Law 2022-23 Student Bar Association Legacy of Advocacy Award
  • EDAWN 2023 President's Award
  • Right to Start 2024 Entrepreneur's Champion Award

Other Achievements

  • Graduate, Citizens' Police Academy, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 2018

Affiliations

  • State Bar of Nevada, Member
  • Clark County Bar Association, Member
  • Support America's Teachers, Board Member, 2019-current

Education

  • University of Michigan, B.A., History and Spanish
  • Cornell Law School, J.D., Cum Laude

Personal

Occupation: Partner, Battle Born Injury Lawyers
Recreation: Running, hiking, reading, writing, traveling
Born: 1978, Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
Spouse: Bita Yeager

Primary Sponsor

AB108 Makes an appropriation to the Outdoor Education and Recreation Grant Program Account. (BDR S-875)
AB119 Revises provisions relating to paramilitary activity. (BDR 36-191)
AB160* Revises provisions governing the sealing of certain criminal records. (BDR 14-634)
AB160 Creates the Nevada-Ireland Trade Commission. (BDR 18-650)
AB169 Requires that certain health insurance policies and health plans cover speech-language pathology for certain purposes. (BDR 57-735)
AB171 Authorizes the State Quarantine Officer to order the temporary suspension of certain prohibitions relating to the sale, offer or exposing for sale or transport for sale of eggs produced by egg-laying hens in certain enclosures under certain circumstances. (BDR 51-985)
AB208 Restricts the use of certain products by governmental entities and government-funded entities. (BDR 19-737)
AB322* Revises provisions relating to kratom products. (BDR 52-763)

Co-Sponsor

AJR6* Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to adopt the National Popular Vote Compact. (BDR C-389)
SJR7* Proposes to amend the Nevada Constitution to establish certain rights relating to reproductive health. (BDR C-864)
AB224* Revises provisions governing collective bargaining. (BDR 23-155)