Assemblymember Jovan A. Jackson

Party: Democratic

Legislative Service

  • Nevada Assembly, 2025 (first elected November 2024)—one regular session
  • 2025 SESSION COMMITTEES: Government Affairs; Health and Human Resources; Natural Resources

Other Public Service

  • Community leader since 2019
  • Criminal justice organizer since 2018
  • Provided mental health and social services since 2011
  • Small business owner since 2011

Affiliations

  • Mass Liberation Project
  • North Las Vegas Democratic Club
  • Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada

Education

  • College of Southern Nevada, Associate of Arts, 2019

Personal

Occupation: Entrepreneur, community organizer, and mental health advocate
Recreation: Traveling, hiking, swimming, advocating, learning new cultures, food connoisseur, public speaking
Born: 1992, Las Vegas, Nevada

Primary Sponsor

AB131 Revises provisions relating to housing. (BDR 22-694)
AB222 Revises provisions relating to public works. (BDR 28-675)
SB277 Revises provisions relating to education. (BDR 34-786)
AB291 Revises provisions relating to records of criminal history. (BDR 14-676)
AB320 Revises provisions related to criminal justice. (BDR 14-810)
AB321 Revises provisions relating to offenders. (BDR 14-1015)
AB328 Establishes the Commission on Racial Equity and Social Justice. (BDR S-619)
AB406 Makes various changes relating to health. (BDR 34-674)

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)
SJR10 Urges Congress to take certain actions relating to the therapeutic use of certain psychedelic compounds. (BDR R-801)
AJR14 Condemns the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and denounces the use of presidential pardons and commutations to absolve the rioters. (BDR R-991)
AB231 Requires a service contract to impose certain duties on the provider of the service contract. (BDR 57-655)
AB256 Directs the Legislative Commission to appoint a Regional Rail Transit Advisory Working Group to conduct an interim study relating to regional rail transit. (BDR S-614)
SB258 Revises provisions relating to industrial insurance. (BDR 53-594)
SB262 Revises provisions relating to graduate medical education. (BDR 18-120)
AB266 Makes revisions relating to breastfeeding. (BDR 40-595)
AB278 Designates the month of July as Muslim American Heritage Month. (BDR 19-924)
AB289 Revises provisions relating to education. (BDR 34-320)
AB292 Revises provisions relating to education. (BDR 34-613)
AB357 Revises provisions relating to background checks. (BDR 38-646)
SB367 Revises provisions relating to governmental administration. (BDR 18-1085)
AB378 Creates the Alternative Therapy Pilot Program. (BDR 40-820)
AB380 Revises provisions relating to mobile crisis teams. (BDR 39-1062)
AB382 Revises provisions relating to health insurance coverage for biomarker testing. (BDR 57-913)
AB388 Revises provisions relating to employment. (BDR 23-1027)
AB390 Enacts provisions relating to task workers. (BDR 53-547)
AB405 Revises provisions relating to agriculture. (BDR 50-911)