Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager and Floor Majority Leader Sandra Jauregui will not seek re-election to the Assembly in 2026, they announced Monday.
Yeager, D-Las Vegas, and Jauregui, D-Las Vegas, were elected to the Assembly in 2016 and served five regular and five special sessions, according to the Nevada Assembly Democratic Caucus.
“I am honored to have represented Assembly District 9 since 2016, and I am grateful for the trust the voters placed in me over the past five election cycles,” Yeager said in a Monday statement.
He described some of his accomplishments, such as increasing public education funding and teacher pay raises, and said he is committed to “continuing to contribute to this great state that has given me so much.”
Jauregui said she also remains committed to Nevada’s fut