AB144 · NV 83rd Session

AN ACT relating to days of observance; establishing the second Monday in October of each year as “Indigenous Peoples Day” in the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to days of observance; establishing the second Monday in October of eac

Outcome: Passed both chambers — last vote Senate (As Introduced): Passed on 2025-05-21

NV Legislature 83rd Session bill, aggregated from roll-call votes across the seated state legislators in this dataset. Bill ID 12070.

Sponsorship

Shea Backus (D)

Roll-call summary

Vote	Count
Yea	41
Nay	22

Party breakdown

Party	Yea	Nay
Democratic Party	39	0
Republican Party	1	22
Unspecified	1	0

Per-legislator votes

Legislator	Party	Vote	Chamber	Date
Brittney Miller	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Cecelia González	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Cinthia Zermeño Moore	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Daniele Monroe-Moreno	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
David Orentlicher	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Dina Neal	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Duy Nguyen	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Edgar Flores	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Elaine Marzola	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Erica Mosca	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Erica Roth	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Fabian Doñate	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Hanadi Nadeem	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Heather Goulding	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Howard Watts III	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
James Ohrenschall	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Joe Dalia	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Jovan Jackson	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Julie Pazina	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Linda Hunt	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Marilyn Dondero Loop	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Max Carter II	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Melanie Scheible	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Natha Anderson	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Nicole Cannizzaro	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Reuben D'Silva	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Roberta Lange	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Rochelle Nguyen	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Sandra Jauregui	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Selena La Rue Hatch	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Selena Torres-Fossett	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Shea Backus	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Skip Daly	Democratic Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Steve Yeager	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Tanya Flanagan	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Tracy Brown-May	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Venicia Considine	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Venise Karris	Democratic Party	Yea	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Alexis Hansen	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Bert Gurr	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Brian Hibbetts	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Carrie Ann Buck	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Danielle Gallant	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Gregory Hafen II	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Gregory Koenig	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Heidi Kasama	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Ira Hansen	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Jeff Stone	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Jill Dickman	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
John Ellison	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
John Steinbeck	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Ken Gray	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Lisa Cole	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Lisa Krasner	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Lori Rogich	Republican Party	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Melissa Hardy	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
PK O'Neill	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Rebecca Edgeworth	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Rich DeLong	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Robin Titus	Republican Party	Nay	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Toby Yurek	Republican Party	Nay	Assembly (As Introduced)	Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Angela Taylor	Unspecified	Yea	Senate (As Introduced)	Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Bill history (17 actions)

Chronological legislative actions taken on this bill, sourced from NELIS. Journal links open the daily Assembly or Senate journal PDF where the action was recorded — public record per NRS 218D.

Date	Action	Journal
Jan 29, 2025	Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.
Jan 31, 2025	From printer.
Feb 04, 2025	Read first time. To committee.	Assembly Journal
Mar 31, 2025	From committee: Do pass.	Assembly Journal
Apr 03, 2025	Read second time.	Assembly Journal
Apr 07, 2025	Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.	Assembly Journal
Apr 10, 2025	Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.	Assembly Journal
Apr 14, 2025	Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.	Assembly Journal
Apr 15, 2025	Read third time. Passed. Title approved. Preamble adopted. (Yeas: 27, Nays: 15.) To Senate. In Senate.	Assembly Journal · Senate Journal
Apr 16, 2025	Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To committee.	Senate Journal
May 19, 2025	From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.	Senate Journal
May 20, 2025	Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.	Senate Journal
May 21, 2025	Read third time. Passed. Title approved. Preamble adopted. (Yeas: 14, Nays: 7.) To Assembly.	Senate Journal
May 22, 2025	In Assembly. To enrollment.	Assembly Journal
May 27, 2025	Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
Jun 02, 2025	Vetoed by the Governor. Returned to Assembly with Governor's veto message.
Jun 03, 2025	(No further action taken.)

Exhibits, testimony & documents (11 on file)

Exhibits, testimony, amendments, and supporting documents collected by the NV Legislature on this bill. Submissions are public record per NRS 218D. Sources cite back to NELIS.

Support (4)

Document type	Submitted by	File
Letter	Lindsay Gordon	PDF
Letter	Tammi Tiger	PDF
Letter	Ryan Vortisch, Silver State Voices	PDF
Letter	Jay Tan	PDF

Opposition (5)

Document type	Submitted by	File
Letter	Reva Crump, MS	PDF
Letter	Nancy Carlson	PDF
Letter	J S McElhinney III, DDS	PDF
Letter	Cynthia Perine	PDF
Letter	Ann Sweder	PDF

Neutral (1)

Document type	Submitted by	File
Statement	Angel DeFazio	PDF

Other (1)

Document type	Submitted by	File
Opposiiton Letter	Jill Douglass	PDF