SB188 · NV 83rd Session
AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain health facilities and providers of health care to take reasonable steps to provide a person with limited English proficiency with language assistance under certain circumstances; prescribing requirements governing the use of interpreters and translat
Fiscal effect: state
Outcome: Passed both chambers — last vote Assembly (2nd Reprint): Passed on 2025-05-22
NV Legislature 83rd Session bill, aggregated from roll-call votes across the seated state legislators in this dataset. Bill ID 12207.
Sponsorship
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Roll-call summary
| Vote | Count |
|---|---|
| Yea | 8 |
| Nay | 3 |
Party breakdown
| Party | Yea | Nay |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 7 | 0 |
| Republican Party | 1 | 3 |
Per-legislator votes
| Legislator | Party | Vote | Chamber | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cecelia González | Democratic Party | Yea | Assembly (2nd Reprint) | Thursday, May 22, 2025 |
| Cinthia Zermeño Moore | Democratic Party | Yea | Assembly (2nd Reprint) | Thursday, May 22, 2025 |
| Fabian Doñate | Democratic Party | Yea | Senate (1st Reprint) | Monday, April 21, 2025 |
| Joe Dalia | Democratic Party | Yea | Assembly (2nd Reprint) | Thursday, May 22, 2025 |
| Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford | Democratic Party | Yea | Senate (1st Reprint) | Monday, April 21, 2025 |
| Selena Torres-Fossett | Democratic Party | Yea | Assembly (2nd Reprint) | Thursday, May 22, 2025 |
| Skip Daly | Democratic Party | Yea | Senate (1st Reprint) | Monday, April 21, 2025 |
| Carrie Ann Buck | Republican Party | Nay | Senate (1st Reprint) | Monday, April 21, 2025 |
| PK O'Neill | Republican Party | Nay | Assembly (2nd Reprint) | Thursday, May 22, 2025 |
| Rich DeLong | Republican Party | Nay | Assembly (2nd Reprint) | Thursday, May 22, 2025 |
| Toby Yurek | Republican Party | Yea | Assembly (2nd Reprint) | Thursday, May 22, 2025 |
Bill history (15 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 03, 2025 | Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. | Senate Journal |
| Feb 04, 2025 | To printer. | |
| Feb 05, 2025 | From printer. Read first time. To committee. | Senate Journal |
| Apr 18, 2025 | From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 351.) Reprinting dispensed with. | Senate Journal |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 13, Nays: 8.) To printer. | Senate Journal |
| Apr 23, 2025 | From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Assembly. | |
| Apr 24, 2025 | In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. | Assembly Journal |
| May 16, 2025 | From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. | Assembly Journal |
| May 19, 2025 | Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 560.) To printer. | Assembly Journal |
| May 20, 2025 | From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. | Assembly Journal |
| May 21, 2025 | Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. | Assembly Journal |
| May 22, 2025 | Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 35, Nays: 7.) To Senate. In Senate. | Assembly Journal · Senate Journal |
| May 23, 2025 | Assembly Amendment No. 560 concurred in. To enrollment. | Senate Journal |
| May 27, 2025 | Enrolled and delivered to Governor. | |
| May 30, 2025 | Approved by the Governor. Chapter 172. |
Exhibits, testimony & documents (4 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.
Submitted (1)
| Document type | Submitted by | File |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Senator Fabian Doñate |
Other (3)
| Document type | Submitted by | File |
|---|---|---|
| Destini Cooper | Senior Policy Analyst, Legislative Counsel Bureau | |
| Statement | Fabian Donate, Nevada State Senator | |
| Presentation | Language Translation in Healthcare, Leticia Delgado |