Nevada 2017 Regular Session Status: Passed Senate 1 D cosponsors

SB 261 — Revises provisions governing prescribing, dispensing and administering controlled substances designed to end the life of a patient. (BDR 40-17)

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed Assembly
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2017 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there are no live odds of enactment. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. (No further action taken.)

  2. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.

  3. In Assembly.

  4. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. Preamble adopted. (Yeas: 11, Nays: 10.) To Assembly.

  5. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint .

  6. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 749.) To printer.

  7. Placed on Second Reading File.

  8. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

  9. Waiver granted effective: April 13, 2017.

  10. From printer. To committee.

  11. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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10 sponsors · 6 co-sponsors · 51 not signed on

Sponsors (10)

Co-sponsors (6)

Not signed on (51)

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors SB 261?
SB 261 is sponsored by Cancela, Parks, Denis, Yeager, Steve (Democratic), Chris Brooks, Pat Spearman, Patricia Farley, Maggie Carlton, Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod, Joyce Woodhouse, Ben Kieckhefer, Ozzie Fumo, Tick Segerblom, Cohen, Lesley, Julia Ratti, and Heidi Swank.
What is the current status of SB 261?
This bill died with 2017 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 261?
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