Nevada 2023 Regular Session Status: Enacted 7 D cosponsors

AB 139 — Revises provisions governing certain demographic information collected by governmental agencies. (BDR 19-122)

Last action — Chapter 430.

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

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 09, 2023. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Joe Lombardo (Republican) on June 14, 2023.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 62% · moderate confidence

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 7 sponsors

    1 primary, 6 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (7 D).

Based on stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes, and cross-state momentum — a description of the observable signals, not a prediction.

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

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EXEMPT (Reprinted with amendments adopted on June 2, 2023) FIRST REPRINT A.B.
Assembly Bill No.
139 A SSEMBLY B ILLN O.
139–Assemblymen Brittney Miller;
139–A SSEMBLYMEN B RITTNEY M ILLER;
D’Silva, González, Mosca, Nguyen and Torres Joint Sponsor:
D’S ILVA , ONZÁLEZ , MOSCA , NGUYEN AND TORRES F EBRUARY 9, 2023 ____________ JOINT S PONSOR :
Senator Nguyen CHAPTER..........
SENATOR NGUYEN ____________ Referred to Committee on Government Affairs SUMMARY—Revises provisions governing certain demographic information collected by governmental agencies.
(BDR 19-122) FISCAL NOTE:
Effect on Local Government:
May have Fiscal Impact.
Effect on the State:
Yes.
CONTAINS UNFUNDED MANDATE (§ 1) (NOTR EQUESTED AFFECTEDLOCALGOVERNMENT) ~ EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
(Chapter 239B of NRS) Section 1 of this bill authorizes an agency of criminal justice that collects demographic information on race or ethnicity to include a separate category for persons of Middle Eastern or North demographic information on race or ethnicity to include a separate category for persons of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
(Chapter 239B of NRS) Section 1 of this bill authorizes an ethnicity to include a separate category for persons of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
Section 1 requires any other governmental agency that collects demographic information on race or ethnicity to include a separate category for persons of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
and (2) any governmental agency or subunit of any governmental agency which performs a function in the administration of criminal justice pursuant to a statute or executive - *AB139_R1* – 2 – order, and which allocates a substantial part of its budget to a function in the administration of criminal justice, including, without limitation, a local law Probation of the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Corrections.
and (2) any governmental agency or subunit of any governmental agency which performs a order, and which allocates a substantial part of its budget to a function in theutive administration of criminal justice, including, without limitation, a local law enforcement agency, the Nevada Highway Patrol, the Division of Parole and Probation of the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Corrections.
(NRS 179A.030) Section 2 of this bill makes a conforming change to apply the relevant definition of governmental agency to section 1.
(NRS 179A.030) Section 2 of this bill makes a conforming change to apply the relevant defSection 2.5 of this bill makes an appropriation to the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of the Department of Health and Human Services for computer programming to carry out the provisions of this bill.
Section 2.5 of this bill makes an appropriation to the Division of Welfare and programming to carry out the provisions of this bill.uman Services for computer THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new;
matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
An agency of criminal justice, as defined in NRS 179A.030, that collects information from a person related to the race or ethnicity of the person may include a separate category for persons of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
An agency of criminal justice, as defined in NRS 179A.030, that collects information from a person related to the race or ethnicity of the person may include a separate category for - 82nd Session (2023) – 2 – persons of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
There is hereby appropriated from the State General Fund to the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of $140,400 for the cost of computer programming to carry out the provisions of this act.
There is hereby appropriated from the State the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of $140,400 of for the cost of computer programming to carry out the provisions of this act.
- *AB139_R1* – 3 – Sec.
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Action History

  1. Chapter 430.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

  4. Taken from General File. Placed on Secretary's desk. Taken from Secretary's desk. Placed on General File. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 18, Nays: 3.) To Assembly. In Assembly. To enrollment.

  5. From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.

  6. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Finance. To committee.

  7. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 890.) To printer.

  8. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

  9. Read second time. Amendment No. 249 placed on Chief Clerk's desk. Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To committee.

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

  11. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

  12. From printer. To committee.

  13. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.

Sponsors

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors AB 139?
AB 139 is sponsored by Miller, Brittney M. (Democratic), D'Silva, Reuben (Democratic), González, Cecelia (Democratic), Mosca, Erica (Democratic), Nguyen, Duy (Democratic), Torres-Fossett, Selena (Democratic), and Nguyen, Rochelle T. (Democratic).
What is the current status of AB 139?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 09, 2023. Enacted.
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