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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Establishes the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act to provide protections to female employees and applicants for employment who are affected by a condition of the employee or applicant relating to pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition. (BDR 53-773)"
+description: "Establishes the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act to provide protections to female employees and applicants for employment who are affected by a condition of the employee or applicant relating to pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition. (BDR 53-773)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
+legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
+session: "79"
+identifier: "SB 253"
+citation: "Nevada SB 253 (79)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["WOMEN", "DISCRIMINATION", "ACTIONS", "CIVIL", "NEVADA PREGNANT WORKERS’ FAIRNESS ACT", "PREGNANT WORKERS’ FAIRNESS ACT", "NEVADA", "HEALTH", "MATERNAL AND CHILD", "BREASTFEEDING", "EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES", "CONTRACTORS", "EDUCATION", "PARENT AND CHILD", "EQUAL RIGHTS COMMISSION", "NEVADA"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cancela", "Cannizzaro", "Ford", "Ratti", "Woodhouse"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-03-09T08:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2017-06-02T07:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4dab2c9-a606-4dfe-bac7-df2e65edbb08"
+source_url: "http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Reports/history.cfm?ID=584"
+source_hash: "52dae5934623eda688d85f94bdf083eefdce902c14f446674bb0e3aa482a07b9"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nv"]
+---
+
+# Nevada SB 253 (79) — Establishes the Nevada Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act to provide protections to female employees and applicants for employment who are affected by a condition of the employee or applicant relating to pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition. (BDR 53-773)
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Bills/SB/SB253.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Final Passage — **34–7** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Final Passage — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cancela — primary (person)
+- Cannizzaro — primary (person)
+- Ford — primary (person)
+- Ratti — primary (person)
+- Woodhouse — primary (person)
+- Denis — cosponsor (person)
+- Farley — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Manendo — cosponsor (person)
+- Parks — cosponsor (person)
+- Segerblom — cosponsor (person)
+- Spearman — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-03-09T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce, Labor and Energy. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-10T08:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
+- **2017-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** Placed on Second Reading File.
+- **2017-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 375.) To printer. `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-25T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint .
+- **2017-04-25T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-04-26T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
+- **2017-04-26T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
+- **2017-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** Declared an emergency measure under the Constitution.
+- **2017-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
+- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File.
+- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** Placed on Chief Clerk's desk.
+- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from Chief Clerk's desk.
+- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** Placed on General File.
+- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 800.) `reading-3`
+- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** Dispensed with reprinting.
+- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 34, Nays: 7, Excused: 1.) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** To printer.
+- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint .
+- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** To Senate.
+- **2017-05-25T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate.
+- **2017-05-25T07:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment No. 800 concurred in. To enrollment.
+- **2017-05-27T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. Chapter 319. `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4dab2c9-a606-4dfe-bac7-df2e65edbb08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).
+