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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revises provisions governing the Merit Award Program. (BDR 23-239)"
+description: "Revises provisions governing the Merit Award Program. (BDR 23-239)"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
+legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
+session: "79"
+identifier: "SB 72"
+citation: "Nevada SB 72 (79)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AUTHORIZED EXPENDITURES", "FINANCE", "OFFICE OF", "LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL BUREAU", "MERIT AWARD PROGRAM", "STATE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Legislative Operations and Elections"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2016-11-17T08:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2017-06-09T07:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ffd1dd6-84f7-4ca5-b56f-8ad258f354e1"
+source_url: "http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Reports/history.cfm?ID=135"
+source_hash: "d1befa72e706ebccdcd622c4e9051ba1da04e1ca8dc3f31dd82cc954b64c2dc3"
+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 72 (79) — Revises provisions governing the Merit Award Program. (BDR 23-239)
+
+## 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/SB72.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Final Passage — **42–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Final Passage — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Legislative Operations and Elections — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-11-17T08:00:00+00:00** Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To printer. `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2016-11-23T08:00:00+00:00** From printer.
+- **2017-02-06T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. To committee. `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-16T08:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20T08:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-20T08:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. To committee.
+- **2017-02-28T08:00:00+00:00** Notice of exemption.
+- **2017-05-01T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
+- **2017-05-02T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-05-05T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
+- **2017-05-05T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To committee. `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** Declared an emergency measure under the Constitution.
+- **2017-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
+- **2017-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
+- **2017-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
+- **2017-06-04T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
+- **2017-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. To enrollment.
+- **2017-06-08T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-06-09T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. Chapter 519. `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ffd1dd6-84f7-4ca5-b56f-8ad258f354e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).
+