---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designates May 18 as Asian Culture Day in Nevada. (BDR 19-74)"
description: "Designates May 18 as Asian Culture Day in Nevada. (BDR 19-74)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "79"
identifier: "SB 175"
citation: "Nevada SB 175 (79)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOLIDAYS AND DAYS OF OBSERVANCE", "GOVERNOR", "ASIAN CULTURE DAY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hammond"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-13T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-05-18T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fb0ad0b-0366-4b53-8b4b-b0a22c3400fa"
source_url: "http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Reports/history.cfm?ID=433"
source_hash: "673e0caee893a7e6a321335cc32bb481177b0f8f5d14c93e3adfe752e17f9160"
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 175 (79) — Designates May 18 as Asian Culture Day in Nevada. (BDR 19-74)

## 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/SB175.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Final Passage — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Final Passage — **41–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hammond — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Bilbray-Axelrod — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- BustamanteAdams — cosponsor (person)
- Cancela — cosponsor (person)
- Cannizzaro — cosponsor (person)
- Carrillo — cosponsor (person)
- Cohen — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Frierson — cosponsor (person)
- Fumo — cosponsor (person)
- Gansert — cosponsor (person)
- Hambrick — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Jauregui — cosponsor (person)
- Joiner — cosponsor (person)
- Kramer — cosponsor (person)
- Krasner — cosponsor (person)
- Manendo — cosponsor (person)
- Marchant — cosponsor (person)
- McCurdyII — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Monroe-Moreno — cosponsor (person)
- Neal — cosponsor (person)
- Ohrenschall — cosponsor (person)
- Oscarson — cosponsor (person)
- Parks — cosponsor (person)
- PaulAnderson — cosponsor (person)
- Pickard — cosponsor (person)
- Roberson — cosponsor (person)
- Segerblom — cosponsor (person)
- Spiegel — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Tolles — cosponsor (person)
- Watkins — cosponsor (person)
- Wheeler — cosponsor (person)
- Yeager — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-13T08:00:00+00:00** Prefiled.
- **2017-02-13T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15T08:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2017-03-30T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on Secretary's desk.
- **2017-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from Secretary's desk. Placed on General File.
- **2017-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 607.) To printer. `reading-3`
- **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. Preamble adopted, 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 Government Affairs. To committee. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-08T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-09T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2017-05-11T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2017-05-15T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. Preamble adopted. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-16T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. To enrollment.
- **2017-05-18T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-18T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. Chapter 24. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fb0ad0b-0366-4b53-8b4b-b0a22c3400fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).