---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revises the circumstances under which the holder of a driver's license or identification card must report a name change to the Department of Motor Vehicles. (BDR 43-673)"
description: "Revises the circumstances under which the holder of a driver's license or identification card must report a name change to the Department of Motor Vehicles. (BDR 43-673)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "79"
identifier: "SB 215"
citation: "Nevada SB 215 (79)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS (See also specific crimes)", "WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS", "IDENTIFICATION CARDS", "MARRIAGE", "ADOPTION OF CHILDREN", "NAMES", "DIVORCE", "DRIVER’S LICENSES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cancela", "Manendo", "Parks", "Spearman", "Woodhouse"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-27T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00b6bce4-9b75-496b-999c-799f0348c7ed"
source_url: "http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Reports/history.cfm?ID=507"
source_hash: "495bc1906b36086c28bc22714f69cb037523c2108aecfc8055de66262b915e75"
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 215 (79) — Revises the circumstances under which the holder of a driver's license or identification card must report a name change to the Department of Motor Vehicles. (BDR 43-673)

## 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/SB215.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Cancela — primary (person)
- Manendo — primary (person)
- Parks — primary (person)
- Spearman — primary (person)
- Woodhouse — primary (person)
- Cannizzaro — cosponsor (person)
- Denis — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Ratti — cosponsor (person)
- Segerblom — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-27T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Transportation. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-28T08:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2017-04-20T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-20T07:00:00+00:00** Placed on Second Reading File.
- **2017-04-20T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 318.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2017-04-21T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint .
- **2017-04-21T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
- **2017-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Transportation. To committee. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-17T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-18T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2017-05-19T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2017-05-22T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. To enrollment.
- **2017-05-25T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. Chapter 241. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00b6bce4-9b75-496b-999c-799f0348c7ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).