---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revises provisions relating to offenders. (BDR 16-298)"
description: "Revises provisions relating to offenders. (BDR 16-298)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "79"
identifier: "SB 306"
citation: "Nevada SB 306 (79)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PRISONS", "STATE", "APPROPRIATIONS", "SUNSET LEGISLATION", "CORRECTIONS", "DEPARTMENT OF", "PRISON COMMISSIONERS", "BOARD OF STATE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkinson", "Cancela", "Farley", "Ford", "Parks"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-17T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-06-09T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3bf429e9-57ef-4c90-a2b2-279fa98fb555"
source_url: "http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Reports/history.cfm?ID=689"
source_hash: "92c3c103d0ee2080528e2f7ba2f6c737e857352a1a657720e62112d931d1f727"
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 306 (79) — Revises provisions relating to offenders. (BDR 16-298)

## 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/SB306.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Final Passage — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Final Passage — **34–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-17T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2017-03-23T07:00:00+00:00** Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- **2017-04-17T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-17T07:00:00+00:00** Placed on Second Reading File.
- **2017-04-17T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 218.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2017-04-18T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint .
- **2017-04-18T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. To committee.
- **2017-04-18T07:00:00+00:00** Exemption effective.
- **2017-05-29T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-29T07:00:00+00:00** Placed on General File.
- **2017-05-29T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-29T07:00:00+00:00** Action reconsidered.
- **2017-05-29T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on Secretary's desk.
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from Secretary's desk. Placed on General File.
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 1046.) `reading-3`
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** Reprinting dispensed with.
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** To printer.
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint . To Assembly.
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** Action reconsidered.
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** Referred to Committee on Corrections, Parole, and Probation. To committee.
- **2017-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** Declared an emergency measure under the Constitution.
- **2017-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File.
- **2017-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **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: 34, Nays: 8.) 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 537. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3bf429e9-57ef-4c90-a2b2-279fa98fb555`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).