---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revises provisions relating to persons who provide personal care in the home. (BDR 40-613)"
description: "Revises provisions relating to persons who provide personal care in the home. (BDR 40-613)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "79"
identifier: "SB 388"
citation: "Nevada SB 388 (79)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BACKGROUND CHECKS", "PERSONAL CARE SERVICES IN THE HOME", "AGENCIES PROVIDING (See also MEDICAL FACILITIES AND RELATED ENTITIES)", "EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES", "HEALTH", "STATE BOARD OF"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cancela", "Edwards", "Ellison", "Gansert", "Gustavson", "Hardy", "Harris"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-20T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-06-01T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5756ade7-c49a-4482-976c-b6211bcf7dc1"
source_url: "http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Reports/history.cfm?ID=853"
source_hash: "dbb4eae4b87c061e89df1ff20feb36e8cd73bf4a4d3cfe04fd4b78108ebc6229"
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 388 (79) — Revises provisions relating to persons who provide personal care in the home. (BDR 40-613)

## 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/SB388.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Cancela — primary (person)
- Edwards — primary (person)
- Ellison — primary (person)
- Gansert — primary (person)
- Gustavson — primary (person)
- Hardy — primary (person)
- Harris — primary (person)
- Cannizzaro — cosponsor (person)
- Goicoechea — cosponsor (person)
- Kieckhefer — cosponsor (person)
- Krasner — cosponsor (person)
- Ratti — cosponsor (person)
- Segerblom — cosponsor (person)
- Settelmeyer — cosponsor (person)
- Spearman — cosponsor (person)
- Spiegel — cosponsor (person)
- Sprinkle — cosponsor (person)
- Swank — cosponsor (person)
- Tolles — cosponsor (person)
- Wheeler — cosponsor (person)
- Woodhouse — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-20T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2017-04-11T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-12T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2017-04-17T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-04-18T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
- **2017-04-18T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-22T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-25T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. To enrollment.
- **2017-05-27T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. Chapter 298. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5756ade7-c49a-4482-976c-b6211bcf7dc1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).