---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provides for advance directives governing the provision of psychiatric care. (BDR 40-174)"
description: "Provides for advance directives governing the provision of psychiatric care. (BDR 40-174)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "79"
identifier: "SB 50"
citation: "Nevada SB 50 (79)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MENTAL ILLNESS", "PERSONS WITH (See also DISABILITIES", "PERSONS WITH)", "NURSES AND NURSING", "PHYSICIANS", "PSYCHOLOGISTS", "OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS", "PSYCHIATRISTS (See also OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIANS)", "ADVANCE DIRECTIVES", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Health and Human Services"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-11-16T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-05-26T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47ad68e7-94a1-4351-89fb-5224c2a9b449"
source_url: "http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Reports/history.cfm?ID=100"
source_hash: "257046acdb4532400f603a0ee721572c5fd2a47fa62ff4fd276173c3da72e9ce"
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 50 (79) — Provides for advance directives governing the provision of psychiatric care. (BDR 40-174)

## 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/SB50.pdf)

## Votes

- Assembly Final Passage — **42–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Final Passage — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Health and Human Services — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-11-16T08:00:00+00:00** Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. 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`
- **2017-04-17T07:00:00+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. 154.) 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** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-04-19T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
- **2017-04-19T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-16T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-17T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 717.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2017-05-18T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint .
- **2017-05-18T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-19T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate.
- **2017-05-22T07:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment No. 717 concurred in. To enrollment.
- **2017-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-05-26T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. Chapter 154. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47ad68e7-94a1-4351-89fb-5224c2a9b449`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).