---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revises provisions relating to veterans. (BDR 37-195)"
description: "AN ACT relating to veterans; replacing certain regulatory authority of the Department of Veterans Services with the authority to adopt policies and procedures; making various changes to the requirement for the Department to provide certain annual statistics; revising the requirements a person must possess to be appointed the Deputy Director for Health and Wellness of the Department; removing the requirements for the Director of the Department to provide certain assistance and materials to veterans and members of the military who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender; removing requirements for the locations at which meetings of the Veterans Services Commission must be held; removing certain requirements concerning veterans' cemeteries; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "AB 12"
citation: "Nevada AB 12 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL BUREAU", "ARMED FORCES", "SEXUAL ORIENTATION", "WOMEN VETERANS ADVISORY COMMITTEE", "GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION", "VETERANS SERVICES", "DEPARTMENT OF", "CEMETERIES", "VETERANS", "VETERANS SERVICES COMMISSION", "NEVADA"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-11-15T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-09T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46bc0104-f35f-4fc2-be42-4ec80e478721"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/5897/Overview"
source_hash: "51236e51f4e6166e7038ee94568dcea39622d5364a136b50703f2808f0ac2a00"
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 AB 12 (80) — Revises provisions relating to veterans. (BDR 37-195)

AN ACT relating to veterans; replacing certain regulatory authority of the Department of Veterans Services with the authority to adopt policies and procedures; making various changes to the requirement for the Department to provide certain annual statistics; revising the requirements a person must possess to be appointed the Deputy Director for Health and Wellness of the Department; removing the requirements for the Director of the Department to provide certain assistance and materials to veterans and members of the military who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender; removing requirements for the locations at which meetings of the Veterans Services Commission must be held; removing certain requirements concerning veterans' cemeteries; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB12.pdf)
2. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB12_EN.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Assembly Committee on Government Affairs — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-11-15T08:00:00+00:00** Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-11-18T08:00:00+00:00** From printer.
- **2019-02-04T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. To committee. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-15T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-18T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2019-03-19T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: None, Excused: 1, Vacant: 1.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-20T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To committee.
- **2019-04-29T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-30T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2019-05-01T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-03T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2019-05-06T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-08T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-09T07:00:00+00:00** Chapter 13.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46bc0104-f35f-4fc2-be42-4ec80e478721`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).