---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacts provisions relating to the administration of the Stewart Indian School land and facilities. (BDR 18-188)"
description: "AN ACT relating to state lands; creating the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum; providing provisions governing the Museum Director; requiring the Museum Director to engage in certain duties relating to the Museum; authorizing the Museum Director to establish a store for the sale of gifts and souvenirs; authorizing the Museum Director to establish certain accounts; granting the Executive Director of the Nevada Indian Commission the authority to appoint and supervise the Museum Director; revising provisions governing the Nevada Indian Commission's Gift Fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "AB 44"
citation: "Nevada AB 44 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["NATIVE AMERICANS", "STATE FINANCES AND FUNDS", "MUSEUMS", "STEWART INDIAN SCHOOL", "INDIAN COMMISSION", "NEVADA"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-11-16T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-10T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3a23e96-1854-45e0-be16-bd8f2e45ecd8"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/5944/Overview"
source_hash: "f098f407282ed85ade71249c2d8d113cbf0a5c9d839a88c07aa714d899d744a4"
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 44 (80) — Enacts provisions relating to the administration of the Stewart Indian School land and facilities. (BDR 18-188)

AN ACT relating to state lands; creating the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum; providing provisions governing the Museum Director; requiring the Museum Director to engage in certain duties relating to the Museum; authorizing the Museum Director to establish a store for the sale of gifts and souvenirs; authorizing the Museum Director to establish certain accounts; granting the Executive Director of the Nevada Indian Commission the authority to appoint and supervise the Museum Director; revising provisions governing the Nevada Indian Commission's Gift Fund; 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/AB44.pdf)
2. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB44_EN.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Assembly Committee on Government Affairs — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-11-16T08:00:00+00:00** Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-11-20T08:00:00+00:00** From printer.
- **2019-02-04T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. To committee. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-25T08:00:00+00:00** Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- **2019-03-07T08:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass, and rerefer to Committee on Ways and Means. `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-11T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To committee. `reading-2`
- **2019-05-28T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. Placed on General File. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: None, Excused: 1, Vacant: 1.) To Senate. In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To committee. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-30T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2019-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-08T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10T07:00:00+00:00** Chapter 530.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3a23e96-1854-45e0-be16-bd8f2e45ecd8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).