---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revises provisions relating to guardianships. (BDR 13-493)"
description: "AN ACT relating to guardianships; enacting certain provisions of the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act; authorizing the filing of a petition for an expedited hearing to transfer a proposed protected person from a health care facility to another health care facility that provides a less restrictive level of care in certain circumstances; revising various provisions relating to guardianships; increasing the additional fee charged by county recorders to allocate additional money for legal representation for protected persons, proposed protected persons, protected minors and proposed protected minors in guardianship proceedings; authorizing a portion of such a fee to be used to pay for certain assistance to protected minors and proposed protected minors in guardianship proceedings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "SB 20"
citation: "Nevada SB 20 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["GUARDIANSHIPS", "PSYCHOLOGISTS", "RECORDING OF INSTRUMENTS", "MASTERS", "SOCIAL WORKERS", "DISTRICT COURTS", "ATTORNEYS AT LAW", "EVIDENCE", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "PHYSICIANS", "COUNTY RECORDERS (See also COUNTY OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-11-15T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-30T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9ce5b40-7871-46e2-9ffc-4f61dcba4d85"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/5880/Overview"
source_hash: "a93ac166e6019aa557bdeb7b7be214db1db8c3f56d26963fb545806137cb53c9"
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 20 (80) — Revises provisions relating to guardianships. (BDR 13-493)

AN ACT relating to guardianships; enacting certain provisions of the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act; authorizing the filing of a petition for an expedited hearing to transfer a proposed protected person from a health care facility to another health care facility that provides a less restrictive level of care in certain circumstances; revising various provisions relating to guardianships; increasing the additional fee charged by county recorders to allocate additional money for legal representation for protected persons, proposed protected persons, protected minors and proposed protected minors in guardianship proceedings; authorizing a portion of such a fee to be used to pay for certain assistance to protected minors and proposed protected minors in guardianship proceedings; 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/SB/SB20.pdf)
2. **Amendment 669** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_SB20_R1_669.pdf)
3. **Amendment 75** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_SB20_75.pdf)
4. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB20_R1.pdf)
5. **Reprint 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB20_R2.pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB20_EN.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Judiciary — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-11-15T08:00:00+00:00** Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-11-19T08:00:00+00:00** From printer.
- **2019-02-04T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. To committee. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-18T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 75.) To printer. `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-19T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
- **2019-04-22T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.
- **2019-05-14T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-15T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 669.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2019-05-16T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 38, Nays: 1, Excused: 2, Vacant: 1.) To Senate.
- **2019-05-20T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate.
- **2019-05-25T07:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment No. 669 concurred in. To enrollment.
- **2019-05-28T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-30T07:00:00+00:00** Chapter 223.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9ce5b40-7871-46e2-9ffc-4f61dcba4d85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).