---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revises provisions governing business. (BDR 7-471)"
description: "AN ACT relating to business; revising the circumstances under which a person is not required to obtain a state business license; revising provisions governing the location at which certain documents of certain limited-liability partnerships, limited partnerships, foreign business trusts, and professional entities and associations are required to be maintained; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "SB 45"
citation: "Nevada SB 45 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS", "BUSINESS LICENSES", "CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS", "PROFESSIONAL ENTITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS", "BUSINESS TRUSTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-11-19T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-16T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/181a4d05-2904-405f-bc8b-3da6827135af"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/5964/Overview"
source_hash: "e417ebaf635160ed9cb768c1acc7a4152f13b8853a86dfe7cf85a11301894a96"
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 45 (80) — Revises provisions governing business. (BDR 7-471)

AN ACT relating to business; revising the circumstances under which a person is not required to obtain a state business license; revising provisions governing the location at which certain documents of certain limited-liability partnerships, limited partnerships, foreign business trusts, and professional entities and associations are required to be maintained; 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/SB45.pdf)
2. **Amendment 81** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_SB45_81.pdf)
3. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB45_R1.pdf)
4. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB45_EN.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Judiciary — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-11-19T08:00:00+00:00** Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-11-21T08:00:00+00:00** From printer.
- **2019-02-04T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. To committee. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-15T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 81.) To printer. `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-16T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
- **2019-04-17T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.
- **2019-05-08T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-09T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2019-05-10T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: None, Excused: 1, Vacant: 1.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-13T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. To enrollment.
- **2019-05-14T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-16T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. Chapter 72. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/181a4d05-2904-405f-bc8b-3da6827135af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).