---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes expenditures by agencies of the State Government for the 2019-2021 biennium. (BDR S-1281)"
description: "AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing expenditures by various officers, departments, boards, agencies, commissions and institutions of the State Government for the 2019-2021 biennium; authorizing the collection of certain amounts from the counties for the use of the services of the State Public Defender; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "SB 553"
citation: "Nevada SB 553 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE TREASURER", "STATE CONTROLLER", "GOVERNOR", "AUTHORIZED EXPENDITURES", "CARSON CITY (See also CITIES; COUNTIES)", "LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION", "LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL BUREAU", "FINANCE", "OFFICE OF", "STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER", "GENERAL AUTHORIZED EXPENDITURES LEGISLATION", "SAGE‑GROUSE", "STOREY COUNTY (See also COUNTIES)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-05-30T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-10T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eeb12df6-14f5-433b-b31d-0c804b2186bc"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/7077/Overview"
source_hash: "695ee34bd57a575deb95f3961ba61b1b6d027fd7f1bb6a95022963dc95eddada"
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 553 (80) — Authorizes expenditures by agencies of the State Government for the 2019-2021 biennium. (BDR S-1281)

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; authorizing expenditures by various officers, departments, boards, agencies, commissions and institutions of the State Government for the 2019-2021 biennium; authorizing the collection of certain amounts from the counties for the use of the services of the State Public Defender; 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/SB553.pdf)
2. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB553_EN.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Finance — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-05-30T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Finance. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2019-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. Declared an emergency measure under the Constitution. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Vacant: 1.) To Senate. In Senate. To enrollment. `committee-passage`
- **2019-06-06T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-07T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-10T07:00:00+00:00** Chapter 525.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eeb12df6-14f5-433b-b31d-0c804b2186bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).