---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revises provisions governing diets that are ordered or prescribed for patients. (BDR 40-445)"
description: "AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain medical facilities to adhere to a diet that is ordered or prescribed for a patient; authorizing a hospital to grant clinical privileges to a dietitian; authorizing a dietitian to order a special diet or nutritional supplement for a patient in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "SB 95"
citation: "Nevada SB 95 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH", "STATE BOARD OF", "MEDICAL FACILITIES AND RELATED ENTITIES", "UNFUNDED MANDATES", "HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES", "DEPARTMENT OF", "HOSPITALS (See also MEDICAL FACILITIES AND RELATED ENTITIES)", "DIETITIANS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-24T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-30T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d89b2154-ff41-413a-9c49-fc3c25ba98db"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/6078/Overview"
source_hash: "cd478a5b36912ca01780dbc304d928af9ffb9ff04f0dce910859cf2031217f4f"
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 95 (80) — Revises provisions governing diets that are ordered or prescribed for patients. (BDR 40-445)

AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain medical facilities to adhere to a diet that is ordered or prescribed for a patient; authorizing a hospital to grant clinical privileges to a dietitian; authorizing a dietitian to order a special diet or nutritional supplement for a patient in certain circumstances; 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/SB95.pdf)
2. **Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_SB95_2.pdf)
3. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB95_R1.pdf)
4. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB95_EN.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24T08:00:00+00:00** Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25T08:00:00+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** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-27T08:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2019-02-28T08:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on Secretary's desk.
- **2019-04-02T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from Secretary's desk. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 2.) To printer.
- **2019-04-03T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
- **2019-04-05T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-08T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.
- **2019-05-20T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-21T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2019-05-22T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2019-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 39, Nays: 1, Excused: 1, Vacant: 1.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. 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 202.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d89b2154-ff41-413a-9c49-fc3c25ba98db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).