---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revises the employment status of the Director of the Office of Science, Innovation and Technology in the Office of the Governor. (BDR 18-1071)"
description: "Revises the employment status of the Director of the Office of Science, Innovation and Technology in the Office of the Governor. (BDR 18-1071)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "81"
identifier: "SB 421"
citation: "Nevada SB 421 (81)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCIENCE", "INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY", "OFFICE OF"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Senate Committee on Finance"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-04-29T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-06-04T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ec51eab-39a5-4d2c-8e87-43b2334e6c6c"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/81st2021/Bill/8152/Overview"
source_hash: "ca3676911f0878c93f2568dd390623096880e14ff1de4a11f8b88e67d002bdb9"
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 421 (81) — Revises the employment status of the Director of the Office of Science, Innovation and Technology in the Office of the Governor. (BDR 18-1071)

## 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/81st2021/Bills/SB/SB421.pdf)
2. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/81st2021/Bills/SB/SB421_EN.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Senate Committee on Finance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-29T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-30T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2021-05-18T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. `committee-passage`
- **2021-05-19T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-20T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-28T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. Declared an emergency measure under the Constitution. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 38, Nays: 3, Excused: 1.) To Senate. `committee-passage, passage, reading-3`
- **2021-05-29T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. To enrollment. `passage`
- **2021-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-04T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. Chapter 429. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ec51eab-39a5-4d2c-8e87-43b2334e6c6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).