---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishes procedures to assist certain persons with limited English proficiency in accessing health care in certain circumstances. (BDR 40-41)"
description: "Establishes procedures to assist certain persons with limited English proficiency in accessing health care in certain circumstances. (BDR 40-41)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "83"
identifier: "SB 188"
citation: "Nevada SB 188 (83)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fabian Doñate"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-30T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e65d211a-028d-4544-9f61-eca41ca50dee"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12207/Overview"
source_hash: "9228764e599c2fe311ba1200982cf99f8e462c14b380dafd7f613d4cd3184237"
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 188 (83) — Establishes procedures to assist certain persons with limited English proficiency in accessing health care in certain circumstances. (BDR 40-41)

## 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/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB188.pdf)
2. **Amendment 351** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/Amendments/A_SB188_351.pdf)
3. **Amendment 560** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/Amendments/A_SB188_R1_560.pdf)
4. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB188_R1.pdf)
5. **Reprint 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB188_R2.pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/SB/SB188_EN.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate (1st Reprint) — **13–8** (pass) · upper
- Assembly (2nd Reprint) — **35–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fabian Doñate — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03T08:00:00+00:00** Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T08:00:00+00:00** To printer.
- **2025-02-05T08:00:00+00:00** From printer. Read first time. To committee. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-18T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 351.) Reprinting dispensed with. Placed on General File. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-04-21T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 13, Nays: 8.) To printer. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-23T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Assembly.
- **2025-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-16T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-19T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 560.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2025-05-20T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2025-05-21T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2025-05-22T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 35, Nays: 7.) To Senate. In Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** Assembly Amendment No. 560 concurred in. To enrollment. `passage`
- **2025-05-27T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-30T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. Chapter 172. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e65d211a-028d-4544-9f61-eca41ca50dee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).