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type: "Bill"
title: "Revises provisions relating to jails. (BDR 16-769)"
description: "AN ACT relating to jails; requiring the person appointed to administer a city jail and the sheriff of a county to report, as applicable, certain information concerning deaths in the city jail or county jail to the governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners; requiring the person appointed to administer a city jail and the sheriff to investigate certain deaths in the city jail or county jail, as applicable; requiring each governing body of a city and board of county commissioners to take certain actions relating to reports regarding deaths in the city jail or county jail, as applicable; revising provisions relating to the coordination of care for mental health and substance abuse treatment provided to a prisoner under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "AB 301"
citation: "Nevada AB 301 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["JAILS AND DETENTION FACILITIES", "UNFUNDED MANDATES", "ALCOHOL OR DRUG ABUSE", "SUICIDE", "HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES", "DEPARTMENT OF", "MARSHALS (See also PEACE OFFICERS)", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (See also COUNTY OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES)", "DEATH", "MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES", "CITY COUNCILS (See also CITY OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-18T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-05T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e41617a-6f27-4f42-a935-174cf50f96ae"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/6557/Overview"
source_hash: "7256d9c2b0ce4c17a0c8b023cf2dbfa3ed0f5ccf206dba3d86e5c239f3ee8001"
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 AB 301 (80) — Revises provisions relating to jails. (BDR 16-769)
AN ACT relating to jails; requiring the person appointed to administer a city jail and the sheriff of a county to report, as applicable, certain information concerning deaths in the city jail or county jail to the governing body of the city or the board of county commissioners; requiring the person appointed to administer a city jail and the sheriff to investigate certain deaths in the city jail or county jail, as applicable; requiring each governing body of a city and board of county commissioners to take certain actions relating to reports regarding deaths in the city jail or county jail, as applicable; revising provisions relating to the coordination of care for mental health and substance abuse treatment provided to a prisoner under 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/AB/AB301.pdf)
2. **Amendment 385** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_AB301_385.pdf)
3. **Amendment 696** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_AB301_R1_696.pdf)
4. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB301_R1.pdf)
5. **Reprint 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB301_R2.pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/AB/AB301_EN.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-03-18T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2019-04-19T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-22T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 385.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2019-04-23T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Senate.
- **2019-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.
- **2019-05-23T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 696.) To printer. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
- **2019-05-27T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
- **2019-05-28T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment No. 696 concurred in. To enrollment.
- **2019-06-01T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** Chapter 353.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e41617a-6f27-4f42-a935-174cf50f96ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).