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type: "Bill"
title: "Creates the Patient Protection Commission. (BDR 40-1221)"
description: "AN ACT relating to health care; creating the Patient Protection Commission; providing for the appointment of certain employees of the Commission; prescribing the duties of the Commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "80"
identifier: "SB 544"
citation: "Nevada SB 544 (80)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LEGISLATURE", "GOVERNOR", "PATIENT PROTECTION COMMISSION", "HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES", "DEPARTMENT OF", "OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS", "HOSPITALS (See also MEDICAL FACILITIES AND RELATED ENTITIES)", "INSURANCE COMPANIES", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS", "BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY", "DEPARTMENT OF", "LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL BUREAU", "PHYSICIANS", "SILVER STATE HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE", "INTERNET", "NURSES AND NURSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-05-14T07:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-06-10T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31338193-c70a-43b2-acc6-b2de818f34d6"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/80th2019/Bill/7053/Overview"
source_hash: "8246b8692e909a08ce90b93a1d69d77b54b7aa594824b84edcb8a99e5a58ecae"
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 544 (80) — Creates the Patient Protection Commission. (BDR 40-1221)
AN ACT relating to health care; creating the Patient Protection Commission; providing for the appointment of certain employees of the Commission; prescribing the duties of the Commission; 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/SB544.pdf)
2. **Amendment 863** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/Amendments/A_SB544_863.pdf)
3. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB544_R1.pdf)
4. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/80th2019/Bills/SB/SB544_EN.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Senate Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-05-14T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. Waiver granted effective: May 06, 2019. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. 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. 863.) To printer. `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
- **2019-05-27T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. Withdrawn from committee. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.
- **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 473.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31338193-c70a-43b2-acc6-b2de818f34d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).