Nevada Assembly Bill 163 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 15-0)
Status: Failed on April 10 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-04-10 - (Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring, with certain exceptions, proof of identity for voting in person; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles, under certain circumstances, to issue voter identification cards at no cost; authorizing, under certain circumstances, a county or city clerk to use a voting system with blockchain technology; revising the deadlines for returning and counting absent ballots; prohibiting, with certain exceptions, a person from returning an absent ballot or mailing ballot on behalf of a voter; requiring a county or city clerk to allow any member of the public to observe the counting of ballots; revising the deadline for the completion of the canvass of an election by a board of county commissioners; eliminating the authority for a person to register to vote after the close of registration; requiring the Secretary of State to enter into a cooperative agreement with the State Registrar of Vital Statistics to obtain certain information relating to the statewide voter registration list; repealing provisions relating to voting by mail ballot and conducting certain elections affected by a disaster or emergency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Revises provisions relating to elections. (BDR 24-690)

Rep. Jill Dickman [R]	Rep. Jim Wheeler [R]	Sen. Robin Titus [R]	Rep. John Ellison [R]
Rep. Philip O'Neill [R]	Sen. James Settelmeyer [R]	Sen. Pete Goicoechea [R]	Sen. Ira Hansen [R]
Rep. Alexis Hansen [R]	Rep. Heidi Kasama [R]	Sen. Lisa Krasner [R]	Rep. Glen Leavitt [R]
Rep. Andy Matthews [R]	Rep. Richard McArthur [R]	Sen. Carrie Buck [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-04-10	Assembly	(Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)
2021-02-23	Assembly	Notice of eligibility for exemption.
2021-02-23	Assembly	From printer. To committee.
2021-02-22	Assembly	Read first time. Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections. To printer.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/81st2021/Bill/7509/Overview
Text	https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/81st2021/Bills/AB/AB163.pdf