Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB96: Designates January 27 as “International Holocaust Remembrance Day” in the State of Nevada. (BDR 19-604)
Status: Chaptered, April 24, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to days of observance; designating January 27 of each year as "International Holocaust Remembrance Day" in the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Under existing law, certain days, weeks and months of observance are recognized in this State. (NRS 236.018-236.095) This bill designates January 27 of each year as "International Holocaust Remembrance Day" in the State of Nevada and requires the Governor to issue annually a proclamation encouraging the observance of this day…
From the enrolled text, April 18, 2025:
AN ACT relating to days of observance; designating January 27 of each year as "International Holocaust Remembrance Day" in the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Under existing law, certain days, weeks and months of observance are recognized in this State. (NRS 236.018-236.095) This bill designates January 27 of each year as "International Holocaust Remembrance Day" in the State of Nevada and requires the Governor to issue annually a proclamation encouraging the observance of this day. EXPLANATION - Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. WHEREAS, The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6,000,000 Jewish persons and 5,000,000 other persons by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945; and WHEREAS, Other horrific genocides have occurred throughout history in places such as Armenia, Cambodia, Darfur, Guatemala and Rwanda; and WHEREAS, In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27, which is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to promote education about the Holocaust throughout the world; and WHEREAS, A survey released in 2024 by the Governor's Advisory Council on Education Relating to the Holocaust revealed a significant lack of knowledge about the …