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Nevada Senate unanimously approves bill designating Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Summary
The Nevada Senate passed Senate Bill 96, designating Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the state, after several senators spoke in support. The measure passed by voice vote and was ordered to the Assembly.
Senate Bill 96, which designates Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Nevada, passed the Nevada Senate and was ordered to the Assembly after floor remarks from multiple senators and a voice vote that produced a recorded tally of 20 yes, 0 no.
The bill was introduced on the Senate floor by Senator Krasner. Several senators took time to speak in favor of the measure, urging remembrance of the Holocaust and warning against rising antisemitism. "Never again is not just a slogan, it is a call to action," Senator Buck said on the floor, describing an increase in antisemitic incidents on college campuses and elsewhere. Senator Orin Schall recounted meeting Holocaust survivors growing up in Las Vegas and said those firsthand memories will not be passed on to future generations in the same way, urging support for the bill. Senator Stone emphasized the scale of the atrocity, saying the Holocaust claimed "6,000,000 Jewish men, women, and children along with millions of others who were murdered by the Nazi regime," and called remembrance "a warning for the present and the future." Senator Pizzina shared a personal childhood memory of encountering a Ku Klux Klan march and said that personal history informs her support for the bill.
After floor remarks, the secretary opened the roll; the tally recorded 20 yeses, 0 noes. The secretary declared the bill had "received a constitutional majority, declared passed and ordered to the Assembly." No amendments were recorded on the floor during the general-file consideration.
The passage sends the measure to the Assembly for further consideration. The floor debate consisted of senators' statements in support and did not include recorded dissent or proposed amendments on the Senate floor. The bill's adoption will establish January 27 as the day of remembrance in state observances if enacted through the legislative process.
Votes at a glance
Senate Bill 96 — Designation of January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Passed; yeses 20, noes 0; ordered to the Assembly.
