Nevada AB 83: Makes various changes relating to insurance. (BDR 57-159)

Bill Text

- 83rd Session (2025)
Assembly Bill No. 83–Assemblymembers Mosca; D’Silva,
Flanagan, González, Hunt, Jackson, Miller, Nadeem,
Nguyen and Torres-Fossett

Joint Sponsor: Senator Nguyen

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AN ACT relating to days of observance; requiring the Governor to
annually proclaim October 25 to be “Larry Itliong Day” in
the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly
relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Under existing law, various days, weeks and months of observance are
recognized in this State. (NRS 236.018-236.095) This bill requires the Governor to
annually proclaim October 25 to be “Larry Itliong Day” in the State of Nevada.

EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

WHEREAS, October 25 is the anniversary of the birth of Modesto
“Larry” Dulay Itliong in the Philippines; and
WHEREAS, After immigrating to the United States as a teenager
in 1929, Larry Itliong began working as a farm laborer and in the
canneries of Alaska, where he helped found the Alaska Cannery
Workers Union; and
WHEREAS, After his service in the U.S. Army during World
War II, Larry Itliong moved to Stockton, California, where he
continued his labor organization work, becoming a leader in the
Filipino-American community of respected elders in the farm labor
movement known as the “Manongs”; and
WHEREAS, Larry Itliong founded the Filipino Farm Labor Union
in 1956 and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
(AWOC) in 1959; and
WHEREAS, Larry Itliong played an instrumental role in leading
the 1965-1970 Delano Grape Strike and related boycott, including
convincing the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), a
primarily Mexican-American farmworkers union led by Cesar
Chavez, to join forces with the AWOC; and
WHEREAS, Garnering national attention, the Delano Grape
Strike resulted in the first union contracts for farmworkers, which
included improved wages, benefits and working conditions, and
transformed the farm labor movement in the United States through
its use of boycotts, the groundbreaking collaboration between
farmworkers of Filipino and Mexican heritage and the formation of

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the United Farm Workers labor union from the merger of the
AWOC and the NFWA; and
WHEREAS, Known as a father of the West Coast labor
movement, Larry Itliong was a tireless labor organizer, community
leader and activist for social and economic justice; and
WHEREAS, Larry Itliong’s legacy is a source of pride for
Filipino-Americans, who constitute the largest segment of the
Asian-American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander population,
which is the fastest growing demographic group in the State of
Nevada and the United States; and
WHEREAS, The State of Nevada desires to recognize the many
contributions Larry Itliong made to the State of Nevada and the
United States; now, therefore,

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. Chapter 236 of NRS is hereby amended by adding
thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. The Governor shall annually proclaim October 25 to be
“Larry Itliong Day” in the State of Nevada.
2. The proclamation must call upon the news media,
educators, business and labor leaders and appropriate
governmental officers to bring to the attention of the residents of
Nevada the important contributions Larry Itliong made to the
State of Nevada and the United States.
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

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