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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 4–SENATORS CANNIZZARO, SEEVERS
GANSERT; BUCK, DALY, DONATE, DONDERO LOOP,
FLORES, GOICOECHEA, HAMMOND, HANSEN, D. HARRIS,
KRASNER, LANGE, NEAL, NGUYEN, OHRENSCHALL,
PAZINA, SCHEIBLE, SPEARMAN, STONE AND TITUS
MAY 11, 2023
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Read and Adopted
SUMMARY—Inducts Richard Bryan into the Senate Hall of Fame.
(BDR R-1196)
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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
SENATE RESOLUTION—Inducting Richard Bryan into the Senate
Hall of Fame.
WHEREAS, The Senate of the Legislature of the State of Nevada 1
has established a Senate Hall of Fame whose members are selected 2
by leadership from those past Senators who have served with 3
distinction and who have made exemplary contributions to the State 4
of Nevada; and 5
WHEREAS, Richard Hudson Bryan was born in Washington, 6
D.C. but moved at a very young age with his family to Las Vegas, 7
where he graduated from Las Vegas High School; and 8
WHEREAS, Richard received his bachelor of arts degree from the 9
University of Nevada, Reno, and his bachelor of laws degree from 10
the University of California, Hastings College of the Law; and 11
WHEREAS, Richard served as a Second Lieutenant in the United 12
States Army, and became a Captain in the Army Reserve, where he 13
served in the Judge Advocate General Corps; and 14
WHEREAS, In 1966, Richard was appointed to the position of 15
Clark County Public Defender, the youngest Public Defender in the 16
nation at the time; and 17
WHEREAS, In 1968, Richard was elected to the Nevada 18
Assembly and in 1972, he was elected to the Nevada Senate, serving 19
4 years in the Assembly and 6 years in the Senate; and 20
WHEREAS, During his 10 years as a Legislator, Richard served 21
as the Chair of the Senate Education and Senate Taxation 22
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Committees, and helped pass the Corporate Gaming Act, which 1
expanded the gaming industry in this State; and 2
WHEREAS, After completing his legislative service in 1978, 3
Richard was elected Nevada Attorney General, where he worked to 4
remove organized crime from Nevada’s gaming industry; and 5
WHEREAS, In 1982, Richard was elected as the 25th Governor 6
of Nevada, where he prioritized diversifying Nevada’s economy and 7
attracting new businesses to the State, and served as President of the 8
Council of State Governments; and 9
WHEREAS, Richard was elected as a United States Senator 10
where he served until 2001, and during his tenure he passed the 11
Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act and lead the fight 12
against the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump; and 13
WHEREAS, Richard will be remembered for his resounding 14
integrity, support of Nevada’s gaming industry, and longstanding 15
friendship with former Senator Harry Reid; now, therefore, be it 16
RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, That, for 17
his many years of devoted service to the State of Nevada as a 18
member of both the Nevada Senate and Assembly, as the Nevada 19
Attorney General, the Governor of Nevada, and as a member of the 20
United States Senate, Richard Hudson Bryan is hereby inducted into 21
the Senate Hall of Fame of the Legislature of the State of Nevada; 22
and be it further 23
RESOLVED, That this resolution becomes effective upon 24
adoption. 25
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