A version of this article first appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal on March 24, 2001.

For more than 60 years beginning in 1929, Nevada's state flag had a design that the Legislature did not adopt.

Legislative sessions sometimes exceeded the then-constitutional provision for 60 days in which the legislators would be paid. A hurried amendment to the bill changing the position of the name "Nevada" on the proposed flag was misplaced in the final hours of the session.

Apparently nobody knew of the snafu until researcher Dana Bennett of the Legislative Council Bureau, State Archivist Guy Rocha and staff at the State Library and Archives made the discovery in advance of a bill modifying the design of the flag in 1991. SB 396 sponsored by Washoe County Sen. Bill Raggio for the Director of Gen

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