All Roll Calls
Yes: 59 • No: 4
Sponsored By: Cecelia González (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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8 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 6 mixed.
Starting Jan 1, 2026, audiologists can select, program, dispense, and order hearing aids and implantable hearing devices, and provide training and rehab. The law clarifies what fitting and dispensing covers, including tests, earmold impressions, ordering, post‑fit help, and repairs. Speech‑language pathologists can use rigid oral endoscopy, flexible nasal endoscopy, and stroboscopy, and can fit some prosthetic or adaptive devices (not hearing devices).
Starting Jan 1, 2026, school districts add 5% to a speech‑language pathologist’s pay if proof of licensure or the ASHA certificate is filed by Sept 15 and the employee is assigned as an SLP that year. If proof comes after Sept 15, no increase is required for that year. Staff with a Department of Education endorsement issued by Sept 30, 2026 must be classified like licensed SLPs in renewed labor deals. DOE‑endorsed staff who only practice within that endorsement and do not hold a Board license are exempt from the Board’s chapter.
Beginning Jan 1, 2026, licensed providers can sell hearing aids by catalog, mail, or online if the buyer signs a notice. Sellers must keep a record of each sale for at least 5 years. The Board may set what must be recorded. The law also says OTC hearing aids under 21 C.F.R. § 800.30 are not regulated as “hearing aids” under this chapter.
Beginning Jan 1, 2026, most speech‑language pathologists must hold the ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC‑SLP). The Board may issue provisional licenses to SLPs in their clinical fellowship and to out‑of‑state hearing‑aid providers who still need on‑site training. Provisional licenses can be renewed up to two times and convert to full licenses after you pay the conversion fee and show proof you finished the requirement. For licensure by endorsement, the Board must ask for any missing items within 15 business days and issue the license within 45 days unless there is good cause to deny. You must already hold a valid, unrestricted license in D.C. or another state.
Starting Jan 1, 2026, you can qualify to fit and sell hearing aids with current NBC‑HIS certification, plus the state exam. The Board must set training rules that include on‑site training, work experience, exams, and in‑service programs. Apprentices must be directly supervised, and sponsors must approve and sign hearing aid choices, audiograms, and sales papers. Sponsors are civilly liable for an apprentice’s negligence and must be a licensed hearing aid specialist or audiologist.
Beginning Jan 1, 2026, fee caps are higher: application $300, license $200, renewal $200, reinstatement $300, exam $500, and license information $200. Fees are paid in advance. Active service members, spouses, veterans, surviving spouses of veterans, and certain family members pay no more than one‑half of the initial issuance fee. The Board can waive fees in some cases.
Beginning Jan 1, 2026, a new license lets people work as speech‑language pathology assistants. You qualify with a bachelor’s or master’s in the field, or with a Department of Education endorsement issued by Sept 30, 2026. Assistants, provisional licensees, and students must work under a supervising speech‑language pathologist. Students must be in an accredited SLP program. The Board will set rules for direct, indirect, and tele‑supervision.
Beginning Jan 1, 2026, a seven‑member Board is appointed: three SLPs from different settings, two audiologists, one hearing aid specialist, and one public member. Pros must have 3 years of recent practice and a current license; terms are three years with a two‑term limit. Licensees can be disciplined for named federal and state violations. Three prior statutes (NRS 637B.042, 637B.204, 637B.205) are repealed on Jan 1, 2026.
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Cecelia González
Democratic • House
Tracy Brown-May
Democratic • House
All Roll Calls
Yes: 59 • No: 4
Senate vote • 5/21/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 19 • No: 2
House vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 40 • No: 2
Chapter 76.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
In Assembly. To enrollment.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 19, Nays: 2.) To Assembly.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Read second time.
From committee: Do pass.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
In Senate.
To Senate.
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
To printer.
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 2.)
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Dispensed with reprinting.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 155.)
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Read first time. To committee.
From printer.
Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.
As Enrolled
As Introduced
Reprint 1
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