All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Sponsor information unavailable
Signed by Governor
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6 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
Beginning January 1, 2026, Nevada Medicaid covers testing, treatment, and prevention for sexually transmitted diseases, including syphilis, for all enrollees. Medicaid will pay separately for rapid or point-of-care syphilis tests used in prenatal care when federal matching funds are available. The state pays the nonfederal share and seeks any needed federal approval.
Beginning January 1, 2026, your prenatal care must include checks for syphilis. At your first visit, a blood sample is taken; testing also happens between weeks 27 and 36, and at delivery in some cases. Emergency rooms and clinics must ask if you are pregnant and make sure you get a syphilis test. If you have no history and were not tested in the last 3 months, they may use a rapid or point-of-care test; if you have a syphilis history, a standard blood test is required. If a test shows infection, your clinician must ask your consent and start treatment if able, or refer you for treatment. You may refuse blood draw or testing; the provider must not test and must record your refusal. Tests must be ones the State Board of Health recognizes.
Beginning January 1, 2026, rural clinics owned or run by the state or a local government are exempt from the facility testing and written policy rules. If you use one of these clinics, it does not have to perform the onsite test or keep the policy this law requires of other facilities.
Beginning January 1, 2026, hospitals with emergency or labor units and non-hospital clinics must write a policy to follow the syphilis testing rules. The policy must include how to record refusals and follow consent law and clinical advice that does not conflict. Breaking these rules can lead to license denial, suspension, or revocation. The state can also order fixes and fine a facility up to $5,000 per day for each violation, plus interest.
Beginning January 1, 2026, syphilis tests done in state laboratories are free. If your sample is tested in a state lab, you are not charged for the test.
Beginning January 1, 2026, the usual state rule that limits extra local government costs does not apply to this law. Local governments may have to pay new expenses to carry it out.
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All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/21/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
House vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Chapter 126.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
In Assembly. To enrollment.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
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 Health and Human Services. 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: 42, Nays: None.)
Dispensed with reprinting.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 183.)
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Notice of eligibility for exemption.
From printer. To committee.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.
As Enrolled
As Introduced
Reprint 1
SB119 — AN ACT relating to economic development; requiring certain reporting relating to the NV Grow Program; requiring the Division of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development of the College of Southern Nevada to develop, create and oversee the Program; revising certain qualifications for a business to participate in the Program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB12 — AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; revising requirements for obtaining judicial review of a decision of the Board of Review concerning a claim for unemployment benefits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB460 — AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions governing plans to improve academic achievement; providing for the waiver of certain reporting requirements; revising provisions governing the annual report of accountability for a school district; revising the duties of the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education; providing for the impaneling of a Public Education Oversight Board; revising provisions governing boards of trustees of certain school districts; establishing certain measures for the designation of focus and priority school districts, sponsors of charter schools and public schools; revising provisions governing the Commission on School Funding; revising provisions governing the Early Childhood Literacy and Readiness Account; revising provisions governing prekindergarten programs; revising provisions governing assessments used to assess the literacy of certain pupils; revising provisions governing membership of the State Public Charter School Authority; revising provisions governing the formation of charter schools, the termination and amendment of charter contracts and the employment of teachers by charter schools; revising provisions governing the Nevada Educational Choice Scholarship Program; revising certain provisions governing instruction in English language arts; creating the Commission on Recruitment and Retention; revising provisions relating to the Commission on Professional Standards in Education; revising provisions governing background investigations of applicants for certain licenses; establishing requirements governing the hiring of a superintendent of schools; revising provisions governing certain evaluations; requiring the creation of a differential pay scale for certain teachers and administrators; creating the Education Service Center; establishing certain requirements for the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada; creating certain accounts and programs concerning teacher apprenticeships; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB81 — AN ACT relating to education; requiring the Department of Education to create and conduct certain surveys of public school employees; revising provisions governing the reimbursement of certain hospitals or other facilities that provide educational services; revising terminology related to services provided to certain students; revising various reporting requirements relating to education; revising provisions governing the authority of the State Board of Education; revising provisions governing the ratios of pupils to licensed teachers; eliminating certain audits of empowerment schools; revising provisions governing the licensure of administrators; repealing provisions governing the Nevada Teacher Advancement Scholarship Program and the Incentivizing Pathways to Teaching Grant Program; revising provisions governing certain scholarship and grant programs for students in education and related fields of study; requiring the Department to create a program of block grants for such scholarship and grant programs; eliminating provisions requiring the Department to recommend that a minimum amount be spent by public schools on textbooks and other instructional supplies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB494 — AN ACT relating to state government; creating the Nevada Health Authority; creating certain divisions and offices within the Authority; providing for the appointment of officers and the employment of staff for the Authority; establishing requirements governing procurement by the Authority; creating the Nevada Health Authority Gift Fund; prescribing the duties of the Authority and its divisions and officers; transferring to the Authority the responsibility for operating various programs and administering various provisions; revising the name of certain agencies; revising certain terminology; eliminating the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services; revising provisions governing the operation of the Public Employees' Benefits Program and Medicaid; requiring certain reporting on the costs of health insurance for retired state employees; authorizing the Authority to require the reporting of certain information on the cost of certain prescription drugs; revising the membership and duties of the Board of Directors of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange; providing for a study of opportunities for the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to directly contract with certain providers of health care; providing for a study of and the development of a plan to transfer certain additional functions to the Authority; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB502 — AN ACT relating to projects of capital improvement; authorizing certain expenditures for certain projects of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the State Government; levying a property tax to support the Consolidated Bond Interest and Redemption Fund; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
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