All Roll Calls
Yes: 62 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Tracy Brown-May (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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5 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
When the independent review overturns your insurer’s denial, the insurer must approve and cover the service right away. If the insurer failed to send records on time and the reviewer reverses the denial for that reason, the reviewer must promptly tell you, the insurer, and the state office and explain why.
Dental-only insurance now uses the same complaint and external review rules as medical plans. Your dentist can file an external review for you within 4 months of a denial. Denial letters must say that a dentist, not just a doctor, can certify urgency for a faster review. Dentists count as your treating provider and as clinical peers in the review. The review organization must notify your dentist of needed info and send any dentist records to the insurer within 1 business day.
After you ask for external review, your insurer must do a first check in 5 business days and tell you and the state office the result within 1 business day. If the insurer says your request is ineligible, the Office for Consumer Health Assistance can still decide it is eligible and send it to review. If eligible, the Office assigns a qualified review organization at random, tells you and the insurer, and gives you 5 business days to add more records. The insurer must quickly send all records it used to deny care; if it fails, the reviewer may reverse the denial. The reviewer picks expert clinicians, gets their opinions (for standard cases, within 20 days), and decides by majority. Decisions must be based on your records, evidence-based medicine, peer‑reviewed research, expert opinions, and your plan’s benefit terms.
If your plan says a treatment is experimental or investigational, you have 4 months from the denial to ask for external review. You can make an oral expedited request when your doctor or dentist certifies in writing that delay would make the treatment less effective. The Office for Consumer Health Assistance must tell the insurer right away when you request an expedited review.
A managed care plan may deny a service only if a Nevada-licensed doctor or dentist makes the decision. That clinician must have the right training for your condition and must review your records. This can make some denials more likely to stand.
Tracy Brown-May
Democratic • House
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
All Roll Calls
Yes: 62 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/19/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 20 • No: 0
House vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Chapter 23.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
In Assembly. To enrollment.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.
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. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.)
Dispensed with reprinting.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 42.)
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
From printer. To committee.
To printer.
Read first time.
Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor.
Prefiled.
As Enrolled
As Introduced
Reprint 1
AB188, AN ACT relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program; requiring the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to report certain information relating to the costs of health insurance for certain retirees; revising provisions relating to the subsidy paid for certain health and welfare benefits for certain state employees who have retired with state service; revising requirements for certain retired public officers and employees to reinstate insurance under the Program; revising provisions relating to certain subsidies paid to the Program for the 2025-2027 biennium; requiring the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Government Affairs to conduct an interim study on the Program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
SB217, AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting a governmental entity from substantially burdening certain activity relating to assisted reproduction under certain circumstances; authorizing a person whose engagement in such activity has been so burdened to assert the violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding; authorizing a court to award damages against a governmental entity that substantially burdens such activity in certain circumstances; providing certain immunity from civil and criminal liability and administrative sanctions for certain persons and entities involved in the provision of assisted reproduction; providing that a fertilized egg or human embryo that exists before implantation in a human uterus is not a person for legal purposes; requiring certain health insurers to authorize a pregnant person to enroll in a health plan during a specified period; requiring certain public and private health insurers to provide certain coverage for the treatment of infertility and fertility preservation; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB499, AN ACT relating to elections; requiring, with certain exceptions, a registered voter show photo identification to vote in person; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles, under certain circumstances, to issue identification cards at no charge; requiring the Secretary of State to issue digital identification cards; requiring a county clerk in certain counties to establish a certain number of locations for a voter to return his or her mail ballot to a mail ballot drop box during the period between the last day for early voting and the day before the date of the general election; authorizing a county clerk in certain counties to establish such locations; authorizing a person, under certain circumstances, to return a mail ballot to a mail ballot drop box established at such a location on behalf of a voter; requiring the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a voter services portal on the Internet website of the Office of the Secretary of State; requiring the county clerk to include certain information relating to the voter services portal on any communication to a registered voter; requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles to submit electronically to the Secretary of State certain information relating to each person who has a driver's license or identification card issued by the Department; requiring the Secretary of State to include certain information received from the Department in the centralized, top-down database that is established by the Secretary of State for purposes of creating the statewide voter registration list; requiring certain information to be included on the return envelope for a mail ballot; revising provisions relating to curing mail ballots; requiring mail ballot drop boxes to be monitored and secured; providing that certain information on the statewide voter registration list relating to a voter is confidential and not a public record; making various other changes relating to elections; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB397, AN ACT relating to higher education; revising provisions governing certain waivers of fees provided by the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada; revising the criteria of eligibility for a waiver of fees by the Board of Regents for certain persons who are or were unaccompanied for a certain period of time; revising the criteria of eligibility for a waiver of fees by the Board of Regents for certain Native American students; providing for the continuity of waivers previously provided for certain Native American students; repealing certain provisions requiring the Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education to cause to be analyzed certain natural materials upon the request of a resident of this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB259, AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain actions related to pricing and reimbursement for certain drugs; creating a cause of action for violating such prohibitions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
AB234, AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring Medicaid to provide coverage for screening for certain forms of cancer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.