All Roll Calls
Yes: 62 • No: 1
NevadaAB24883rd Regular Session (2025)House
AN ACT relating to physical therapy; enacting and entering into the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact; authorizing the sharing of certain information with the data system created pursuant to the Compact; providing a person practicing as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant under the Compact with the same legal status as a person practicing as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant under a license issued by the Nevada Physical Therapy Board; revising certain terminology relating to physical therapists; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Elaine H. Marzola (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
BDR 54-566
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
6 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 5 mixed.
Work across states for PTs and PTAs
Nevada joins the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact. If you hold an active, unencumbered home‑state license, you can get a compact privilege to practice in other member states. Nevada treats a compact privilege like a Nevada license. Your compact privilege lasts until your home‑state license expires. Active‑duty service members and spouses may choose their home state for Compact purposes.
FBI checks and shared licensing data
Applicants must submit fingerprints or other biometrics for an FBI background check. The Nevada Physical Therapy Board joins the Compact’s data system and shares license, denial, and adverse‑action records. Investigative records are shared only among member states, and expunged state records must be removed from the system. In Nevada, complaints and investigation files stay confidential unless an exception applies; charging papers and final orders are public and can be shared. The Board must keep a complaint process, use the national exam, and require continuing competence for renewal.
Rules to keep your Compact privilege
To use a compact privilege, you must have a home‑state license with no encumbrance and no adverse action in the past 2 years. You must notify the Commission, pay required fees, meet any state law test, and report non‑member‑state discipline within 30 days. Remote states can enforce their laws, remove your privilege, fine you, and bar you in all states until the removal period ends and fines are paid. If your home license is encumbered, you lose all privileges until it is clear and 2 years pass. If any state removes your privilege, you lose it everywhere until the set time ends, fines are paid, and 2 years have passed. States can run joint investigations, issue subpoenas, and sometimes bill you for costs.
How the Compact is run and funded
The Compact creates a Commission of member states to run the system. An Executive Board of nine oversees rules, fees, and budgets. The Commission makes rules with at least 30 days’ public notice and must hold a hearing if 25 people or a qualified group ask. Some meetings may be closed for sensitive topics; sealed minutes can be opened only by vote or court order. The Commission funds itself with state assessments or fees and must have an annual audit. Members and staff have legal protection unless they act with willful or wanton misconduct. States must enforce the Compact; noncompliant states can be terminated and may be sued in federal court, and they still owe prior obligations. The Compact’s powers begin once the tenth state joins; a state can withdraw, effective six months after repeal.
Display, supervision, and $25 name‑change fee
Physical therapists must display a Nevada license or proof of Compact authorization where patients can see it. A physical therapist assistant’s license is valid only while a supervising therapist is in place. The Board may charge up to $25 to change the name on a license.
When these PT changes start
The law takes effect on July 1, 2025. Starting then, the Compact, data‑sharing, and Nevada practice changes apply.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Elaine H. Marzola
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/21/2025
Final Passage - Senate (As Introduced)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
House vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (As Introduced)
Yes: 41 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
Chapter 120.
5/29/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
5/29/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
5/27/2025legislatureIn Assembly. To enrollment.
5/22/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
5/21/2025SenateTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/20/2025SenateRead second time.
5/19/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass.
5/16/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
4/23/2025SenateIn Senate.
4/23/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.) To Senate.
4/22/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/21/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/18/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/17/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/16/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/15/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/14/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/10/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/7/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/3/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
3/31/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
3/27/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
3/26/2025HouseRead second time.
3/25/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass.
3/24/2025House
Bill Text
As Enrolled
As Introduced
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