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NevadaAB26983rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET
AN ACT relating to education; revising provisions relating to the Student Loan Repayment for Providers of Health Care in Underserved Communities Program; renaming the Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Sponsor information unavailable
Signed by Governor
BDR 18-618
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Loan repayment capped at $120,000
Beginning October 1, 2025, the most any one person can receive from this program is $120,000 total. This is a lifetime maximum per participant.
Clear rules, privacy, and oversight for applicants
Beginning October 1, 2025, the State Treasurer runs the program and must ensure recipients serve underserved communities. The Treasurer must set rules on who qualifies and how much is repaid, using a sliding scale based on specialty, degree, and average loan burden. The Treasurer also sets prioritization rules, decides which areas qualify, and names hard‑to‑fill public health jobs with advice from the State Board of Health. Applications and personal data are confidential. The program’s name now clearly includes public health professionals.
More health workers qualify for loan help
Beginning October 1, 2025, more professions can get state help repaying student loans. Added jobs include speech-language pathologists; physical and occupational therapists; marriage and family therapists; clinical alcohol and drug counselors and alcohol and drug counselors; assistant and full behavior analysts; and certified problem gambling counselors. Doulas qualify if enrolled with Nevada Medicaid to receive reimbursement. Public health workers also qualify, including the Chief Medical Officer, county or district health officers, and certain Division of Public and Behavioral Health or local health board staff named by rule. To get help, you must live in Nevada, hold an active Nevada license (or be a public health professional), and agree to work at least five years in an underserved area such as a qualified census tract, a high Social Vulnerability Index tract, a community where at least 20% of households are not proficient in English, tribal lands, an area the Treasurer identifies as historically redlined, or a county with under 100,000 people.
Priority for primary care and rural areas
Beginning October 1, 2025, at least 15% of each year’s funds must repay loans for providers who work in Nevada counties with fewer than 100,000 people, if eligible participants are available. The rest is prioritized for primary care providers and for providers who agree to accept Medicaid or CHIP patients. Primary care means family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, psychiatry, or obstetrics and gynecology.
Dedicated funding to keep program running
Beginning October 1, 2025, Nevada creates a dedicated account in the State General Fund for this program, run by the State Treasurer. Money can come from the Legislature, transfers from other accounts (including the Abandoned Property Trust Account), and other sources, plus gifts and grants. Funds can only be used to run the program and repay eligible loans. Interest stays in the account and any leftover money carries forward each year.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
There is no primary sponsor on record.
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/22/2025
Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
House vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 40 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Chapter 243.
6/3/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/3/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
5/29/2025legislatureSenate Amendment No. 695 concurred in. To enrollment.
5/27/2025HouseIn Assembly.
5/26/2025HouseFrom printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.
5/23/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.
5/22/2025SenateReprinting dispensed with.
5/21/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 695.)
5/21/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/21/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/21/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To committee.
4/29/2025SenateIn Senate.
4/28/2025SenateTo Senate.
4/25/2025HouseFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
4/25/2025HouseTo printer.
4/22/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 2.)
4/22/2025HouseDispensed with reprinting.
4/21/2025HouseRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 13.)
4/21/2025HousePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/21/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/21/2025HouseFrom printer. To committee.
2/21/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.
2/20/2025House
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