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: Reuben D'Silva (Democratic)

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 relief expands to public health

The state loan repayment program now covers public health professionals as well as health care providers. You must live in Nevada, have an active license or work in public health, and commit to five straight years in Nevada. Your service must be in one or more qualifying areas, like high‑vulnerability census tracts, tribal communities, places with many non‑English households, areas with documented past discrimination, or counties under 100,000 people. These rules take effect October 1, 2025.

Loan repayment capped at $120,000

The program limits your total lifetime loan repayment to $120,000. If you qualify for more, you still receive no more than $120,000. This cap applies beginning October 1, 2025.

Priority for primary care and Medicaid

At least 15% of program funds each year go to providers who work in counties with under 100,000 people, if applicants are available. The Treasurer also gives priority to primary care fields (family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology). Providers who agree to accept Medicaid or CHIP patients get higher priority. These rules start October 1, 2025.

State account funds loan repayments

The state creates an account to hold money for this loan repayment program. Money can come from the state budget, transfers (including the Abandoned Property Trust Account), gifts, grants, and bequests. The account pays awards and program costs, earns interest, and does not revert at year‑end. This starts October 1, 2025.

Treasurer sets rules and priorities

The State Treasurer runs the program and adopts rules starting October 1, 2025. The rules use a sliding scale based on specialty, degree, and average loan size to set award amounts. The Treasurer also defines how to find underserved areas and names hard‑to‑fill public health jobs using State Board of Health findings on turnover and vacancies. The Treasurer works with schools, professions, tribes, and groups to promote the program.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Reuben D'Silva

    Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 61 • No: 2

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

  1. Chapter 243.

    6/3/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    6/3/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/29/2025legislature
  4. Senate Amendment No. 695 concurred in. To enrollment.

    5/27/2025House
  5. In Assembly.

    5/26/2025House
  6. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.

    5/23/2025Senate
  7. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.

    5/22/2025Senate
  8. Reprinting dispensed with.

    5/21/2025Senate
  9. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 695.)

    5/21/2025Senate
  10. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/21/2025Senate
  11. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/21/2025Senate
  12. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To committee.

    4/29/2025Senate
  13. In Senate.

    4/28/2025Senate
  14. To Senate.

    4/25/2025House
  15. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/25/2025House
  16. To printer.

    4/22/2025House
  17. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 2.)

    4/22/2025House
  18. Dispensed with reprinting.

    4/21/2025House
  19. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 13.)

    4/21/2025House
  20. Placed on Second Reading File.

    4/21/2025House
  21. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/21/2025House
  22. From printer. To committee.

    2/21/2025House
  23. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Government Affairs. To printer.

    2/20/2025House

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