NevadaAB33783rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET

AN ACT relating to dementia; requiring the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Health and Human Services to establish and administer a dementia care specialist program; setting forth certain requirements for the program; providing for the establishment of the Nevada Memory Network for the diagnosis of dementia and the care of patients with dementia; setting forth certain requirements for the Nevada Memory Network; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

Failed

BDR 38-456

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

More dementia support for Nevada families

Beginning July 1, 2025, Nevada's Aging and Disability Services Division must run a dementia care specialist program. It supports people with dementia, their families, and caregivers through crisis response, stabilization, and long-term care for behavioral problems. It provides information, education, and support to help people stay in their own homes or with family. It also promotes dementia-friendly communities, trains government agencies and nonprofits, and builds public awareness and support. The program must ensure access to translation and interpretation for people who cannot readily understand or communicate in English. Within available funding, the Division must seek proposals for specialist services from local government agencies or nonprofits. Within that funding, it must also partner or contract with an educational organization for specialist training and program evaluation.

Nevada allows a dementia care network

Beginning July 1, 2025, Nevada's medical schools in Las Vegas and Reno may establish the Nevada Memory Network. They must work with the state health department; the law allows, but does not require, the network's creation. If established, the network must run or contract with clinics that train primary care providers and evaluate patients they refer. Clinics must use physicians specializing in neurology, neuropsychology, and care for older adults. They must make care plans and use telehealth when necessary or convenient. The network must employ or contract with community health workers who specialize in dementia. It must also contract with community groups for crisis help, support for patients with behavioral problems, and other services.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

Actions Timeline

  1. (No further action taken.)

    6/3/2025House
  2. To committee.

    4/16/2025House
  3. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/16/2025House
  4. To printer.

    4/15/2025House
  5. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective.

    4/15/2025House
  6. Taken from General File.

    4/15/2025House
  7. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 186.)

    4/15/2025House
  8. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/14/2025House
  9. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    3/27/2025House
  10. From printer. To committee.

    3/4/2025House
  11. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.

    3/3/2025House

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