All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor
Signed by Governor
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7 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
If your plan covers treatment by a licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor, you or the counselor are entitled to reimbursement. With an assignment of benefits, the counselor can be paid directly. Applies to insurance and HMO coverage. Starts January 1, 2026.
You can assign your health benefits to your provider. Nonprofit service plans and HMOs must pay the provider directly. Paying the provider counts as full payment by the plan. If they paid you by mistake after getting the assignment, they must pay the provider when told. Starts January 1, 2026.
If your plan covers podiatry or chiropractic care, you or the provider are entitled to reimbursement. Plans cannot limit covered visits for these providers below other physicians. Plans cannot pay them less than for similar doctor services. This applies to insurance policies and HMO evidence of coverage. Starts January 1, 2026.
If your plan covers care by a licensed marriage and family therapist, clinical professional counselor, or licensed social worker, you or the provider are entitled to reimbursement. The service must be within the provider’s licensed scope. Starts January 1, 2026.
When a covered service is provided by a listed licensed provider, you or that provider are entitled to reimbursement. Listed providers include acupuncturists, psychologists, therapists, social workers, podiatrists, chiropractors, clinical alcohol and drug counselors, and certain registered nurses. Applies across individual and group policies, nonprofit service contracts, and HMO plans. Starts January 1, 2026.
If your plan covers services by a registered nurse allowed to perform additional acts, you or the nurse are entitled to reimbursement. Plans cannot limit visits or pay these nurses less than other providers for similar services. Plans and employers do not have to pay for duplicate services by an RN. Applies to insurance, HMO plans, and employer benefits. Starts January 1, 2026.
The law takes effect January 1, 2026. Health plans and employers must follow these rules starting then.
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All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/22/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
House vote • 4/16/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (As Introduced)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Chapter 308.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
Senate Amendment No. 589 concurred in. To enrollment.
In Assembly.
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Assembly.
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.
Reprinting dispensed with.
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 589.)
Placed on Second Reading File.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
In Senate.
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
Read second time.
From committee: Do pass.
From printer. To committee.
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.
As Enrolled
As Introduced
Reprint 1
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.
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.
AB514, AN ACT relating to mental health; requiring Medicaid to provide coverage for rehabilitative residential mental health care; requiring the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman to investigate and provide certain assistance to providers of rehabilitative residential mental health care; providing for the licensure and regulation of providers of rehabilitative residential mental health care; making appropriations to and authorizing certain expenditures by the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.