# Nevada AB522: AN ACT relating to health care; requiring health insurers to allow the covered adult child of an insured to remain covered by the health insurance of the insured until 26 years of age; requiring health insurers to provide coverage for certain preventive health care for children, persons who are pregnant, women and adults; prohibiting insurers from imposing certain costs and taking other actions with respect to certain preventive health care; requiring health insurers to provide coverage for screenings for colorectal cancer; requiring health insurers to provide coverage for maternity and newborn care; prohibiting health insurers and providers of health care from engaging in certain discriminatory actions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Nevada AB522, AN ACT relating to health care; requiring health insurers to allow the covered adult child of an insured to remain covered by the health insurance of the insured until 26 years of age; requiring health insurers to provide coverage for certain preventive health care for children, persons who are pregnant, women and adults; prohibiting insurers from imposing certain costs and taking other actions with respect to certain preventive health care; requiring health insurers to provide coverage for screenings for colorectal cancer; requiring health insurers to provide coverage for maternity and newborn care; prohibiting health insurers and providers of health care from engaging in certain discriminatory actions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto., is a 83rd Regular Session (2025) House bill sponsored by Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services; status failed, last action 2025-06-03 ((No further action taken.)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-01). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB522-83rd2025 - As of: 2026-11-01 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Nevada AB522 - State: Nevada - Session: 83rd Regular Session (2025) - Title: AN ACT relating to health care; requiring health insurers to allow the covered adult child of an insured to remain covered by the health insurance of the insured until 26 years of age; requiring health insurers to provide coverage for certain preventive health care for children, persons who are pregnant, women and adults; prohibiting insurers from imposing certain costs and taking other actions with respect to certain preventive health care; requiring health insurers to provide coverage for screenings for colorectal cancer; requiring health insurers to provide coverage for maternity and newborn care; prohibiting health insurers and providers of health care from engaging in certain discriminatory actions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. - Status: failed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-03-24 - Last action: 2025-06-03, (No further action taken.) - Sponsor: Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: BDR 57-1135 - Touches household money: yes - Economic provisions PRIA read: 24 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Families gain maternity and newborn protections: benefit, high. Individual health benefit plans and society contracts delivered, issued, or renewed from October 1, 2025 must cover maternity and newborn care. Individual, group, and society coverage generally cannot limit childbirth hospital benefits below 48 hours after vaginal birth or 96 hours after cesarean b… - Medicaid covers more adult preventive care: benefit, high. Beginning October 1, 2025, Nevada Medicaid's preventive package includes heart-risk counseling, tuberculosis screening for people at increased risk, and adult drug and alcohol screening. Alcohol-reduction counseling is covered after a screening shows risky or hazardous drinking. Statins are covered… - Medicaid protects childbirth and newborn care: benefit, high. Beginning October 1, 2025, Nevada Medicaid must cover maternity and newborn pediatric care to the extent federal financial participation is available. Medicaid generally cannot limit childbirth hospital stays to less than 48 hours after vaginal delivery or 96 hours after cesarean delivery. The spec… - Parent plans cover children until 26: benefit, high. Nevada insurers offering dependent-child coverage must keep it available until the child turns 26. The law does not require coverage for that adult child's dependents. Beginning October 1, 2025, this requirement also applies to Nevada managed care organizations offering dependent-child coverage. - Young adults keep parents’ health coverage: benefit, high. Nevada plans that cover dependent children must keep coverage available to an insured parent’s adult child until their 26th birthday. This applies to group insurance, health benefit plans, hospital or medical services corporation policies, and health maintenance organization plans. The law does not… - Adults gain screening and prevention coverage: benefit, medium. These requirements apply to health benefit plans and society contracts delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed from October 1, 2025. Plans must cover cardiovascular-risk counseling, tuberculosis screening, and the listed adult prevention services. Preventive statins cover ages 40–75 without past… - Children gain more covered preventive care: benefit, medium. Covered insurer policies, health benefit plans, society contracts, and corporation policies delivered, issued, or renewed from October 1, 2025 must include child preventive services. These include anxiety screening at ages 8–18 and growth and medical-history assessments for children under 18. Inten… - Children gain preventive care coverage: benefit, medium. These requirements apply to group policies delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after October 1, 2025. Plans must cover anxiety screening at ages 8–18 and growth and medical-history checks for children under 18. Ages 12–18 receive intensive behavioral interventions when body mass index… - Families gain breastfeeding and preventive benefits: benefit, medium. Group policies, society contracts, and hospital or medical service contracts delivered, issued, or renewed from October 1, 2025 must cover listed preventive care. Group and society benefits include breastfeeding counseling, support, and supplies for up to one year, including medically necessary bre… - Gestational carriers keep maternity coverage protections: benefit, medium. Nevada insurers, societies, and hospital or medical service contracts cannot deny or limit maternity care because someone is a gestational carrier. They also cannot demand repayment for that care based on carrier status. For health insurance policies and hospital or medical service contracts, the c… - Health plans cover colorectal cancer screening: benefit, medium. Policies, health benefit plans, and society contracts delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed from October 1, 2025 must cover colorectal screening. Screening must follow American Cancer Society guidelines or qualifying national professional guidelines or reports backed by current scientific data… - Health plans expand sexual health coverage: benefit, medium. Insurer policies, health benefit plans, corporation policies, and HMOs delivered, issued, or renewed from October 1, 2025 must cover sexually transmitted disease services. Testing, treatment, and prevention are covered at any age. Listed infections include chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, HIV, and h… - Intended parents gain child coverage recognition: benefit, medium. When an insured person serves as a gestational carrier, the child is treated as the intended parent’s child for benefit-contract purposes. This establishes the child’s relationship to the intended parent under the contract. It does not create a separate payment or an independent coverage guarantee. - Medicaid expands sexual and women's care: benefit, medium. Beginning October 1, 2025, Nevada Medicaid covers sexually transmitted disease testing, treatment, and prevention, including care for chlamydia. Condoms are covered for recipients of any age. Medicaid cannot add higher deductibles, copays, coinsurance, longer waits, or other conditions for these be… - More pregnancy and women’s preventive coverage: benefit, medium. These requirements apply to covered group policies, health benefit plans, and society contracts issued, delivered, or renewed from October 1, 2025. Plans must cover listed pregnancy, postpartum, newborn, and women’s preventive services. Coverage includes daily folic acid of 0.4–0.8 milligrams for p… - More preventive and reproductive care coverage: benefit, medium. These requirements apply to Nevada health insurance policies delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after October 1, 2025. Plans must cover listed prenatal screenings, blood pressure and diabetes checks, cervical cancer screening, anxiety and HIV screening, and recommended vaccines. Cover… - More preventive care coverage for adults: benefit, medium. Nevada insurers must cover listed adult preventive services for policies delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed starting October 1, 2025. Covered care includes heart-risk counseling, blood pressure screening, and latent tuberculosis screening for people at increased risk. Preventive statins are… - Patients gain stronger health discrimination protections: benefit, medium. Nevada insurers, group plans, HMOs, societies, and hospital or medical services corporations cannot make discriminatory enrollment, coverage, premium, or payment decisions. Protected traits include actual or perceived race, color, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identit… - Pregnant patients gain easier infection testing: benefit, medium. From October 1, 2025, newly delivered, issued, or renewed insurer, society, corporation, and HMO coverage must include listed pregnancy infection tests. Tests cover chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis B and C, syphilis, and HIV. Covered providers, facilities, and labs can be outside the network, and pr… - Women gain inherited cancer risk testing: benefit, medium. Health benefit plans and HMOs delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed from October 1, 2025 must cover required BRCA services. These include screening, genetic counseling, and testing for harmful inherited gene changes. Coverage applies to women eligible under Nevada's BRCA coverage law, NRS 457.… - Women gain pregnancy and preventive coverage: benefit, medium. Insurer and hospital or medical services corporation policies delivered, issued, or renewed from October 1, 2025 must cover listed pregnancy and women's preventive care. Folic acid coverage is 0.4–0.8 milligrams daily for people pregnant or planning pregnancy. Low-dose aspirin starts after 12 weeks… - Nevada strengthens health insurance oversight: benefit, low. Nevada’s insurance commissioner can require specified Nevada standards for policies Nevada-based insurers issue to residents of another state. This authority applies when the other state’s insurance officer says the policy is outside that officer’s approval or disapproval authority. Beginning Octob… - Local governments receive health-cost rule exemption: benefit, low. Beginning October 1, 2025, NRS 354.599 does not apply to local governments’ added expenses related to this law. The exemption changes how those expenses are treated under that statute. It specifies no appropriation, dollar amount, or direct household payment. - Inherited cancer coverage date moves later: cost, low. The rule treating required BRCA screening, genetic counseling, and testing as included in a policy now uses October 1, 2025. That replaces the January 1, 2022 applicability date for policies delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed. The underlying services remain tied to Nevada's BRCA coverage re… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services ## Actions (12) - 2025-06-03: (No further action taken.) (House) - 2025-04-24: To committee. (House) - 2025-04-24: From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. (House) - 2025-04-21: To printer. (House) - 2025-04-21: Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. (House) - 2025-04-21: Taken from General File. (House) - 2025-04-21: Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 456.) (House) - 2025-04-21: Placed on Second Reading File. (House) - 2025-04-21: From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (House) - 2025-04-21: Notice of eligibility for exemption. (House) - 2025-03-26: From printer. To committee. (House) - 2025-03-24: Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer. (House) ## Bill text - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB522.pdf) - Reprint 1: [PDF](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB522_R1.pdf) ## Related bills - AB499: AN ACT relating to elections; requiring, with certain exceptions, a registered voter show photo identification to vote in person; requiring the Department of M… (vetoed) - 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; revisi… (vetoed) - 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 su… (vetoed) - AB188: AN ACT relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program; requiring the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to report certain information relating… (vetoed) - SB217: AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting a governmental entity from substantially burdening certain activity relating to assisted reproduction under certain… (vetoed) - AB514: AN ACT relating to mental health; requiring Medicaid to provide coverage for rehabilitative residential mental health care; requiring the State Long-Term Care… (signed) ## Sources - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB522.pdf) - [Reprint 1 (PDF)](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB522_R1.pdf) ## Related - [AB499: AN ACT relating to elections; requiring, with certain exceptions, a registered…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB499-83rd2025) - [AB397: AN ACT relating to higher education; revising provisions governing certain waiv…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB397-83rd2025) - [AB259: AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain actions related to pricing…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB259-83rd2025) - [AB188: AN ACT relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program; requiring the Board…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB188-83rd2025) - [SB217: AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting a governmental entity from substant…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-SB217-83rd2025) - [AB514: AN ACT relating to mental health; requiring Medicaid to provide coverage for re…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB514-83rd2025) - [Nevada bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/nevada/bills) - [Nevada state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/nevada) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB522-83rd2025 (as of 2026-11-01).