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NevadaAB6083rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET
AN ACT relating to behavioral health; requiring the certification of a natural person who holds himself or herself out as a certified prevention specialist; prohibiting a minor from providing or supervising the provision of peer recovery support services; authorizing the imposition of civil penalties for certain violations; prohibiting the employment or retention as an independent contractor of a natural person to serve as a certified prevention specialist in a position where the natural person has regular and substantial contact with minors if the natural person has been found to have engaged in certain conduct; requiring a certified prevention specialist to report certain information; requiring a substance use disorder prevention coalition to employ or enter into contracts with certified prevention specialists for certain purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services
Signed by Governor
BDR 39-434
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
Certified coalitions must hire specialists
The State Board of Health certifies substance use prevention coalitions and sets regions. Certified coalitions advise the state, coordinate prevention work, and file yearly reports. They must employ or contract certified prevention specialists to carry out activities. The Division uses these coalitions as the main local and regional partners.
New abuse-reporting duty for specialists
Certified prevention and peer recovery specialists are now mandatory reporters for abuse or neglect of children, older adults, and vulnerable people. You must report within 24 hours when, in your professional role, you know or reasonably suspect harm. Knowing and willful failure to report is a misdemeanor. This strengthens protections for people at risk.
New certification rules for prevention workers
You must hold a valid certificate to provide or supervise peer recovery support services, or to call yourself a certified prevention specialist. You must be at least 18; minors cannot do these jobs or use the title. The Division sets training, renewal, supervision, and discipline rules, and may allow interns and provisional certificates. Fees apply but must only cover the government’s actual costs. If you practice or advertise without a certificate, the Division can fine you. If you have an equivalent out‑of‑state credential, the Division asks for extra information within 15 business days and, unless denied for good cause, issues an endorsement within 45 days. When renewing, you must state if you have a state business license and give the Secretary of State ID; renewal can be denied for unpaid state debts assigned to the Controller. Work done under this law is exempt from some other professional licensure chapters when you act within this role; it does not allow you to misrepresent another profession.
Stricter child-safety checks for prevention jobs
If you hire or contract prevention or peer recovery staff who have regular and substantial contact with minors, you must get written permission and check the Statewide Central Registry within 3 days. Recheck every 5 years and keep the screening records while the person works with minors. If the check shows a substantiated child‑abuse finding or listed violations within the past 5 years, give 30 days to correct errors, then you must end the job or contract. The Division sets fines for not following these rules. The Division may set a fair review process that can allow some people with past findings to keep working.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/23/2025
Final Passage - Senate (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
House vote • 4/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 41 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
Chapter 223.
6/3/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/3/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
5/29/2025legislatureSenate Amendment No. 588 concurred in. To enrollment.
5/27/2025HouseIn Assembly.
5/26/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
5/23/2025SenateTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/22/2025SenateTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/21/2025SenateTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
5/20/2025SenateFrom printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint.
5/20/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 588.) To printer.
5/19/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/19/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/19/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.
4/23/2025SenateIn Senate.
4/23/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.) To Senate.
4/22/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/21/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/18/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/17/2025HouseTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
4/16/2025HouseFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
4/16/2025HouseRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 19.) To printer.
4/15/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/14/2025HouseNotice of eligibility for exemption.
2/9/2025HouseRead first time. To committee.
2/4/2025House
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