NevadaAB6083rd Regular Session (2025)House

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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Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.

Prevention and peer staff exempt from boards

If you work as a CPS or provide or supervise peer recovery support, psychology, social work, and alcohol and drug counselor chapters do not apply to that work. This exemption takes effect July 1, 2026.

Certified coalitions lead prevention work statewide

The State Board of Health certifies local and regional prevention coalitions. Certified coalitions must advise the state, coordinate strategies, share data, and file yearly reports on needs and results. The Division uses these coalitions as its main local partners. Coalitions must hire or contract with certified prevention specialists as needed to do this work. These rules start July 1, 2026.

New reporting duties for prevention workers

Certified prevention specialists, peer recovery support specialists, and their supervisors are now mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse or neglect. They also must report in writing to the Board if they know a licensee or certificate holder violated the chapter. This Board-reporting duty starts July 1, 2026.

Licensing rules for prevention and peer workers

The law sets who can work as a certified prevention specialist (CPS) or peer recovery support worker. You must be at least 18 and hold the right certificate to provide or supervise services or to use the CPS title; the Division certificate states what it covers. The Board sets training, supervision, investigations, and discipline rules, and may create narrow exemptions. It charges cost-based fees to issue and renew certificates. It may allow paid “peer recovery support specialist interns” (18+) to gain experience. The Division may fine violators. Beginning July 1, 2026, people already certified by the Nevada Certification Board may use the CPS title for six months after the Division starts certifying; NRS 433.623 is repealed July 1, 2026.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 62 • No: 1

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

  1. Chapter 223.

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

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

    5/29/2025legislature
  4. Senate Amendment No. 588 concurred in. To enrollment.

    5/27/2025House
  5. In Assembly.

    5/26/2025House
  6. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.

    5/23/2025Senate
  7. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/22/2025Senate
  8. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/21/2025Senate
  9. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/20/2025Senate
  10. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint.

    5/20/2025Senate
  11. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 588.) To printer.

    5/19/2025Senate
  12. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/19/2025Senate
  13. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/19/2025Senate
  14. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.

    4/23/2025Senate
  15. In Senate.

    4/23/2025Senate
  16. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.) To Senate.

    4/22/2025House
  17. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    4/21/2025House
  18. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    4/18/2025House
  19. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    4/17/2025House
  20. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

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

    4/16/2025House
  22. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 19.) To printer.

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

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

    2/9/2025House
  25. Read first time. To committee.

    2/4/2025House

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