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NevadaSB13883rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET
AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring certain hospitals to enroll as a qualified provider for determining whether a pregnant woman is presumptively eligible for Medicaid or contract with certain entities to make such determinations; requiring such hospitals and contractors to provide notices relating to Medicaid to certain persons; prescribing certain rights for parents and legal guardians of newborn children who are patients in a neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Nicole J.Majority Leader Cannizzaro (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
BDR 40-580
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Bill Overview
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4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Hospitals must screen pregnant patients for Medicaid
Beginning January 1, 2026, any hospital that delivers babies must check if each pregnant patient qualifies for presumptive Medicaid. The hospital must enroll to make these decisions or hire a qualified group to do them. If you are presumptively eligible and not already on Medicaid, you get written papers with your start and end dates, what Medicaid covers, and how to apply for full coverage. If you are not presumptively eligible, the hospital must tell you why and how to apply.
New rights for NICU parents
Beginning January 1, 2026, parents and legal guardians of newborns in a hospital NICU have clear rights. You get timely updates in your language and can be near your baby and join rounds, except in emergencies. You must be asked for consent for non‑emergency treatments, may hold your baby when it is safe, and get lactation help, mental‑health info, and discharge and long‑term planning. Hospitals must also guide you on insurance and benefits, and make reasonable comfort and privacy accommodations. The state can deny, suspend, or revoke a hospital’s license if it breaks these NICU parent‑rights rules.
Newborn benefits notice in your language
Beginning January 1, 2026, if your newborn is premature, has low birth weight, or another SSI‑qualifying condition, the hospital must give you a written notice that your child may qualify for SSI and Medicaid. The notice must be in your main language. If a written version is not available, staff must tell you in your language and record this in the medical record.
When these hospital rules start
Agencies can make rules and prepare now. Most new hospital duties and parent rights start January 1, 2026. Until then, the day‑to‑day rules stay the same.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Nicole J.Majority Leader Cannizzaro
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Cecelia González
Democratic • House
David Orentlicher
Democratic • House
Duy Nguyen
Democratic • House
Hanadi Nadeem
Democratic • House
Ken Gray
Republican • House
Tracy Brown-May
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/22/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)
Yes: 37 • No: 5
Senate vote • 4/17/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 18 • No: 3
Actions Timeline
Chapter 168.
5/30/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
5/30/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
5/27/2025legislatureAssembly Amendment No. 559 concurred in. To enrollment.
5/23/2025SenateIn Senate.
5/22/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 37, Nays: 5.) To Senate.
5/22/2025HouseFrom printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.
5/22/2025HouseRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 559.) To printer.
5/20/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/19/2025HouseRead first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.
4/18/2025HouseIn Assembly.
4/18/2025HouseRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 18, Nays: 3.) To Assembly.
4/17/2025SenateFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
4/17/2025SenateRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 59.) To printer.
4/16/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
4/16/2025SenateFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
4/16/2025SenateRead first time. To committee.
2/3/2025SenateFrom printer.
2/3/2025SenatePrefiled. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.
1/30/2025Senate
Bill Text
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