AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain entities to allow a patient to take certain actions relating to access to his or her electronic health records; requiring the adoption of regulations to minimize the need for a patient to repeatedly provide certain information; providing that the health records of a patient are the property of a patient; requiring the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to compile certain reports; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Roberta Lange (Democratic)
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Patients own records and get free access
Beginning January 1, 2026, your health care records are legally your property under Nevada law. Providers must give you secure, unimpeded access to your electronic records at no charge. At your request, they must send the records to you or another person or entity. Violating this patient-access rule is a misdemeanor. Violations of the separate health-record standards law, NRS 439.589, or its regulations are not misdemeanors.
Record protections for public employee plans
Beginning January 1, 2026, Nevada local governments using self-insurance reserve funds for group coverage must follow the specified health-insurance rules. These rules include the patient electronic-record access protections for covered employees and dependents. The Board must also follow these rules like a licensed insurer whenever it offers a self-insured health plan.
Easier record sharing and less repeated paperwork
Beginning January 1, 2026, Nevada’s health department must set network standards for patients to access and forward electronic records. The standards must support sharing between certified health-information exchanges under applicable federal standards. The department must also set rules to reduce repeated requests for patients’ demographic details, medical history, and medication lists.
Patients gain control with privacy exceptions
Beginning January 1, 2026, covered health entities must let you block electronic access or opt out of sharing with other covered entities. Access required by federal or Nevada law remains allowed. Medicaid or CHIP recipients cannot block access the state health department finds necessary for those programs. Nevada’s general consumer privacy rules do not cover record handling governed by the specified health-information laws; applicable health-record protections remain. Nevada’s electronic records and signatures law also does not apply to transactions to the extent those health-information rules govern them.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Roberta Lange
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
James Ohrenschall
Democratic • Senate
Michelee "Shelly" Cruz-Crawford
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
Bill Text
As Introduced
Reprint 1
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