NevadaSB5483rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring Medicaid to provide coverage for medical respite care for persons experiencing homelessness, if federal financial participation is available; requiring the development of a model for providing such medical respite care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Health and Human Services

Signed by Governor

BDR 38-412

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Medicaid respite care for homeless people

Beginning July 1, 2027, Nevada Medicaid covers medical respite care for people experiencing homelessness. You can get up to 90 days each year. Services include case management, wound care, medication help, behavioral health care, transport, food and housing support. Care must be in a facility with qualified staff on duty 24/7. Staff are trained in trauma‑informed care, de‑escalation, and mental health first aid. Medicaid pays only when federal funding is available.

State sets rules and seeks federal funding

Beginning July 1, 2027, the state health agency must seek federal approval and funding for respite care. The health divisions must build a delivery model that follows national standards when allowed by law. The Department Director oversees these rules and the program. These are setup steps, not direct payments to people.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Senate Committee on Health and Human Services

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 59 • No: 0

House vote • 5/31/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)

Yes: 39 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 20 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 375.

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

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

    6/4/2025legislature
  4. To enrollment.

    6/2/2025Senate
  5. In Senate.

    6/1/2025Senate
  6. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 39, Nays: None, Excused: 3.) To Senate.

    5/31/2025House
  7. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/30/2025House
  8. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/29/2025House
  9. Read second time.

    5/28/2025House
  10. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/28/2025House
  11. From committee: Do pass.

    5/28/2025House
  12. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.

    5/27/2025House
  13. In Assembly.

    5/27/2025House
  14. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly.

    5/27/2025Senate
  15. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To printer.

    5/26/2025Senate
  16. Reprinting dispensed with.

    5/26/2025Senate
  17. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 803.)

    5/26/2025Senate
  18. Placed on General File.

    5/26/2025Senate
  19. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/26/2025Senate
  20. To committee.

    4/23/2025Senate
  21. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/23/2025Senate
  22. Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.

    4/21/2025Senate
  23. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 459.)

    4/21/2025Senate
  24. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    4/21/2025Senate
  25. Placed on Second Reading File.

    4/21/2025Senate

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