Bills & Legislation

AN ACT relating to insurance; revising certain definitions for the purposes of certain coverage for health care services; revising provisions governing the circumstances under which a managed care organization is not required to authorize coverage of a health care service; revising the applicability of certain provisions requiring certain insurers to establish a system of procedures for resolving complaints of insured persons and providing for the external review of an adverse determination to include certain insurers that issue policies or certificates that provide only dental coverage; revising the information which a health carrier is required to provide in a notice of an adverse determination; authorizing a dentist of a covered person to submit to the Office for Consumer Health Assistance in the Department of Health and Human Services a request for an external review of an adverse determination; requiring an independent review organization to notify the dentist of a covered person and a health carrier of certain information and the determination and reasons of the independent review organization; requiring a decision of an independent review organization to be based, in part, on certain documentary evidence, including any recommendation of the dentist of the insured; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Tracy Brown-MayDemocrat

AN ACT relating to telecommunication service; expanding the circumstances under which certain telecommunication providers may apply for relief from their status and obligations as a provider of last resort; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Elaine H. MarzolaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to seek to establish certain rates of reimbursement under Medicaid for vagus nerve stimulation therapy devices and replacement parts for such a device; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to health care; authorizing a health care provider who practices in reproductive health, any employee of or volunteer for a health care facility that provides services related to reproductive health, any provider of gender-affirming care and the spouse, domestic partner or minor child thereof to request a court order to make certain personal information in the possession of a county recorder, county assessor or elections official be kept in a confidential manner; authorizing such a person to request that the Department of Motor Vehicles display an alternate address on the person's driver's license, commercial driver's license or identification card; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Erica P. RothDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public financial administration; revising the hours the office of the county treasurer is required to be kept open; requiring certain money from the sale of property for delinquent taxes to be accounted for separately in a county general fund and used to pay for the acquisition and improvement of technology used in the office of the county treasurer; revising the contents of a notice of delinquent taxes; revising provisions relating to certain property held in trust by a county treasurer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Bert K. GurrRepublican

AN ACT relating to elections; authorizing officers and trainees appointed for certain elections to choose to work as volunteers who receive no compensation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to governmental administration; requiring, with certain exceptions, a governmental entity to keep confidential certain personal information regarding donors, members or volunteers of a nonprofit organization; prohibiting, with certain exceptions, a governmental entity from requesting or releasing certain personal information regarding donors, members or volunteers of a nonprofit organization; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Shea M. BackusDemocrat

AN ACT relating to transportation; extending the deadline for a regional transportation commission to submit certain recommendations relating to the imposition of certain taxes to the board of county commissioners; extending the deadline for a board of county commissioners to submit a ballot question to the voters regarding the imposition of certain taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to water; requiring the State Engineer to retire certain groundwater rights; revising provisions relating to temporary permits to appropriate groundwater; creating the Nevada Conservation and Recreation Program; creating the Account for Retiring Water Rights; establishing the Nevada Voluntary Water Rights Retirement Program; requiring the Director of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to purchase certain water rights with money from the Account for the purpose of retiring those water rights; revising provisions relating to the program to provide grants of money to pay certain costs related to water conservation and capital improvements to water systems; revising provisions relating to a program to pay the costs for property owners to connect to a community sewerage disposal system under certain circumstances; revising certain legislative declarations relating to clean water and water pollution; authorizing the State Environmental Commission to establish a water quality standard variance; revising provisions relating to an irrigation water efficiency monitoring program established by the Southern Nevada Water Authority; revising provisions relating to membership on the Advisory Committee for the Management of Groundwater in the Las Vegas Valley Groundwater Basin; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to providers of health care; limiting the amount a provider of health care may charge to fill out certain forms necessary to take a leave of absence authorized by the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to the state militia; clarifying for purposes of industrial insurance that a member of the state militia is on state active duty for 24 hours a day while on state active duty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to housing authorities; authorizing the formation of a regional housing authority in certain counties; setting forth the composition and powers of certain regional housing authorities; revising various provisions relating to housing authorities; revising the compensation of commissioners; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

PK O’NeillRepublican

AN ACT relating to employment; revising provisions relating to the employment of children; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

DanieleSpeaker Pro Tempore Monroe-MorenoDemocrat

AN ACT relating to fiscal notes; revising the information concerning fiscal effect that must be included in the summary of each bill or joint resolution introduced in the Legislature; revising provisions relating to the preparation of a fiscal note by a local government; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Ways and Means

AN ACT relating to eggs; authorizing the State Quarantine Officer to take certain actions relating to the sale, offer or exposing for sale or transport for sale of egg products or shell eggs under certain circumstances; authorizing the State Quarantine Officer to adopt regulations relating to an order to temporarily suspend such requirements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; renaming the Virtual Early Childhood Family Engagement Pilot Program within the Department of Health and Human Services; extending the prospective expiration date of the Program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

DanieleSpeaker Pro Tempore Monroe-MorenoDemocrat

AN ACT relating to mental health; ratifying and entering into the Counseling Compact; authorizing the sharing of certain information with the coordinated database and reporting system created by the Compact; providing licensed professional counselors practicing in this State under the Compact with the same legal status as clinical professional counselors who are licensed in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Gregory T., IIMinority Floor Leader HafenRepublican

AN ACT relating to real property; requiring a landlord or his or her agent to provide a tenant at least one method of paying rent or any other fee or charge that meets certain requirements; prohibiting a landlord or his or her agent from charging a tenant a fee to make a payment through an Internet website or online portal that exceeds the amount of any fee charged by the operator of the Internet website or online portal for the use of the website or portal; requiring a written rental agreement to separately identify any such fee under certain circumstances; authorizing a tenant to bring a civil action against a landlord who has committed certain violations; requiring a landlord or his or her agent to provide, upon request, a copy of a written rental agreement to a prospective tenant; requiring a landlord to refund certain fees collected from a prospective tenant under certain circumstances; prohibiting a landlord from collecting certain application fees; requiring certain references to the amount of rent due under a rental agreement to be set forth in a certain manner; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Venicia ConsidineDemocrat

AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain governmental entities from substantially burdening certain activity relating to contraception and family planning services under certain circumstances; authorizing a person whose engagement in such activity has been so burdened to assert the violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding; authorizing a court to award damages against a governmental entity that substantially burdens such activity in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Selena Torres-FossettDemocrat

AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring Medicaid to provide coverage for screening for certain forms of cancer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Natha C.Assistant Majority Whip AndersonDemocrat

AN ACT relating to insurance; establishing the applicability of provisions requiring policies of health insurance to include certain coverage; requiring that certain health insurance policies and health plans include coverage for certain forms of speech-language pathology as treatment for stuttering for persons who are less than 26 years of age; prohibiting certain limitations on such coverage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to homelessness; requiring the board of county commissioners of certain counties to notify the Department of Transportation before conducting a clean-up of an encampment of homeless persons immediately adjacent to certain rights-of-way; authorizing the Department to consult with a homeless outreach team and participate in the clean-up of an encampment of homeless persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to education; authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada to establish a course of study in financial literacy; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

AN ACT relating to health care; exempting certain offices of physicians or other health care facilities that administer anesthesia or sedation to dental patients from certain requirements to obtain a permit to provide anesthesia or sedation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Rebecca EdgeworthRepublican

AN ACT relating to electronic filing; revising provisions relating to the signing of certain documents that are filed electronically; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT relating to hospice care; requiring a program of hospice care to obtain informed consent to treatment and provide certain notice to patients or their representatives; providing that patients of a program for hospice care have a right to certain care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Rebecca EdgeworthRepublican

AN ACT relating to juvenile justice; revising provisions related to the review of corrective room restriction status for a child detained in a state, local or regional facility for the detention of children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Alexis M. HansenRepublican

AN ACT relating to emergency medical services; authorizing a district board of health in certain health districts to regulate emergency medical services within the district with certain exceptions; providing that certain persons are eligible for licensure as an attendant of an ambulance or air ambulance or certification as an emergency medical technician; revising provisions governing persons who are authorized to occupy an ambulance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services

AN ACT relating to economic development; creating the Nevada-Ireland Trade Commission; prescribing the membership, powers and duties of the Commission; creating the Account for the Nevada-Ireland Trade Commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SteveSpeaker YeagerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; eliminating provisions requiring the Administrator of the Employment Security Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation to annually perform certain calculations to determine certain information relating to the solvency of the Unemployment Compensation Fund; revising the amount of certain money that is required to be annually transferred from the Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund to the Unemployment Compensation Fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor

AN ACT relating to psychology; authorizing the Board of Psychological Examiners to adopt regulations authorizing a person who is not licensed by the Board to perform certain psychological tests under certain conditions and use the title “psychometrist” in connection with the performance of such tests; prohibiting a complaint from being filed with the Board if 3 or more years have elapsed since the occurrence of the act or omission giving rise to the complaint; repealing provisions requiring certain business entities to register with the Board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Shea M. BackusDemocrat

AN ACT relating to Medicaid fraud; revising the authority of the Attorney General, acting through the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, to issue subpoenas; setting forth procedures for the enforcement of such a subpoena; revising provisions governing certain actions for false or fraudulent claims; revising the penalties for failing to maintain certain records relating to Medicaid claims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to public safety; prohibiting the release of certain balloons that are lighter than air under certain circumstances; providing for the imposition of civil penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SandraMajority Floor Leader JaureguiDemocrat

AN ACT relating to education; requiring the State Board of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to make grants to certain school districts to finance capital improvements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

EricaAssistant Majority Floor Leader MoscaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to insurance; revising the manner in which a data request or report submitted to the Commissioner of Insurance by certain insurers or other organizations providing health coverage relating to the compliance of the insurer or organization with certain federal laws must be submitted to the Commissioner; revising provisions governing the confidentiality of information contained in such a data request or report; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Lisa K. ColeRepublican

AN ACT relating to the criminal justice system; prohibiting a person from threatening or intimidating any judicial personnel of an Indian tribe; expanding the applicability of enhanced penalties for assault and battery against certain persons; authorizing any judicial personnel of an Indian tribe to request a court order to maintain certain personal information in the possession of a county recorder, a county assessor or an elections official in a confidential manner; authorizing any judicial personnel of an Indian tribe to request the Department of Motor Vehicles to display an alternate address on the driver's license, commercial driver's license or identification card of the judicial personnel; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

David OrentlicherDemocrat

AN ACT relating to outdoor education; establishing the Outdoor Education Council within the Division of Outdoor Recreation of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; prescribing the membership and duties of the Council; requiring the Council to establish and administer a program to award designations relating to outdoor education; authorizing the Council to adopt certain regulations relating to the program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Natural Resources

AN ACT relating to elections; revising the deadline for a county or city clerk to distribute mail ballots to each active registered voter who resides within the State; revising the deadline for a county or city clerk to distribute sample ballots; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Gregory T., IIMinority Floor Leader HafenRepublican

AN ACT relating to the education of incarcerated persons; requiring staff at each institution or facility of the Department of Corrections to provide information and assistance relating to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid; requiring the submission of certain reports concerning the provision of such information and assistance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Brittney M. MillerDemocrat

AN ACT relating to public records; creating the Public Records Task Force; setting forth the membership and duties of the Task Force; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; revising the list of persons who constitute a first responder for the purpose of provisions governing the circumstances under which a first responder may receive compensation under industrial insurance for certain stress-related claims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Elaine H. MarzolaDemocrat

AN ACT relating to liens; revising certain requirements for the advertising of a sale of personal property to satisfy the lien of an owner of a facility for storage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Selena Torres-FossettDemocrat

AN ACT relating to water; revising the exemption from certain appropriation requirements for guzzlers providing water for use by wildlife; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assemblymember Toby Yurek

AN ACT relating to victims of crime; requiring a law enforcement agency to furnish a free copy of all reports of the law enforcement agency concerning an act that constitutes domestic violence under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Gregory S.Assistant Minority Floor Leader North KoenigRepublican

AN ACT relating to animals; requiring certain persons that allow interactions between live animals and members of the public to post a sign with the contact information for the local animal control authority; providing an administrative penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Venicia ConsidineDemocrat

AN ACT relating to postsecondary education; changing the balance in the Account for Student Indemnification above which certain postsecondary educational institutions are not required to pay certain fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

PK O’NeillRepublican

AN ACT relating to counties; revising qualifications for certain county officers to require such persons to be registered to vote in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Government Affairs

AN ACT relating to writs of garnishment; revising provisions relating to the service of writs of garnishment where the named garnishee is the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Assembly Committee on Judiciary