Nevada · 83rd (2025) Session

Establishes provisions relating to behavioral health.

AN ACT relating to behavioral health; providing for the licensure and regulation of behavioral health and wellness practitioners; requiring the establishment of a Behavioral Health and Wellness Practitioner Advisory Group; authorizing the Board of Psychological Examiners to investigate and impose discipline on a behavioral health and wellness practitioner; prohibiting the unlicensed practice of behavioral health promotion and prevention; establishing a privilege for certain confidential communications between a patient and a behavioral health and wellness practitioner under certain circumstances; requiring Medicaid to cover behavioral health promotion and prevention services provided by a behavioral health and wellness practitioner; providing penalties; requiring certain allocations and transfers of money and authorizing certain expenditures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

SB 165·Senate·Bill

Senator Rochelle NguyenState Senate · SD-03·2 cosponsors

Bill Draft RequestBDR 54-145

Fiscal noteState Contains Appropriation not included in Executive BudgetLocal Increases or Newly Provides for Term of Imprisonment in County or City Jail or Detention Facility

Primary sponsor

Senator Rochelle NguyenState Senate · SD-03

Cosponsors

Senator Carrie Ann BuckState Senate · SD-05

Senator John SteinbeckState Senate · SD-18

Floor votes

Senate · 2nd ReprintMay 27, 2025 · Two-thirds of elected members required20–0

Assembly · 2nd ReprintMay 31, 2025 · Two-thirds of elected members required38–1

Legislative history

Feb 3, 2025

Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor.Senate Journal

Feb 4, 2025

To printer.

Feb 5, 2025

From printer. Read first time. To committee.Senate Journal

Apr 15, 2025

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Notice of eligibility for exemption. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 34.) Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.Senate Journal

Apr 16, 2025

From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.

May 27, 2025

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 823.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To printer.Senate Journal

May 28, 2025

From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.Assembly Journal

May 30, 2025

From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.Assembly Journal

May 31, 2025

Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 38, Nays: 1, Excused: 3.) To Senate.Assembly Journal

Jun 1, 2025

In Senate.Senate Journal

Jun 2, 2025

To enrollment.Senate Journal

Jun 4, 2025

Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

Jun 6, 2025

Approved by the Governor. Chapter 379.

Bill text

As Introduced Reprint 1 Reprint 2 As Enrolled

Amendments

Amendment 34 (Adopted)Amendment 823 (Adopted)

Fiscal notes

Public Employees' Benefits Program — on As Introduced State Public Charter School Authority — on As Introduced Department of Health and Human Services, Public and Behavioral Health — on As Introduced Department of Business and Industry, Boards and Commissions — on As Introduced Department of Business and Industry, Division of Insurance — on As Introduced Department of Corrections — on As Introduced Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing and Policy — on As Introduced Department of Public Safety, Records, Communications and Compliance Division — on As Introduced Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing and Policy — on 1st Reprint Department of Health and Human Services, Health Care Financing and Policy — on 2nd Reprint