SB171
AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting health care licensing boards from disqualifying from licensure or disciplining a person for providing or assisting in the provision of medically necessary gender-affirming health care services; prohibiting in certain circumstances the Governor from extraditing a person who is charged with a crime in another state related to medically necessary gender-affirming health care services; prohibiting state agencies from assisting in certain investigations and proceedings initiated in other states related to medically necessary gender-affirming health care services; requiring certain health care licensing boards to examine the feasibility of reciprocal licensure for health care providers who provide gender-affirming health care services in other states; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting health care licensing boards from disqualifying from licensure or disciplining a person for providing or assisting in the provision of medically necessary gender-affirming health care services; prohibiting in certain circumstances the Governor from extraditing a person who is charged with a crime in another state related to medically necessary gender-affirming health care services; prohibiting state agencies from assisting in certain investigations and proceedings initiated in other states related to medically necessary gender-affirming health care services; requiring certain health care licensing boards to examine the feasibility of reciprocal licensure for health care providers who provide gender-affirming health care services in other states; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Introduction Date
Monday, February 3, 2025
Primary Sponsor
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Public exhibits
12
Support 5 · Opp 6 · Neutral 1
Auditor findings
0
recusal 0 · QPQ 0
AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting health care licensing boards from disqualifying from licensure or disciplini
Existing law regulates the licensing, certification and registration of various providers of health care in this State. (Chapters 630-637B and 639-641D of NRS) Existing law prohibits a health care licensing board from disqualifying from licensure or subjecting a person to discipline solely: (1) for providing reproductive health care services that are lawful and consistent with the practice of the relevant profession in this State; or (2) as a consequence of certain adverse actions threatened or imposed in another jurisdiction for the provision of such reproductive health care services. (NRS 629.250) Section 1 of this bill additionally prohibits a health care licensing board from taking similar actions against a person for providing or assisting in the provision of medically necessary gender-affirming health care services that are lawful in this State. Section 4 of this bill requires each health care licensing board that licenses providers of health care who provide gender-affirming health care services to examine the feasibility of providing reciprocal licensing to providers of health care in other states to facilitate the provision of gender-affirming health care services to persons from other states who seek such medically necessary services in this State. In accordance with the Extradition Clause of Section 2 of Article IV of the United States Constitution, existing state law requires the Governor to extradite to another state any person charged in that state with a crime,
NELIS exhibits (12 on file)
Support (5)
- Eric Foreman (Testimony)
- Antonio Ramirez (Testimony)
- Laura Drucker (Testimony)
- Jacquelyn Bonde (Testimony)
- (5 letters) (Letters)
Opposition (6)
- Eric Nelson (Testimony)
- Victoria Giamba (Testimony)
- Reva Crump (Testimony)
- Nancy Carlson (Testimony)
- Paulette Hathaway (Testimony)
- (3 letters) (Letters)
Neutral (1)
- Tim Underwood (Wpath Files Document)
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