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Assembly Health Committee advances a package of public-health and health-care bills
Summary
The Nevada Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services voted to advance a series of bills on hospice care, reproductive health protections, dementia services, children's behavioral health and other health measures during a work session. Most measures passed on unanimous or near-unanimous voice votes; several had recorded nays.
The Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services on May 1, 2025, voted to advance a package of bills covering hospice care, reproductive health protections, dementia services, children's behavioral health, prenatal syphilis testing, mobile crisis teams and additional health-care measures.
The committee, chaired by Assemblywoman Tracy Brown May, moved the measures in a single work session. Committee staff summarized the bills and proposed amendments; most motions were "amend and do pass." Committee members then voted on each measure by voice vote or roll call where requested.
Why it matters: the bills touch multiple core public-health systems in Nevada, from hospice program requirements and dementia care coordination to preventive health coverage standards and maternal-child screening. Several measures include instructions for state agencies to seek federal approvals or to establish new programs.
Key outcomes (action, mover, seconder, notable vote detail): - Assembly Bill 161 (hospice care revisions): Motion to amend and do pass; mover Vice Chair Winn; second Assemblymember Edgeworth; motion passed unanimously (no recorded nays). Floor assignment to Assemblymember Edgeworth. - Assembly Bill 176 (reproductive health protections; renamed in amendment as Right to Contraception Act, excludes schools and abortion): Motion to amend and do pass; motion by Vice Chair Wynne; second by Assemblymember Gonzales; recorded nays: Assemblymembers Gray and Edgeworth. Motion carried. - Assembly Bill 337 (dementia programs; Nevada Memory Network): Motion to amend and do pass; mover Vice Chair Winn; second Assemblymember Hunt; carried unanimously. Floor assignment to Assemblymember Hunt. - Assembly Bill 338 (health care for senior citizens; HCBS waiver and attendant care): Motion to do pass; mover Vice Chair Wynne; second Assemblymember Gonzales; carried unanimously. Floor assignment to Assemblymember Jackson. - Assembly Bill 339 (Office of Children's Mental and Behavioral Health): Motion to amend and do pass; mover Vice Chair Winn; second Assemblymember Gray; carried unanimously. Floor assignment to Assemblymember Nadeem. - Assembly Bill 360 (syphilis testing for pregnant women; rapid/point-of-care testing and Medicaid reimbursement): Motion to amend and do pass; mover Vice Chair Wynne; second Assemblymember Hunt; carried. Floor assignment to Assemblymember Golding. - Assembly Bill 380 (mobile crisis response teams; membership changes): Motion to do pass; mover Assemblymember Edgeworth; second Assemblymember Gray; carried. Floor assignment to Assemblymember Edgeworth. - Assembly Bill 411 (prescription label naming for mifepristone/misoprostol prescribers): Motion to do pass; mover Assemblymember Hunt; second Assemblymember Gonzales; recorded nays: Assemblymembers Gray, Koenig, Edgeworth, Hafen and Hibbets. Motion carried. Floor statement assigned to Majority Leader (transcript: Howtege/Howtege). - Assembly Bill 461 (Uniform Healthcare Decisions Act; advance directives and long-term care education): Motion to amend and do pass; mover Assemblymember Winn; second Assemblymember Gonzalez; recorded nays: Assemblymembers Hayfin, Hibbets, Edgeworth, Koenig and Gray. Motion carried. Floor assignment to Assemblymember Orenlicher. - Assembly Bill 474 (program to supplement food supply for SNAP recipients): Motion to amend and do pass; mover Vice Chair Winn; second Assemblymember Hunt; carried. Floor assignment to Assemblymember Monroe Moreno. - Assembly Bill 484 (collection of data concerning health-care providers): Motion to do pass; mover Vice Chair Wynne; second Assemblymember Hunt; recorded one nay (Assemblymember Greg). Motion carried. Floor assignment to Assemblymember Dahlia.
Discussion notes and clarifications: committee staff (Davis Florence) described amendments and federal-authority instructions repeatedly across multiple bills. Several members reserved the right to revisit language on the floor after seeing final amendments. Where members asked for clarifications, staff and sponsors indicated some bills require the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to seek federal approvals or to coordinate with UNR/UNLV medical schools.
Next steps: floor statements were assigned for each advancing bill, and sponsors will carry the measures to the Assembly floor for consideration. Some members explicitly reserved the right to change their vote at the floor stage pending final amendment language.
Provenance (selected evidence from the committee transcript): "We're gonna go ahead and start with Assembly Bill 161, which makes revisions relating to hospice care." (Transcript start of AB 161 discussion) "Seeing no discussion, all those in favor say aye." "Any opposed, nay? Thank you. Motion passes unanimously." (voting on AB 161)
Ending: The committee completed a dense work session advancing the listed measures; floor statements were assigned and sponsors will present the bills on the Assembly floor in coming days.
