How AB 276 changes current law

Compared against the Nevada Revised Statutes as published AI-generated reading aid — verify against the official bill.

The bill expands the use of telehealth by defining its parameters and allows healthcare providers to use telehealth for forensic examinations of sexual assault victims.

• NRS 629.515

  A provider of health care who is located at an originating site and is conducting a forensic medical examination of an apparent victim of sexual assault or strangulation may use telehealth to connect to an appropriately trained physician, physician assistant or registered nurse who is located at a distant site for the purpose of obtaining instructions and guidance on conducting the examination.

  This adds provisions for using telehealth in forensic medical examinations for sexual assault victims.

• NRS 629.515

  The term includes, without limitation, communication between a provider of health care who is providing in-person services to a patient and another provider of health care at a different location.

  This clarifies that telehealth encompasses communication between providers both in-person and at different locations.