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AB 69 — Expands the loan repayment program administered by the Nevada Health Service Corps to include certain providers of behavioral health care. (BDR 34-399)
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✓Introduced
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2In Committee
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3Passed Assembly
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4Passed Senate
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5To Executive
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6Enacted
This bill died with 2023 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.
Bill Text
What changed in the latest version
112 added · 107 removed112 line(s) added, 107 removed.
EXEMPT (Reprinted with amendments adopted on April 6, 2023) FIRST REPRINT A.B.
or (3) providing behavioral health care to pupils in kindergarteneligible for the program, section 8 requires a provider of behavioral health carecaree who practices in a - *AB69**AB69_R1* – 2 – who practices in a hospital, other inpatient setting or outpatient setting or provides crisis management services to:
(1) accept certain forms of payment commonly used bypatients, elderly or regardless of their ability to pay.
“Provider of behavioral health care” meansmeans: a person who is:
Licensed,A certifiedperson orwho registeredis: pursuant to chapter 641, 641A, 641B, 641C or 641D of NRS;
(a) Licensed, certified or registered pursuant to chapter 641, 641A, 641B, 641C or 641D of NRS;
or (b) Licensed as a physician, physician assistant or registered nurse and practices in psychiatry, addiction medicine or another specialty relating to behavioral health;
LicensedA asschool apsychologist physician, physician assistant or registeredschool nursesocial andworker, practicesas inthose psychiatry,terms addictionare medicinedefined orin anotherNRS specialty385.007. relating to behavioral health.
- *AB69_R1* – 3 – (a) In hospitals or other inpatient settings, outpatient settings or providing crisis management services;
- *AB69* – 3 – (b) As full-time faculty members with teaching responsibilities in programs of education or training for practitioners or providers of behavioral health care at institutions within the System;
or (c) Providing behavioral health care to pupils in prekindergarten, kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at public schools in this State.
or (3) Providing behavioral health care to pupils in prekindergarten, kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at a public school in this State.
To qualify for the program, a practitioner , other than a provider of behavioral health care, required to be licensed pursuant - *AB69_R1* – 4 – to the provisions of chapter 630, 630A, 633 or 634 of NRS must have completed his or her primary care residency and hold an active license issued pursuant to chapter 630, 630A, 633 or 634 of NRS.
- *AB69* – 4 – All other practitioners and all providers of behavioral health care must have completed training in a certified program and have an active license, certification or registration from the State of Nevada.
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The bill expands the loan repayment program to include providers of behavioral health care.
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NRS 396.900
[practitioners]→ Providers of behavioral health careThe definition of who can be encouraged to practice in Nevada now includes behavioral health care providers.
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NRS 396.901
Help practitioners to negotiate contracts to serve in the designated areas.→ Help providers of behavioral health care negotiate contracts to serve in those positions.The Nevada Health Service Corps will also assist behavioral health care providers in negotiating their contracts.
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NRS 396.903
[a] practitioner for each year he or she practices in an area of Nevada in which a shortage of that type of practitioner exists,→ (a) A practitioner for each year he or she practices in an area of Nevada in which a shortage of that type of practitioner exists,(b) A provider of behavioral health care for each year he or she practices in Nevada on a full-time basis:The loan repayment program now includes financial assistance for behavioral health care providers practicing in qualified areas.
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NRS 396.903
he or she practices in an area of Nevada in which a shortage of that type of practitioner exists, as determined by the Nevada Office of Rural Health within the University of Nevada School of Medicine and the Nevada Health Service Corps.→ he or she practices in Nevada on a full-time basis:(1) In a hospital or other inpatient setting, an outpatient setting or providing crisis management services;(2) As a full-time faculty member with teaching responsibilities in a program of education or training, including, without limitation, a residency program for practitioners or providers of behavioral health care, at an institution within the System; or(3) Providing behavioral health care to pupils in prekindergarten, kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at a public school in this State.The conditions for loan repayment eligibility are now extended to specific roles within behavioral health care.
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NRS 396.899
[As used in NRS 396.899 to 396.903, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, “practitioner”]→ “Practitioner” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 439A.0195.The definition of 'practitioner' is now aligned with a different section of law, which may provide a broader or different interpretation.
Amendments
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Action History
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(No further action taken.)
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From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
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Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 49.) Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.
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From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
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Notice of eligibility for exemption.
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Read first time. To committee.
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From printer.
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Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.
Sponsors
- Assembly Committee on Education · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 66 not signed on
Sponsors (1)
- Assembly Committee on Education
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (66)
66 members have not signed on to this bill.
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- AB 69 is sponsored by Assembly Committee on Education.
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