Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB161: Makes revisions relating to hospice care. (BDR 40-656)
Status: Chaptered, June 3, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to hospice care; requiring a program of hospice care to obtain informed consent to treatment and provide certain notice to patients or their representatives; providing that patients of a program for hospice care have a right to certain care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law: (1) requires any program of hospice care, regardless of whether the program is provided by a facility for hospice care, to be licensed by the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services…
From the enrolled text, May 27, 2025:
AN ACT relating to hospice care; requiring a program of hospice care to obtain informed consent to treatment and provide certain notice to patients or their representatives; providing that patients of a program for hospice care have a right to certain care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law: (1) requires any program of hospice care, regardless of whether the program is provided by a facility for hospice care, to be licensed by the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services; and (2) imposes certain requirements governing the operation of a program of hospice care. (NRS 449.029, 449.030, 449.196) Existing law requires a program of hospice care to provide certain care, and section 17 of this bill provides that a patient of a program of hospice care has a right to such care. (NRS 449.196) Sections 17 and 18 of this bill require a program of hospice care to inform a patient of that right. Section 15 of this bill removes provisions authorizing a facility for hospice care to provide certain care that the facility is required by existing law to provide. Section 14 of this bill requires a program of hospice care to obtain and document the informed, written consent of a patient or his or her …
Sponsors
- Rebecca Edgeworth (R, 35) · primary sponsor