Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB176: Revises provisions relating to contraception and family planning services. (BDR 40-177)
Status: Chaptered, June 3, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to health care; prohibiting certain governmental entities from substantially burdening certain activity relating to contraception and family planning services under certain circumstances; authorizing a person whose engagement in such activity has been so burdened to assert the violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding; authorizing a court to award damages against a governmental entity that substantially burdens such activity in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto…
From the enrolled text, May 26, 2025:
AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain governmental entities from substantially burdening certain activity relating to contraception and family planning services under certain circumstances; authorizing a person whose engagement in such activity has been so burdened to assert the violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding; authorizing a court to award damages against a governmental entity that substantially burdens such activity in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law prescribes certain rights for a patient of a medical facility or a facility for the dependent. (NRS 449A.100-449A.124) Sections 2-8 of this bill establish the Right to Contraception and Family Planning Services Act. Sections 3.5-5 define certain terms for purposes of the Act. Section 3 establishes the applicability of those definitions. Section 7 applies the provisions of the Act to certain state laws and local laws and ordinances and the implementation of those laws and ordinances, regardless of when those laws or ordinances were enacted. Section 7 also ensures that the provisions of the Act do not apply to: (1) state and local laws and ordinances relating to abortion; and (2) certain regulations and policies of certain entities that regulate education and activities that take place at or are sponsored by a public school. Section 8 generally prohibits a governmental …