Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB188: Revises provisions relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program. (BDR 23-673)
Status: Signed into law, June 12, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program; requiring the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to report certain information relating to the costs of health insurance for certain retirees; revising provisions relating to the subsidy paid for certain health and welfare benefits for certain state employees who have retired with state service; revising requirements for certain retired public officers and employees to reinstate insurance under the Program; revising provisions relating to certain subsidies paid to the Program for the 2025-2027 biennium…
From the enrolled text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT relating to the Public Employees' Benefits Program; requiring the Board of the Public Employees' Benefits Program to report certain information relating to the costs of health insurance for certain retirees; revising provisions relating to the subsidy paid for certain health and welfare benefits for certain state employees who have retired with state service; revising requirements for certain retired public officers and employees to reinstate insurance under the Program; revising provisions relating to certain subsidies paid to the Program for the 2025-2027 biennium; requiring the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Government Affairs to conduct an interim study on the Program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires the Office of Finance to establish an assessment to pay for a portion of the costs of the premiums or contributions for the Public Employees' Benefits Program on behalf of persons who were initially hired before January 1, 2012, and have retired with state service, which must be: (1) deposited in the State Retirees' Health and Welfare Benefits Fund to pay a portion of the current and future health and welfare benefits of those retirees; and (2) based upon a base amount approved by the Legislature each session. Existing law also requires that, for retirees who receive health coverage through Medicare, the portion …