Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB204: Revises provisions relating to medical debt. (BDR 52-135)
Status: Signed into law, June 10, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to medical debt; prohibiting certain actions by certain entities that provide health care and collection agencies to collect a medical debt; providing requirements for engaging in extraordinary collection actions to collect a medical debt; and providing other matters properly relating thereto…
From the enrolled text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT relating to medical debt; prohibiting certain actions by certain entities that provide health care and collection agencies to collect a medical debt; providing requirements for engaging in extraordinary collection actions to collect a medical debt; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides requirements governing the collection of medical debt by a collection agency, including a requirement to provide certain notice to a medical debtor before taking action to collect and prohibiting certain actions to collect a medical debt. (NRS 649.366, 649.368) Sections 14 and 19 of this bill prohibit a health care entity or collection agency from engaging in certain actions, or threatening to engage in certain actions, to collect a medical debt, (2) obtaining a lien or foreclosing on real property of a consumer that includes the consumer's primary residence; (3) garnishing any refund of federal income taxes due to a consumer; or (4) garnishing, attaching or seizing the bank account of a consumer. Section 15 of this bill prohibits a health care entity or collection agency from engaging in extraordinary collection actions until at least 180 days after the first bill for a medical debt is sent to a consumer and requires a notice that includes certain information to be sent to the consumer at least 30 days before any …
Sponsors
- Max Carter (D, 12) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Vetoed by the Governor.
- : Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
- : Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 12, Nays: 8, Excused: 1.) To Assembly. In Assembly. Senate Amendment No. 951 concurred in. To enrollment.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 951.) To printer. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Fourth reprint.
- : From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Third reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 28, Nays: 14.) To Senate. In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
- : From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 808.) To printer.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 798.) To printer.
- : From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- : Notice of eligibility for exemption. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 444.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.
- : From printer. To committee.
Votes
- Senate (4th Reprint) (June 2, 2025): 12 yea, 8 nay, passed
- Assembly (3rd Reprint) (May 29, 2025): 28 yea, 14 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is AB204?
- AB204 is a bill in the Nevada Legislature (83rd Legislature (2025)): Revises provisions relating to medical debt. (BDR 52-135).
- What does AB204 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to medical debt; prohibiting certain actions by certain entities that provide health care and collection agencies to collect a medical debt; providing requirements for engaging in extraordinary collection actions to collect a medical debt; and providing other matters properly relating thereto…
- What is the status of AB204?
- Signed into law as of June 10, 2025. Latest action: Vetoed by the Governor. (June 10, 2025).
- Who sponsored AB204?
- Max Carter (D, 12).
- Where is the official record for AB204?
- On the Nevada Legislature website: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12174/Overview
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