Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB438: Revises provisions relating to nonemergency medical transportation. (BDR 40-1042)
Status: Introduced
What the bill says
An act relating to health care; transferring regulation of nonemergency medical transportation from the Nevada Transportation Authority to certain health authorities; exempting certain operators of a vehicle for nonemergency medical transportation from the requirement to be permitted; requiring the driver of a vehicle for nonemergency medical transportation to report the abuse, neglect, isolation, abandonment or commercial sexual exploitation of certain persons; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto…
From the introduced text, March 18, 2025:
AN ACT relating to health care; transferring regulation of nonemergency medical transportation from the Nevada Transportation Authority to certain health authorities; exempting certain operators of a vehicle for nonemergency medical transportation from the requirement to be permitted; requiring the driver of a vehicle for nonemergency medical transportation to report the abuse, neglect, isolation, abandonment or commercial sexual exploitation of certain persons; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires the Nevada Transportation Authority to supervise and regulate common motor carriers of passengers and contract motor carriers of passengers, including private providers of nonmedical emergency transportation, while exempting government vehicles from such regulation. (NRS 706.163, 706.166) Existing law requires a private provider of nonemergency medical transportation to obtain from the Authority a certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate as a common motor carrier or a permit to act as a contract motor carrier. (NRS 706.036, 706.051, 706.386, 706.421) Existing law also requires the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services, in a county whose population is less than 700,000 (currently all counties other than Clark County), or the district board of health, in a county whose population is 700,000 or more (currently Clark County), to issue permits for the operation of an ambulance, an …