Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB124: Revises provisions relating to health care. (BDR 54-38)
Status: Chaptered, May 30, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to health care; providing for the limited licensure of certain foreign physicians; prescribing the conditions under which such a limited licensee is authorized to practice medicine; providing for the unrestricted licensure of certain limited licensees; requiring the Board of Medical Examiners to submit certain reports to the Legislature; updating certain references; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides for the licensing of physicians by the Board of Medical Examiners…
From the enrolled text, May 23, 2025:
AN ACT relating to health care; providing for the limited licensure of certain foreign physicians; prescribing the conditions under which such a limited licensee is authorized to practice medicine; providing for the unrestricted licensure of certain limited licensees; requiring the Board of Medical Examiners to submit certain reports to the Legislature; updating certain references; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides for the licensing of physicians by the Board of Medical Examiners. (NRS 630.160-630.1607, 630.258-630.2665) Existing law also authorizes a graduate of a foreign medical school to obtain a restricted license to teach, research or practice medicine at a medical facility, medical research facility or medical school by completing certain requirements that are less stringent than the requirements to obtain an unrestricted license. (NRS 630.2645) If the holder of such a restricted license wishes to obtain an unrestricted license, existing law requires the holder to meet all of the qualifications ordinarily required to obtain an unrestricted license. (NRS 630.160, 630.2645) Section 1.3 of this bill authorizes the Board of Medical Examiners to issue a limited license to practice medicine to a graduate of a qualified foreign medical school who holds or has held a valid and unrestricted license to practice medicine issued by a foreign country other than Canada and: (1) has completed a …