Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB165: Establishes provisions relating to behavioral health. (BDR 54-145)
Status: Chaptered, June 6, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to behavioral health; providing for the licensure and regulation of behavioral health and wellness practitioners; requiring the establishment of a Behavioral Health and Wellness Practitioner Advisory Group; authorizing the Board of Psychological Examiners to investigate and impose discipline on a behavioral health and wellness practitioner; prohibiting the unlicensed practice of behavioral health promotion and prevention…
From the enrolled text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT relating to behavioral health; providing for the licensure and regulation of behavioral health and wellness practitioners; requiring the establishment of a Behavioral Health and Wellness Practitioner Advisory Group; authorizing the Board of Psychological Examiners to investigate and impose discipline on a behavioral health and wellness practitioner; prohibiting the unlicensed practice of behavioral health promotion and prevention; establishing a privilege for certain confidential communications between a patient and a behavioral health and wellness practitioner under certain circumstances; requiring Medicaid to cover behavioral health promotion and prevention services provided by a behavioral health and wellness practitioner; providing penalties; requiring certain allocations and transfers of money and authorizing certain expenditures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides for the licensure of psychologists by the Board of Psychological Examiners. (NRS 641.160, 641.170, 641.196) The Board also registers psychological assistants, psychological interns and psychological trainees. (NRS 641.226) Section 10 of this bill defines "behavioral health and wellness practitioner" to mean a person who is licensed to practice behavioral health promotion and prevention. Section 11 of this bill defines "behavioral health promotion and prevention" to mean the supervised clinical use of prevention and intervention strategies relating to mental and behavioral health. Section 20 of this bill applies those definitions to the provisions of existing law governing licensure by …
Sponsors
- Rochelle Nguyen (D, 3) · primary sponsor
- Carrie Ann Buck (R, 5)
- John Steinbeck (R, 18)
Latest actions
- : Approved by the Governor. Chapter 379.
- : Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
- : To enrollment.
- : In Senate.
- : Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 38, Nays: 1, Excused: 3.) To Senate.
- : From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.
- : From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 823.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To printer.
- : From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Notice of eligibility for exemption. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 34.) Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.
Votes
- Assembly (2nd Reprint) (May 31, 2025): 38 yea, 1 nay, passed
- Senate (2nd Reprint) (May 27, 2025): 20 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is SB165?
- SB165 is a bill in the Nevada Legislature (83rd Legislature (2025)): Establishes provisions relating to behavioral health. (BDR 54-145).
- What does SB165 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to behavioral health; providing for the licensure and regulation of behavioral health and wellness practitioners; requiring the establishment of a Behavioral Health and Wellness Practitioner Advisory Group; authorizing the Board of Psychological Examiners to investigate and impose discipline on a behavioral health and wellness practitioner; prohibiting the unlicensed practice of behavioral health promotion and prevention…
- What is the status of SB165?
- Chaptered as of June 6, 2025. Latest action: Approved by the Governor. Chapter 379. (June 6, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB165?
- Rochelle Nguyen (D, 3), with 2 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for SB165?
- On the Nevada Legislature website: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12183/Overview
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