Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB170: Revises provisions relating to industrial insurance. (BDR 53-632)
Status: Chaptered, June 6, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to industrial insurance; requiring a firefighter who is not employed by the Executive Department of the State Government or volunteer firefighter to submit to an annual cancer screening for certain industrial insurance coverage for cancer; revising provisions governing the administration of physical examinations required of certain firefighters, arson investigators and police officers who are not employed by the Executive Department of the State Government for certain industrial insurance coverage for lung disease and heart disease…
From the enrolled text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring a firefighter who is not employed by the Executive Department of the State Government or volunteer firefighter to submit to an annual cancer screening for certain industrial insurance coverage for cancer; revising provisions governing the administration of physical examinations required of certain firefighters, arson investigators and police officers who are not employed by the Executive Department of the State Government for certain industrial insurance coverage for lung disease and heart disease; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Under existing law, an employee who contracts an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of his or her employment is generally entitled to receive compensation under industrial insurance. (Chapter 617 of NRS) Existing law provides that certain diseases of the lungs and heart contracted by certain firefighters, arson investigators, volunteer firefighters and police officers are occupational diseases for which the employee is entitled to compensation under certain circumstances. Under existing law, an employee covered by those provisions is required to submit to a physical examination upon employment, upon commencement of coverage and periodically thereafter, the frequency of which depends on the age and occupation of the employee. (NRS 617.455, 617.457) Sections 2-4 of this bill revise requirements for the administering of such a physical examination for an employee who …