Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB185: Revises provisions relating to Medicaid reimbursement for care of disabled or chronically ill children. (BDR 38-760)
Status: Chaptered, June 11, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to health care; requiring reimbursement under Medicaid to family members who provide personal care services to certain recipients of Medicaid; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires Medicaid to cover certain home and community-based services for persons with physical disabilities, including personal care services in the home…
From the enrolled text, June 4, 2025:
AN ACT relating to health care; requiring reimbursement under Medicaid to family members who provide personal care services to certain recipients of Medicaid; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires Medicaid to cover certain home and community-based services for persons with physical disabilities, including personal care services in the home. (NRS 422.272407, 422.396) Section 1 of this bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to reimburse a member of the family of a recipient of Medicaid for providing personal care services to the recipient, so long as the (2) is eligible under Medicaid to receive coverage for personal care services; and (3) has been diagnosed with a disability or chronic illness that renders the recipient unable to perform activities of daily living without assistance. Section 2 of this bill makes a conforming change to require the Director of the Department to administer the provisions of section 1 in the same manner as other provisions relating to Medicaid. Section 2.5 of this bill makes an appropriation to and authorizes expenditures by the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department for certain costs associated with the Department reimbursing a member of the family of a recipient of Medicaid for providing personal care services to the recipient pursuant to …
Sponsors
- Angela Taylor (D, 15) · primary sponsor
- Lisa Krasner (R, 16)
Latest actions
- : Chapter 496.
- : Approved by the Governor.
- : Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
- : To enrollment.
- : In Senate.
- : Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.) 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 Ways and Means. To committee.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 929.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.
- : From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
Votes
- Assembly (2nd Reprint) (June 2, 2025): 41 yea, 1 nay, passed
- Senate (2nd Reprint) (May 30, 2025): 21 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is SB185?
- SB185 is a bill in the Nevada Legislature (83rd Legislature (2025)): Revises provisions relating to Medicaid reimbursement for care of disabled or chronically ill children. (BDR 38-760).
- What does SB185 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to health care; requiring reimbursement under Medicaid to family members who provide personal care services to certain recipients of Medicaid; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires Medicaid to cover certain home and community-based services for persons with physical disabilities, including personal care services in the home…
- What is the status of SB185?
- Chaptered as of June 11, 2025. Latest action: Chapter 496. (June 11, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB185?
- Angela Taylor (D, 15), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for SB185?
- On the Nevada Legislature website: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12204/Overview
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