Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB262: Revises provisions relating to graduate medical education. (BDR 18-120)
Status: Chaptered, June 11, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to health care; prohibiting certain institutions from eliminating or reducing the size of a program for residency training and postdoctoral fellowships without the approval of the Department of Health and Human Services; transferring the administration of the Graduate Medical Education Grant Program and the Account for the Program from the Office of Science, Innovation and Technology in the Office of the Governor to the Department…
From the enrolled text, June 4, 2025:
AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting certain institutions from eliminating or reducing the size of a program for residency training and postdoctoral fellowships without the approval of the Department of Health and Human Services; transferring the administration of the Graduate Medical Education Grant Program and the Account for the Program from the Office of Science, Innovation and Technology in the Office of the Governor to the Department; expanding the purposes for which institutions that provide programs for residency training and postdoctoral fellowships in this State may receive grants under the Program; establishing the criteria for prioritizing the awarding of such grants; requiring the Department to explore ways to use federal financial participation in Medicaid to support graduate medical education; making an appropriation to the Account for the Program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law establishes the Office of Science, Innovation and Technology in the Office of the Governor and requires the Director of the Office to implement the Graduate Medical Education Grant Program. (NRS 223.600, 223.610) Existing law: (1) requires the Office to establish and administer the Program to award grants to institutions in this State seeking to create, expand or retain programs for residency training and postdoctoral fellowships for physicians; (2) creates the Account for the Graduate Medical Education Grant Program, administered …