Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB329: Requires certain persons to complete training relating to elderly persons and persons with cognitive impairments. (BDR 40-1086)
Status: Chaptered, June 6, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to emergency response; authorizing the adoption of regulations requiring applicants for certification as an emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic to have completed training relating to care for elderly persons and persons with cognitive impairments; providing that receiving such training does not change the standard of care to which such first responders are held; and providing other matters properly relating thereto…
From the enrolled text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT relating to emergency response; authorizing the adoption of regulations requiring applicants for certification as an emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic to have completed training relating to care for elderly persons and persons with cognitive impairments; providing that receiving such training does not change the standard of care to which such first responders are held; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires each applicant for certification as an emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic to complete training concerning identifying and interacting with persons with developmental disabilities before initial certification. (NRS 450B.180) Existing law provides that a person who is required to obtain such training is not held to a higher standard of care and does not have a greater duty because he or she has received such training. (NRS 41.1391) Section 1.5 of this bill authorizes a district board of health in a county whose population is 700,000 or more (currently only Clark County) or the State Board of Health, for all other counties, to adopt regulations requiring an applicant for certification as an emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic to have completed training relating to identifying, interacting with and providing care to elderly persons and persons who are cognitively impaired. Section 1.5 …