Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB348: Makes revisions relating to laboratory testing. (BDR 40-123)
Status: Chaptered, June 6, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to health care; establishing a fee the State Public Health Laboratory is authorized to charge for certain examinations and tests for the discovery of certain diseases in infants; removing a requirement that the State Public Health Laboratory hold a public hearing under certain circumstances; requiring Medicaid to reimburse such examinations and tests separately from reimbursement for other labor and delivery services and newborn care…
From the enrolled text, June 1, 2025:
AN ACT relating to health care; establishing a fee the State Public Health Laboratory is authorized to charge for certain examinations and tests for the discovery of certain diseases in infants; removing a requirement that the State Public Health Laboratory hold a public hearing under certain circumstances; requiring Medicaid to reimburse such examinations and tests separately from reimbursement for other labor and delivery services and newborn care; requiring the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to request the establishment of a certain rate of reimbursement for such examinations and tests; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires the State Public Health Laboratory to make available, at such charges as may be established, to health officials, the Director of the State Department of Agriculture and licensed physicians of the State, proper laboratory facilities for the prompt diagnosis of communicable diseases. (NRS 439.240) Existing law requires the State Board of Health to adopt regulations governing examinations and tests required for the discovery in infants of preventable or inheritable disorders. Existing law further requires any physician, midwife, nurse, freestanding birthing center or hospital of any nature attending or assisting any infant, or the person who gave birth to any infant, at childbirth to: (1) examine the infant in accordance with those regulations; and (2) …
Sponsors
- Julie Pazina (D, 12) · primary sponsor
- Carrie Ann Buck (R, 5)
Latest actions
- : Approved by the Governor. Chapter 386.
- : Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
- : In Senate. Assembly Amendment Nos. 597 and 896 concurred in. To enrollment.
- : From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Third reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 35, Nays: 5, Excused: 2.) To Senate.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 896.) To printer.
- : From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. To committee.
- : Notice of exemption.
- : Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 597.) Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. To printer.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
- : In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.
Votes
- Assembly (3rd Reprint) (May 31, 2025): 35 yea, 5 nay, passed
- Senate (1st Reprint) (April 21, 2025): 16 yea, 5 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is SB348?
- SB348 is a bill in the Nevada Legislature (83rd Legislature (2025)): Makes revisions relating to laboratory testing. (BDR 40-123).
- What does SB348 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to health care; establishing a fee the State Public Health Laboratory is authorized to charge for certain examinations and tests for the discovery of certain diseases in infants; removing a requirement that the State Public Health Laboratory hold a public hearing under certain circumstances; requiring Medicaid to reimburse such examinations and tests separately from reimbursement for other labor and delivery services and newborn care…
- What is the status of SB348?
- Chaptered as of June 6, 2025. Latest action: Approved by the Governor. Chapter 386. (June 6, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB348?
- Julie Pazina (D, 12), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for SB348?
- On the Nevada Legislature website: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12615/Overview
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