Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada SB376: Revises provisions governing industrial insurance. (BDR 53-629)
Status: Chaptered, June 11, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to industrial insurance; authorizing an injured employee with a claim for an occupational lung disease or occupational heart disease to seek treatment or services from a physician or chiropractic physician which is not on the panel of physicians and chiropractic physicians maintained by the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry under certain circumstances; setting forth certain requirements for the reimbursement of the costs for such treatment or services…
From the enrolled text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing an injured employee with a claim for an occupational lung disease or occupational heart disease to seek treatment or services from a physician or chiropractic physician which is not on the panel of physicians and chiropractic physicians maintained by the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry under certain circumstances; setting forth certain requirements for the reimbursement of the costs for such treatment or services; providing for a penalty for failure to comply with those requirements; authorizing certain notices and other documents required in certain hearings or appeals relating to industrial insurance to be provided by means of an electronic filing system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law establishes the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act and the Nevada Occupational Diseases Act, which provide for the payment of compensation to employees who are injured or disabled as a result of an occupational injury or occupational disease. (Chapters 616A-616D and 617 of NRS) Existing law provides for the payment of compensation for claims for the occupational diseases of lung disease and heart disease for certain firefighters, arson investigators and police officers. (NRS 617.455, 617.457) Existing law requires the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry to …