AB 326 Nevada Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to the designation of hospitals as centers for the treatment of trauma. (BDR 40-153)

AB 326 updates Nevada's rules for designating hospitals as trauma care centers. It explicitly allows the State Board of Health to create a level IV designation for critical access hospitals that meet specific criteria, such as being located more than 80 miles from counties with multiple existing trauma centers. The bill requires hospitals to obtain official designation from the Administrator before claiming a specific trauma care level (I-IV), and mandates a needs assessment to ensure new centers address actual gaps in trauma care capacity. This affects hospitals seeking trauma center status, particularly rural critical access facilities, and clarifies standards for approval and designation.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

Assembly Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

Jun 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Mar 3, 2025 Signed Jun 9, 2025

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Reprint 2 → As Enrolled · 3 edits · Jun 9, 2025

MINOR

This bill updates Nevada's trauma center regulations to explicitly authorize the creation of Level IV trauma centers, which are restricted to critical access hospitals in rural areas over 80 miles from other centers. It also strengthens consumer protection by strictly prohibiting hospitals from claiming a specific trauma level unless officially designated by the state.

Scope change

The scope of trauma center designations was expanded to include Level IV centers for specific rural hospitals, and the bill's applicability now strictly covers representation claims regarding trauma levels.

ELIGIBILITY

Added explicit statutory authority to create Level IV trauma centers, limited to critical access hospitals located more than 80 miles from other trauma centers.

REQUIREMENT

Clarified that hospitals cannot represent they provide a specific trauma level unless officially designated by the state administrator.

TECHNICAL

Removed reprints, committee referral notes, and draft formatting markers to finalize the bill text.

Floor votes · Senate Jun 2, 2025 · Assembly May 30, 2025

How they voted

20–0

Passed

Total votes 20

Jun 2, 2025

D Democratic12

12 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican8

8 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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Committee

Jun 9, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by the Governor. Chapter 418.

executive

Jun 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. In Assembly. To enrollment.

upper

May 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. From committee: Do pass.

upper

May 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

lower

May 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 856.) To printer.

lower

Apr 23, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

Notice of eligibility for exemption. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 432.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.

lower

Mar 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. To committee.

lower

1 primary · 2 co-sponsors