SB 262 Nevada Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to graduate medical education. (BDR 18-120)

SB 262 transfers administration of Nevada’s Graduate Medical Education Grant Program from the Office of Science to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS). It requires medical institutions receiving grants to obtain DHS approval before eliminating or reducing residency training programs, with criteria including demonstrating reduced patient need and no negative impact on healthcare provider availability. The bill expands grant eligibility to include programs exceeding Medicare-funded resident slots and allows DHS to provide limited grants for new program development and staffing. It also directs DHS to explore using Medicaid funding to support residency programs, effective as of its passage and signing into law on June 10, 2025.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Jun 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

Assembly Passage

Jun 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Mar 3, 2025 Signed Jun 10, 2025

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Reprint 2 → As Enrolled · 5 edits · Jun 10, 2025

MODERATE

This bill transfers control of the Graduate Medical Education Grant Program from the Governor's Office to the Department of Health and Human Services. It adds strict new rules requiring institutions to get Department approval before cutting residency programs, mandating detailed justifications for any reductions. The law also expands funding eligibility to include programs training residents beyond Medicare limits and adds grants for building new programs.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded by transferring administrative authority from the Governor's office to the Department of Health and Human Services and broadening the types of institutions eligible for grants.

REQUIREMENT

Added a new requirement that institutions must apply to the Department for approval before eliminating or reducing residency programs, including submitting patient need analyses and mitigation plans.

Required the Department to collaborate with the Advisory Council on ways to use federal Medicaid funds to support graduate medical education.

FISCAL

Transferred administration of the Graduate Medical Education Grant Program and its associated account from the Office of Science, Innovation and Technology to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Authorized new limited grants to help institutions build administrative capacity and recruit staff for starting new residency programs.

ELIGIBILITY

Expanded grant eligibility to include institutions operating residency programs that train more residents than the number for which they receive Medicare payments.

Floor votes · Senate May 21, 2025 · Assembly Jun 2, 2025

How they voted

20–0

Passed

Total votes 20

May 21, 2025

D Democratic12

12 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican8

8 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Jun 10, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by the Governor.

executive

Jun 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

To enrollment.

lower

Jun 2, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. In Senate. Assembly Amendment No. 905 concurred in.

lower

Jun 1, 2025

Lower · Passed

From committee: Do pass, as amended. Placed on General File. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

lower

May 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. To committee.

lower

May 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 905.) Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. To printer.

lower

May 21, 2025

Upper · Passed

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

upper

May 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Do pass.

upper

Apr 15, 2025

Upper · Passed

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

upper

Apr 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

upper

Mar 4, 2025

Upper · Passed

From printer. To committee.

upper

10 primary · 27 co-sponsors