2025 Regular SessionNevada Legislature

SB189: Provides for the licensure and regulation of genetic counselors. (BDR 54-69)

Legislative Summary

AN ACT relating to genetic counseling; prescribing certain duties and authority of a genetic counselor; providing for the regulation of the practice of genetic counseling by the Board of Medical Examiners; requiring the appointment of the Genetic Counseling Advisory Council; prescribing the requirements for the issuance and renewal of a license as a genetic counselor; authorizing the Board to take certain actions to investigate and impose discipline against a genetic counselor; prohibiting the unlicensed practice of genetic counseling except in certain circumstances; establishing a privilege for certain confidential communications; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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Bill History

2/6/2025
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.
Senate
2/7/2025
From printer. To committee.
Senate
4/21/2025
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Senate
4/21/2025
Placed on Second Reading File.
Senate
4/21/2025
Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 35.)
Senate
4/21/2025
Reprinting dispensed with.
Senate
4/22/2025
Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 19, Nays: 2.) To printer.
Senate
4/25/2025
From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
Senate
4/28/2025
To Assembly.
Senate
4/28/2025
In Assembly.
Assembly
4/28/2025
Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
Assembly
5/19/2025
From committee: Do pass.
Assembly
5/20/2025
Read second time.
Assembly
5/21/2025
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Assembly
5/22/2025
Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
Assembly
5/23/2025
Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 2.) To Senate.
Assembly
5/23/2025
In Senate.
Senate
5/23/2025
To enrollment.
Senate
5/27/2025
Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
Senate
5/31/2025
Approved by the Governor. Chapter 175.
Senate

Amendments

Senate Amendment 35

Senate Amendment 35

Adopted

Roll Call Votes

Assembly Final Passage
5/23/2025
40
Yea
2
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Senate Final Passage
4/22/2025
19
Yea
2
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Passed(5/31/2025)
Chamber
Senate

Documents

Introduced
Bill Text1/1/1970614.4 KB
Amended
Bill Text1/1/1970606.5 KB
Enrolled
Bill Text5/23/2025564.7 KB