NV AB183 | 2025 | 83rd Legislature
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Passed on May 29 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-05-29 - Chapter 111. (Effective October 1, 2025)
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Passed on May 29 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-05-29 - Chapter 111. (Effective October 1, 2025)
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Summary
AN ACT relating to optometry; providing that a license to practice optometry issued by the Nevada State Board of Optometry is a revocable privilege; establishing procedures by which the Board may summarily suspend a license to practice optometry; specifying the substances which may be prescribed by an optometrist who holds a certificate to administer and prescribe pharmaceutical agents; increasing the number of members which constitute the Board; revising the requirements for the issuance of a license by endorsement; revising provisions governing the issuance of certain certificates by the Board; revising the circumstances under which certain optometrists are authorized to prescribe controlled substances; revising provisions relating to investigations conducted by the Board; clarifying that the practice of optometry includes optometric telemedicine; establishing certain circumstances under which a licensee is not required to report certain events to the Board; establishing certain provisions governing the temporary ownership of an optometry practice of a licensee who is permanently incapacitated; revising provisions governing the issuance of citations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Title
Revises provisions relating to optometry. (BDR 54-151)
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2025-05-23 - Senate - Senate Final Passage (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-04-22 - Assembly - Assembly Final Passage (Y: 42 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-04-22 - Assembly - Assembly Final Passage (Y: 42 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-29 | Assembly | Chapter 111. (Effective October 1, 2025) |
| 2025-05-29 | Assembly | Approved by the Governor. |
| 2025-05-27 | Assembly | Enrolled and delivered to Governor. |
| 2025-05-26 | Assembly | In Assembly. To enrollment. |
| 2025-05-23 | Senate | Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly. |
| 2025-05-22 | Senate | Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. |
| 2025-05-21 | Senate | Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. |
| 2025-05-20 | Senate | Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day. |
| 2025-05-19 | Senate | Read second time. |
| 2025-05-16 | Senate | From committee: Do pass. |
| 2025-04-28 | Senate | Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee. |
| 2025-04-28 | Senate | In Senate. |
| 2025-04-25 | Assembly | To Senate. |
| 2025-04-25 | Assembly | From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. |
| 2025-04-22 | Assembly | To printer. |
| 2025-04-22 | Assembly | Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) |
| 2025-04-21 | Assembly | Dispensed with reprinting. |
| 2025-04-21 | Assembly | Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 67.) |
| 2025-04-21 | Assembly | Placed on Second Reading File. |
| 2025-04-21 | Assembly | From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. |
| 2025-02-05 | Assembly | From printer. To committee. |
| 2025-02-04 | Assembly | To printer. |
| 2025-02-04 | Assembly | Read first time. |
| 2025-02-03 | Assembly | Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. |
| 2025-02-03 | Assembly | Prefiled. |
