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]

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.

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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]

History

DateChamberAction
2025-05-29AssemblyChapter 111. (Effective October 1, 2025)
2025-05-29AssemblyApproved by the Governor.
2025-05-27AssemblyEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
2025-05-26AssemblyIn Assembly. To enrollment.
2025-05-23SenateRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
2025-05-22SenateTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
2025-05-21SenateTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
2025-05-20SenateTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
2025-05-19SenateRead second time.
2025-05-16SenateFrom committee: Do pass.
2025-04-28SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
2025-04-28SenateIn Senate.
2025-04-25AssemblyTo Senate.
2025-04-25AssemblyFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
2025-04-22AssemblyTo printer.
2025-04-22AssemblyRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.)
2025-04-21AssemblyDispensed with reprinting.
2025-04-21AssemblyRead second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 67.)
2025-04-21AssemblyPlaced on Second Reading File.
2025-04-21AssemblyFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
2025-02-05AssemblyFrom printer. To committee.
2025-02-04AssemblyTo printer.
2025-02-04AssemblyRead first time.
2025-02-03AssemblyReferred to Committee on Commerce and Labor.
2025-02-03AssemblyPrefiled.

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