AB 176 Nevada Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to contraception and family planning services. (BDR 40-177)

This bill establishes the "Right to Reproductive Health Care Act," prohibiting Nevada governmental entities (including state agencies and local governments) from imposing restrictions that substantially burden access to reproductive health care services. It directly affects patients seeking services like contraception, pregnancy care, or abortion, and healthcare providers offering such services. The law allows affected individuals or providers to sue government entities for violations and seek court-ordered remedies, including attorney fees. It applies broadly to all existing and future state and local laws (except specific exemptions), requiring governments to prove any restriction serves a compelling interest through the least restrictive means.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Sub-Topics: Women's Health

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

Assembly Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Feb 2, 2025 Signed Jun 3, 2025

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MODERATE

This bill establishes the 'Right to Contraception and Family Planning Services Act,' which prohibits government entities from enacting laws or policies that substantially burden access to contraception and family planning services. It allows individuals or providers who face such burdens to sue for damages and recover legal fees, provided the government cannot prove the restriction is necessary for a compelling interest. The law applies to state and local laws enacted on or after January 1, 2026, but explicitly excludes abortion-related laws and certain public school regulations.

Scope change

The bill expands the scope of protected activities to include contraception and family planning services, creating a new legal cause of action for violations. It clarifies that the law does not apply to abortion-related statutes or specific educational policies.

ENFORCEMENT

Created a new legal mechanism allowing individuals or healthcare providers to sue governmental entities for substantially burdening access to contraception and family planning services.

Mandated that courts award costs and attorney's fees to plaintiffs who successfully prove a violation of the new act.

DEFINITION

Defined 'contraception and family planning services' to include medical, surgical, counseling, or referral services related to pregnancy, contraception, miscarriage, and IVF.

TIMELINE

Set the effective date for the act's application to new laws and ordinances as January 1, 2026.

SCOPE

Explicitly exempted state and local laws relating to abortion and certain public school regulations from the act's requirements.

Floor votes · Senate May 21, 2025 · Assembly Apr 22, 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

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Committee

Jun 3, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by the Governor. Chapter 234.

executive

May 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

Senate Amendment No. 636 concurred in. To enrollment.

lower

May 21, 2025

Upper · Passed

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

upper

May 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 636.) To printer.

upper

Apr 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.

lower

Apr 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

lower

Feb 2, 2025

Introduced

Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors