Nevada Assembly Bill 177

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 4 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-04 - Read first time. To committee.
Pending: Assembly Commerce and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

AN ACT relating to professions; providing for the licensure of speech-language pathology assistants; authorizing certain persons to engage in the supervised practice of speech-language pathology; establishing requirements for hearing aid specialists to provide tinnitus care; revising the scope of practice of audiologists, hearing aid specialists and speech-language pathologists; requiring certain persons to be licensed and regulated as audiologists or speech-language pathologists; increasing the maximum amount of certain fees; revising the required qualifications for and processes for issuing certain licenses; eliminating the requirement for a licensed audiologist to obtain an endorsement before engaging in the practice of fitting and dispensing hearing aids; revising provisions relating to the sale of hearing aids; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Makes various changes relating to audiology, fitting and dispensing hearing aids and speech-language pathology. (BDR 54-199)

Rep. Cecelia Gonzalez [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-04	Assembly	Read first time. To committee.
2025-02-04	Assembly	From printer.
2025-02-02	Assembly	Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12131/Overview
Text	https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/83rd2025/Bills/AB/AB177.pdf