Existing law regulates the licensing, certification and registration of various providers of health care in this State. (Chapters 630-637B and 639-641D of NRS) Existing law prohibits a health care licensing board from disqualifying from licensure or subjecting a person to discipline solely: (1) for providing reproductive health care services that are lawful and consistent with the practice of the relevant profession in this State; or (2) as a consequence of certain adverse actions threatened or imposed in another jurisdiction for the provision of such reproductive health care services. (NRS 629.250) Section 1 of this bill additionally prohibits a health care licensing board from taking similar actions against a person for providing or assisting in the provision of medically necessary gender-affirming health care services that are lawful in this State. Section 4 of this bill requires each health care licensing board that licenses providers of health care who provide gender-affirming health care services to examine the feasibility of providing reciprocal licensing to providers of health care in other states to facilitate the provision of gender-affirming health care services to persons from other states who seek such medically necessary services in this State.
In accordance with the Extradition Clause of Section 2 of Article IV of the United States Constitution, existing state law requires the Governor to extradite to another state any person charged in that state with a crime, who is found in this State. (NRS 179.181) Under existing law, the Governor is also authorized, but not required, to extradite to another state any person in this State charged in the other state with committing an act in this State intentionally resulting in a crime in the state demanding extradition. (NRS 179.189) Existing law, with certain exceptions, prohibits the Governor from extraditing any person in this State who is charged with a crime in another state if the crime alleged involves the provision or receipt of or assistance with reproductive health care services. (NRS 179.540) Section 2 of this bill similarly prohibits the Governor from extraditing a person in this State who is charged with a crime in another state if the crime involves the provision or receipt of or assistance with medically necessary gender-affirming health care services, unless the crime charged in the other state would also be a crime in this State. Section 2, as an exception to this prohibition, authorizes the extradition of a person who was physically present in the other state at the time of the commission of the alleged offense.
Existing law prohibits a state agency from providing any information or expending or using any resources in furtherance of any investigation or proceeding initiated in or by another state that seeks to impose civil or criminal liability or professional sanction on a person or entity for providing, securing, receiving, making an inquiry concerning or providing certain assistance concerning reproductive health care services that are legal in this State, except under certain limited circumstances. (NRS 232.0088) Section 3 of this bill prohibits state agencies in the Executive Department of the State Government from providing information or expending any resources of the State in furtherance of such an investigation or proceeding concerning medically necessary gender-affirming health care services, except under certain limited circumstances.