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) Section 1 of this bill prohibits a health care licensing board from: (1) taking any disciplinary action or other adverse action against a provider of health care; or (2) disqualifying or taking other adverse action against an otherwise qualified person who submits an application to the health care licensing board for certification, registration or licensure because he or she provided or assisted in providing legally protected gender-affirming health care services or was subject to civil action, criminal action or disciplinary action in another state for providing or assisting in the provision of legally protected gender-affirming health care services if the legally protected gender-affirming health care services as provided would have been lawful and consistent with standards for the practice of the relevant profession 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 services in this State.
In accordance with the Extradition Clause of Section 2 of Article IV of the United States Constitution, existing state law provides that it is the duty of the Governor to have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority of any other state any person charged in that state with treason, felony or other crime, who has fled from justice and is found in this State. (NRS 179.181) Under existing law, the Governor is also authorized, but not required, to surrender, on demand of the executive authority of any other state, any person in this State charged in the other state with committing an act in this State, or in a third state, intentionally resulting in a crime in the state whose executive authority is making the demand, even though the accused was not in that state at the time of the commission of the crime, and has not thereafter fled from that state. (NRS 179.189) Section 2 of this bill prohibits the Governor from surrendering, or issuing a warrant of arrest for, a person in this State who is charged in another state with a criminal violation of the laws of that other state if the violation involves the provision or receipt of or assistance with gender-affirming health care services, unless the acts forming the basis of the prosecution of the crime would also constitute a criminal offense under the laws of this State. Section 2 excludes from that prohibition circumstances in which the executive authority of another state demands the surrender of a person who was physically present in the demanding state at the time of the commission of the alleged offense and thereafter fled from that state.
Section 3 of this bill prohibits state agencies in the Executive Department of the State Government, local governments and members of the judiciary from providing information or expending or using time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel or other resources of the State, local government or judiciary, as applicable, in furtherance of an investigation or proceeding initiated in or by another state related to the provision, securing or receiving of or any inquiry concerning gender-affirming health care services, except under certain limited circumstances.