Assembly Bill No. 265–Assemblymen Leslie, Gibbons, Buckley, de Braga, Parnell, Parks, Williams and Manendo

February 16, 1999

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Joint Sponsor: Senator Townsend

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Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services

 

SUMMARY—Creates new category of medical facility for medically monitored detoxificaiton. (BDR 40-1088)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: Yes.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

 

AN ACT relating to medical facilities; creating a new category of medical facility for medically monitored detoxification; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. Chapter 449 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a

1-2 new section to read as follows:

1-3 "Facility for medically monitored detoxification" means a facility that

1-4 provides 24-hour medical monitoring of treatment and detoxification in a

1-5 manner which does not require that the service be provided in a licensed

1-6 hospital.

1-7 Sec. 2. NRS 449.001 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-8 449.001 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,

1-9 the words and terms defined in NRS 449.0015 to 449.019, inclusive, and

1-10 section 1 of this act have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.

2-1 Sec. 3. NRS 449.0151 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-2 449.0151 "Medical facility" includes:

2-3 1. A surgical center for ambulatory patients;

2-4 2. An obstetric center;

2-5 3. An independent center for emergency medical care;

2-6 4. An agency to provide nursing in the home;

2-7 5. A facility for intermediate care;

2-8 6. A facility for skilled nursing;

2-9 7. A freestanding facility for hospice care;

2-10 8. A hospital;

2-11 9. A psychiatric hospital;

2-12 10. A facility for the treatment of irreversible renal disease;

2-13 11. A rural clinic; [and]

2-14 12. A nursing pool [.] ; and

2-15 13. A facility for medically monitored detoxification.

2-16 Sec. 4. This act becomes effective on January 1, 2000.

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