NevadaNevada Medicaid reimburses family caregivers for eligible children’s care
Starting January 1, 2027, Nevada’s Medicaid department reimburses family members for covered personal care they provide to certain children under 18.
What it does
The Department reimburses family members for covered personal care they provide to children under 18 who qualify for Medicaid care and need help with daily activities.
The state sets aside $135,086 for fiscal year 2025–26 and $414,251 for 2026–27, and authorizes additional spending from other sources for the same purpose.
Argument forEligible children could receive covered personal care from family members, which may help families support them at home.
Argument againstFamilies may wait for federal funding if the state first needs a federal waiver or Medicaid plan change to receive it.
More detail
The Department reimburses family members for Medicaid-covered personal care services. The recipient must be under 18, eligible for Medicaid coverage of personal care services, and diagnosed with a disability or chronic illness that makes them unable to do daily activities without help. The Department must seek any federal waiver or Medicaid plan change needed to receive federal funding for these payments. The provision takes effect for all other purposes on January 1, 2027. Before then, it may be used to prepare regulations and complete other necessary administrative tasks.
The state appropriates money and authorizes other spending for reimbursement costs. The money is for the Department’s Division of Health Care Financing and Policy to cover costs tied to reimbursing family members under section 1. Any unspent state General Fund appropriation must be reverted by the listed deadlines. The funding section takes effect July 1, 2025. Remaining state General Fund money must be reverted by September 18, 2026, for the first year and September 17, 2027, for the second.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Jun 11Chapter 496.Latest
- Jun 10Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- Jun 6Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 4To enrollment.Major
- Jun 3In Senate.
- Jun 2Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 41, Nays: 1.) To Senate.Passed House
- Vote recorded Assembly (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 1From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.Minor
- May 31From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means. To committee.Minor
- May 30From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 929.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 15From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- Apr 14Notice of eligibility for exemption. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 60.) Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer.Minor
- Apr 10From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.Minor
- Feb 5From printer. Read first time. To committee.Minor
- Feb 4To printer.
- Feb 3Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.Introduced
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