NevadaNevada requires reports on brain stimulation research pilots
From October 2025 through September 2027, Nevada requires operators of brain stimulation research pilots to report on their plans, participants, and results.
What it does
Pilot operators must notify the state before research starts, report participant and treatment information at least once each quarter, and send a final report when the pilot ends. Reports must protect participants’ identities.
Argument forQuarterly reports could give the state information about who joins these pilots and how treatments affect participants, without revealing their identities.
Argument againstOperators may spend extra time collecting and filing participant, treatment, and safety information at least once each quarter.
More detail
Practitioners and organizations running a covered research pilot must send information to the Legislative Counsel Bureau before research starts, during the pilot, and after it ends. The rules cover Nevada research projects that provide transcranial magnetic stimulation, electromagnetic brain pulse treatment, or both. Before research starts, the notice must identify the operator, research plan, expected participants, locations, and required approvals, and include proof those approvals were obtained. Reports must not include information that could identify a participant. If multiple practitioners or organizations run the same pilot, they may submit one shared report. The Bureau only receives the reports; it is not required to review or evaluate them. The law takes effect October 1, 2025, and expires September 30, 2027. Operators must send the notice before research, quarterly reports while it is underway, and a final report after it ends.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Jun 11Chapter 468.Latest
- Jun 10Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- Jun 6Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 4In Assembly. To enrollment.Major
- Jun 2Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 1From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.Minor
- May 31Taken from Chief Clerk's desk. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 910.) Dispensed with reprinting. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 39, Nays: None, Excused: 3.) To printer. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. To Senate. In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Finance. To committee.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- May 28From committee: Do pass, as amended. Placed on General File. Taken from General File. Placed on Chief Clerk's desk.Minor
- Apr 22From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- Apr 17Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 434.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.Minor
- Apr 16From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.Minor
- Mar 24Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- Feb 28From printer. To committee.
- Feb 27Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.Introduced
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