NevadaNevada’s higher education board can require campus opioid overdose plans
Nevada’s Board of Regents can require public colleges and universities to adopt opioid overdose plans that include education, emergency responses, and access to overdose medicines.
What it does
Nevada’s Board of Regents can require public colleges and universities to adopt opioid overdose response plans. Campuses can tailor their plans to local needs and capacity.
If the board requires a campus plan, it must include overdose education, compassionate emergency responses, and easy access to medicines used for opioid overdoses.
Covered plans cannot make training a condition for obtaining or giving opioid overdose medicines. They must also protect students from campus punishment for obtaining those medicines.
Argument forCampus plans allowing access without required training or punishment for obtaining overdose medicines could help students seek those medicines more readily.
Argument againstLetting campuses choose where and how they distribute overdose medicines could make access less consistent for students across institutions.
More detail
The Board of Regents can require campuses to adopt opioid overdose response plans. This authority covers institutions within the Nevada System of Higher Education. Campuses must consult Nevada’s Division of Public and Behavioral Health when adopting a required plan. Campuses can tailor plans to their needs and capacity. The board can offer a model plan, but it cannot require campuses to use that model. The law took effect upon passage and approval.
Required campus plans must include overdose education, emergency responses, and procedures for distributing and giving opioid overdose medicines. Plans address opioid-related drug overdoses at the institution. These requirements apply if the Board of Regents requires a campus plan. Responses must emphasize rescue breathing and using the lowest dose of naloxone, an opioid overdose medicine, effective to restore breathing.
Covered campus plans cannot require training before someone obtains or gives an opioid overdose medicine. The training rule covers any person. Plans must also protect students from campus discipline for obtaining an opioid overdose medicine. These protections apply to emergency response plans covered by this law. The student protection covers campus discipline for obtaining the medicine.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Jun 6Chapter 321.Latest
- Jun 5Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- May 29Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- May 26Senate Amendment No. 558 concurred in. To enrollment.Major
- May 20In Assembly.
- May 19Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- May 16From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- May 15Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 558.) To printer.Minor
- May 12From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.Minor
- Apr 23Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To committee.Minor
- Apr 18In Senate.
- Apr 17Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 16From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- Apr 15Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 165.) To printer.Minor
- Apr 14From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.Minor
- Mar 12From printer. To committee.
- Mar 11Read first time. Referred to Committee on Education. To printer.Introduced
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