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SB 307

Relating to higher education.

2025 Regular Session

The bill expands the Office of Minority Health and Equity’s role to analyze gaps in health and human services for minority groups using aggregated data from state agencies.

In committee upon adjournment.
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Bill Summary · SB 307

SB 307 — Office of Minority Health and Equity (BDR 18‑510) — Summary

Status: Introduced February 10, 2025. Current procedural status: “Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.”
(As introduced, the bill is a measure to expand data reporting and analytic duties of Nevada’s Office of Minority Health and Equity within the Department of Health and Human Services.)

Main purpose / intent

SB 307 requires improved collection, reporting, and centralized analysis of demographic and disparity‑related data so the Office of Minority Health and Equity (the Office) can identify gaps in health and human services received by minority and underserved populations and use that information to guide policy, program planning, and oversight.

Key provisions

  • Adds a duty for the Office of Minority Health and Equity to “identify and analyze gaps in health and human services delivered to members of minority groups” in Nevada (amendment to NRS 232.475).
  • Amends the state reporting statute governing sexual orientation and gender identity/expression data (NRS 239B.026):
    • Requires any governmental agency that collects information about a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity/expression to annually submit a summary (aggregated, non‑identifiable) of that information to:
    • (a) the Office of Minority Health and Equity; and
    • (b) the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmission to the Legislature or Legislative Commission.
    • Maintains that such information is confidential, may not be required of individuals, and must be used only for specified purposes (demographic analysis, coordination/improvement of care, research, reporting, informing policy/funding).
    • All submissions must be aggregate and exclude personally identifiable information.
  • Requires the Division of Public and Behavioral Health to additionally submit several existing annual disparity and program reports to the Office (extensions of reporting duties under NRS 433.359, 439.259, 439.261 — i.e., behavioral health and race‑based health disparity reports).

Who would be affected

  • Office of Minority Health and Equity: gains statutory responsibility to analyze service gaps and receive additional statewide data.
  • State agencies and local governmental agencies that collect sexual orientation/gender identity data: new annual reporting requirement to the Office (in aggregate form).
  • Division of Public and Behavioral Health: required to send existing annual reports to the Office as well as the Legislature.
  • Indirectly: minority, LGBTQ+, rural and other underserved communities — the legislation is aimed at improving visibility of their service gaps and informing policy.

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Introduced Feb 10, 2025. The provided status line indicates no further action is allowed under Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1 (meaning the measure cannot advance further in the current legislative cycle under that rule).
  • The bill’s text does not specify new appropriations or detailed deadlines beyond the December 31 annual reporting timing already used in related statutes; however, agencies will have ongoing annual reporting obligations.

Potential impacts and considerations

  • Administrative: additional staff time and systems work for agencies to compile and transmit aggregated data; the Office will need capacity to analyze and act on new datasets.
  • Policy: centralized reporting and analysis could improve identification of disparities and inform targeted program and funding decisions.
  • Privacy: the bill preserves confidentiality by requiring aggregate reporting and restricting permissible uses of the data.

If you want, I can extract the exact statutory text changes, draft a short one‑page memo on implementation needs for state agencies, or prepare a checklist agencies would use to comply with the new reporting duties.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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