Health care licensing boards to adopt regulations for prioritizing review of certain applications for licensure.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 622.540
in effect1. A health care licensing board shall adopt regulations that establish a process for prioritizing the review of an application for initial licensure as a provider of health care under the jurisdiction of the health care licensing board if the applicant demonstrates that he or she will provide health care primarily in a historically underserved community. Such regulations:
(a) Must authorize an applicant to demonstrate that he or she will provide health care primarily in a historically underserved community by submitting a letter from an employer that is located in a historically underserved community which states:
(1) That the applicant has accepted an offer of employment from the employer; and
(2) The date on which the applicant intends to commence such employment; and
(b) May prescribe additional ways in which an applicant may demonstrate that he or she will provide health care primarily in a historically underserved community.
2. As used in this section:
(a) Health care licensing board means:
(1) A board created by chapter 630 , 631 , 632 or 633 of NRS.
(2) The State Board of Health with respect to chapters 634B , 640D , 640E , 652 and 653 of NRS.
(b) Historically underserved community means:
(1) A census tract:
(I) Designated as a qualified census tract by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 42(d)(5)(B)(ii); or
(II) In which, in the immediately preceding census, at least 20 percent of households were not proficient in the English language;
(2) A public school in this State:
(I) In which 75 percent or more of the enrolled pupils in the school are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1751 et seq.; or
(II) That participates in universal meal service in high poverty areas pursuant to Section 104 of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Public Law 111-296; or
(3) Qualified tribal land, as defined in NRS 370.0325 .
(c) Provider of health care has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031 .
Source: NV Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-622.htmlFetched: 10/4/2026