---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires certain health insurance to cover treatment of certain conditions relating to gender dysphoria and gender incongruence. (BDR 57-129)"
description: "Requires certain health insurance to cover treatment of certain conditions relating to gender dysphoria and gender incongruence. (BDR 57-129)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "82"
identifier: "SB 163"
citation: "Nevada SB 163 (82)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dallas Harris", "Melanie Scheible", "Pat Spearman"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-15T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-13T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f16dada-4fcc-4792-8dac-7c909384590b"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bill/9873/Overview"
source_hash: "e08c473f5b5d5641890872e0809f1522c7b71d09221a2ba7cbf1697e699502f4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nv"]
---

# Nevada SB 163 (82) — Requires certain health insurance to cover treatment of certain conditions relating to gender dysphoria and gender incongruence. (BDR 57-129)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/SB/SB163.pdf)
2. **Amendment 312** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/Amendments/A_SB163_312.pdf)
3. **Amendment 853** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/Amendments/A_SB163_R1_853.pdf)
4. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/SB/SB163_R1.pdf)
5. **Reprint 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/SB/SB163_R2.pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/SB/SB163_EN.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate (1st Reprint) — **13–8** (pass) · upper
- Assembly (2nd Reprint) — **26–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dallas Harris — primary (person)
- Melanie Scheible — primary (person)
- Pat Spearman — primary (person)
- Cecelia González — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-15T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16T08:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2023-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Notice of eligibility for exemption. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 312.) Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. Exemption effective. To printer. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-04-26T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- **2023-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 853.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 13, Nays: 8.) To printer. `committee-passage, passage, reading-3`
- **2023-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee. From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. `committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-04T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 26, Nays: 14, Excused: 2.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate. To enrollment. `passage`
- **2023-06-08T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-12T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-13T07:00:00+00:00** Chapter 376.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f16dada-4fcc-4792-8dac-7c909384590b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).