---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish the Psychedelic Medicines Working Group. (BDR S-39)"
description: "Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish the Psychedelic Medicines Working Group. (BDR S-39)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "82"
identifier: "SB 242"
citation: "Nevada SB 242 (82)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elaine Marzola", "Fabian Doñate", "Max Carter", "Rochelle Nguyen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-03-09T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-13T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb372ccf-b767-416b-a5db-e519696190b6"
source_url: "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bill/10067/Overview"
source_hash: "279ff33135554447785f8004e6688274b1eaf200b72fcaa6345c60058a7c2e3c"
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 242 (82) — Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish the Psychedelic Medicines Working Group. (BDR S-39)

## 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/SB242.pdf)
2. **Amendment 354** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/Amendments/A_SB242_354.pdf)
3. **Reprint 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/SB/SB242_R1.pdf)
4. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/82nd2023/Bills/SB/SB242_EN.pdf)

## Votes

- Assembly (1st Reprint) — **40–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate (1st Reprint) — **16–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Elaine Marzola — primary (person)
- Fabian Doñate — primary (person)
- Max Carter — primary (person)
- Rochelle Nguyen — primary (person)
- Dallas Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Edgar Flores — cosponsor (person)
- Ira Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- James Ohrenschall — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff Stone — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-09T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-10T08:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2023-04-21T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Notice of exemption. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 354.) Taken from General File. Re-referred to Committee on Finance. To printer. Exemption effective. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- **2023-05-29T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass, as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. Preamble adopted, as amended. (Yeas: 16, Nays: 4, Excused: 1.) To Assembly. `committee-passage, passage, reading-3`
- **2023-05-30T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Do pass. Placed on Second Reading File. Taken from Second Reading File. Placed on Second Reading File for next legislative day. `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. `reading-2`
- **2023-06-04T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed. Title approved. Preamble adopted. (Yeas: 40, Nays: None, 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 377.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb372ccf-b767-416b-a5db-e519696190b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).