republic-os/legislation/us/states/nv/79/ab-249.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires the State Plan for Medicaid and all health insurance plans to provide certain benefits relating to contraception. (BDR 38-858)"
description: "Requires the State Plan for Medicaid and all health insurance plans to provide certain benefits relating to contraception. (BDR 38-858)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nv"
legislature: "Nevada Legislature"
session: "79"
identifier: "AB 249"
citation: "Nevada AB 249 (79)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WOMEN", "MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS", "FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES", "PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACY", "BIRTH CONTROL", "PRESCRIPTIONS", "FAMILY PLANNING", "INSURANCE COMPANIES", "UNFUNDED MANDATES", "HOSPITAL", "MEDICAL OR DENTAL SERVICES", "NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS FOR", "INSURANCE", "VASECTOMIES", "HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS", "MEDICAID", "CONTRACEPTIVES", "RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benitez-Thompson", "Bilbray-Axelrod", "Frierson", "Sprinkle", "Yeager"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-01T08:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2017-06-12T07:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/773dfed5-b444-43b9-9381-6e486b558149"
source_url: "http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Reports/history.cfm?ID=536"
source_hash: "1076f51d5a0cf5042ae5cf654ab9ae726dd1424cd3e810c6a3bceaa0cbd611a3"
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 AB 249 (79) — Requires the State Plan for Medicaid and all health insurance plans to provide certain benefits relating to contraception. (BDR 38-858)

## Version chain

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

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Bills/AB/AB249.pdf)
2. **1st Reprint** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Bills/AB/AB249_R1.pdf)
3. **2nd Reprint** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Bills/AB/AB249_R2.pdf)
4. **3rd Reprint** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Bills/AB/AB249_R3.pdf)
5. **4th Reprint** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Bills/AB/AB249_R4.pdf)
6. **As Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/79th2017/Bills/AB/AB249_EN.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Final Passage — **18–3** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Final Passage — **40–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Benitez-Thompson — primary (person)
- Bilbray-Axelrod — primary (person)
- Frierson — primary (person)
- Sprinkle — primary (person)
- Yeager — primary (person)
- Araujo — cosponsor (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- BustamanteAdams — cosponsor (person)
- Carlton — cosponsor (person)
- Carrillo — cosponsor (person)
- Cohen — cosponsor (person)
- Daly — cosponsor (person)
- Diaz — cosponsor (person)
- ElliotAnderson — cosponsor (person)
- Flores — cosponsor (person)
- Fumo — cosponsor (person)
- Jauregui — cosponsor (person)
- Joiner — cosponsor (person)
- McCurdyII — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Monroe-Moreno — cosponsor (person)
- Neal — cosponsor (person)
- Ohrenschall — cosponsor (person)
- Spiegel — cosponsor (person)
- Swank — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Watkins — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-01T08:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-02T08:00:00+00:00** From printer. To committee.
- **2017-04-03T07:00:00+00:00** Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- **2017-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** Placed on Second Reading File.
- **2017-04-24T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 429.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2017-04-25T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint .
- **2017-04-25T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 40, Nays: 2.) To Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-04-26T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate.
- **2017-04-26T07:00:00+00:00** Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. `committee-passage`
- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** Placed on Second Reading File.
- **2017-05-24T07:00:00+00:00** Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 751.) To printer. `reading-2`
- **2017-05-25T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint .
- **2017-05-25T07:00:00+00:00** Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- **2017-05-26T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 966.) `reading-3`
- **2017-05-26T07:00:00+00:00** Reprinting dispensed with.
- **2017-05-26T07:00:00+00:00** Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 18, Nays: 3.) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-05-26T07:00:00+00:00** To printer.
- **2017-05-26T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Third reprint . To Assembly.
- **2017-05-26T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
- **2017-05-30T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment No. 751 not concurred in.
- **2017-05-30T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment No. 966 concurred in.
- **2017-05-30T07:00:00+00:00** To Senate.
- **2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00** In Senate.
- **2017-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** Senate Amendment No. 751 not receded from. Conference requested. Conference Committee appointed by Senate. To Assembly.
- **2017-06-02T07:00:00+00:00** In Assembly.
- **2017-06-03T07:00:00+00:00** Conference Committee appointed by Assembly. To committee.
- **2017-06-04T07:00:00+00:00** From committee: Concur in Senate Amendment No. 966 and further amend. Conference report adopted by Assembly. `committee-passage`
- **2017-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** Conference report adopted by Senate.
- **2017-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** To printer.
- **2017-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Fourth reprint .
- **2017-06-05T07:00:00+00:00** To enrollment.
- **2017-06-08T07:00:00+00:00** Enrolled and delivered to Governor. `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-12T07:00:00+00:00** Approved by the Governor. Chapter 553. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/773dfed5-b444-43b9-9381-6e486b558149`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Nevada legislature records).