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Read. Follow. Verify.Nevada Bill SB 186 Requires AI-Generated Patient Communications to Include Disclaimers and Contact Instructions
Last action · April 12, 2025: (Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)Sponsor: Jeff Stone
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What This Bill Proposed
Medical facilities and health care providers in Nevada using to create written or verbal communications about patient clinical information must include a prominent AI disclaimer and clear contact instructions for further assistance. The requirement exempts written communications that are read and reviewed by a health care provider before being sent to the patient. Violations subject providers to professional discipline and medical facilities to administrative penalties.
Patients receiving AI-generated medical messages gain the right to be explicitly notified when automated systems draft their clinical information and to receive direct contact instructions for human assistance. Healthcare providers and medical facilities face potential disciplinary action, license suspension, or administrative fines of up to $5,000 per day for non-compliance.
- State legislatures across the country are increasingly introducing bills to regulate the deployment and transparency of artificial intelligence tools in sensitive sectors like health care. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Patients
Patients receive mandatory disclaimers and contact instructions whenever clinical communications are generated by artificial intelligence without prior provider review.
Providers of health care
Health care providers must ensure their AI-generated clinical communications contain disclaimers and contact instructions, or review the messages personally to qualify for an exemption, under penalty of disciplinary action.
Medical facilities
Medical facilities must comply with AI communication rules or face administrative penalties, license suspension, or temporary management appointment.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What communications are subject to the AI disclaimer requirement?
Are all AI-generated messages to patients required to carry the disclaimer?
What happens if a health care provider violates these AI communication rules?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in Senate committee.
Procedural history
4 actions- Apr 12, 2025(Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)
- Feb 5, 2025IntroducedFrom printer. Read first time. To committee.
- Feb 4, 2025To printer.
- Feb 3, 2025IntroducedPrefiled. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.
Version history
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Establishment of AI Disclosure Mandates in Clinical Care
The bill marks a formal regulatory step by incorporating artificial intelligence usage requirements directly into existing medical facility and provider licensing statutes.
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Sources
www.leg.state.nv.us
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy45Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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