Guinn Center Newsletter June 2025
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The Guinn Center team is busy diving deep into the close of the legislative session. We’re looking forward to providing our supporters with insights and analysis in each of our policy areas, while also continuing to get robust, nonpartisan research into the hands of all Nevadans.
Meet Pierron Tackes…
Pierron Tackes, JD/MPH, is the Director of Health & Social Policy at the Guinn Center. She joined our team in January, bringing a unique combination of legal and public health expertise, having advised state and local health departments on a range of issues, from strategic pandemic response to regulation promulgation and compliance enforcement. Click here to learn more about Pierron.
As Director of Health & Social Policy, Pierron provides insight on the legislative session, here are some of her key takeaways:
- The Governor's Health Care Access bill, SB 495, died on the final day of the Session. However, several portions of the Governor's proposal were incorporated into other bills on health workforce.
- The following measures were enacted and approved by the Governor:
- AB 319 addresses physician shortages by allowing for easier physician exchange with other countries.
- SB 124 allows for the limited licensure of certain foreign physicians.
- SB 262 transfers administration of the Graduate Medical Education Grant Program from the Governor's Office of Science, Innovation and Technology to the Department of Health and Human Services (now, Nevada Health Authority) and expands the grants that may be awarded to GME programs.
- SB 266 expands the Student Loan Repayment for Providers of Health Care in Underserved Communities Program.
- Eight bills were introduced seeking to ratify health professional licensure compacts in Nevada, of which three passed:
- AB 163 ratifies and enters the Interstate Counseling Compact.
- AB 230 enacts the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact.
- AB 248 ratifies and enters the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact.
All of these efforts go hand-in-hand with the Guinn Center's research on Health Workforce Development and indicate a vested interest from lawmakers in health workforce policy. In April, the Guinn Center published "Meeting Nevada's Health Workforce Needs," a snapshot brief which examines the supply and demand of Nevada's current and projected health workforce sector and provides parameters for the study of possible policy remedies to increase the supply and address the geographic imbalance of the state’s health workforce.
Click here to find this and all other health and social policy reports
—Pierron Tackes, JD/MPH
Director of Health and Social Policy
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Coming Soon: Chronic Absenteeism
This upcoming policy report analyzes the problem of chronic absenteeism in Nevada schools. We explore this topic in three parts:
- Trends, Factors, and Policy Considerations
- Intersections with Mental Health
- School District Innovations